Breeding is one of the best ways to build stronger voidlings in Voidling Bound, but the system can be a little confusing when you first start using it. There are several things that affect a voidling’s final stats, including its nature, evolution, and the stats passed down through breeding.
- Voidling Bound Breeding Guide – Natures, Stats, and Easy Resource Farming
- Breeding Evolved Voidlings
- Breeding Golden Egg Voidlings
- Breeding Spliced Voidlings
- Understanding Voidling Natures
- How to Breed the Nature You Want
- Step 1: Combine the Two Natures
- Step 2: Upgrade Ferocious to Exceptional
- Step 3: Make a Second Exceptional Ferocious
- What to Do With Notable Natures
- Watch Out for the Nature Quality Bug
- How to Breed for Better Stats
- Add the Next Two Stats
- Add the Final Stat
- Finish Your Perfect Voidling
- Breeding for Profit
- Easy Passive Resource Farming
- Resource Caps
In this guide, I’ll walk you through the breeding process from the beginning. We’ll start with getting the nature you want, then move on to breeding for better stats, and finally look at how you can use Golden Egg voidlings to farm Mutagens and Research Points.
The important thing is to work in the right order. Get the nature you want before you spend time maximizing stats. Otherwise, you may have to repeat the entire breeding process later.
Voidling Bound Breeding Guide – Natures, Stats, and Easy Resource Farming
There are three main things you need to consider when looking at a voidling’s stats:
- Base stats — These are shown in white on the stat bars.
- Nature bonus — These are shown in blue and also appear as text beneath the voidling’s name.
- Evolution — The voidling’s evolutionary form can also affect what you get when breeding.
There is one important detail here: the stats gained from traits through evolution and splicing do not count as breeding stats.
Those yellow stats work more like equipment or accessories attached to the voidling rather than stats that are naturally part of it.
That does not mean evolved voidlings are useless for breeding, though. There are still some interesting things you can do with them.
Breeding Evolved Voidlings
When you breed two manually evolved voidlings, the offspring will generally take the closest evolution that the two parents have in common.
For example, breeding two Fire Kwipecks produces another Fire Kwipeck. Breeding two Volcano Kwipecks produces a Volcano Kwipeck.
You can also breed different evolved forms and get their most recent common ancestor. For example, breeding a Hardened Kwipeck with a Molten Kwipeck results in a Volcano Kwipeck.
The game essentially looks back through the evolutionary family tree and finds the most recent evolution shared by both parents.
This can be useful when you are short on Mutagens or Golden Eggs because you can sometimes skip evolution steps when building an evolution tree.
There is also another reason to release evolved voidlings: depending on how far they are along the evolutionary line, releasing one can give you 1–5 Mutagens.
Breeding Golden Egg Voidlings
Golden Egg voidlings have another useful breeding mechanic.
If you breed a voidling obtained from a Golden Egg with a normal voidling, the offspring will be the fully evolved Golden Egg version.
This is particularly useful if you have not unlocked splicing yet and want to improve your Golden Egg voidlings.
There is also a resource benefit. Releasing one of these Golden Egg offspring gives you 5 Mutagens of that type.
That makes Golden Egg breeding a good way to farm Mutagens, especially early in the game when you do not want to spend resources evolving voidlings.
One thing to keep in mind is that the Golden Egg voidling appears to need to be in the first breeding slot for this to work. If you put it in the second slot, you may get a normal voidling instead. This could be a bug, but it is safer to put the Golden Egg voidling first.
Breeding Spliced Voidlings
Spliced voidlings work somewhat differently.
When you breed two spliced voidlings, their traits are randomly selected and mixed between the two parents.
This can be used to create some unusual combinations. For example, you can repeatedly breed a neutral voidling with a spliced voidling that has the traits you want until you eventually get a spliced voidling with the neutral element and Bleed damage-over-time trait.
Apart from the trait inheritance, spliced voidlings work much like normal voidlings.
They do not give Mutagens when released and only provide the normal amount of Research Points.
