¶ Info
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Catnip is a special late-game feature that unlocks the Cat Mafia and gives temporary boosts and progression rewards.
¶ Unlocking the Cat Mafia
After the user has caught at least 50 cats in total, there is a 1/11 chance of a button with the text "You see a shadow..." appearing on any cat catches. Clicking this button will have a dialogue appear, which grants instructions on how to access the Cat Mafia. If one misses it, they can still find the button by successfully rolling the 1/11 chance again.
¶ Accessing the Cat Mafia
The Cat Mafia is accessed by running the /catnip command. It can only be entered after the "You see a shadow..." button has been clicked, so one can not have catnip in the early game. If one attempts to run the command before pressing the button, they will be met with an ephemeral message saying “You don’t have access to the Cat Mafia yet. Catch more cats to unlock it!” However, if the user unlocks the Cat Mafia and then uses the command, an ephemeral message will appear, revealing the Cat Mafia.
¶ Catnip
Catnip is a roguelike prestige system where one can pay cats and complete bounties to join and ascend the ranks of the Cat Mafia. When catnip activates, it will be indicated in the catch message; for example: “
catnip worked! your cat was doubled by catnip!!1!”. When catnip runs out, the following text will be included with the next catch: “
Your catnip expired! Run /catnip to get more.” Catnip will still work alongside prism boosts and blessings. Several perks can be unlocked as one levels up, each providing passive benefits to greatly improve their catches. Catnip only lasts for a limited amount of time and will need to be repurchased after it expires.
The slower the spawn timings are in your server, the more difficult it is to rank up.
¶ Levels
Levels have 4 internal values:
Cost - Used for determining how much one will pay.
Bounty Difficulty - Used for determining the bounties.
Max Amount - The maximum amount of cats that can be shown in a bounty. This is here to prevent very large numbers from appearing in earlier levels.
Rarity Weights - The chance for a perk (out of 3 perks) to be a rarity. Note that this refers to the level you just reached, not the level that you finished. If you finish level 1, you get the perk rarities from level 2.
| Level | Name | Duration (Hours) |
Cost (Value) |
Bounty Difficulty (Cats) |
Bounty Amount |
Bonus? | Change | Max Amount (Cats) |
Rarity Weights for reaching the level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Newbie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | No | No Change | 9999 | No perks |
| 1 | Lurker | 2 | 20 | 2 | 1 | No | Chance of Epic | 9999 | No perks |
| 2 | Associate | 2 | 50 | 4 | 1 | No | Chance of Legendary | 9999 | Common: 64% Uncommon: 25% Rare: 10% Epic: 1% Legendary: 0% |
| 3 | Soldier | 3 | 100 | 6 | 1 | No | Better Perks | 9999 | Common: 57% Uncommon: 25% Rare: 15% Epic: 2% Legendary: 1% |
| 4 | Capo | 3 | 150 | 10 | 1 | No | New Bounty | 9999 | Common: 48% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 15% Epic: 5% Legendary: 2% |
| 5 | Consigliere | 3 | 200 | 15 | 2 | No | Higher Duration | 10 | Common: 40% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 20% Epic: 6% Legendary: 4% |
| 6 | Underboss | 4 | 300 | 25 | 2 | No | Higher Duration | 20 | Common: 30% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 20% Epic: 12% Legendary: 8% |
| 7 | Boss | 6 | 400 | 50 | 2 | Yes | Better Perks | 30 | Common: 20% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 25% Epic: 15% Legendary: 10% |
| 8 | Godfather | 8 | 600 | 70 | 2 | Yes | New Bounty | 40 | Common: 15% Uncommon: 20% Rare: 30% Epic: 20% Legendary: 15% |
| 9 | Kingpin | 12 | 1000 | 150 | 2 | Yes | Better Perks; It might be time to stop. |
50 | Common: 5% Uncommon: 10% Rare: 35% Epic: 30% Legendary: 20% |
| 10 | El Patrón | 24 | 2000 | 400 | 2 | Yes | Literally Nothing Really, you shouldn't do this. |
999999 | Common: 0% Uncommon: 5% Rare: 35% Epic: 35% Legendary: 25% |
¶ Bounties
Bounties are tasks that need to be completed in order to proceed to the next level. Users can begin bounties but they will lose their hours remaining on Catnip. Catches with boosts will still count towards bounties if you say "cat" within 3 seconds of a cat being caught by someone else (this is called "belated bounties").
