Getting Started with VS Code Pets

Congrats on installing joy! Enjoy interacting with these cute pixelated pets. Read below to get a full understanding of this extension. Not convinced? Watch our extension spotlight on Visual Studio Code.

Start pet coding session to show your pet

Open the command palette with Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+Shift+P on MacOS.

Run the "Start pet coding session" command (vscode-pets.start)

Once you have the pet panel open, you can:

• Changing your pet
• Place the pet's window
• Playing with pets
• Adding additional pets
• Throwing a ball
• Roll-call with your pets
• Removing a single pet or multiple pets
• Importing or Exporting your Pet List
• Change the background with themes

Changing your pet

Open the setting panel with Ctrl+, on Windows/Linux or Cmd(⌘)+, on MacOS. In the search bar, enter “vscode-pets” to see all available options.

Set a default color, size, pet type, position, and theme when you open a Pet Panel.

• Pet Color: black, brown, green, yellow, gray, purple, red, white, orange
• Pet Size: nano, small, medium, large
• Pet Type: cat, chicken, crab, clippy, cockatiel, dog, horse, mod, rocky, rubber duck, snake, totoro, turtle, zappy

Restrictions

• Snake can only be green
• Rubber duck & Zappy can only be yellow
• Ferris the crab can only be red
• Rocky can only be gray
• Mod can only be purple

Place the pet's window

To switch the pet's window between explorer (default) and panel, you can use the command vscode-pets.position. Or in the setting panel the option Position.

Explorer:

Panel: