Adopt Me!: raise pets, earn Bucks and catch the Haetyphoon

Adopt Me! opened on Roblox on July 14, 2017 and has 45.4 billion visits. It is made by Uplift Games, founded by NewFissy and Bethink. On November 10, 2026 it had about 113,000 players online, ninth on our trending Roblox games list. The official site describes it as a free game where you adopt cats, dogs and dragons, build or decorate a home, make friends and explore Adoption Island.

Your first egg

Every new player gets a free Starter Egg at the Nursery on Adoption Island. It hatches into a cat or a dog and cannot be traded. To get to the island from your house, walk through the Exit tunnel of the neighborhood.

1. Pick up the Starter Egg at the Nursery.
2. Care for it. Eggs hatch when you complete their needs, like feeding, bathing and sleeping.
3. Keep a pet equipped. Every need you complete pays Bucks and helps your pet grow.
4. Save Bucks for eggs. The Nursery sells eggs and the Gumball Machine has rotating limited eggs. Prices change, so check them in game.

How you earn Bucks

Bucks are the in-game money. The main loop is simple: your pet shows its needs as tasks, you complete them, and each one pays Bucks and ages the pet a little. Bigger needs pay more. You can also play as a baby, which lets you complete your own needs on top of your pet's. Other Bucks sources include daily login rewards and the in-game jobs.

Pet ages and Neon pets

Pets grow through six stages. Four Full Grown pets of the same kind can be turned into a Neon pet, and four Neon pets into a Mega Neon.

Make Neon pets in the Neon Cave, under the bridge between Adoption Island and the Neighborhood. Age-Up Potions skip aging, and you can win them from the new Lightning Dimension baits.

The Lightning Dimension (November 2026)

The official patch notes from November 6, 2026 explain the new update. A mysterious hammer struck the Nursery and opened a portal to the Lightning Dimension. Uplift says the portal will stay open for good once it moves to the Sky Castle.

1. Collect Forks in a Bottle in the Lightning Dimension.
2. Place them when a storm appears. Lightning turns them into Lightning in a Bottle.
3. Go to Bore's Cave and trade 3 Lightning Bottles for a Cyclone Sponge Bait or a Storm Chip Cookie Bait.
4. Put the bait in the lure in your pet pen and wait two hours.

Rewards include Bucks, Age-Up Potions, stickers, pet wear, toys and four new pets: Thunderfisher (Rare), Electric Hornet (Ultra-Rare), and the Legendary Haetyphoon and Flash Weasel. Haetyphoon only comes from the Cyclone Sponge Bait and Flash Weasel only from the Storm Chip Cookie Bait. The official notes put each Legendary at a 0.1% chance per bait, so do not count on one; enjoy the rest of the rewards. The free infinite baits from Halloween are gone, and the Bolt can no longer be caught.

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Lightning Dimension rewards at a glance

The official notes list every reward a bait can give. The common ones are Bucks: 20 Bucks at 28%, 50 Bucks at 25% and 100 Bucks at 9.5%. Age-Up Potions drop 12.5% of the time and the Rare Thunderfisher 10%. Stickers, pet wear like the Winged Helmet and Storm Wizard Cape, and toys like the Forkpeller and Stormy Cloud Friend fill the middle. The rarest rewards are the Paint Sealer potion (2%), the Ultra-Rare Electric Hornet (1.5%) and the two Legendaries. So treat baits as a steady source of Bucks and potions, with a tiny extra chance at something special.

Weekly schedule

From Adopt Me!'s official event listings on Roblox, November 2026.

A tip for the first week: do not trade away your first pets. They are small now, but every pet you raise to Full Grown counts toward a Neon later, and Neon pets need four of the same kind.

Pet pens and lures

Your pet pen is where lures go. Put a bait in the lure, wait the two hours, and collect what it pulled in. The Cozy Home Lure is a paid pass, and an extra Pet Pen slot is sold as a pass too, but the Lightning Dimension baits themselves come from Lightning in a Bottle you make for free in the new dimension.

Homes and jobs

Your house is half of Adopt Me!. The official site talks about treehouses, igloos and mansions, and you decorate every room yourself. Friends can visit, and roleplay families often meet at someone's home. When you need Bucks without your pet, the in-game jobs pay too. A good early routine is: take care of your pet's needs, do a job when there is nothing to do, and save for an egg before you spend on furniture.

Obbies and badges

Adopt Me! hides obstacle courses around the map, and each one has an official badge. The badge text calls Tiny Isles "the hardest obby in all of Adopt Me".

Recent updates from Uplift

Adopt Me! gets something new every Friday. The official news page lists the latest posts, newest first: the Lightning Dimension notes, the final Halloween 1.2x weekend, Where Bear? returning, Stitches' Spotlight, Hauntlet returning, Ghost Gallery, Monster Mansion, Cat Cafe, new Star Rewards, the Fairytale Castle, the Fairytale Egg and a Backpack Storage refresh. The Halloween Wagon left on November 6, 2026, so Halloween pets can no longer be bought there.

Adopt Me! is also big outside Roblox. Uplift Games lists more than 425 million players worldwide, and there are official toys and books. Some of those toys come with codes for the in-game Kiosk.

Game passes

Adopt Me! is free, and passes are optional. The current ones include VIP, Premium Plots, an extra Pet Pen slot and the Cozy Home Lure for the new baits. Many older passes, like the mansions and pet passes in the picture below, are no longer on sale.

Adopt Me! codes

How to redeem an Adopt Me! code

1. Go to the Safety Hub and find Agent Ruhi.
2. Use the Kiosk and enter your code.
3. Check your backpack. The game says "Your redeemable item has been added to your backpack."

Codes are mostly for promotions and toy merchandise. New ones appear on the official Adopt Me! X account and Discord. Old codes such as SUMMERBREAK and subbethink have expired. Our Roblox codes list shows every game with working codes.

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