The Official Spider Guide

Getting Started

First, unpack your starter kit. Inside you will find 2 starter spider eggs, a spider food and a redelivery log. First check your current active group is set to the group that has land rez rights, then rez your spider food near the center of the area you want your spider eggs to roam, next rez your spiders near the spiderfood.

Next click a spider egg and you will be presented with a menu on whether to birth your spider egg. Select YES for an animesh version (22LI) or Static for a static version (1LI). Once your spider rezzes, it will set it's "Home Position" and have a range of 3.0 meters. Click your spider, if you wish to change the home position, move it to where you want it's home position first. You can set the range via the menu. Whilst static spiders do not move, their home position and range are important as it determines whether their spider food is reachable. (that is, the spider food must be within range of the spider's home position). If you have animesh spiders you can unfreeze them and they will roam and animate.

Breeding

Once your spider is 10 days old, it can start breeding. Spiders can be paired to ensure they only breed within their pair, if they are not paired they will still breed, but with any available spider of the opposite sex. Once hitting age 10 spiders will seek a partner and rez a spider egg every 5 days, until age 120 when they retire.

Traits

Your starter spiders will contain a random selection of starter traits. To get new traits, you will need to breed spiders with the same trait at least 3 generations. Not all traits give new traits, but those with the possibilitiy will be announced. Sometimes, on special occasions, you may get a Special spider egg. This special spider egg will contain unique traits, some of which pass, some which pass other traits,

Happiness

Fed spiders are happy, however if they run out of food to eat and they get very hungry, they will become flat, then sad, then depressed. Only happy spiders breed - flat, sad and depressed spiders will need to be fed and become happy again before they will breed.

Once a spider's hunger reaches 100% the spider will gain unhappiness at the rate of 1% every hour.

To gain happiness feed the spider and while the spider remains below 100% hunger it will gain happiness at a rate of 1% every 30 minutes. Depressed spiders are 100% unhappy, sad spiders between 50% and 100% and flat spiders between 1% and 50%

Redeliveries & Updating

Sometimes Second Life may eat your spider, as it sometimes has an appetite for NO-COPY objects. In this case, you can redeliver your spider using a Redelivery Log. Redelivery logs can be obtained from XS-Pets.

To send a lost spider for redelivery (in the case where you can't find, or no longer have the spider) go to your web portal, find the spider and click the redelivery checkbox, then click redeliver lives button. You can then copy the redelivery code and paste it into the dialog of your Redelivery log (Touch Menu -> Live Spiders -> Get 1).

In the case of an update, new redelivery logs will be issued, and updating your spiders can be done via the redelivery system. Spiders and spider eggs can be sent for redelivery via their touch menu, or via the web portal, Starter spider eggs can not be redelivered.

Gathering

Gatheringis shared with all Glitter Grove breedables, and is a system that allows you to harvest virtual resources which can be used with blueprints to obtain special items. There are currently three types of gathering: Mining, Foresting and Gardening.

Each type of gathering requires a tool, and a novice tool for each type is available for free in the Glitter Grove area of the XS Pets region. Novice tools are slow, but get you started. Once you have a tool, you should attach it to your right hand, then find a corresponding harvest node and click it. You will perform an action on the node, and may or may not be successful. When successful, you may be awarded either a virtual item, which goes into your Glitter Grove server inventory, or an inworld item that you can rez.

Virtual items are items which are used to craft things, inworld items are other things - for example blue prints, special rewards etc. To view your virtual inventory, you can use the web portal for your chosen Glitter Grove pet (log in to your portal, and select "Inventory" from the portal dropdown menu) or you can use an inworld Glitter Grove inventory checker.

Retirement

Spiders retire at age 120. They will no longer breed, they will also no longer need food.