Brotato: How to Unlock Beast Master and the Five Required Pets

Track the five pet unlocks required for Beast Master

Beast Master is the Paws & Claws character built around Pets. Unlocking him requires five specific pet items: Bonk Dog, Catling Gun, Bot-O-Mine, Blazemander and Lootworm. The announcement lists other pets too, but does not require unlocking all nine for the character. Use the named five as the checklist instead of treating every pet challenge as a prerequisite. [1]

Steps

1. Check which of the five named required pets still need to be unlocked. [1]

Equip six matching melee-scaling or ranged-scaling weapons

Bonk Dog requires equipping at least six weapons that scale with Melee Damage. Catling Gun uses the same count with Ranged Damage. Build around the relevant scaling condition when pursuing one of these challenges. The condition is about equipped weapons and their damage scaling; it is not a requirement to collect six copies of one named weapon or to buy six items with a damage stat. [1]

Catling Gun uses Ranged Damage scaling. [1]

Steps

1. For Bonk Dog, equip six Melee Damage-scaling weapons; for Catling Gun, equip six Ranged Damage-scaling weapons. [1]

Complete the Engineering and Elemental weapon challenges

Bot-O-Mine requires at least six equipped weapons that scale with Engineering. Blazemander requires at least six that scale with Elemental Damage. Inspect the scaling on the weapons being equipped and work toward the corresponding six-weapon condition. These are two different pet unlocks, even though the number of weapons is the same. [1]

Blazemander checks Elemental Damage. [1]

Steps

1. Equip six Engineering-scaling weapons for Bot-O-Mine, or six Elemental Damage-scaling weapons for Blazemander. [1]

Leave twenty materials on the ground at the end of a wave

Lootworm has a different challenge: leave at least twenty materials on the ground when a wave ends. Focus on the end-of-wave ground count for this unlock. The requirement does not say to finish with twenty materials in the shop wallet, so collecting everything before the wave ends does not match the stated condition. [1]

Steps

1. Let a wave finish with at least twenty materials still on the ground to meet Lootworm’s unlock condition. [1]

Use the unlocked character and pursue Scapegoat afterward

Once the five required pet unlocks are complete, the character’s intended play style uses Pets instead of weapons. Scapegoat is a separate reward for winning a run with Beast Master, so it belongs after the character unlock. The announcement also specifies a Beast Master win achievement on any map, including the base-game map or a DLC map. [1]

Scapegoat comes from winning with the character. [1]

The achievement accepts either base-game or DLC maps. [1]