Cyntoli
CAT 1First row of the list at 00:48, above Blorp.
Only its Category badge and thumbnail were read; its statistics panel was not opened in this recording.
Harp Isles starters — what you actually choose before your first spawn
You are not handed a species. The tutorial asks you to drag one of three diet strands into a research port, and the creature is picked afterwards on a Fill Tank screen sorted by Category. This page shows that screen as a recording from 2026-09-07 captured it, the five Category 1 rows that were readable, and one full stat panel so you can compare before you press Create Tank.
Checked 2026-10-26Frame-read from one recording5 Category 1 avatars read
Last checked: 2026-10-26Starting choice: a diet strand, then a Category 1 avatar on the Fill Tank list
Two choices, in a fixed order. First the tutorial says “We have prepared 3 diet strands for you. Choose one and drag it to the research port” over a green, a blue and a red vial. Then the tank screen opens with a FILL TANK column, and the avatar list behind it carries Carnivore, Herbivore and Omnivore buttons plus a search field, with every row tagged by its Category in ascending order.
Five Category 1 rows were readable as that list scrolled: Cyntoli, Blorp, Divum’ Turba, Ecus’ Laetus and Sentis’ Areni. One of them, Blorp, had its full statistics panel open on screen — Health 900, Weight 600lbs, Armor 0, Stamina 400, Growth Time 09M 48S — which is the only Category 1 stat line this project has read.
The recording is Late Kate’s “Ultimate Guide! | Harp Isles”, uploaded 2026-09-07. Its account already held 10 of 12 tanks, so use it to learn the order of the screens and the fields the panel prints — not as a list of what your own account will offer.
The order
Five steps, and what each screen asks for
The recording runs these in sequence. Nothing here is a preference; it is what the game puts in front of you before your first creature exists.
- 01
Drag one of the three diet strands
The tutorial puts a green, a blue and a red strand on the bench and says “We have prepared 3 diet strands for you. Choose one and drag it to the research port.” Nothing on that screen labels which strand is which diet, so the colour on the vial is all you have to go on at that moment.
- 02
Open the tank screen and press Fill Tank
The middle column reads FILL TANK (CLICK TO SELECT). Either side of it sits an adult tank carrying a padlock and a Store label — Blorp Clastus on the left, Sentis' Areni on the right in this recording — so the empty middle column is the only thing a new creature can go into.
- 03
Narrow the avatar list before scrolling it
The list header carries three diet buttons — Carnivore, Herbivore, Omnivore — plus a SEARCH field and a Return button. Pressing the diet you want is faster than scrolling, because each row is labelled with a Category badge and nothing else about the creature.
- 04
Read the statistics panel, not the card
Selecting a row loads a STATISTICS panel for that creature while the bottom card keeps only its Category, weight and shard counter. The panel is where Health, Weight, Armor, Stamina, Food, Water, Oxygen, Diet, Class and Growth Time are printed together.
- 05
Press Create Tank
Create Tank sits beside Research on the bottom card, with the creature's Category, weight and Main Species tag to their left. The recording presses Create Tank here, so this page stops at the point where the creature exists and the growth timer starts.
The list
The five Category 1 rows that were readable
Category 1 is the entry tier, so these are the names closest to a starter set. Each card says how much of the row was actually read — a name on a list is not the same evidence as an open stat panel.
Blorp
CAT 1Second row, and the row this recording selected.
Full statistics panel read — the one stat block on this page with real numbers behind it.
Divum' Turba
CAT 1Third row at 00:48, still on screen at 00:56.
Category badge read only. Player comments elsewhere call its Apex a boss-damage pick; nothing on this screen supports that.
Ecus' Laetus
CAT 1First row after the list scrolled at 00:56, selected at 01:04.
Its bottom card read 1 CAT and 1100lbs. Its growth timer and stat line were not shown.
Sentis' Areni
CAT 1Last Category 1 row at 00:56, immediately above the Category 2 block.
Category badge read only. The official event text names a Sentis'Areni Fierus subspecies, which is a different form from this row.
What this list is not: it is not the full roster, and it is not proof of what a new account can create. A Category 2 row followed directly below Sentis’ Areni, so rows continue past this tier, and the recording’s account was already 10 tanks deep.
The panel
What Blorp prints before you press Create Tank
Selecting a row loads two blocks. The first is fixed data; the second is the stat line you compare across rows. Both were readable at 640×360.
Core data
- Category
- 1
- Class
- Combat Build
- Diet
- Omnivore
- Growth Time
- 09M 48S
The bottom card under the model repeated three of these: 1 CAT, 600lbs and a Main Species tag, next to Create Tank and Research.
General statistics
Health
900
Weight
600lbs
Armor
0
Stamina
400
Food
290
Water
250
Oxygen
100
The same screen offers Skill Tree and Avatar Profile buttons, so the tree and the full profile are reachable before the tank exists.
Use it as a template, not a table. Only Blorp’s panel was open long enough to read. Open the same panel on the creature you are considering and compare Health, Weight, Armor and Growth Time against these numbers — this page has no second Category 1 stat line, and will not invent one.
Tank slots
Twelve slots, and the counter decides whether Create Tank works
The Stored Tanks panel is the other half of the starting decision: how many creatures you are allowed to keep at once.
12 slots, and the counter tells you where you are
The Stored Tanks panel prints “Stored Tanks — 10/12” in the same block as the purchase button, and the same panel read 11/12 fifteen seconds later. That counter, not the number of creatures you can see, is what tells you whether another tank will fit.
