Black Market City Shop

Has that gathering-exclusive clothing or decor item been eluding you? It is now possible to get it through the Black Market, the clothing/decor version of Whiskers' Wares. Knife will stock one clothing and one decor item from each tier 1 gathering occupation at a time, priced as follows:

Hunter: 300 notes
Gatherer: 250 notes
Miner: 350 notes
Fisher: 300 notes
Bug Catcher: 300 notes
Gardener: 500 notes
Herbalist: 500 notes
Farmer: 500 notes
Flockherd: 450 notes

Out of season items will be marked up x3 similarly to the materials at Whiskers'. Your Merchant's ability to moderate the out-of-season mark-up applies here as well.

Stocks will refresh every 6 hours.

Visit the Black Market


Gardenhome City Theatre

Our first City Shop that takes essence fragments (premium currency) is now live! There will be more items in this set, as well as some corresponding decor, but here is a start!



Other uses of essence fragments will include custom usermade clothing/decor items and the item that will turn your cats into mercats when they release. So you can plan ahead and save, the item to transform a not-cat into a mercat will be priced at 100 essence fragments, or $10.

The essence fragment economy is likely going to be extremely volatile right now. Since they cannot yet be purchased, the supply will be fairly low. This is very likely to shift once they are purchaseable.

Visit the Gardenhome City Theatre


Pawful Prides Expansion

Raine and Bow are now stocking 19 new pride flag sets! I went through all of the suggested pride flags sent to me via email and in the forum thread and started going through the list from most to least suggested, until I ran out of time. Eventually, I'll do another batch, but this is what I had time for for now! Please do keep suggesting flags!



(Bow is now less shy... slightly.... You may need to clear your cache to see aer.)

Some small fixes also rolled out to some of the pride clothing items:
- Held Aro Flag (extra white stripe)
- Hanging Aro Flag (greens out of order)
- Genderfluid Banner (extra purple stripe in looping patterns)
- Genderfluid Scarf (extra purple stripe in looping patterns)
- Genderfluid Streamers (extra purple stripe in looping patterns)
- Some of the flags that were cut off at the bottom have been corrected, but not all

You will need to clear your cache for the changes to show.

Additionally, the prices at the pride shop have been permanently dropped by 250 notes.

Visit Prideful Paws Clothiers


Adventuring Changes

A few small clean-up items have been added to the adventuring system:

- You can now disable some confirmation menus in your account settings. Because this causes the game to skip over the checkbox for using gear for movement, a global checkbox appears when you select this option. A more elegant solution is planned, but is a more time consuming change.

- To make it so you don't need to check the box every single time, you can now default all gear checkboxes to start as checked in your account settings.

- The pathfinding system for failed rolls has been reworked. You should no longer stop in unusual places that don't make sense.

I have also made a few small experimental changes to Monster AI to see what that does to how they behave as follows:

- Monsters now have a slightly stronger preference for closer targets when attacking cats. This should make them less distracted by the low-health support classes standing behind your fighter/guardian.

- Monsters now prioritize themselves significantly less when considering support options. This should encourage them to be less selfish when using their support skills (aka make them stop only ever healing themselves).

- Monsters can now smell when cats are nearby, even if they are not in an adjacent square. This should make them seem less shy/skittish.


New Scenarios and Letters

I have completed the first review of the Scenario and Letter Submissions thread. 25 Mail Entries and 25 Scenarios were selected and the users who wrote them have been notified. Rewards will be going out of the course of the day.

New Scenario Writers: @Bear @Celes @chirpie @darkkorn @Duke @Elfydragon @Gulfie @Insectoid @jellyjam @Nae @notdog @paopuleaf @Samkat @SpiritOwl @Zav

New Letter Writers: @chirpie @CyberjenicPanda @Elfydragon @jellyjam @LapisZap @Leslie @mirage @Nae @Notos @oakleaf @quartz @Quid @Salem @Sallin @Vice @Zanerak21

If your scenario/letter wasn't chosen in this round, that doesn't mean it can't be chosen in a future round! There were some excellent scenarios that were skipped over either:

a) because there was not space in the round or
b) because some of the option 3 personality types were way more popular to write for than others. I try to keep the personalities balanced in scenarios so cats have a somewhat equal chance of getting the third prompt.

These scenarios may be revisited in the next review, which will take place in November!

The new content will be entered over the course of the next week! I will also be adding 18 scenarios I wrote myself when adding the others.


Bug Fixes

- Fixed issue where mayor and other specialty occupations on the village lodge pages were loading in squished and strange when users did not have the icons enabled in account settings

- Adding a slash / to the end of the profile url no longer breaks the the "exp bar / battery"

- Adding extra characters to the end of the profile url on your own profile no longer makes it look like it is not your profile

- Adding extra characters to the url when blocking players no longer allows you to block yourself, locking yourself out of most of the site

- Profile comments now have a scrollbar if they are too long, instead of getting cut off

- Partially fixed issue where pausing/unpausing music in boss battle cancels umbragrove song (requires page refresh to work)

- Fixed pathfinding issue on failed movement attempts

What's next?

- Leaf Day is the next event and will take place from Oct 8th - 14th.

- Continued clean-up

- Custom clothing/decor

omg live update
i LOVE the black market..perfect feature and i’m so excited to see what the ef stuffs gonna be

The Black Market beloved!! Thank you Knife!! This update is so exciting, thank you for all of your hard work

Thank you. So. Much.

Yay! Thanks for all your hard work!

omg!!! knife's back!!!! thnak you so much for this update squid

this is great

edit: squid what have you done. i will never be the same after this

Yay!! Thank you for the update

WOOOOO LETS GO KNIFE !!!