There are three different kinds of bounties one may receive:
- Catch X cats
- Catch X type cats
- Catch X type or rarer cats
Bounties choose a certain target amount of cats, which is the bounty difficulty multiplied by a random number between 0.85 and 1.15, unless final bounty which multiplies it by 1.5, unless it's level 10 which multiplies it by 10.
For "Catch X cats":
X is the chosen amount of cats, divided by two.
For "Catch X type cats":
- Choose a rarity
- Get eligible types
- Get probability (Sum value of eligible types divided by sum value of all types)
- Get base amount (maximum of 1 with Average Cats times Probability rounded)
- Get expected total (Base Amount / Probability)
- Check if bounty is impossible, or if the cat error is less or more than 20% (if yes, repeat with a lower cat type, if max tries (# of bounties * 1000), stop)
Cats calculated is X
Type is type
For "Catch X type or rarer cats":
- Pick available type
- Do previous bounty's steps 3 and 4 (only with cat type value / sum of all cat type values for probability)
- Check if probability is lower than 0.8 (if true, repeat)
Cats calculated is X
Type is type
Bonus bounties don’t have to be completed to complete the level and they disappear if you skip them, but they reward you with the ability to reroll one perk.
¶ Catnip Cost Process
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Get the cost value from the level where the cost appears.
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Pick a random possible cat type (every possible cat type has the same chance of being chosen).
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Find out the number of cats:
Level Cost Value / Cat Type Value, with the whole part being the guaranteed cost. -
For the fractional part, it gets rounded.
- For example,
41.68turns to42.
- For example,
¶ Perks
Perks are abilities one will receive upon beating a level. The user will have the choice between three perks with a reroll. These perks can vary in rarity based on the level's weights, with higher rarities providing better benefits. The further the user is in the mafia, the more likely it is for a rarer perk to appear. If one fails to complete a bounty, their most recent perk will be lost.
Triple catches are shown with double catnip emojis and double boosts are shown with double prism emojis.
The rarity icons look like this:
| Perk | Description | Chance | Rarity Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lucky Catcher | Value chance of doubling cats on catch. |
25% | Common: 5% Uncommon: 7.5% Rare: 12.5% Epic: 25% Legendary: 37.5% |
| Gambling Catcher | Value chance of tripling cats on catch, but Value / 2 chance of getting no cats on catch. |
10% | Common: 3% Uncommon: 4.5% Rare: 7.5% Epic: 15% Legendary: 22.5% |
| Pack Catcher - Wooden | Value chance of getting a wooden pack on catch. |
2.5% | Common: 1.5% Uncommon: 2.25% Rare: 3.75% Epic: 7.5% Legendary: 11.5% |
| Pack Catcher - Stone | Value chance of getting a stone pack on catch. |
2.5% | Common: 1% Uncommon: 1.5% Rare: 2.5% Epic: 5% Legendary: 7.5% |
| Pack Catcher - Bronze | Value chance of getting a bronze pack on catch. |
2.5% | Common: 0.75% Uncommon: 1.125% Rare: 1.875% Epic: 3.75% Legendary: 5.625% |
| Pack Catcher - Silver | Value chance of getting a sliver pack on catch. |
2.5% | Common: 0.5% Uncommon: 0.75% Rare: 1.25% Epic: 2.5% Legendary: 3.75% |
| Pack Catcher - Gold | Value chance of getting a gold pack on catch. |
2.5% | Common: 0.25% Uncommon: 0.375% Rare: 0.625% Epic: 1.25% Legendary: 1.875% |
| Pack Catcher - Platinum | Value chance of getting a platinum pack on catch. |
2.5% | Common: 0.125% Uncommon: 0.1875% Rare: 0.3125% Epic: 0.625% Legendary: 0.9375% |
| Bright Catcher | Value chance of prisms boosting catches by two rarity levels. |
5% | Common: 10% Uncommon: 15% Rare: 25% Epic: 50% Legendary: 75% |
| Purrcise Catcher | Getting Purrfection or All The Same times on catch triples cats recieved. | 7.5% | Common only |
| Time Manipulator | Value chance of adding 5 minutes to catnip timer on catch. |
12.5% | Common: 1% Uncommon: 1.5% Rare: 2.5% Epic: 5% Legendary: 7.5% |
| Voting Booster | Your vote streak boosts catnip duration. | 5% | Legendary only |
| Rainy Catcher | Value chance of starting a rain with 10 cats. |
5% | Common: 0.33% Uncommon: 0.5% Rare: 0.83% Epic: 1.66% Legendary: 2.5% |
| Speedrunner | The first Value cats cought each level always double. |
5% | Common: 8 Uncommon: 12 Rare: 20 Epic: 40 Legendary: 60 |
The Voting Booster duration bonus is your voting streak turned into minutes. Every number in your streak over 100 will give half as many minutes, over 200 will give a third as many, etc.
