Getting Started

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In ClanGen, you play as a clan. You create this clan at the beginning of the game, and it starts off with 7-10 different cats that were randomly generated that you chose. The whole game will center around this clan.

## Creating your Clan

You first start a new game by clicking the "New Clan" it after the Clan's creation.

Once you click on your mode, you are now able to choose the name of your clan. Your clan's name can be anything you would like as long as it is not the name of an already existing clan in your saves. If you do not know what to name your clan, you can press the dice button next to it to randomly generate a name.

Now that your clan is named, you are now able to choose which cats you would like in your clan. You must choose a leader, a deputy and a medicine cat. There will be 12 randomly generated cats on the left of your screen. Each cat is completely randomly generated down to their pelt colors, name, traits and age. If you do not like the 12 cats, you have 3 chances to re-shuffle them by clicking the dice buttons on the side of them. Once you click these buttons, you are unable to get the cats from the previous shuffle back. Once you have selected a cat to join your clan, you are unable to shuffle.

Once you have chosen your leader, deputy and medicine cat you are able to choose 4-7 of the remaining cats to join your clan.

After you have selected your cats, you are brought to the final page: backgrounds. You may choose from the 11 different backgrounds that are provided as well as the season you start your clan in. This background is unable to be changed once gameplay starts. If you do not know what to choose, you are able to pick the, "choose a random background" button and as its name implies, it will randomly select a background. The button does not randomly select the season, you will have to do that on your own or leave it on the first season which is Greenleaf.

## Your Clan

Once you have created your clan. Your screen will now display the following: The clan's name at the top of the screen with four tabs below it reads; Events, Camp, Cat List, and Patrol. In the top right-hand corner of the screen is Allegiances and Stats. In the opposite corner is Main Menu and if you have it toggled on in settings, the number of moons you are on, and the season will be displayed there too. In the bottom center is "Save Clan."

When you start your clan, you will start on the "Camp" tab, this will show you the cats you have selected before now scattered around the background you also selected before. You will also see den labels unless you have the toggled off.

Here are what each button does.

* Main Menu
* Events
* Camp
* Cat List
* Patrol
* Allegiances
* Stats
* Save Clan

This button is pretty simple, it will lead you to the main menu. When you click on it, it will read, "Would you like to save your game before exiting to the Main Menu? If you don't, progress may be lost!".

You can choose to either save or go straight to the main menu.

This button will lead you to a new screen. This is where you are able to skip moons and are able to view every event that happens with each time skip. When you first start a clan, there will be no events shown there.

Click here for more info on  Time skips.

This is the button you are already on when you first start a clan. This button will send you to the camp, it is basically a main menu button for your clan.

Every time you leave the camp tab and return, the cats in your clan would have randomly shuffled around again.

This button will show you all the cats in your clan, going in order of leader, deputy, medicine cat, medicine cat apprentice, mediator and then oldest to youngest. But you are able to change this order by clicking the "Filter by:" tab.

You are also able to click the button of a clan icon with a slash through it to view cats outside of your clan. These can either be cats you met, cats that have went missing or cats that have been exiled.

You are also now able to view your Starclan cats from this tab as well. Next to the search bar is dark clan icon button. Clicking it will show you the cats in the afterlife.

Click here for more info on  Starclan,  The Dark Forest and the Unknown Residence.

This button is where you are able to patrol. You are able to patrol every moon and different events can happen every patrols. Only cats that are old enough and healthy enough are able to patrol. The patrol list is also organized the same way the cat list is.

Click here for more info on  Patrols

This button shows your clan in the style of the books. It lists their rank, name and a written form of what they look like. This list with follow the same order as in the books; leader, deputy, medicine cat and mediator.

Apprentices will also be listed under their mentor as well as in their own separate section and Kits will be listed with their parent under "Queens and Kits."

This button will list the stats of your clan. It will list the following;
Number of Living Cats
Number of Med. Cats
Number of Warriors
Number of Apprentices
Number of Kits
Number of Elders
Number of Cats Outside the Clans
Number of Dead Cats

Do note that newborns are not counted as kits until they are one moon old.

Like the main menu button, this button is pretty self-explanatory. It will save the clan for you. Once you save the clan, it will turn green and change into "Saved Clan". It will turn back red the moment you leave the camp tab.

If you have "Automatically save every five moons" toggled on in settings, your clan will automatically save.