Album (Kingdom)

Albums are a class of item in Kemono Friends Kingdom which are equipped by Friends for the stat boosts and special passive effects they grant. The game uses three terms in reference to these items: Album, Type and Set. An Album is any one of three individual left-side, center, or right-side pieces- labelled as I, II and III respectively- which, when combined with the other two corresponding pieces of the same Type, form a Set. Albums will always grant a stat boost when equipped, by virtue of their randomly assigned Attribute, but their listed special effects- known as Set effects- only activate when a full Set is in use.

Albums are sorted into four ascending rarities: C, B, A, and S. Albums of higher rarities grant larger stat boosts and possess more powerful passive effects when used in a Set.

Players can acquire most Albums as rewards for story progression, special events, and clearing stages of the Subway. Some Albums can only be obtained through the paid Advanced Kingdom Guide.

Types and Sets
There are 27 unique Album Types, or Sets, in the game. Each Set grants a specific passive or conditionally-activated effect, called a Set effect, to any Friend who equips it. If a Friend mixes and matches Albums from different Sets, none of those Albums' listed Set effects will be active; a full Set must be equipped to benefit from a Set effect. Albums also grant stat buffs based on the unique Attributes of each Album; unlike a Set effect, these buffs do not require a complete Album Set to be in use in order to take effect.

While A-, B-, and C-Rarity Albums only have one Set effect, S-Rarity Albums gain a secondary effect upon reaching Lv.36.

Lists of Album Types and Set Effects

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Attributes
Each individual Album possesses one of ten Attributes, each of which grants a different set of boosts- called an Attribute Bonus- to the base stats of any Friend who equips an Album with that Attribute. Albums do not need to form a Set in order for a Friend to benefit from each Attribute's stat boost, and the Attribute types of each Album do not need to match for their Attribute Bonuses to apply.

Some notes:
 * Although King and Balanced both boost all stats, the boosts provided by King are superior.
 * In turn, although King provides a boost to all stats while Attributes such as Slimy and Poisonous only boost a single stat, those Albums which boost one stat give a greater boost to that specific stat than what King gives to that stat.
 * Albums of rarity B or C cannot possess the Sharp, Poisonous, Scaly, Slimy, or Hibernation Attributes; these five are restricted to Albums of S or A rarity.
 * The boosts granted by an Attribute increase relative to the rarity of the Album in question; for instance, a King Album of S-Rarity will grant higher stat boosts than a King Album of A-Rarity.

Album Levelling and Enhancement
All Albums start at Lv.1 and cap at different levels depending on their rarity: S-Rarity Albums cap at +80, A-Rarity Albums cap at +50, and the B and C-Rarity Albums both cap at +20. Levelling up an Album increases the values of its Attribute Bonuses, and can boost the power of a Set Bonus when all three Albums equipped are of the same level; if a Friend equips a Set with Albums of differing levels, the lowest-level Album's Set Bonus effects will be the ones applied to the Friend. To level up an Album, a player will use items called Manuscripts, which are found through regular game play.

At certain intervals of an Album's progression, one extra copy of the same Album- the level and Attribute of which do not need to match- must be consumed instead of Manuscripts in order for the Album in question to reach its next level.

Manuscripts
Manuscripts are loose pages of an unknown author's writings, detailing scientific findings in experiments done with Sandstar. Four types of Manuscript can be found, and each grants a different amount of EXP when used on an Album. Manuscripts can be obtained through story progression, events, Subway stage completion, the Redeem shops, and as drops from the Main House in the Park.

Dismantling Albums
Through the Album equip menu, players may access the Album Dismantle menu. Here, Albums can be dismantled in order to obtain additional Manuscripts based on that Album's rarity; additionally, when dismantling an Album which has been levelled up, the player will receive Manuscripts equal in value to those invested in that Album, as condensed into the highest levels of Manuscripts possible.

Because dismantling old Albums allows players to effectively reclaim invested Manuscripts, there is little issue with levelling up low-Rarity Albums before acquiring stronger ones. However, it should be noted that while any type of Manuscript can be used at any stage of Album levelling, only the EXP which contributed to an Album's level increases can be reclaimed by dismantling; using Manuscripts which grant more EXP than required can result in an EXP overflow, which is not able to be reclaimed by dismantling and is thus lost. To avoid this, it is advised that only low-yield Manuscripts be used to upgrade low-rarity Albums.

Lv.1 Attribute Bonuses

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Max Level Attribute Bonuses

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Trivia

 * While most S-Rarity Albums feature art of Friends obtainable in Kemono Friends Kingdom, one in particular- Crisscrossed Venom- features King Cobra alongside two Friends who do not appear in Kingdom. These Friends are Komodo Dragon and Okinawan Habu.