Understanding Voidling Natures
Every voidling can hatch with one of five basic natures, with each nature corresponding to a specific stat.
| Nature | Stat |
|---|---|
| Strong | Strength |
| Witty | Essence |
| Healthy | Vitality |
| Tenacious | Recuperation |
| Agile | Agility |
Natures also have three different quality levels:
| Quality | Stat Bonus |
|---|---|
| Basic | +1 |
| Notable | +3 |
| Exceptional | +5 |
You can combine two different natures to create a voidling with two boosted stats.
For example:
- Ferocious = Strength + Essence
- Resourceful = Essence + Recuperation
- Athletic = Strength + Agility
- Rugged = Vitality + Recuperation
The quality of the nature determines how large those bonuses are.
Exceptional Natures Are Worth Getting
There is another benefit to having a good nature.
Voidlings with natures give more Research Points when released, and higher-quality natures provide an even bigger reward.
A voidling with an Exceptional nature gives 225 Research Points when released instead of the usual 150.
That means getting the right nature early can save you resources later because the voidlings you breed along the way can also provide more Research Points when you release them.
How to Breed the Nature You Want
If you are trying to make a perfect voidling, I recommend getting the desired nature first.
Do not start leveling and maximizing stats before you have done this.
For this example, let’s say we want an Exceptionally Ferocious voidling, which combines Strength and Essence.
You will need:
- A Strong voidling
- A Witty voidling
- Any voidling with the Exceptional quality
For the example, the third voidling can be an Exceptionally Agile voidling.
If one of your Strong or Witty voidlings is already Exceptional, you can skip getting a third voidling.
At this point, you do not need to level any of them. We are only concerned with their natures.
Step 1: Combine the Two Natures
First, breed your Strong voidling with your Witty voidling.
Keep breeding them until you get a voidling with both stats — Ferocious.
The order here matters.
You want to create Ferocious as the first combination before bringing the Exceptional nature into the process.
If you instead combine Strong with Exceptionally Agile first, you can end up with Exceptionally Athletic. Breeding that with Witty gives you outcomes such as Exceptional Athletic, Athletic, Exceptional Witty, or Witty, but Ferocious is no longer available as an outcome.
So make your basic two-stat nature first.
Step 2: Upgrade Ferocious to Exceptional
Now take your Ferocious voidling and breed it with your Exceptionally Agile voidling.
Keep breeding until you get Exceptionally Ferocious.
If you already had an Exceptionally Strong or Exceptionally Witty voidling, you can use that instead.
This is usually the most frustrating part because the results depend heavily on RNG.
Getting the Exceptional quality is less common than getting a Basic nature. Even when you get an Exceptional result, there is roughly a 50/50 chance that it will have the nature you actually want rather than the other parent’s nature.
Keep trying until you get the result you need.
Step 3: Make a Second Exceptional Ferocious
Once you have your Exceptionally Ferocious voidling, breed it with the original Exceptional voidling.
Continue until you get a second Exceptionally Ferocious.
This step is much easier than the previous one because every offspring is guaranteed to have an Exceptional quality. The only question is which of the two natures it inherits.
This gives you a proper breeding pair with the nature you want.
What to Do With Notable Natures
Notable voidlings work in basically the same way.
If you are trying to upgrade from Basic to Notable, follow the same process described above for upgrading toward Exceptional.
Likewise, if you already have a Notable nature and want to reach Exceptional, use the same breeding approach.
Having a Notable nature may give you slightly better odds when improving the nature, but the overall process remains the same.
Watch Out for the Nature Quality Bug
There appears to be a breeding bug that can cause a voidling to become stuck at Basic quality even though the game internally treats it as having a higher quality.
You can identify this if the voidling is displayed as Basic but gives more than the normal 150 Research Points when released.
For example, imagine you are breeding Ferocious with Exceptionally Ferocious and keep getting Ferocious offspring. If those Ferocious offspring are giving 225 Research Points when released, they may be affected by this bug.
The game appears to be treating the voidling as Exceptional in one part of its code but displaying it as Basic in another.
If this happens, it is better to replace the bugged voidling with a new one and continue breeding.
Changing its quality to Notable does not appear to reliably fix the problem.
How to Breed for Better Stats
Once you have the nature you want, you can finally start working on the actual stats.
This part is much easier if you have a proper breeding pair ready.
For this example, we will use the Ferocious setup and work toward improving all five stats.
Step 1: Prepare Your First Pair
Level both parents to Level 20.
