Beginner Tips and Costly Mistakes to Avoid

The biggest early drain is leveling every Aniimo you catch. Spending materials on the low-level ones in particular uses up your upgrade stock quickly, and you get very little back for it.

You also don't need to. Aniimo level up on their own just by being in your party and taking part in exploration and combat. Let the game do the cheap leveling. Save materials for the creatures you actually plan to keep.

Support Aniimo need even less. They stay usable with minimal investment and don't need to reach awakening tier 6, so spend that budget on your main damage dealers.

If you do invest in the wrong creature, the Inherit screen exists to move it. The trained Aniimo on the left gives its investment to the receiving Aniimo on the right. Read the screen carefully before you confirm, because the direction matters.

Held items are less forgiving. Feeding an already-upgraded held item into another one as enhancement material loses about 20% of the upgrade efficiency. Upgrading the wrong item and then swapping back wastes resources both ways, so pick the item you mean to keep before you start upgrading.

An Aniimo's potential tier carries over through evolution. A perfect or good-tier creature evolves into a perfect or good-tier form, and a poor one stays poor. Check quality first, so you don't evolve a weak specimen and then wonder why it never catches up.

Umbral Aniimo are the case where evolving does real damage. Evolving or transforming one, including into a Prismana or weather form, permanently removes its Umbral form. That takes its unique dark appearance, its state and its special perks with it, and the new form keeps none of them. If you want the Umbral version, leave it as it is.

Catch at least one of every Aniimo you meet during the opening quest and the trip to the first city. Catching awards player experience, particularly for species you haven't caught yet, so a new species early is worth more than another copy of something you already own.

The catch isn't finished when the creature is in your bag. Caught Aniimo only count toward progress such as the Anilog and elite rating quests once you register or report them at an outpost station. If a quest isn't ticking over, that's usually why.

Not every creature waits politely. Cubbo can't be caught once you attack it and it becomes enraged, so don't open on it with damage. You can dodge incoming attacks during combat, which helps when a fight goes sideways.

If you're hunting something specific, open the map's Habitats section from the Aniimo silhouette icon in the side menu. It lists the creatures found in each biome.

Relics and essences from Egg Heist are used to upgrade your Egg Heist talents. They are also easy to sell by mistake, most often from the inventory's All tab during a quick clear-out. Sell from the specific tabs instead, or check what is selected before you confirm.

Energy has a cap, and any energy regenerated while you're sitting at it is lost, along with the account EXP it would have earned. Spend it before it fills.

Sparkling Cubes are another resource people burn early. Sparkling status is purely cosmetic, and Sparkling variants have no stat increases over standard forms. Keep the cubes for the targets you most want on your active team: meta picks, alphas with strong core skills, Prismana eggs, Prismana Aniimo where the visual change is most noticeable, or a Vein Abundance Aniimo you're after. Spending one on every Prismana, every first-time Alpha or an early monster you haven't decided to keep is how you run out. The Sparkling guide on this site covers the system in full.

Aniimo has no cross-progression and no character transfers between regional servers. Progression, game data and characters are tied to each server, and they carry over only between accounts linked on the same server. Start on a new server and you start from the beginning, so choose the one you intend to stay on.

Once you're settled, interact with every Bloom (the bloom fruit flower) you pass. The first interaction unlocks it as a fast-travel warp point and reveals sections of the map. After that you can click it on the map to travel straight there, for example to reach Blitzwood, and the Blooms link vein network locations across the world. Skipping them now means walking later.

06Where to start

Let party play do your leveling, check quality before every evolution, register catches at an outpost, and look twice before you sell anything from the All tab. Those habits cover most of the expensive early mistakes.