Search For The Needle Pets: All Pets & How to Get Them

Pets are companion followers that automate part of the hay loop. They arrived with the Index + Pets update on September 12, 2026 — before that, Search For The Needle was strictly you versus the pile.

All confirmed pets

Pet	Reported stats	What it does
Cow	5.5 Speed / 20 Grasp	Sells hay on your behalf — skips the trough walk
Dog	8 Speed / 100 Carry / 10 Grasp	Carries hay to the trough for you

Two caveats on those numbers: they come from post-update gameplay observation, not an official stat table, and the Cow also exists as a Cow Pet gamepass (499 R$, gamepass list) — whether the gamepass Cow and an obtainable Cow are identical is not officially stated.

How do you get pets?

• Cow Pet gamepass — the guaranteed route: buy it from the game’s store page and the Cow follows you permanently.
• In-game obtainment — community reports tie pet unlocks to the new Index/collection systems; the exact unlock conditions are still being documented. Treat any “free pet” claim as unverified until you can reproduce it.
• PETS code — the September code pays 200 Gems plus a 30-minute 2X Class Luck boost (codes page); despite the name it grants currency, not a pet.

Are pets worth it?

The sell walk is the core tax of the hay loop — it is what Hold and Speed upgrades exist to soften. Both pets attack that tax directly:

• Cow removes the sell trip entirely for the hay it handles — a mobile sell point.
• Dog automates hauling so you keep pulling from the pile uninterrupted.

If you run a pet, revisit your upgrade order: capacity matters less when something else does the hauling, and Grasp becomes the pure bottleneck. Pets also interact with the Index system, whose completion rewards are still unpublished — expect the pet roster to grow as the Index fills in.