950 buys one slot, and the panel names a free route
The button reads Purchase — 950 with the gold helix icon this project reads as DNA on other panels. Its description says space “can also be accomplished by leveling”, and the recording never shows which level pays out, so the paid route is the only one with a number attached.
The Slots panel is the list you actually manage
It shows each stored creature with a remaining growth timer — 00M 46S and 00M 59S on two Cyntoli Vitalis entries — and Play, Delete and Swap buttons per row, plus an [AVAILABLE TANK] Create Tank block on any empty slot.
Every stored creature carries its own timer
Two Cyntoli Vitalis entries showed different remaining times at the same moment — 00M 46S and 00M 59S — and one of them was tagged 3/3. Whether a stored tank's timer keeps running while you play another creature was not shown, so do not plan a rotation around that guess.
Three things this page corrects
All three were stated on this site before the recording was frame-read. They are listed together so the change is visible rather than quietly edited away.
This site said you spawn as Ecus.
The beginner guide's first step assumed an Ecus spawn. The recording shows a tutorial that offers three diet strands and then a Fill Tank list on which Ecus' Laetus is one of several Category 1 rows, so the species is a choice rather than a starting condition. The beginner guide has been corrected and points here for the choice itself.
This site said no growth timer had been read for Blorp.
Blorp's statistics panel prints Growth Time 09M 48S. That figure is now stated, with its date and the creature it belongs to, instead of the page saying the field was never read.
This site said sources disagreed on which creatures are free starters.
The disagreement is narrower than that. The tutorial's first choice is a diet strand, the avatar list is sorted by Category with diet filters on top, and Category 1 is the entry tier. Which of those rows a brand-new account can create is still not established.
Scope
What this page does not claim
One recording, one account, one build. These are the limits that change what you should take from it.
- The whole page rests on one recording: Late Kate's “Ultimate Guide! | Harp Isles”, uploaded 2026-09-07. The game's last build on 2026-10-26 was still 2026-10-04, so the screen may not match a build after that date.
- The account in the recording already held 10 of 12 tanks and a Category 2 creature, so its avatar list is not proof of what a fresh account sees.
- Five Category 1 names were readable. Rows that scrolled past between frames, and everything below the first Category 2 row, were not read — so this is not a complete roster.
- The recording is 640×360. Field labels and numbers on the panel were legible at that size; thumbnails and the small diet icons on stored-tank rows were not.
- What the diet strand changes was never shown. The page does not claim the strand locks a diet, unlocks a species, or can be changed later.
After the tank exists
The choice here only decides what you load in as. Growth timers, hazard coverage, research order and the shard counter are separate problems with their own pages.
Beginner guide
The first-session survival walkthrough that starts once your tank exists.
Creature and subspecies reference
Every recorded species, subspecies and Apex form, with the evidence status next to each name.
Avatar Shards and Apex
What the shard counter on the tank card is for, and the one Apex price read on screen.
Techtree planner
Which research tabs the recordings show, and how many vials a path is likely to take.
Controls and keybinds
The keys you need the moment the tank loads, including scent and the statistics panel.
Tier list
What can and cannot be compared between creatures whose panels were never read.
FAQ
Starter questions players actually ask
What is the Harp Isles starter creature?
There is no single fixed starter in the recording this page is built from. The tutorial opens by offering three diet strands, and the avatar itself is chosen afterwards on the Fill Tank screen, where the list is filtered by Carnivore, Herbivore or Omnivore and each row carries a Category badge. Category 1 is the entry tier, so the five Category 1 names read on that list — Cyntoli, Blorp, Divum' Turba, Ecus' Laetus and Sentis' Areni — are the closest thing to a starter set the footage shows.
Do I pick a creature or a diet at the start of Harp Isles?
Both, in that order. The tutorial line reads “We have prepared 3 diet strands for you. Choose one and drag it to the research port”, with a green, a blue and a red vial on the bench. The tank screen comes after that. The recording does not show whether the strand you drag limits which avatars appear, so treat it as a tutorial step you cannot skip rather than as a locked class.
How many Category 1 creatures can I choose from?
At least five. Five Category 1 rows were readable as the list scrolled — Cyntoli, Blorp, Divum' Turba, Ecus' Laetus and Sentis' Areni — and a Category 2 row followed below them, so the list is not Category 1 only. The recording is from one existing account holding 10 of 12 tanks, so it does not prove what a brand-new account sees.
How long does a starter take to grow?
Blorp's statistics panel printed a growth time of 09M 48S, and Blorp is Category 1 with an Omnivore diet and a Class line of Combat Build. That is the only growth time this page has read for a Category 1 creature. Open your own avatar's statistics panel before you press Create Tank and compare the same field, because the panel is the only place the number is stated for the creature in front of you.
How many tanks do I get, and what does an extra one cost?
The counter read Stored Tanks — 10/12 on the same account, and the Stored Tanks panel sells one more slot for 950 while its own description says more space “can also be accomplished by leveling”. The recording never shows the level a slot unlocks at, so treat 12 as that account's ceiling and leveling as the free route rather than a fixed rule.
Can I change my mind after creating a tank?
The stored-tank list gives every creature a Swap button next to a Play, an Edit and a Delete, and the Slots panel offers Create Tank on an empty slot, so the choice is not one-and-done. What a Swap costs, and whether a deleted creature can be recovered, were not shown in this recording; the shop is where a Revive Vial is sold, so check that price before deleting anything.