Pet Enhancement: No Fail Rate
What this page helps you decide: whether to spend your next Cave Ticket on pet materials, given that enhancing is the one upgrade in this game that cannot fail.
Pet enhancement is the most forgiving system in Iron Soul: Dungeon, and the reason is one sentence in the official documentation: it works like equipment upgrading except that it has no failure chance. Every other progression system here carries risk or randomness - blessing fails above +3, forging has output chances as low as 5%, and rune upgrades reroll every property. Enhancing does not. You take materials from the Abandoned Courtyard plus Gold to Ali, use the Enhance tab, and the pet's level goes up. The cost is that materials are gated behind Cave Tickets, and the documented example suggests a full stock of Broken Scales buys around six levels.
No failure chance, in a game full of failure chances
Put the numbers side by side and the value of this system becomes obvious. Blessing succeeds 100% of the time only through +3; at +4 it is 80%, at +6 it is 50%, and at +12 it is 20%, with a failed attempt consuming materials while leaving the weapon's blessing level unchanged. Forging produces the intended item 100% of the time for four item types, 80% for three others, and as low as 5% for gauntlets and bows without a relic. Rune upgrades reroll trigger chance, damage, duration and tick damage, so an upgrade can leave you worse off. Against all of that, pet enhancement is deterministic. The only variable is how many materials you have.
The conflict about what enhancement consumes
One third-party guide describes pet enhancement as feeding duplicate pets to raise a star rating. The community wiki describes it as consuming Abandoned Courtyard materials plus Gold, names Broken Scales specifically, gives the exact menu path, and provides a worked example. A separate site describes ascension as the system that consumes duplicates, which matches the wiki's split rather than the conflicting guide's merge. We follow the wiki: materials for enhancing, duplicates for ascension. The practical consequence of getting this wrong is significant - you would go hunting for duplicate pets when what you actually need is Cave Tickets, which come from a completely different activity.
What is not published about the costs
The Gold cost per enhancement level is not published. The material cost per level is not published; the only signal is that one player's stock of Broken Scales covered six levels on one pet. Whether the cost per level rises as it does with blessing is not stated. Whether other materials besides Broken Scales are consumed is unclear - the sources say pet materials generally and name only that one. And what a level of enhancement actually gives the pet is not published either, because no pet in this game has published stats. So this is a system with a confirmed mechanic, a confirmed material source, and no published numbers whatsoever.
Step-by-Step
- Farm the Abandoned Courtyard, which is the published source of pet enhancement materials. Entry costs one Cave Ticket and the cave has four levels.
- Bring Gold as well as materials. Both are consumed, though no source publishes the Gold cost per level.
- Talk to Ali, choose Pet enhance and ascend, select the pet, then use the Enhance tab rather than the Ascend one beside it.
- Concentrate on one pet. Because there is no failure chance, every material spent is permanent progress, so spreading materials across several pets simply delays all of them.
- Expect roughly six levels per stock of materials. The official worked example takes an Icy Dragonet from level 1 to level 7 and ends when the Broken Scales run out.
- Do not confuse this with ascension, which consumes a duplicate pet instead of materials and is the system that pushes past enhancement's ceiling.
Data Tables
| System | Failure or miss chance | What a failure costs |
|---|---|---|
| Pet enhancement | None | Nothing; it cannot fail |
| Blessing +1 to +3 | None | Nothing |
| Blessing +4 | 20% failure | Materials, but the blessing level is kept |
| Blessing +12 | 80% failure | Materials, but the blessing level is kept |
| Forging a staff | 20% miss | The ore in the attempt |
| Forging gauntlets, no relic | 95% miss | 18 ore per attempt |
Blessing and forging figures from the official Blessing and Forging pages; the no-failure rule for pets from the community wiki's Pets page.
Tips & Notes
- Cave Tickets are the real currency of this system, and they come from the daily quest menu, which means enhancement progresses on a daily cadence rather than a farming one.
- All three ticket caves cost the same ticket, so every courtyard run is a decision not to farm runes or blessing crystals that day.
- Update 11.2 raised pet damage generally, which increases the value of levels you had already bought before that patch.
FAQ
Can pet enhancement fail in Iron Soul: Dungeon?
No. The community wiki states that pet enhancing is similar to equipment upgrading except that it has no failure chance, which makes it the only deterministic upgrade system in the game.
What does pet enhancement cost?
Materials gathered in the Abandoned Courtyard plus Gold, with Broken Scales the only material named. Neither the material count nor the Gold cost per level is published; the one worked example covered six levels before the materials ran out.
What is the difference between enhancing and ascending a pet?
Enhancing consumes cave materials and Gold to raise a pet's level and never fails. Ascension consumes a duplicate pet to push past the ceiling ordinary enhancing reaches. Both are on the same Ali menu, in separate tabs.
Sources
- Community Iron Soul Wiki (community) - Pets — The no-failure rule, the Ali menu path, Abandoned Courtyard materials plus Gold, Broken Scales by name and the level 1 to 7 example.
- Official Official Iron Soul Roblox Wiki - Blessing — The blessing success rates and the rule that a failure consumes materials without lowering the blessing level.
- Official Official Iron Soul Roblox Wiki - Forging — The forge output chances used in the comparison table.
- Community Iron Soul Wiki (ironsoul.wiki) - How to get pets — The conflicting description of enhancement as feeding duplicate pets, recorded here as the disagreement it is.