Value: 1000
Tradeable: true
Giftable: true
Effect: Spawns 22 cats/minute for a limited time
Sources: 
  Tutorial: /tutorial
  Cattlepass: https://catbot.wiki/cattlepass
  Events: https://catbot.wiki/events
  Cat Bot Shop: https://catbot.shop

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.

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 depending on how far the cat got boosted from eGirl and lets the catcher keep the original cat). [images 1 and 2]

There is a set amount of cats per rain (22 for each minute of rain used) 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 send 3 big alerts of the rain ending. [image 3] It will also show a rain summary [image 4] - who caught what. The ☔ indicates the person who activated the rain. If the rain is too long the summary might get truncated, in which case another message will be sent which instead shows people per cat (as opposed to cats per people)

If you give Cat Bot Manage Permissions/Manage Roles, it will automatically lock the channel where the rain happened in for 10 seconds after a rain ends to prevent excess spam.

After the end of the rain you can thank the person who started the rain by pressing the button that appears under the rain summary.

How to get

To get rain minutes you can either:

• Complete the Cat Bot /tutorial to get 2 rain minutes if you haven't done it.
• Complete Level 30 in the Cattlepass for 2 bonus (local) minutes of rain.
• Purchase 2m, 10m, 20m, or 60m (60m is one hour) rains in the shop.
• Get rain minutes via an event.
• Trade/get gifted rain minutes.

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 /editprofile command (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 /bless command, 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. Cats only spawned in 1 second intervals and said "this concludes the cat rain.". The menu looked like this:

January-February, 2023 "Cat Rain Removal"

Old cat rains didn't transfer over because the database relating to it got deleted as well.

March 20th, 2023 "Fake Cat Rain Added/Removal"

You got 5/25/50 Fine cats depending on the type.

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. Rain end messages looked like this, were only sent 1 time, and the bot didn't attempt to lock the channel:

Later Updates

Updates that shaped the rain system to its present day:

• On October 30th, 2024, seperate rain type balances were merged, 60m option in the shop was also added.
• Before August 23rd, 2025, there was no revival system and it was strictly the rain length.

  • On August 23rd, 2025, the rain revival system was added along with a should end system:

    \text{rain length}\cdot60\cdot1.3
    

    or

    \lfloor\text{current unix timestamp}+\text{remaining cats}\cdot2.75\cdot1.3\rfloor
    

    when the rain is 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 run a bit after the rain should have normally ended.