One transaction builds the vault, launches the mascot on Pons, and points its creator fees at the vault. There is no step two.
The mascot's first five seconds carry a snipe tax that starts at 99% and decays to nothing. That is Pons, not us, and it exists to stop bots buying your launch out from under you.
Your creator-fee split is fixed at launch and cannot be changed afterwards. Pick it carefully.
A freshly launched mascot has no volume and no market cap, and the launchpad ranks by both, so it will not surface in their explore feed until somebody trades it. Search it there by name or ticker rather than by contract address.