Field Guide

The **Field Guide** is an unlockable location in Poppy Seed Pets.

## How to Unlock

The **Field Guide** can be unlocked when the conditions for unlocking at least one of the entries have been fulfilled. Each entry has different conditions to unlock; this is usually related to experiencing an encounter with certain creatures or unlocking certain content.

## Field Guide Entries

The **Field Guide** contains entries that give more insight into site lore. Currently, up to 19 entries can be discovered.

### Argopelter (Animal)

Pets can unlock the Argopelter entry by encountering one while hunting in the woods.

**Entry Contents:**

While (Pet) was out hunting, an Argopelter began throwing sticks and thorny branches at them...

This ape-like creature lives in hollow trees, feeding on birds and rotten wood. From high up in the branches, it enjoys throwing branches at unsuspecting passersby.
It gives birth to litters which always have an odd number of pups, and are always delivered on the 29th of February.

### Bivu (Celestial)

Pets can unlock the Bivu entry by fighting Bivu's Release, which is summoned by a Horizon Mirror.

**Entry Contents:**

(Pet 1), (Pet 2), (Pet 3), and (Pet 4) fought Bivu's Release!

Only two writings about Bivu remain today, so relatively little is known about her.

There are many lists of Gizubi's children, and while several names appear in multiple such lists, Bivu's appears only once. Her mother is not known, and while Gizubi created many creatures on his own, including some intelligent ones, these are never referred to as "children".

Bivu's other mention is in a collection of creation stories, where she causes a star's explosion by making love to it.

### Burnt Forest (Location)

Pets can unlock the Burnt Forest entry by visiting the Burnt Forest with a Burnt tool.

**Entry Contents:**

(Pet) used their Burnt (tool) to visit the Burnt Forest.

Valnötvale was home to many faefolk before a meteor materialized overhead, struck at its center, and burrowed into the earth.

Many trees were immediately destroyed by the shock wave; many more were set alight by a fire that spread across the valley, reducing it to embers and ash.

Most of the fae that survived fled to neighboring kingdoms, which now call the place "the Burnt Forest". But a few refused to leave. They continue to live in this place, fighting the fires that still spring up from time to time, tending to the saplings that grow amidst the ashes, and believing in a new Valnötvale.

### Coral Reef (Location)

Pets can unlock the Coral Reef entry by visiting the Coral Reef. Pets may access this area when Fishing or during Submarine adventures.

**Entry Contents:**

(1 of the following comments:)

* (Pet) went fishing at the Coral Reef.
* (Pet) explored the Coral Reef using the Submarine.

A coral reef encircles the southern end of the island. It's home to a diverse ecosystem, including a species of Hammerhead unique to the island.

### Cosmic Goat (Celestial)

Pets can unlock the Cosmic Goat entry by encountering a Cosmic Goat in the The Umbra.

**Entry Contents:**

While exploring the Umbra, some white rain started to fall. (Pet) looked up, and saw the Cosmic Goat flying overhead, milk flowing from its udder.

The Cosmic Goat soars over the near Umbra with the winds and waves of energy given off by the barrier separating this world from the other. From its udder flows never-ending streams of milk, which form the rivers that feed into the White Lake.

Patrons of the Cosmic Goat believe that the White Lake sits at the very center of the universe, and that everything springs from it. They protect the lake from anyone, thing, or force that might damage it.

### Cryovolcano (Location)

Pets can unlock the Cryovolcano entry after visiting one while exploring an Icy Moon.

**Entry Contents:**
(Pet) found a Cryovolcano on an Icy Moon.

Cryovolcanoes - found on many icy moons and planets - are a type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia, or methane, rather than molten rock.
On planets with subsurface oceans, cryovolcanoes may bring the liquids of those oceans to the surface. If those oceans are home to living creatures, they, or their waste and byproducts, could also be brought to the surface in the eruptions.
SCIENCE!

### Drizzly Bear (Celestial)

Pets can unlock the Drizzly Bear entry by encountering a Drizzly Bear in the The Umbra (requires drizzles).

**Entry Contents:**

While exploring the Umbra, (Pet) stumbled upon a Drizzly Bear emerging from a dark river. It shook itself off, sending rain into the material world.

These creatures live in the shadowy woods of the near umbra, bathing in its rivers, and hunting smaller spirits for Quintessence.

After a bath, a Drizzly Bear will often shake itself dry, sending droplets of water into the material world. Some cosmologers estimate that Drizzly Bears are responsible for 10-20% of Earth's rainfall, mostly in the form of light drizzles and sunshowers.

### Huge Toad (Animal)

Pets can unlock the Huge Toad entry by encountering a Huge Toad while Fishing. It is presumed but not currently confirmed that the Huge Toad encountered in the Hollow Log while Gathering can also unlock the entry.

**Entry Contents:**

(Pet) went fishing at a Roadside Creek, and a Huge Toad bit the line!

Many Huge Toads inhabit the island. They dwell in dimly-lit areas, and have Toadstools growing on their backs. Whether the relationship is symbiotic or parasitic is still unknown.

It is said that the Toadstool from the back of a Huge Toad is particularly potent.

### Île Volcan (Location)

Pets can unlock the Île Volcan entry by visiting the island's Volcano. Pets may visit this location when Fishing or Gathering.

**Entry Contents:**

(1 of the following comments:)

* (Pet) went fishing at the foot of the Volcano.
* (Pet) explored the island's Volcano.

