Pooka

Pooka

Pooka are wild, free-range magical familiars; like a familiar before it is captured and bound into a crystal ball. There are different types of pooka in different regions, and different pooka will be able to teach your sims different sorts of spells.

Pooka are based on wild rabbit tuning internally, and a lot of the same interactions that you find on rabbits are found on Pooka. To get them to teach you a spell, you have to make friends with them by singing to them, telling them jokes, and so on. Once they teach you a Druid spell, you can’t learn another from a Pooka for 4 hours, since Pooka can be super-irritating to learn from. For example, they hate electronics and will break them when they get the opportunity.

Pooka also get bored easily. Once they appear, they will leave and go back to Sidhe in about 6 hours. You can reset the boredom timer by interacting with them periodically. If you talk to a Pooka, you will also gain Spellcaster XP.

Finding Pooka

Pooka can be summoned with the summoner’s horn, with the chance of success based on a spellcaster’s level, the quality of the natural environment, and the phase of the moon.

If a lot’s environmental score is very green, and includes a few sacred oaks, there’s a chance that pooka will spontaneously spawn from time to time.

You can attempt to summon a Pooka once every four hours per lot, so if you travel to a different lot, the cooldown clears and you can try again. You can still only learn one spell every four hours from a Pooka.

Pooka Eggs

Druids can also look for Pooka eggs underground using a spell. Once found, they can be thrown into a campfire to hatch.

Enchanted Lot Trait

The Enchanted lot trait increases the chances of Pooka spawning considerably.