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Researching about EarthBound 64
In UraCreatures you need two things to be able to befriend of an UraCreature and those are: bottles and a incense.
The giant tiger-cat illustrated is just a concept
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The use of incenses is even more important than the bottles. The UraCreatures have a specific behavoir according to its kind, they might attack you or run from you but this had an effect inside battles too which determines if they are more defensive, support his allies or aggressive against their rivals, this has too an effect on the taming.
With little variations, the UraCreatures according to his species had a - befriend rate - which can be from 10%, 40% or even 0%, 1%, -15%.
In every case you can use incenses to increase or low that rate, but actually that isn't easy cause every creature like some aromas and hate others and there isn't a "universal essence" (until the post-game).
With a big variety of aromas you had to choose one incense in specific in a "Incense" tab then you light the powder and permeates the area with the aroma. The main character tells you with a text-block if the creature liked or dislike the aroma, doesn't exactly tell you how much that grow the rate but all of this is try and retry. In battle you can use only one of each kind of incense, if you use a "Sea-Salt Incense" you can't use another "Sea-Salt Incense" until you finish the battle but can use a "Sea-Sand Incense" cause are a different kind of incense.
The effect is accumulative, there can be chances that the be-friend rate is of -30% and using two incenses (example: Coal Incense + Willow Incense) the rate can grow to 15%, if you don't use the correct combination you can low the rate that you increased before. You can also use incense to lower the rate if you doesn't want to befriend of that creature for one reason or another, there are creatures with a 50% befriend rate just starting and can bother you repeatedly.
Once befriend, the creature wait until the battle ends and join to you team, if you had a bottle.
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Like the bottles, you can buy most of the incenses in a Wizard Store. Each Wizard Store have some types of incenses but don't have all cause normally they have incenses according to the UraCreatures surrounding the town.
Other way to obtain incenses are with the Special Trees: trees with a special aroma. You can identify a special tree from the others cause the UraCreatures likes to dance around it (probably because the smell). Those special trees gives incense depending to it's species.
A "Coal-Smell Tree" give "Coal Incense", a "Dessert-Smell Tree" give "Dessert Incense" and that with almost every kind of incense. The amount of incense depend of it size, small one give 3 incense and the bigger one can give 10 units.
Once you collect the incense from a Special Tree you must wait until the next day to be able to collect more.
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The caroflos can compare with the UraCreatures in this point, cause they love too some types of incense and hate others. This is a strange way to make links or even break they.
But the sages cannot comprehend the origin of the special trees and his relation with the creatures. Some UraCreatures use all his power to protect his special trees even if it can lost his life, this amount of affection isn't normal for just a simple tree with "unique smell". So the sages made one theory saying that the trees had evolved to hypnotize the UraCreatures, but the wizards's creatures doesn't fall in the hypnosis even if they are of the same specie and are with the same trees, so this theory was disproven.
The sages along with the wizards find that the roots of the trees dig deep onto the ground reaching the Fossil Crust of Biophilya, jus the fact that a tree is able to get that depth is a miracle cause the fossil crust is below the oceanic crust and this appear to be guilt of a strange mutation but one very util for the trees, this implies too that the special trees doesn't grow in 20-years cause probably they need more for it's roots to get that deep (this can explain why we can't grow our own special trees).
Probably, if the trees could live underwater, deep-sea are entire forests of Special Trees.
