How Wild Surges and Bloom Outbreaks Work

Activating a Nurture Session at a regional branch triggers a Wild Surge, and the surge attracts wild Aniimo to that location. Nurturing a bloom or a convergence point does the same job from the other direction: it sets off outbreaks and wild surges that summon Aniimo native to that region.

That word native matters. A surge does not hand you a random slice of the national roster. It calls up what lives there. Interacting with a bloom lets you nurture and spawn area-specific Aniimo, so the way you farm a creature you want is to go stand where it lives and nurture there.

So the loop is: find a branch, bloom or convergence point, nurture it, and let the area fill.

Activating a bloom event or a nurture Wild Surge spawns a circle of approximately 20 Aniimo. Nurturing also triggers a Group Appearance, which is the game's name for a large number of Aniimo spawning at once in that area.

Practically, that means you are standing in the middle of the encounter rather than walking up to it. You get a spread of the region's creatures laid out around you, and you can pick your targets instead of taking whatever wandered past.

This is also why surges are where variant hunting actually happens. A single wild encounter is one roll. A circle of them is a spread of rolls, all under the same conditions you just set up.

Here is the mistake. Defeating wild Aniimo during bloom events, wild surges or nurture attempts fails to advance cultivation, and it wastes nurture attempts.

Combat is not how you resolve a surge. Knocking the spawns down gives you nothing toward the cultivation the nurture was supposed to progress, and the attempt is gone either way. If you clear the circle by fighting through it, you have spent the attempt and come away with neither the catch nor the progress.

Catch them. That is the whole instruction, and it is worth repeating to yourself the first few times, because twenty creatures appearing at once reads as a fight in almost every other game you have played.

What appears is not fixed. Active weather conditions and the time of day determine which Aniimo species and forms show up in bloom nurture encounters, so the same bloom nurtured at a different hour or under different weather gives you a different line-up. If a form you want is not appearing, the answer may be to come back later rather than to move.

Quality is governed separately, by Prismatic Energy. Higher Prismatic Energy levels increase the spawn rate of evolved and higher-tier Aniimo. A region also has a Prismatic Energy State level, which means how much Prismana energy is stored there, and a higher one increases the chance of a Prismana Aniimo spawning during group encounters.

That gives energy two payoffs at once: stronger creatures in the circle, and a better shot at Prismana in it. Nurturing in the Forest of Falling Stars grants 50% more prismatic energy during the event, which makes that the place to nurture while it runs.

Aniimo come in distinct variations, including regional forms, Sparkling variants and Prismana forms. Surges and blooms are where you go looking for them.

Umbral Aniimo can appear during wild surges triggered by ecosystem nurturing, and those surges carry a chance of spawning rare Umbra Aniimo. Bloom events cover the other half: Umbral and Radiant variants can both spawn there.

Nurture offerings shift the odds in your favour more generally. This is the system that was called Cultivation before it was renamed in Community Beta 3, and Aniimo spawned through it have elevated odds for higher Potential Values, plus an increased chance of being Sparkling, Aniimo's shiny variant. The size of the Sparkling boost is not published, so treat it as a real edge of unknown size rather than something you can plan around. Since every Aniimo has its own traits, abilities, qualities, stats and personality type, better Potential Values on a creature you were going to catch anyway is the quieter reason to nurture rather than wander.

For Prismana specifically, nurturing blooms on regional branches increases the encounter rate. You can also encounter them by nurturing regional branches or blooms with offerings of flowers, though how central that route is remains unsettled: it is described both as the main way to find them and as merely one option among others.

06Where to start

Nurture where the creature you want lives, check the weather and the hour before you commit the attempt, and catch everything in the circle instead of fighting it. While the Forest of Falling Stars event is running, nurture there for the extra prismatic energy.