The first recorded discovery of Poppy Seed Pets island is by French explorers in the early 1500s, by the ship HMS Grand Rapace. According to the captain's log, its volcano was in the midst of an eruption, so the crew did not go ashore. They named the island "Île Volcan" - Volcano Island - observed it for a couple days, and moved on.

The second recorded exploration of the island is by a Russian ship in the mid 1720s, captained by Chestibor Grankin. According to Grankin's logs, they had received special orders directly from the Emperor, Peter the Great, to establish a presence on the island. Russia had apparently learned of the island's existence through the Spanish, however somewhere along the line "Île Volcan" had been misunderstood to be the name of the island's volcano, and not of the island itself.

Peter the Great died in 1725, possibly while Grankin's ship was still at sea. Unaware of the Emperor's death, Grankin and his crew continued their mission, and established a small settlement on the island. However, a couple years later, they all died of unknown causes. Remains of their settlement, as well as several unusual clockwork installations, can still be found on the island today.

*(Your pets may now go looking for ruined settlements.)*

### Infinity Imp (Celestial)

Pets can unlock the entry for the Infinity Imp by randomly encountering it while crafting a Strange Attractor or Viswanath's Constant.

**Entry Contents:**

(Pet) started computing (a Strange Attractor/Viswanath's Constant), but an Infinity Imp popped up, and started to attack!

These ne'er-do-wells will sometimes show up when trying to resolve infinities in mathematical formulae and proofs. Many mathematicians - on the brink of a solution - have lost their train of thought while trying to fight one of these off.

### Le Manoir de Chocolat (Location)

Pets can unlock the entry for Le Manoir de Chocolat by visiting Le Manoir de Chocolat.

**Entry Contents:**

(Pet) used (and broke) their Chocolate Key to open the gates of le Manoir de Chocolat.

A strange manor located... *somewhere* on the island. Pets with Chocolate Keys have no trouble traveling to and from the place, but no human has been able to find it. Pet's won't go when followed, and GPS isn't available on the island, so tracking the pets isn't currently possible.

At least one project is in development to try and track the pets using custom hardware, but custom parts are needed, and supply ships only come twice a year, so progress has been slow.

### Mysterious Plant (Plant)

Players can unlock the Mysterious Plant entry by harvesting Crop: Mysterious Plant.

**Entry Contents:**

You harvested a Mysterious Plant.

This plant is capable of producing all manner of fruit, from Fluff and Beans to Tentacles and Mermaid Eggs. It may come as no surprise, then, that it's closely related to another cursed plant: the aubergine.

### Nang Tani (Celestial)

**Entry Contents:**
Pets can unlock the Nang Tani entry by encountering her at a Naner Tree in the Island's Micro-Jungle.

**Entry Contents:**

(Pet) encountered Nang Tani at a lone Naner Tree!

The ghost of a young woman, Nang Tani lives among banana trees, and can sometimes be seen on a full moon. Her skin is greenish, and her lips have the color of a ripe gourd.

Nang Tani is a friendly spirit that sometimes gives food to travelers, and harms men who have wronged women.

### Sea of Dreams (Location)

Pets can unlock the Sea of Dreams entry by reading Letter: The Sea of Dreams from Sharuminyinka.

**Entry Contents:**

You read a letter from Sharuminyinka.

The waters of the Sea of Dreams are dreams given form. Without divine assistance, any creature, person, or even god who looks at its surface will immediately fall asleep.

A warrior named Sabriscille once entered the Sea of Dreams, in order to enter the dreams of a Tarasque and learn its weakness, but she spent so long in the sea she became part of it. When she finally did find the Terasque's dream, it woke up; the dream evaporated, and with it, so did Sabriscille.

### Shipwrecked Fleet (Location)

Pets can unlock the Shipwrecked Fleet entry by finding a sunken ship during Submarine adventures.

**Entry Contents:**

(Pet) explored the ocean using the Submarine, and found a sunken ship!

A fleet of ships lie scattered on the sea floor around the island. Their origin is unknown, but they are estimated to be between 2000 and 3000 years old.

### Tell Samarzhoustia (Location)

Players can unlock the Tell Samarzhoustia entry by trading with the Trader.

**Entry Contents:**

You made an exchange with a trader from Tell Samarzhoustia.

Not much is known about the city state of Tell Samarzhoustia, other than what has been told to us by its traveling merchants, among whom boasting appears to be a common personality trait.

If the information we've been told is true, Tell Samarzhoustia is a prosperous, underwater city state, inhabited by - or at least visited by - creatures from many places. Its upper class appears to consist predominantly of a race of bipedal fish who refer to themselves as Tell Samarzhoustians; whether this is a species name, or a term which applies to any inhabitant of Tell Samrzhoustia is unclear.

There is no known form of currency that is not accepted in Tell Samarzhoustia, and its grand markets deal not only in goods, but in information and technology.

Tell Samarzhoustian merchants occasionally speak of the other city states they deal with; among those, the Eridanus Federation appears to be held in great esteem.

### Whales (Animal)

Pets can unlock the Shipwrecked Fleet entry by encountering whales during Submarine adventures.

**Entry Contents:**

While exploring the deep sea, (Pet) watched a pod of whales go by! (Pet) swam and sang along with them for a while...

Whales can often be seen coming up for air around the island. On some nights, their songs are carried over the island by warm winds, softly audible to any awake.