How Aniimo Personalities and Psych Fruit Work

Each Aniimo has a personality type based on Myers-Briggs (MBTI) profiles. The game shows it as a four-letter code, such as ENTP, at the top of the Aniimo's page in the Aniimo tab. That is where to look whenever you are comparing two of the same species.

The personality is rolled at random when you get the Aniimo. It modifies the creature's combat behaviour and provides specific stat bonuses, so the code is not decoration. Read it the way you would read a stat line.

Because the roll is individual, a duplicate is never automatically a spare. Two of the same species can differ in both potential and personality, and potential has its own rules; the article on Innate and Acquired Potential covers that side.

Every Aniimo has six attributes that determine its strength: HP, Attack, Physical Defense, Regen, Magic Defense and Break. Personality does not replace those base stats. It adds buffs on top of them, and different personalities grant different buffs.

The bonuses tie to individual letters. The S trait gives stat bonuses to damage. The I letter, Instinctive, gives a 4% regeneration bonus. Personality can also raise crit rate, and one personality adds 5% crit chance.

The practical upshot: when you are chasing perfect stats on an Aniimo, the four letters are part of the build. An attacker with S in its code is getting something a defensive Aniimo may not need, and an Instinctive Aniimo leans toward sustain through its Regen bonus.

Personality also affects how efficiently an Aniimo works Homeland jobs such as crafting and gathering. Some personality perks give a 20% work efficiency boost at specific tasks, such as mining or particular crafting stations.

So an Aniimo that is middling in a fight can still be your best miner, and the reverse is true too. Putting each one on the job its personality favours improves output. The guide to assigning Aniimo workers in the Homeland covers the job side in full.

A personality is not permanent. After you obtain an Aniimo you can reroll its personality traits by feeding it a fruit through the Change Personality button on its page.

The fruit's name is not settled in the game's text. It appears as Soul Fruit, Psychic Fruit, Psych Fruit and Psyche Fruit, and they all refer to the fruit used for Change Personality. Glimmer is the resource used for nurturing, and that includes Kappa and Psyche fruits.

The catch is in the word random. The reroll does not let you choose a code. You feed the fruit and take what comes, which can be worse than what you had. Before you use one on an Aniimo whose current letters already suit its role, check that you are willing to lose them.

Some uses of personality have nothing to do with stat bonuses. Budsquire evolves at level 27, but only when it has the Faithful personality and is the only member of your party. A Budsquire with the wrong personality will not take that evolution, which makes it one of the clearest cases for a reroll.

Glamour Star scoring also includes a personality bonus, so the code counts there too.

Aniimo have character outside the menus as well. They show visible emotions such as happiness, frustration, tiredness and sadness, including in the home, and each has its own idle animations, some of which interact with the screen when you go AFK.

06Where to start

Check the four letters on every Aniimo you plan to use. Put attackers with damage letters in fights and let the 20% work perks decide your Homeland jobs. Save Psych Fruit for Aniimo whose current personality is actually in the way, such as a Budsquire that is not Faithful, because a random reroll can take away letters you wanted.