Finding a trade partner on your server

Trading needs two people on one server, friends in game, at the right affinity. Finding that person is the whole problem, and it is the problem this site is built around.

Set your server first

Matching only looks at players on your server, so it is the first thing the site asks for. If the launch server list changes your server's name, update it on your profile; a wrong server means an empty matches page.

Mark your box honestly

Tap what you would actually give away, keeping in mind that the game will not let you hand over your last copy of a species, and pick its grade and gender in one more tap: Perfect or Elite, male or female. Only Elite and Perfect copies are listed here, because those are what players trade. A regional form is a picture to tap above those buttons, and a stat screenshot pasted into the box fills the whole thing in. A spare is an open offer by default, which is what makes early matching work: someone who wants your spare is a match even before you know what you would take. To narrow a spare to particular creatures or add a note, open it and choose More.

Flip through the binders

Binders shows every player on your server as a binder page, newest change first: their Elite and Perfect copies in sleeves, and what they are looking for. Anything they have that you want is lit up, and so is anything they want that you have spare. Swipe to the next binder. When a binder has what you want and wants what you have, one tap proposes the swap with both copies named. Change a spare and your own binder goes to the top for everyone else. A binder rests out of Binders after 7 days with no change; if yours is still right, your box asks “Is this binder up to date?” and one Yes puts it back on top.

Read the matches page

Matches opens from the ticket button on your Box. Two-way swaps come first. After them, one-sided matches: players who want your spare, or who have your want. A one-sided match is still a trade waiting to happen; propose it and pick the missing half from their stickers. Online players float to the top, and the ticket shows the hours you both play.

When it is empty

Three things fill an empty server:

• Wants are watches. The moment someone lists the spare you marked, you get an email.
• Posts reach further. A looking-for post is also a listing, and it shows on the creature's market page for anyone who lands there from a search.
• Bring your partner. Your profile has an invite link that puts your server in for them. Send it to whoever you already trade with on Discord. Two people on one server is a market.

Pair up before you need to

Affinity takes days, and the Friends tab is for starting early. Pair with a player who wants to grind it, do the daily gift and Home visit, and when one of you lists a spare the other wants, the gate is already open.

Where you can actually stand next to someone

Other players are only visible in a few places: when you are grouped in the same party, inside the main city, or within camp and RV areas. The main city is Astra, a floating metropolis that works as the shared social hub, with shops, NPCs, egg-hatching facilities, and a stage area where people gather. RV parks are the other option, designated shared social zones where you park alongside other players, visit their RVs, rest, and decorate camping platforms. Open-world exploration is mostly solo, so you will not bump into a trade partner out in the field. Multiplayer is activity-based rather than one persistently shared world.

Everything past the hub runs on invites. Your main world is a private instance, and joining someone else's game needs an invite from them. Once you are in, you can explore and catch creatures together, visit each other's Homelands, and enter personal home plots. Your own RV is a customizable mobile home base at an open-world campsite: your headquarters, a social space, and a portal through to your homeland. Co-op parties cap at four players for exploration, puzzles, and boss battles. A flute item pulls in nearby players, friends, or random participants to help at your location or during a boss fight.

Before you line up a partner, know what the trade itself involves. Trading Aniimo costs in-game credits. Aniimo preserved through Bond Pact events become permanently account-bound and cannot be traded at all, so check that first. Some Aniimo only evolve once they have been traded to another player, which is a good reason to keep a partner you trust. During the pre-launch event you can trade Cheers as well, and event trades work by sharing an exchange link that gets created automatically when you start the exchange. The web event shows no on-screen alert when an exchange completes. Fulmintis and Dazmand can only be obtained through trading or in another player's world if you did not choose them at the start.