Adopt Me Beginner Guide: Complete 2026 Walkthrough

Getting Started the Right Way

When you first join Adopt Me, you’ll go through a tutorial that explains the basics. Pay attention to this—it covers movement, tasks, and core mechanics you’ll use constantly.

Your first priority: don’t look like a default player. I’ve seen too many beginners get targeted by scammers because they look brand new. Take a few minutes to customize your avatar with the free clothing options available. It doesn’t need to be fancy, just personalized enough that you don’t scream “new player.”

Understanding Daily Login Rewards

The easiest money you’ll make in Adopt Me comes from simply logging in every day. The Star Rewards system gives you increasingly valuable prizes the more consecutive days you play:

• 180 days total: You’ll receive a Golden Eggoh
• 360 days total: You’ll earn a Diamond Egg

Yes, that’s a long commitment. But here’s why it matters: these eggs contain pets you can’t get anywhere else, and they’re valuable trading currency later. Set a phone reminder if you need to—even logging in for 30 seconds counts.

Your First Pet and the Task Board

After the tutorial, you’ll head to the nursery to hatch your starter egg. You’ll get either a dog or a cat—both are common pets, but they’re your foundation for everything that comes next.

The Task Board is where you’ll make most of your early-game money. This board gives you specific objectives to complete, like buying a vehicle, dressing up your pet, or feeding animals. Each completed task rewards you with bucks (the in-game currency).

Start with the simple tasks first: name your pet, create an outfit for it, and complete the basic care activities. These quick wins give you immediate cash to invest in eggs and vehicles.

Getting Your Trading License

Before you can trade with other players, you need a trading license. Find the NPC who handles licenses (they’re marked on your map) and complete their quiz. The questions are straightforward—they test whether you understand basic trading safety:

Safe trade example: Trading a common dog for another common pet of similar value.

Unsafe trade example: Someone offering you a giraffe (an extremely rare pet) for nothing. This is either a scam or a trust trade situation.

Trust trading: Never, ever trust trade. This is when someone asks you to give them a valuable pet temporarily with a promise to return it or give you something better later. It’s the most common scam in Adopt Me. The quiz will ask about this—the correct answer is always to decline trust trades.

Once you pass the quiz, you can start trading with other players. We’ll cover trading strategies later in this guide.

Using Teleportation Efficiently

Adopt Me has a massive map, and walking everywhere wastes time you could spend making money. Use the teleportation buttons in your menu to instantly travel to key locations:

• Nursery: Where you hatch and adopt pets
• Gifts: Teleports you to the center of the city (useful for quick navigation)
• School: Where you can work as a teacher or principal
• Hospital: Work as a doctor
• Pizza Shop: One of the best money-making jobs
• Salon: Style pets and earn while AFK

The Gifts button is your best friend for general navigation. It drops you in the middle of the map, making it easy to walk to nearby locations without crossing the entire world.

Jobs: Maximizing Your Income

Jobs are how you’ll earn the bulk of your bucks, especially in the early game. Different jobs pay different amounts, and some let you go AFK (away from keyboard) while still earning money. All standard jobs pay 50 bucks per task, but some are much more efficient than others.

Pizza Shop is one of the best jobs for active players. You can work as a waiter/waitress or a pizza maker. As a waiter, you serve pizzas through the drive-thru—you can actually go AFK at the window and still get paid when customers arrive, just make sure you’re positioned correctly. As a pizza maker, it’s more active but more engaging. Grab dough, roll it out, add toppings (sauce, cheese, pepperoni, etc.), then bake it in the oven. Once it’s done, deliver it to complete the task. If you’re the manager, you can give bonus checks to other workers.

Hair Salon lets you work as a stylist using colored hairsprays to paint pets. This job is great because you can go AFK at your station and still earn 50 bucks per customer. The manager can also earn money by giving bonuses to stylists.

School lets you become a teacher or principal. Like the salon, you can earn money while mostly AFK. It’s not as interactive as pizza making, but it’s reliable income while you’re doing something else.

Hospital has you working as a doctor to help sick pets. This job is decent for earning money, though I don’t use it as often as the pizza shop or salon.

Eggs: What to Buy and When

There are four main types of eggs in Adopt Me, each with different costs and legendary hatch rates. Understanding which eggs to prioritize can make or break your early game economy.

Cracked Egg (350 bucks) has a 1.5% legendary chance. This is actually the egg I recommend most for beginners. Yes, the legendary rate is low, but it’s cheap enough that you can hatch many of them quickly. Volume matters when you’re building an early inventory—you’ll end up with more pets overall, which gives you more trading options.

Pet Egg (600 bucks) has a 3% legendary chance. This is a middle-ground option with slightly better odds than Cracked Eggs, but you’ll hatch them slower due to the higher cost. It’s a decent choice if you want to balance hatching speed with legendary potential.

Royal Egg (1,450 bucks) has an 8% legendary chance. Controversial opinion—I don’t recommend these for beginners. Despite the 8% legendary rate, I consistently hatched rares and uncommons from Royal Eggs when I was starting out. The high cost means fewer hatches overall, and in my experience, you’re better off hatching multiple cheaper eggs than gambling on expensive ones.

Gumball Machine Eggs rotate every 5-6 months with varying costs. Currently, the Urban Egg is available with a 4% legendary chance. These are worth buying if you like the pets in the current rotation, since they offer unique pets you can’t get from standard eggs.

Pet Care and Optimizing Your Earnings

Your pets have needs: hunger, thirst, and various tasks that appear on your task list. Here’s the system most players don’t optimize:

When your pet gets a hungry or thirsty task, complete it immediately. The game is more likely to give you that same task again soon. Why does this matter? Because feeding tasks are quick and give you money. The faster you can cycle through easy tasks, the more money you earn per hour.

