>>376183get three of a thought, think it to produce a thought shard
get a thought shard of each color, turn it into an intelligence shard
get 3+ intelligence shards and awaken
thinking clears all your thoughts that haven't been memorized
memorized thoughts and thought shards only persist for a certain number of thinkings
turning thought shards into an intelligence shard is not a thinking
you can order the animal to sniff things to manually generate thoughts but it can only have one of each kind of thought generated that way at a time
only one of each kind of thought shard has an effect, you can have duplicates but the second one does nothing but fill the slot
mood wildly influences thought generation rate, you absolutely want +++++ so stick the animal in a pasture that does that and then fill the pasture with stuff you want them to sniff. it doesn't increase their chance of generating a thought, i'm pretty sure it's just a can/can not check and then there's a probability that you can't influence
