Suggestions

I’d love any way to tell which are awakened without having to flip to the bestiary, it’s kind of frustrating right now

Absolute support for any marking or sorting of familiars for awakened vs. unawakened. I pretty much vault all of my awakened familiars immediately, so it's not super important to my playstyle, but it would be so nice and convenient to be able to see at a glance if any familiar snuck by and got vaulted by accident or anything like that. It would also be reassuring to know immediately when I pick one up through the Coliseum or Gathering whether or not it was a new familiar, or just one that I awakened so long ago I can't remember seeing it on my dragons.

Even if they just put a bold line around the icon of awakened familiars in the same box or something. Sparkly gold, so it fits with the awakened aesthetic, but a nice visible border so I know which ones to scroll past.

I would love an Awakened, Not Bonded search option.

edit: Sorry for the infodump, I support the idea of a rainbow/starred heart. That way the distinction is clear even outside of assigning familiars.


I just keep all my awakened familiars in my vault and all my unawakened in my hoard (or attached to a dragon for bonding).

The way I bond is by keeping a folder with bookmarks to all my dragons with unawakened fams. I name each one a shortened version of the dragon's name, like "dream" for "Dreamweaver". I right-click the folder and open all the links in it in tabs for easy bonding by keeping my mouse over the heart and hitting Ctrl + W after I bond, which closes the tabs as I go. On the last tab/dragon, I manually swap out any remaining unawakened fams to bond with them. When a familiar is awakened, I either delete the shortcut to that dragon (if I want to keep that familiar on that dragon), or swap the fam out for another unawakened one and put the awakened one (and any extras I have) in my vault right away.

As far as Baldwin fodder goes, I only use cheap fams that I know for sure I've awakened. Right now my fodder is all older Redrock Cove or Mire fams, and my first unawakened fam is one of the walruses from the Boreal Wood update. I can use their position in my hoard to determine if they're awakened fodder or a newer unawakened fam with just a glance, since any newer awakened ones would be in my vault. Anything after that walrus is unawakened.

If any of that is confusing feel free to ask for clarification, I dunno how well I explained it. This method works great for me, but YMMV.

I think it would be fine to just have a small star (or anything else) on the right corner of the familiars, so that you know you have awakened that one. Or even turn the pink heart into a ranbow one. Something you can easily recognize when you're about to bound with all the familiars in your hoard.

Full support for the little heart being awakened. It's so obnoxious when you have a ton of familiars and are holding onto some for lair expansions or baldwins or otherwise. Searching the Bestiary takes a while and I have a habit of having several half bonded familiars in my lair. An icon in your hoard too would be really nice.