"Assassin’s Creed Shadows: Guide to Adding Animals to Your Hideout"

Unlocking and customizing the Hideout in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows* offers players a unique opportunity to personalize their space with various animals. Here’s a comprehensive guide on how to add these companions to your Hideout, enhancing your gaming experience with their presence.

How to Unlock Animals in Assassin’s Creed Shadows

In *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*, interacting with different breeds of cats and dogs as Naoe or Yasuke can unlock them for your Hideout. Each time you pet an animal of a new breed, it becomes available for your space. This includes a variety of dogs, puppies, cats, and kittens, including the special stray from the pre-order DLC quest, “Thrown to the Dogs.”

Yasuke has another method to unlock small animals—painting them. By documenting rabbits, fox kits, tanukis, and monkeys in the wild, you can bring these creatures back to your Hideout. Additionally, you can purchase farm animals like oxen and goats from vendors across Japan, using the in-game currency, mon.

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

(Ubisoft) To add animals to your Hideout, navigate to the Hiroma and approach the bench to access the customization menu. Enter build mode and tab over to the wolf icon on the far right. Here, you’ll find a list of all the animal types you’ve unlocked, categorized into dogs, cats, and "other."

Choose the animal you wish to add. You’ll be taken to an overhead view of your Hideout, where you can select an open grid to place the animal. Remember, once placed, animals will roam freely, so they might not stay in the exact spot where you initially positioned them.

You can add multiple instances of the same animal, including the pup from “Thrown to the Dogs.” However, there’s a limit to the total number of animals you can have in the Hideout. You can always remove or replace animals in build mode, allowing you to continuously update your selection of critters.

That’s how you can enrich your Hideout with a variety of animals in *Assassin’s Creed Shadows*, creating a more personalized and immersive gaming environment.

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