Any Pack Catcher perk has limited attempts of which the # of attempts is the duration of your Catnip level in minutes.
¶ Characters
There are a total of 9 different characters one will meet while ranking up through the 10 levels of the mafia. Each level has a different character with the sole exception of the 10th level, where the first character makes a reappearance. Each character has a different ranking in the mafia, and the level will be obtained by the user upon defeating them.
| Icon | Name | Level |
|---|---|---|
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Whiskers | 1 |
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Lucian Jr. | 2 |
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Jinx | 3 |
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Jeremy | 4 |
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Lucian | 5 |
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Sofia | 6 |
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Bailey | 7 |
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Wilson | 8 |
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Lalo | 9 |
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Whiskers | 10 |
¶ Dialogue
Each character has lines of dialogue that will be shown once certain actions are taken: meeting the character for the first time, checking on them, leveling up, and leveling down. All characters have more than one default message, but some have additional level up messages, too. All of these messages for the respective characters and sections are randomized, with equal chances of each message appearing.
| Character**** | Introduction | Default | Level Up | Level Down |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Whiskers | "Welcome to the Mafia. You can't trust anyone here." | 1. "Oh, I’ve seen many great things. You couldn’t even imagine the places I’ve been to. Good ol’ times." 2. "Just get those cats, okay? My days are numbered, it’s about time I retire." 3."You seem to be an odd fellow… but you have good intentions, right? Then catch those cats and get moving!" |
“You’ve won! Go on and conquer. Make me proud.” | “you had to get like 2 cats how did you mess this up” |
| Lucian Jr. | “Ha! You will never defeat me! I am the best cat catcher of all my ancestors!” | 1. “FEAR ME! I am the agent of your demise. This app on my phone told me so.” 2. “You will never win. I have bested hundreds, no, THOUSANDS of cat catchers before you. Who are they? uhhhhhhh” 3. “Cat spawn. No catch. I grab. All cat mine.” |
1. “WHAT?! How could this be…” 2. “I have failed you, dad… I’m sorry…” |
“Ha! Never even doubted my skills.” |
| Jinx | “heyyy. been hearing a lot about you. welcome, welcome” | 1. “bro you ever try any of this catnip stuff yourself? u gotta give it a shot, i tell ya, it’s something else” 2. “the whole mafia thing is ridiculous, don’t even get involved. i’m just here for cheaper catnip lol” 3. “dude the other day i had this green fella, he took too much, ended up going crazy. me?? nah come on ill be fine” |
“leaving already? aw. come back anytime” | “dw bro maybe next time” |
| Jeremy | “I LOVE CAT BOT IT IS GREAT NOW THERE IS A NEW UPDATE!!!!!” | 1. “YO MY NAME IS JEREMY MY PARENTS LEFT WHEN I WAS THREE!!!!” 2. “THERE IS JUST A SINGLE RULE JEREMY IS REALLY COOL!!!!!!!” 3. “I AM COOL AND I AM GREEN BETTER THAN AT FIRST IT MAY SEEM!!!!!!” |
“HI MY NAME IS ALMOST DEAD MY LIFE HANGING ON A THREAD” | “ " |
| Lucian | “Hello. My name is Lucian. You beat my son. Prepare to die.” | 1. "You couldnt have beat my son. YOU CHEATER!!" 2. "I have been here for ALL ETERNITY! Almost as if I'm hard-coded… by some developer…” 3. "I'm the best cat catcher ever! [NOT CLICKBAIT]" 4. "FEAR ME! I am the uhhhhhh okay the phone app isn't working" |
"Son… I'm sorry. I'm so sorry." | "gg ez" |
