¶ Info
Cat Rains is a freemium mechanic in Cat Bot where cats spawn rapidly for a set amount of time, it's very powerful and should be used wisely, each rain minute is 900 value in /trade.
¶ How it works
Cat Rains can happen under 2 circumstances:
- Someone starts a rain using
/rain, this drains the amount of bonus rain minutes (local), then their regular rain minutes (it'll be gone in every server too) by the time they started the rain for. - A natural cat gets boosted beyond an eGirl (this starts/extends a rain by 10/20 minutes and lets the catcher keep the original cat).
In the latter, Cat Bot will show this message:
Along with this message if a rain is already happening:
There is a set amount of cats per rain math.ceil(rain length * 60 / 2.75) and it waits 1-2 seconds after a catch before spawning another one. However there is also a loop running every 5 seconds in the background during the duration of the rain and if that loop sees there have been no spawns for the previous 5 seconds it does a spawn itself to revive the loop.
When the Cat Rain ends, Cat Bot will display this message:
Cat Bot will also show who caught what cats, and show the catches and people who cought each type, the ☔ indicates the person who activated the rain, it will only show the types if the rain is under 10 minutes long though.
If you give Cat Bot Manage Permissions/Manage Roles, it will automatically lock the channel where the rain happened in for 3 seconds after a rain ends.
¶ How to get
You start with 2 minutes of Cat Rain and to get more you can either:
- Complete Level 30 in the Cattlepass for 2 bonus (local) minutes of rain.
- Purchase 2m, 10m, 20m, or 60m rains in the shop.
- Get rain minutes via an event
Purchasing any option will also give you many cosmetic benefits, such as:
- A special role in the Cat Stand (Cat Bot support server) which gives such perks as access to the chat for people with coloured roles, image and embed perms in the #talk channel,
- Profile customization through the
/editprofilecommand (custom embed color in hex form, emoji next to your username (only Discord's built-in emojis), and an image). - Access to a decorative
/customcat - The ability to bless (which doubles) catches though the
/blesscommand, with or without anonymity.
¶ History
¶ August 22nd 2022 "Rain First Added"
Originally you could only start a short 1 minute rain, a normal 5 minute rain, or a long 10 minute rain.
The menu looked like this:
Cats only spawned in 2 second intervals and didn't have any rain end messages.
¶ March 20th 2023 "Cat Rain Removal"
Old cat rains didn't transfer over because the database relating to it got deleted as well.
¶ August 6th 2024 "Cat Rain Readded"
You could still only start a typed rain: a short 2 minute rain, a normal 10 minute rain, or a long 20 minute rain.
The menu looked like this:
Rain end messages looked like this, were only sent 1 time, and the bot didn't attempt to lock the channel:
¶ Future Updates
Updates that shaped the rain system to it's present day.
- Before August 28th 2024 there was no starting 2 minute rain.
- On October 30th 2024, rain types were removed and changed into minutes (60m option in the shop was also added).
- Before April 18th 2025, the rain value was 1100.
- The rain end message was changed on June 1st 2025.
- Before August 23rd 2025, there was no revival system and it was strictly the rain length.
- On August 23rd 2025, because it's apparent Lia is not able to identify or fix the core issue of rains breaking, she added the rain revival system along with a should end system (
rain length * 60 * 1.3,int(time.time() + (remaining cats * 2.75) * 1.3)when recovered).
On a catch Cat Bot detects if a rain ended unexpectedly and if so it will restart it and add 3 cats to it as compensation.
It might have taken a couple catches as the check is only ran a bit after the rain should have normally ended.
- On September 8th 2025 rain value was changed to 500 but was changed back.
- On September 26th 2025, more rain updates happened:
- Rain Summaries
- Channel locking
- On October 3rd 2025, even more rain updates, added current rain system.
- On the same day, more rain updates:
- The last rain's cat is no longer saved as fastest time.
- Added ☔ indicator.
- Rain summaries work over soft restarts.