Catnip is a special Catbot feature that unlocks the Cat Mafia and gives temporary boosts and progression rewards.
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..." will appear 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. After that, The Cat Mafia can be accessed by running the /catnip command.
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, e.g.:
“
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 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 | Character Icon | Character Name | Level Name | Duration (Hours) |
Cost (Value) |
Bounty Difficulty (Cats) |
Bounty Amount |
Bonus? | Rarity Weights for reaching the level |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | - | - | Newbie | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | No | No perks |
| 1 | ![]() |
Whiskers | Lurker | 2 | 20 | 2 | 1 | No | No perks |
| 2 | ![]() |
Lucian Jr. | Associate | 2 | 50 | 4 | 1 | No | Common: 64% Uncommon: 25% Rare: 10% Epic: 1% Legendary: 0% |
| 3 | ![]() |
Jinx | Soldier | 3 | 100 | 6 | 1 | No | Common: 57% Uncommon: 25% Rare: 15% Epic: 2% Legendary: 1% |
| 4 | ![]() |
Jeremy | Capo | 3 | 150 | 10 | 1 | No | Common: 48% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 15% Epic: 5% Legendary: 2% |
| 5 | ![]() |
Lucian | Consigliere | 3 | 200 | 15 | 2 | No | Common: 40% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 20% Epic: 6% Legendary: 4% |
| 6 | ![]() |
Sofia | Underboss | 4 | 300 | 25 | 2 | No | Common: 30% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 20% Epic: 12% Legendary: 8% |
| 7 | ![]() |
Bailey | Boss | 6 | 400 | 50 | 2 | Yes | Common: 20% Uncommon: 30% Rare: 25% Epic: 15% Legendary: 10% |
| 8 | ![]() |
Wilson | Godfather | 8 | 600 | 70 | 2 | Yes | Common: 15% Uncommon: 20% Rare: 30% Epic: 20% Legendary: 15% |
| 9 | ![]() |
Lalo | Kingpin | 12 | 1000 | 150 | 2 | Yes | Common: 5% Uncommon: 10% Rare: 35% Epic: 30% Legendary: 20% |
| 10 | ![]() |
Whiskers | El Patrón | 24 | 2000 | 400 | 3 | Yes | Common: 0% Uncommon: 5% Rare: 35% Epic: 35% Legendary: 25% |
Bounties are tasks that need to be completed in order to proceed to the next level.
Users can begin new bounties upon completion of the previous set, but they will lose the time remaining on that level. The Catnip timer will reset when a new level begins. Catches with boosts will still count towards bounties if you say "cat" within 5 seconds after the original catcher (during a rain, the window is 1 second).
Cats boosted by prisms, catnip, or blesses all do not count when trying to complete bounties.
The below explanations feature some simplifications.
Variance = random between 0.85 and 1.15, multiplied by 1.5 if its a bonus bounty, multiplied by 10 if its level 10.
Bounty Difficulty and Max Amount are based on the level, as seen in the table above.
There are three different kinds of bounties one may receive:
X = round(Bounty Difficulty / 2 * Variance)Base Amount = Bounty Difficulty * The chance of chosen cat type (the average amount of catches needed is as close as possible to Bounty Difficulty)X = round(Base Amount * Variance)Eligibile Chance.Base Amount = round(Bounty Difficulty * Eligibile Chance) (the average amount of catches needed is as close as possible to Bounty Difficulty)X = round(Base Amount * Variance) (if X < 1 it will be rounded up to 1)For all bounties, start over if X > Max Amount.
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 of your choosing. Rerolling a perk lets you redo the perk picking (i.e. you pick a new perk out of random 3, which replaces the old perk).
Get the cost value from the level where the cost appears.
Pick a random possible cat type (every possible cat type has the same chance of being chosen).
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.
41.68 turns to 42.Perks are abilities one will receive upon beating a level. The user will have the choice between three perks. 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. |
22.5% | 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 silver 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 received. | 7.5% | Common only |
| Time Manipulator | Value chance of adding 5 minutes to catnip timer on catch. |
10% | 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 30s rain. |
5% | Common: 0.33% Uncommon: 0.5% Rare: 0.83% Epic: 1.66% Legendary: 2.5% |
| Speedrunner | The first Value cats cought each level after pay up always double. |
5% | Common: 8 Uncommon: 12 Rare: 20 Epic: 40 Legendary: 60 |
| Bonus Catcher | Increase bonus cat chance y Value% on your catches. (max 2x increase) |
5% | Common: 10 Uncommon: 15 Rare: 25 Epic: 50 Legendary: 75 |
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.
If you have multiple same perks, the chances stack by adding up.
Note that Voting Booster and Purrcise Catcher cannot be stacked.
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.
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.” |
After completing high levels, cutscenes appear. Once the cutscene is complete, run /catnip again. This allows you to choose a perk from the menu.
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
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.
| Name | Description | How to achieve | Category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bounty Novice | complete 5 bounties | Complete 5 Cat Mafia bounties by catching cats and paying in /catnip. |
Cat Hunt |
| Bounty Hunter | complete 20 bounties | Complete 19 Cat Mafia bounties in /catnip. |
Cat Hunt |
| Bounty Lord | complete 100 bounties | Complete 100 Cat Mafia bounties in /catnip. |
Hard |
| Thanks For Playing (Catnip Addict) | complete the story (Uncover the mafia's truth. Thanks for playing! ✨) | Beat Cat Mafia Level 7. This achievement is incredibly difficult to pull off; once you trigger the cutscene, press any button. | Cat Hunt |
| Mafia Destroyer | complete the story... more | Beat Cat Mafia Level 10 and press the buttons. This is the hardest achievement to obtain in the entirety of Cat Bot. | Hidden |
Before catnip, there used to be a mechanic called "cataine" which had a different story involving the Dog Mafia prior to October 24th, 2025.
Users 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 nathancrazy.—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 an unknown reason at that time, now known to be for Jinx's name. In response to nathancrazy.'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”.
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 nathancrazy. (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
.
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.
On November 1st, 2025, Rainy Catcher replaced Slow Catcher in Catnip v1.1[1].
| 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 |