Assassin’s Creed Shadows: How to Add Animals to the Hideout

Once you've unlocked the Hideout in *Assassin's Creed Valhalla*, you can personalize it with a menagerie of adorable companions. Here's how to add animals to your Hideout.

Unlocking Animals in Assassin's Creed Valhalla

The key to expanding your furry (or feathered!) family lies in interaction. Whenever Naoe or Yasuke pets a cat or dog of a breed they haven't encountered before, that animal becomes available for your Hideout. This includes a variety of dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens, even the stray you rescue in the pre-order DLC quest, "Thrown to the Dogs."

Yasuke can also unlock smaller animals through his artistic pursuits. Painting rabbits, fox kits, tanukis, and monkeys adds them to your potential Hideout residents. Finally, you can purchase farm animals like oxen and goats from vendors throughout Japan for a small fee.

Adding Animals to Your Assassin's Creed Valhalla Hideout

To add your new friends, head to the Hiroma and interact with the bench to access the Hideout customization menu. Enter build mode and select the wolf icon on the far right. This reveals your unlocked animals, categorized by dogs, cats, and "other." Choose your desired animal, and an overhead view of the Hideout will appear. Select an empty grid space to place your new companion.

While you can position them initially, remember they'll roam freely once you exit build mode. You can add multiple instances of the same animal (within the game's overall animal limit), and easily remove or replace them at any time using the build mode.

That's all there is to it! Enjoy your expanding collection of Hideout animals.

*Assassin's Creed Valhalla is available now on PC, PlayStation 5, and Xbox Series X|S.*