Bond

On the website, Voidpet.com, you are able to bond with your voidpets by feeding, playing, and cuddling with your pets, increasing their leptin, serotonin, and oxytocin meters respectively. These meters will slowly go down on their own over time.

Bonding with pets provides a few bonuses the first time a pets' leptin, serotonin, and oxytocin stats reach 100 each day.

## Bonuses

Bonuses take effect for the first pet to reach 100 of any stat each day. It will not happen multiple times a day.

### First

Your pet is happy to see you today! This collects a 5-day streak. On the first 4 days, your pet will give you squishy plasma (with a chance of unstable plasma at or above bond level 6), and on the fifth day, you will receive a memory drive. Memory drives increase your memory (how many pets you may own) by 30 each time they are used.

### Second

Your pet is thankful for your care! You will earn more wishes of that pet's type today, when they are earned.

### Third

Your pet is ready to take on the day. You will earn 3 wishes of that pet's type, and the chance of finding vivid pets increases by an estimated 10%.

## Bond Level

Bond level with a pet is raised by cuddling, and is indicated by the little heart icon in the top-left corner of a pet's bond menu. It does not influence the game much outside of bonding.

At a level 6 bond, an Unstable Plasma can be earned on a streak instead of Squishy Plasma. There are also trophies claimable on the profile for reaching bond levels 8, 9, and 10 with any pet.

A pet's mood description also changes slightly with bond level. Bond level 1 pets will be say "(Name) thinks you are fantastic!", while bond level 6 pets will want to be by your side forever.

## How-To

To bond with a voidpet, go into their profile menu, and click the mood button. This button will instead read wellness for soulbonded pets. Here, you can see a short description of the pet's mood, and their leptin, serotonin, and oxytocin meters. Clicking on any of these meters brings you to a second menu.

Feeding a pet brings you to a list of the food you have in your inventory. Food can be obtained by crafting it from VM at the Institute Atrium (click on the floating pizza table), crafted or stolen from the Something Park Vendor (click the ice cream stand), or earned from stabilizing squishy plasma. By clicking a food, you will feed your pet.

The serotonin and playing menu is very similar, but with a list of toys instead. Toys can also be crafted from VM at the Institute Atrium, stabilized from squishy plasma, or, rarely, dropped by defeated voidpets in the wild.

The oxytocin and cuddling menu is the simplest. To cuddle your pet, click the oxytocin menu, and drag your mouse across the pet's picture. Every second or so, the oxytocin stat will go up by 10. Cuddling also increases bond level, by about 20 for the first cuddle of the day, and about 120 for the first time the oxytocin stat reaches 100.

## Soulbonded Pets

Soulbonded (starter) pets have a slightly different bond menu. It will be labelled as Wellness rather than mood, and will have an extra handful of buttons.

Activities lets you pick from a short list of self-care activities to do. After finishing, your pet will gain experience. You can do this 3 times a day.

The 3 other icons indicate how many unique foods and toys the pet has been given, and the number of days they have been cuddled. This has no known effect on the game at the moment and currently just acts as a collection of sorts.

## Trivia

* Leptin, serotonin, and oxytocin are real hormones that the brain produces when regulating mood.
	+ Leptin is produced by fat cells and regulates appetite.
	+ Serotonin is found in the blood, and regulates many things. A lack of it is associated with depression.
	+ Oxytocin is associated with warm, fuzzy, happy feelings, as well as with cuddling and parental love.
* Too much or an imbalance of any one hormone in a person is known to cause emotional and health issues, just as a pet in the game with unbalanced hormones will feel unhappy.