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How to Build the Beast Cage in Kingshot

The Beast Cage is the building that holds your pets, and most players who search for it are looking at a city where it simply is not there yet. It unlocks once your server is 54 days old and your Town Center reaches level 18. Here is what each condition means, how the build works and what to do while you wait.

Last updated 11 September 2026.

When the Beast Cage unlocks

The game's own help page puts it this way: The Pet feature is only available when your server has been opened for certain days and your Town Center has reached Lv. 18. The number of days it leaves out is 54. The cage opens once your server is 54 days old, so on server day 55, and only if your Town Center is at level 18 by then.

Both conditions go by different clocks. The day count is your server's age, the same for every player on it no matter how fast they built. The Town Center level is yours. A brand new account on an old server therefore only needs to reach Town Center 18.

Kingshot Beast Cage build panel over an empty fenced plot, with the details line A place to tame beasts into pets and the requirement Town Center Level 18 ticked green — The build panel names a single requirement, **Town Center Level 18**, ticked green here, and describes the building as **"A place to tame beasts into pets."** The empty fenced plot above it is where the cage goes up.

Why you can't build it yet

If the cage is missing from your city, one of the two conditions is still open. On a server younger than 54 days, nobody on it has pets yet, and the only thing to do is prepare. On an older server the Town Center is the gate, and every Town Center upgrade you rush also moves you closer to the rest of the game.

Being at Town Center 17 on the day pets arrive costs more than the wait. The starter event that comes with the unlock runs on a timer, and days spent below level 18 are days of its rewards you do not get.

How to build it

Once both conditions are met, the game walks you through it. Helga opens a short tutorial with Let's build a Beast Cage, we will tame it there, and the cage goes up on the fenced plot from the build panel above. It is a building you place and construct, like the rest of your city.

Your first pet then comes from the world map. You capture a wild beast, it moves into the cage, and you tame it by riding it, a short balance game where keeping Helga on the beast's back fills the rapport meter. Each pet can be tamed and fed twice a day, and those attempts recover over time.

Beast Whisperer and what to do while you wait

Beast Whisperer is a one-time starter event that begins with the first pet unlock and needs Town Center 18. Its tasks unlock over five days and pay out the Pet Food, Growth Manuals and Taming Marks your first pets run on. If you reach Town Center 18 after your server's unlock, the event starts for you individually once you build the cage and capture your first pet.

Until then, keep any Pet Food packs you receive unopened in your bag and push the Town Center to 18 before day 55. That way the cage, the first captures and the whole starter event land on the same day.

What the Beast Cage does once it is up

The cage screen is where you manage every pet. Active pet skills fire only when you trigger them from here, and several can run at the same time. It is also where you send pets on Pet Adventures, which return Pet Food, Growth Manuals and Taming Marks.

Kingshot Pet Adventure map opened from the Beast Cage, showing Remaining attempts today: 4 above three treasure spots and an Ally Treasure chest — Pet Adventure opens from the Beast Cage and shows **Remaining attempts today: 4**. Each run costs 10 stamina, which is why a Lynx at level 20, about 40 stamina a day, covers all four.

Nothing in the game's help pages or the building databases lists levels for the cage itself. Everything that grows is on the pets: each has a level cap, an advancement step every ten levels, and six refinement stats that open at pet level 10 and add up across all your pets.

Kingshot Gray Wolf pet screen at Level 50 showing Squads' Attack +5.02% and Squads' Defense +5.02% with the note Level maxed — A Generation 1 pet at its cap: Gray Wolf at **Level 50** with **Squads' Attack +5.02%** and **Squads' Defense +5.02%**. Later generations raise the cap to 100, and the Generation 7 pet tops out at 33.52%.

Which pets deserve that food first is in the pet tier list, and the full unlock schedule for all 14 is on the pets page.

Frequently asked questions

Why can't I build the Beast Cage in Kingshot?

Two conditions have to be met at once: your server has to be 54 days old, and your Town Center has to be level 18. It goes by server age, so a new account on an old server only needs the Town Center level.

What day does the Beast Cage unlock?

Once your server is 54 days old, which makes it server day 55, provided your Town Center is at level 18 by then.

I reached Town Center 18 late. Did I miss the Beast Whisperer event?

No. If you reach Town Center 18 after your server's pet unlock, Beast Whisperer starts for you individually once you build the Beast Cage and capture your first pet.

Does the Beast Cage have levels?

None that the game's help pages or any building database document. Everything that grows sits on the pets themselves: their level caps, advancement every ten levels and the six refinement stats that open at pet level 10.

How often can I tame and feed a pet?

Twice a day per pet, and the attempts recover over time.