An Introductions thread is posted in the Off-Topic Forum, feel free to stop by and say hello!

If you have any questions at all, post in the Q&A Forum! There are many of us who would love to answer your questions and help you get oriented. There is also a robust assortment of guides in the Guides Forum.

If you'd like to learn more about the long term development plan, you can see an outline in the Dev Corner.

There might be user-organized freebies and giveaways in the Raffles & Giveaways forum over the next week, so do check those out.

An introduction to the site is included in the next post in this thread. This will contain a little summary of where we are in the beta process, where we're going, and some small important notes that will be useful to you! I highly recommend reading through it.

Hello and welcome to Cat's End! This post will have some quick information to help get you oriented.

People!

I'm Squid (they/them) and I'm the artist/developer/etc. of the site. This game is a single-dev project, with pretty much just myself doing all of the art, writing, coding, and so on. I also work full time outside of this, so you may find that this means the pace and process is a little bit different from games that are built by full teams.

The other admin account is @Naja (he/vi). Naja's role comes down to basically "the mod-iest mod who quietly writes down all the rules."

And of course.... this is my kitty. Her name is Pilot and she is the perfectest cat in the world:


Beta

This site is currently in beta, which means that I'm still working on building the main features of the site (and some of them are a bit buggy). We are over halfway through the beta plan now, with only a few things left on the list before we move from building remaining features to scaling up.

Unlike some betas, there will not be a data reset, so your cats are here to stay.

My immediate plan for the near future is:

- Finishing up the village lodge and additional lodge roles, which includes a fix to an issue where people can get buried in tiny baby cats and then get stuck.

- Some sort of way to monetize the site through premium currency and the ability to design your own custom decor/clothing. Servers are expensive and there are quite a lot of you for the server to support. If you'd like to help, please consider donating to my ko-fi, as even just a little bit helps to offset the costs of running the site.

Game Priorities!

- This game is a very slow/casual pace. Until adventuring came out, it was mostly a matter of checking in briefly once a day and slowly building up your village over time. Adventuring has shifted this pace slightly. You will be the first newbies to join while adventuring is here, which means you'll probably go faster than others.

Don't be surprised if the game is still slow though. This is intentionally designed like this to make it easier for people who are busy with work and school to keep pace without feeling burdened by the site. You can get by just fine even if you only check a few times a week or just do your 10 minute dailies once a day.

- There's a big lore focus to this game, and as we round out the main features, updates will largely be tied to world plots and site events for everyone to participate in. The world has a story to it that will slowly progress collectively. I have plans to allow the userbase to steer the direction of said plots with occasional voted on decisions and so on!

Navigating the Site

- The entire site can be navigated via keyboard. You can use standard keyboard controls (tab, shift tab, etc.) in Adventuring as well. If you see pagination on any page, you can go between pages using the left and right arrow keys. This is because I injured my wrist a few years ago and have a pretty limited ability to use the mouse, so I try to make it so that I have to use it as little as possible.

Important FAQ Answers and Disclaimers



City and Traveling

"Send Traveling" is essentially storage for excess cats, and the rewards you get from it are very rare and small compared to what you would get from active cats doing your dailies. I highly recommend not sending cats traveling until you start to run out of space in your village.

"Send to the City" removes a cat permanently from the game. This can't be undone, so please use this feature with caution. The rewards you get are much less than what you would get selling the cat to other users.

Adventuring

I recommend checking out the official Adventuring Guide before diving in. Adventuring is not intended to be easy at first. Locations are designed so that they get progressively harder the deeper you go into them, so please don't hesitate to turn around early on a few times until your cats unlock the level 2 abilities and rewards or build up more gear and equipment.

Blocking Images

The game does have light horror themes, so if there are certain items or monsters (such as spiders) that bother you, I highly recommend using an adblocker to block certain assets. There is information on how to do this in the Adventuring Update post.

If Nestor's eyes are an issue, you can turn them off in your Account Gameplay Settings. You can also enable icons on cats and toggle off adventuring animations there.

Gathering

Gathering modifiers (bonuses and penalties) only apply to the bottom of the roll. This means that no matter how bad your cat is and how bad the weather is, your cat can always roll the maximum value. You're never locked out of getting the rare items, so do not be shy about putting your cats in jobs they are bad at if you need the resources that that job gives.

Welcome to all the new players! Hope you have a great time!

Welcome all new users

Welcome, everyone

Welcome welcome!

welcome new people!

Welcome, everyone! Cat #60000 is approaching. Here's for breaking records!