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How area cultivation and region completion work
Region completion is a species count with an 80% threshold. Here is how to read it, how to move it, and what to check before you throw a catch away.
The short version
- Cultivating an area means capturing at least 80% of that area's local Aniimo species, which earns a bronze medal there.
- A region's capture completion percentage rises as you catch wild Aniimo, and you read it by selecting the region on the map.
- Catching awards player experience, and uncaught species award more of it.
- Catch at least one of every Aniimo you meet during the opening quest and the trip to the first city.
- Potential is fixed at the moment of capture, so duplicates of the same species are how you get better stats.
- Check Alpha status, special or weather form, and Potential grade before you register or release anything.
Every wild Aniimo you catch does two jobs. It raises the capture completion percentage of the region you are standing in, and it gives you player experience, with uncaught species paying the most.
Region completion has a threshold that matters. Capture at least 80% of a region's local Aniimo species and you cultivate that area, which earns you a bronze medal in that zone. You do not have to be exhaustive. You do have to be close.
The rest of this is about not wasting the catches you make: starting the count early, and checking what you have before you commit to it.
Capture completion and the 80% mark
A region's capture completion percentage increases as you catch wild Aniimo in it. To see where you stand, open the map and select the region. That is the only number you need to watch while you are clearing a zone.
Cultivating an area requires capturing at least 80% of the local Aniimo species, and hitting that earns you a bronze medal in that zone. The count is by species, which has a practical consequence: a plain creature you walked past because it looked ordinary holds the percentage down exactly as much as a rare one you never found. If you are short of the threshold, the gap is usually something common you never bothered to throw at.
The region's own Branch feeds back into this. Infusing it with Lumin Amber upgrades that region's passive tree, improving stats, mobility and capture rates within the region, and one of those upgrades improves catch rates for certain Aniimo. Regional Branch upgrades have their own guide on this site. The point for cultivation is that a region you have already worked is easier to finish than one you have not touched.
80%
Local species needed to cultivate an area
Start the count in the opening quest
Catch at least one of every Aniimo you encounter during the opening quest and on the trip to the first city. This is worth doing even when a creature looks like nothing you want on your team.
The reason is that catching awards player experience points, and uncaught species award more. A first catch pays you in levels and moves the region percentage at the same time. A second catch of something you already have does neither as well. Early on, when the species you meet are all new, that makes indiscriminate catching the efficient play rather than the lazy one.
Check an Aniimo before you register or release it
An Aniimo's Potential is fixed at the moment of capture. Nothing you do afterwards changes it, so the usual way to get a better version of a species is to catch more of that species and keep the best roll.
That makes the moment before you register or release a creature the one that matters. Check three things: whether it is an Alpha, whether it carries a special or weather form, and its Potential grade, which reads as Common, Good, Elite or Perfect. A release you make without looking is a release you cannot reconsider, and the same species caught again comes with a fresh Potential that may well be worse.
Stealth capture and traps are covered in their own guide here. For region completion, the thing to hold onto is that the species counts once, and the individual you keep is a separate decision you should make on purpose.
- CommonThe lowest of the four potential grades.
- GoodThe second grade. Checked alongside Alpha status and any special or weather form.
- EliteThe third grade. Potential is fixed at the moment of capture.
- PerfectThe highest grade. Catching duplicates of the same species is the usual way to reach it.
Where to start
Open the map, pick your region, and read the percentage before you decide where to farm. Then catch by species rather than by instinct, and check Alpha status, form and Potential grade before anything gets registered or released.
Most of this page was re-checked against the released game on 18 September 2026. The rest has not been re-confirmed since release.