What is CP?

CP is the shortened form of "character points". This is a term you should be familiar with, as many players purchase CP to stack onto their wolves or advertise wolves with certain amounts of CP.

Players receive 60 CP daily, plus 30 CP to donate to other players and an additional 10 CP to give new players. This does not stack, so it is recommended you play daily to use up as much free CP as possible. If you require more CP, you can purchase Bronze Figurines (known as figs) at Realm > Barter. You will receive 20 CP per 60 mush. Bronze figs can also be crafted from shards if you have explored enough to collect the 3 shard pieces.

What are attributes?

Attributes (informally shortened to stats) are what determines your wolf's performance. Wolves with low CP will do poorly compared to a wolf with its CP maxed out. Some attributes will be more important than others and should be filled first.

Dominance - Pack Happiness, Chasing Packs, Chasing Birdwatcher
Stealth - Tracking prey
Perception - Discovering things while exploring, avoid quicksand
Luck - Discovering things while exploring
Maternal - Number of pups born (female wolves only)
Social - Befriending familiars
Empathy - Healing/rescuing encounters
Morals - Fixing the Beaver Dam
Resolve - Offensive battle ability (accuracy)
Composure - Raiding the Farmhouse
Wisdom - Discovering things while exploring, Identifying prey, avoiding quicksand
Battle - Offensive battle ability (damage)
Charisma - Number of pups born (male wolves only)
Agility - Defensive battle ability (evasion), fishing
Spirituality - Discovering things while exploring, appeasing ancestors (FMC)

What is CP stacking?

CP stacking is outlining which stats on a wolf you want to fill. Each player has their own preference of which CP to fill, although over time, these methods mostly overlap. Binge explorers prefer wolves with fully maxed out stats to milk the potential of each explore level. Battlers and PvPers might only focus on stats that increase chances of winning, such as Battle, Resolve, and Agility. Breeders will often focus on breeding attributes such as Maternal and Charisma to ensure the maximum amount of pups.

No matter what part of WP you plan to establish yourself in, CP stacking is integral to your gameplay.

How should I get started?

Obviously, the one thing every player needs is mushrooms. New players don't have a lot of that. These four main attributes are needed to help the mush-gaining process:
- Battle and Resolve to defeat enemies more easily.
- Perception and Luck to find mush and relics (which can be sold for 1-15 mush at a time to Montak's).

Battling enemies and hunting prey will get you more mushrooms than going over the entire map and hoping your wolf will dig them up. Every level will have enemies and prey to kill. Finding mushrooms is subjective to the wolf and is completely random.

Therefore, assuming mush-gaining is your goal, I recommend stacking CP in the following order:
1. Battle

2. Resolve

3. Perception

4. Luck

These are what I call "highlight attributes" because they're what bring you the most mush.


"Why not Agility?" some of you may ask. Agility helps with evasion and is not necessary until you meet the bullies in higher explore levels: Bears and Mountain Lions. Until then, you can procrastinate on filling Agility for a little while. The rabbits and squirrels from level 1-5 don't deal high enough damage to one-hit KO your wolves.



Once you fill the above four CP slots, how you fill the remaining attributes is up to you. Social is completely useless except for certain monthly events or you're Premium and heavily use your familiars. Spirituality also has little use unless you somehow get your hands on temple offerings, which aren't easy to get; or, you plan on appeasing spiritual ancestors in FMC, which lasts only 5 days, the 5th - 9th of each month. Maternal and Charisma only need 30~40 CP each to ensure a large chance of getting 3 (max) pups. Add it all up, that's 740 CP you don't need to worry about and 2,400 mush you can use on something else.

*Keep in mind, the FMC is quite an expensive affair and not newbie/F2P friendly. Most players spend thousands of mush on explore moves to potentially win a few free apples and FMC bragging rights.

Don't feel too bad if you don't fill up your wolves. Maxing out CP requires dedication of both time and mushrooms. If you succeed doing this, you're probably on your way to becoming a top player. Not very many people actually get around to maxing out a wolf, myself included.



What's my own personal preference?
1. Battle
2. Resolve
3. Agility
3. Luck
4. Perception
5. Stealth
6. Empathy/Morals
7. Wisdom/Composure
8. Dominance
9. Maternal/Charisma
10. Spirituality/Social


Explanation:
The only reason why I stack Agility before Luck and Perception is because I'm already on the higher levels of explore. Bears and crocodiles are difficult to defeat unless you can evade 60+ damage.

Add Stealth after the highlight attributes to help you find more prey. Kill more prey = get more mushrooms.

Item #6 (Emp/Mor) helps encounters that mainly give you explore moves. More explore moves also means more chances of finding mush.

Item #7 (Wis/Comp) helps spot quicksand, identify tracking prey, and helps you steal food. It doesn't do much other than help you avoid damage. Wisdom can play into FMC, raising the chance you successfully appease an ancestor.

Dominance is entirely dependent on what order I want my pack to be in. It has no set time to be adjusted and is done whenever I feel like it (or remember). Dominance can be added before I start CP stacking the wolf or even after everything's been filled. Basically—it's not the first thing I think of stacking.

Because of the reasoning I used above, I often don't fill Maternal, Charisma, Spirituality, or Social stats. I fill Maternal/Charisma when I have the occasional, infrequent need to breed wolves. And I have neither the time nor motivation to participate in the FMC.


The 4 attributes that I highlighted should be your concern while building up an explore wolf. The others will fall into place once you get a hang of the game and adapt to suit your needs. :)