| Sofia | “Another one? Why do you commoners keep trying? You're just a waste of my time.” | 1. “Ugh, give up already!” 2. “Oh, please. You’re pathetic.” 3. “You're so naïve thinking you even have a chance to pass me.” |
“This can’t be possible! NO! Guards, seize them!! NOOOOO!!!” | "Serves you right. Those like you don’t deserve my attention." |
| Bailey | “Another boss. Really? You know what happened to everyone else who tried to take me on.” | 1. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN THE PATCH OF CATNIP DI- Oh, hello!” 2. “These cats need to be- They need to be appreciated!” 3. “Dogs are really bad, right? Yeah! I hate dogs!” |
“…This isn't where my story ends. Not today.” | “Seems like I’m the superior species after all.” |
| Wilson | “That guy was a dog? Yeah, that checks out.” | 1. “It's not always about the money… it's about the PAWS BABY LOVE THE PAWS COME ON HIT A HOME RUN” 2. “Back in the day we just scammed people and made them pay higher and higher prices for catnip. Some people even paid 100 eGirl cats!” 3. "Catnip really depends on who makes it and what they put into it. We here at the top? We get the best stuff. Those people at the bottom get basically nothing.” 4. “Why are you even trying to go any further? Don't you have enough already?” |
1. “Oh, you actually beat me? Whatever. I'm still the kingpin in all the other people's dimensions.” 2. “I don't care if you beat me. I'm still in charge for every other player.” |
“I wasn't even trying how did you lose 💀” |
| Lalo | “Oh hey! You’re here. Right on time. You will love this to death!” | 1. “You ever heard of that cat, Whiskers? Well he’s back in business. What’s he up to man, what’s he doing…” 2. “I’m here to make sure business is running in order. You’re pushing it with the mafia overtake.” 3. “Relentlessly moving up and defeating everyone on the way, I want to know, what is your goal here? I just wanna hear the story.” 4. “And your bail will be… 7 million fine cats!” 5. “Yeah, I never sleep much. With these bounties, neither will you.” |
“hahahashahhashaHS HAHAHSHAHSAHAAH” |
“And look who we have here! The one and only. Too bad your perks don’t give you armor.” |
| Whiskers | “Well done. You've destroyed everything I made. Are you happy?” | 1. “Was it really worth it?” 2. “I built this mafia from the ground up. I thought you would save it, not destroy it.” 3. “I knew you could go a long way. But I didn't expect you to get here.” 4. “Why did you go further? You defeated the dog. That should've been enough.” 5. “meow” |
1. “I should've expected this.” 2. “You refuse to fall.” |
“Finally. You have fallen. I get to rebuild what you destroyed.” |
¶ Cutscenes
After completing high levels, cutscenes appear. Once the cutscene is complete, run /catnip again. This allows you to choose a perk from the menu.
¶ Completing Level 7
You feel satisfied with yourself. I just defeated the Godfather, Bailey! I'm on top of the world now!
Little did you know, it was foolish to believe it was over just yet.
You stare Bailey down, and realize just how bizarre he is. He's very large for a cat… he wags his tail… he just feels wrong. But then, you hear it.
Bark! Bark!
Oh no.
After "RUN!" button pressed:
You immediately run. You know that he will probably be able to outpace you, but you do have a bit of a head start.
There's a split in the alley.
Left would lead to the hideout, but you'll never get there in time.
Right, however, leads to a dead end.
Which way do you go?
If "Left" button pressed:
You dash to the left. You can see the cat door ahead, but you'll never make it out in time.
You call out for help, and think back to all of those people you defeated.
Whiskers, the Lucians, Jinx, Jeremy, Sofia.
Would any of them be willing to save you?
If "Right" button pressed:
You dash to the right. As you turn the corner and approach the dead end, you realize that while he may go faster, you can jump higher.