Then focus on one stat for each parent.
For example:
- Parent 1: 20 Strength
- Parent 2: 20 Essence
If you have Exceptionally Ferocious parents, you can aim for 25 Strength and 25 Essence instead because of the +5 nature bonuses.
Step 2: Breed Until You Get Two Strong Offspring
Breed these two parents repeatedly.
Your goal is to get two offspring that both have the first two stats as high as your current breeding setup allows.
If your nests are not fully upgraded, simply get the stats as high as the breeding system currently allows.
Having two offspring with these stats means you can move forward without relying as heavily on RNG for those first two stats.
Add the Next Two Stats
Now that you have your first pair with strong Strength and Essence stats, move on to the next two stats.
Step 3: Prepare the Second Pair
Take your two best offspring and level them to 20.
Now add a new stat to each one.
For example:
- Parent 1: 20 Vitality
- Parent 2: 20 Recuperation
If you are working with an Exceptional Rugged setup, these can instead be 25 in each relevant stat.
The important part is that you are adding new stats while preserving the strong stats you already built.
Step 4: Breed the Second Pair
Breed these two together until you get offspring with all four desired stats as high as possible.
If you notice the first two stats dropping slightly during this process, do not panic.
That can happen, particularly if your nests are not fully upgraded. The staged breeding method is designed to minimize the number of variables involved.
Instead of trying to add five different stats at once, you are gradually combining them.
Add the Final Stat
Once you have two strong offspring with the first four stats, it is time to add the fifth.
Step 5: Prepare the Third Pair
Level your two best offspring to Level 20 again.
This time, put points into the fifth stat — Agility in our example.
The other parent can use its available points to restore any of the first four stats that have dropped during the previous breeding steps.
The idea is to have one parent carrying the final stat while the other helps maintain the stats you have already built.
Step 6: Breed for All Five Stats
Breed these two together until you get an offspring with all five stats as high as the game allows.
There is one thing that can look strange here.
You cannot hatch a Level 1 voidling with 20 points in every stat. The game reduces the stats on the newly hatched voidling, generally leaving them around 16 each, because it needs to account for the 20 missing stat points that you can gain by leveling it.
So do not worry if your newborn perfect-breed candidate does not immediately show maximum values in every stat.
Finish Your Perfect Voidling
Once you have the offspring with the best combination of stats, level it up to Level 20.
You now have your finished high-stat voidling.
If you want a breeding pair that can continue producing offspring with those high stats, level up two of them.
If you were only building one voidling for a specific setup, you can simply keep the best one and use it for your build.
Breeding for Profit
Breeding is not only useful for creating strong voidlings. You can also use it to farm Research Points and Mutagens.
The rewards from releasing a voidling include:
- 150 Research Points as the base reward
- 5 Mutagens if it is fully evolved or comes from a Golden Egg
- +75 Research Points for an Exceptional nature
- +1,425 Research Points for reaching Level 20
Higher base stats do not increase the release reward.
This means you do not need to spend time perfecting every stat if your only goal is farming resources.
Easy Passive Resource Farming
One of the easiest setups is to use a Golden Egg voidling together with an Exceptional voidling.
Start by breeding a Golden Egg voidling with an Exceptional voidling.
Every resulting egg will also be a Golden Egg, allowing you to receive 5 Mutagens when you release the resulting voidlings.
Eventually, you can breed an Exceptional Golden Egg voidling.
Once you have one, replace your original Golden Egg parent with the Exceptional Golden Egg version.
From there, you have a 100% Exceptional hatch rate in this breeding setup.
That means every egg can provide 225 Research Points when released, while the Golden Egg offspring also provides the Mutagen reward.
With three nests running this setup, you can potentially earn up to 45 Mutagens and 2,025 Research Points per mission without investing in evolution.
Even if you do not have an Exceptional voidling yet, you can still use Golden Egg breeding to collect 5 Mutagens and 150 Research Points per egg.
Resource Caps
There are limits on how many resources you can hold.
- Research Points: 99,999
- Mutagens: 9,999
If you are using breeding as a passive farming method, keep an eye on these limits. Once you reach the cap, additional rewards will be wasted, so spend your resources before hitting the maximum.