If your pet gets sick, don’t panic. You have two options:

1. Use a Healing Apple (instant cure)
2. Visit Dr. Heart at the hospital (free but requires travel)

Keep a few Healing Apples in your inventory for emergencies, especially during important tasks or trades.

The Pet Journal: Tracking Your Collection

Open your journal to see every pet in the game, including what they look like in neon and mega neon forms. This is incredibly useful when you’re trading—you can check whether a pet someone’s offering is actually rare or if they’re trying to overhype a common pet.

The journal also shows which pets you own and which you’re missing, helping you set collection goals.

Trading Basics: Staying Safe

Trading is how you’ll grow your wealth in Adopt Me, but it’s also where most beginners make costly mistakes. Here’s what you need to know.

When you open a trade, you’ll see your offer window (what you’re giving), their offer window (what they’re giving), a chat to communicate, emojis to react during trades, and an eye symbol showing how many people are watching the trade. The spectator count matters—more eyes mean more accountability, which can discourage scammers.

Never trust trade. I mentioned this earlier, but it bears repeating. If someone asks you to give them a pet temporarily with promises of returning it or giving you something better, decline immediately. There is no legitimate reason for trust trading. This is the single most common scam in Adopt Me, and I’ve seen countless players lose valuable pets this way.

Do fair trades. When you’re starting out, you might not know values perfectly—that’s okay. A general rule: trade pets of similar rarity for other pets of similar rarity. Don’t trade a legendary for a common unless you really, really want that specific common pet. Use the Pet Journal to check rarities if you’re unsure.

Learn profit trading. This is how experienced players grow their inventories quickly. Profit trading means trading items you have for items of slightly higher value. For example, if you have three good uncommon pets, you might trade them for one rare pet. Over time, these small upgrades compound into legendary pets and neon creatures. We’ll be posting detailed trading guides in the future, so check back if you want to learn advanced strategies.

Follow basic trading etiquette. Don’t spam trade requests to the same person—if someone declines, respect it and move on. Be honest about pet ages and potions, since lying will destroy your reputation fast. And never beg for free pets—it doesn’t work and makes you a target for scammers who prey on desperate players.

Advanced Tips for Faster Progression

Now that you understand the basics, here are some strategies experienced players use to accelerate their progress:

Complete orange tasks immediately. These high-paying tasks (Hair Salon, Pizza Party, Pool Party, Camp) should always be your priority. If you let them sit incomplete, you’re literally losing money every minute.

Age your pets efficiently. Pets need to complete tasks to age up. When you’re doing jobs or activities, always have a pet equipped so it’s gaining age points. Fully grown pets are worth significantly more in trades than newborn pets.

Join high-population servers. More players mean more trading opportunities, busier job locations, and a more active economy. If you’re in a dead server, switch to one with 30+ players.

Use the pizza shop strategically. If you’re actively playing, pizza making is the fastest money per hour. If you need to be semi-AFK (watching YouTube, doing homework), position yourself at the drive-thru window as a waiter.

Save for vehicles early. A cheap vehicle drastically speeds up your early game. You’ll move between locations faster, complete tasks quicker, and earn more money per hour as a result.

Common Beginner Mistakes

I’ve been playing Adopt Me for years, and these are the mistakes I see new players make constantly:

Waiting to complete tasks. New players often think “I’ll do that later,” but task completion is your primary income source. Later never comes—do tasks immediately.

Ignoring daily logins. Missing even a few days resets your streak progress toward those Golden and Diamond Eggs. Set a reminder. Log in daily.

Trading away starter pets too quickly. Your dog or cat might seem worthless, but they’re good for making neon pets later (you need four of the same pet to make a neon). Don’t trade them away for nothing.

Falling for unrealistic offers. If something seems too good to be true (someone offering a mega neon legendary for your common pet), it absolutely is. These are tricks designed to make you trust trade or give up valuable items.

Buying Royal Eggs exclusively. I know I mentioned this earlier, but it’s worth repeating: don’t put all your money into Royal Eggs expecting constant legendaries. You’ll be disappointed and broke.

Your First Week Action Plan

If you’re reading this and feeling overwhelmed, here’s your action plan for the next seven days:

1. Log in every single day (even if only for 5 minutes)
2. Complete your orange task board tasks before anything else
3. Work pizza shop jobs when actively playing to maximize income
4. Hatch Cracked Eggs to build your pet collection quickly
5. Get your trading license as soon as possible
6. Watch trades in populated servers to learn pet values before trading yourself

Once you have 10-15 pets of various rarities and understand what pets are worth, you can start profit trading your way to building a legendary collection.

The Path Forward

Adopt Me rewards consistency and smart decision-making. Players with incredible inventories didn’t get them by accident—they logged in daily, completed tasks efficiently, and made strategic trades over time.

You’re not going to have a mega neon shadow dragon next week. That’s fine. Focus on small wins: hatching your first legendary, making your first profitable trade, completing a full week of daily logins. These victories stack up faster than you’d expect into the valuable inventory you’re working toward.

The game is constantly updated with new pets, eggs, and events. Stay active, join the community, and don’t get discouraged when you see players with better inventories. They were all beginners once too—and they used the same strategies you now know.

Remember: the key to success in Adopt Me isn’t luck—it’s consistency. Players who log in daily, complete their tasks efficiently, and make smart trading decisions will always outpace those who play sporadically. Start with the fundamentals in this guide, and you’ll be surprised how quickly your inventory transforms from a single starter pet to a collection of legendaries and neons.

The Adopt Me community is massive and always evolving. Keep learning, stay patient with your progress, and most importantly—have fun building your dream pet collection.