You back up against the wall, wait for him to approach… and jump.
You get over him, and run the other way. With a head start, you can get into the hideout.
But Bailey isn't done yet.
He's trying to break in. You think back to all of those people you defeated.
Whiskers, the Lucians, Jinx, Jeremy, Sofia.
Would any of them be willing to save you?
After "Next" button pressed:
You see Jinx come out first. Whiskers is just behind him.
Jeremy doesn't take much longer. The Lucians come out too, though reluctantly.
Finally, Sofia scowls and approaches.
Bailey knew he could take down one cat. Two wouldn't be that hard. But seven..?
"This isn't the end of this..."
Bailey puts his head down, and scampers off. But you aren't done.
You and your crew chase after him. He runs, until you corner him. He goes into the building behind him… but it's the Cat Police Station.
As you return to your hideout, you hear a howl in the distance.
Demonic Achievement Unlocked
¶ Completing Level 10
Why? What do you gain from this? What's the point?
You've gone too far. You defeated Bailey, and I was proud of you for that.
But you kept going. Just for slightly more cats.
You never cared about the people. It was all for you.
After "Next" button pressed:
I got too greedy myself. I took over the mafia far too young.
I wanted more, and more, and more. But I never went as far as you did.
I took over catnip production, and took so much for myself.
Eventually, though, someone took away my catnip.
And I realized how I had taken so much catnip, that the whole world was limited to about 4 doses a week."""
After "Next" button pressed again:
But you. You've left nothing for the others. You've made the most powerful catnip, but at what cost?
I can't stop you. No one can. I guess the only question is: will you stay here to torment us? Or fight on, against the world itself?
[More content coming soon! Congrats on actually making it to level 10, that's quite a feat.]
If "Stop" button pressed:
...Really? I thought you would continue your path of destruction.
So fine. Continue to torment us. You've won. Are you happy now?
Achievement Unlocked
If "Continue" button pressed (grayed out):
woa you looked at the code! crazy. btw stella is cute
This text is currently inaccessible, and will never be seen throughout standard usage of the bot.
¶ Achievements
| Name | Description | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Bounty Novice | complete 5 bounties | Cat Hunt |
| Bounty Hunter | complete 20 bounties this is actually given at 19 |
Cat Hunt |
| Bounty Lord | complete 100 bounties | Hard |
| Thanks For Playing | complete the story | Cat Hunt |
| Mafia Destroyer | complete the story... more | Hidden |
¶ Trivia
- Before catnip, there used to be a mechanic called "cataine" which had a different story involving the Dog Mafia prior to October 24th, 2025.
- One cannot surpass level 10 yet; level 10 loops until the user fails.
- During the development process, there was an idea to add an X Battlepass XP per catch and a guaranteed doubling perk but it was later scrapped.
- TheTrashCell, the artist and writer for the update, revealed these 2 images before catnip was officially released:
- Whiskers is a fine cat who was designed for the plot twist. It is unknown how he got so incredibly far up the mafia ranks.
- Lucian Jr. is the son of Lucian; he is explained to be a “typical early level bandit type character” (TheTrashCell). Lucian Jr. is roughly inspired by "Sir Maximus II" from OMOKAT's 2020 horror role-playing game, Omori.
- Jinx is TheTrashCell’s favorite character. TheTrashCell made a whole entry for Jinx, containing this list of character traits: “little gremlin”, “super chill”, “uses modern slang”, “loves sombrero hats”, “lives a minimalist nomadic lifestyle”, “moderate [catnip] user”, “fan favourite”, “probably gay or something to resonate with the audience”, “doesn’t take anything seriously”, “laughs at all the other cats in the cat mafia who do take things seriously”, and “‘dont jinx it’”. Jinx's name stems from when nataliecrazy.—the main developer of the Catnip Update—went to Cat Stand's (Cat Bot's support server) "#catching2" channel and requested for cat name suggestions for, what was at the time, an unknown reason, but is now known to be for Jinx's name. In response to nataliecrazy.'s request, a user named "helicopterbirb" responded with "Jinx", the name of their cat.
- Jeremy is from an April Fools remake of a small sandbox game called “Photon”. His lore is complex, so to sum it all up, it basically goes like this: milenakos (creator of Cat Bot, referred to as Lia) used to make Cell Machine (a “zero player game” created by Sam Hogan) content in the past, a user named blendigoose and another user named k_lemon spent time in the Cell Machine community and worked together to make a game called “Photon”. In 2024, an April Fool's version of the game—called “Photon: Dimensions”—was created, and Jeremy was the main character. TheTrashCell created the OST for the game, and it includes a bonus song (the first of four) called “Jeremy”. The first two lines of the song are the exact words Jeremy says for his first default dialogue. (the introduction, level up, and level down dialogues were original for the update). The origin of the joke of Jeremy being added to Cat Bot started when 10 people assembled in a group and spammed milenakos to try and get Jeremy added to Cat Bot, which never occurred until the release of the Catnip Update over a year later. After the new cat icons for Cat Bot were released, a song was also created—allegedly named "Cat Bot Icons"—containing Jeremy singing about how he wants to be added to Cat Bot, followed by a ton of swearing. Jeremy's introduction second default, and third default dialogues come from lines in this song. This song is allegedly lost media, and “we should all collectively agree it doesn’t exist” (TheTrashCell).
- Lucian is the father of Lucian Jr., and is “another bandit-type character” (TheTrashCell). His quote, “Hello. My name is Lucian. You beat my son. Prepare to die.”, is a reference to a quote from "Inigo Montoya"—a character from Rob Reiner's 1987 film The Princess Bride. The quote is as follows: "Hello. My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die." Lucian is roughly inspired by "Sir Maximus" from OMOKAT's 2020 horror role-playing game, Omori.
- Sofia, as stated by nataliecrazy. (the main developer of the Catnip Update), is “WOKE mafia” and “Fancy, yet unamused”.
- Bailey is a golden retriever.
- Wilson’s quote about "the paws" is a reference to the Spiderman kingpin Mets meme.
- Lalo is a reference to "Lalo Salamanca" from Vince Gilligan’s and Peter Gould’s 2015–2022 television series Better Call Saul. Every one of his quotes is a slightly modified or the original quote said by Lalo Salamanca. The whole idea about the Catnip Update was to justify adding Lalo as a Cat Bot character. This means the update was an elaborately designed scheme created by TheTrashCell just to get Lalo added to Cat Bot.
- There is a 1% chance Jeremy's icon appears as instead of the usual .
- Prisms, catnip, and blesses all do not count when trying to complete bounties.
- One cannot stack Voting Booster and Precise Catcher.
- Assuming one has multiple perks, the same perks are added together, then catnip rolls first for tripling the cats; if that fails, it checks for doubling instead. If both bonuses fail, it awards the normal amount of cats, and only if all checks fail and you have the Gambling Catcher perk completely does the catch return zero cats. For example, two Rainy Catcher perks will have their percentage chances added together.
- In the code for the "Continue" button for the level 10 cutscene, a person named stella gets called cute. The main developer of the Catnip Update is a user named nataliecrazy.. She is in a relationship with a user named stellacrazy., whom she finds cute. stellacrazy. finds nataliecrazy. cute too.
- On November 1st, 2025, Catnip v1.1[1] released with the Slow Catcher perk replaced with Rainy Catcher. Slow Catcher worked as follows:
| Name | Description | Chance | Rarity Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Slow Catcher | Cats cought in Value minutes or more always double. |
5% | Common: 75 Uncommon: 50 Rare: 25 Epic: 15 Legendary: 10 |
- Precise Catcher got renamed to Purrcise Catcher, and many levels were also fixed during Catnip v1.1[1:1].
- Double boost update happened on January 7th 2026.
- There is a bug where if you pay up, your level goes up then you can select perks, meaning after completing level 1, you get perk rarities from level 2 for the first perk. But if you reroll the first perk, it will be labeled level one and use rarities from level 1, this can be abused to generate an invalid embed as follows:
Get to level 8 and finish bonus. Select to reroll the latest perk.
Level down to 7. finish bonus. In level 8 embed, select a perk to replace it with.
List assignment out of range, but this was fixed on January 13th 2026 along with done other fixes and optimizations.
- Pack Catcher perks got limited on February 28th 2026.