Rat

**“**They're rataliating!**”**
–Wilson

**“**Stay away from Bernie!**”**
–Willow

**“**Is greedy little hair puff!**”**
–Wolfgang

**“**Wreched daemons wrought to topple the pillars of vanity.**”**
–Wendy

**“**DISGUSTING ORGANIC RETRIEVAL DRONES**”**
–WX-78

**“**Rodentia kleptomanis, and quite the large specimen!**”**
–Wickerbottom

**“**More vermin come steal my kit!**”**
–Woodie

**“**Filthy vermin!**”**
–Maxwell

**“**And thus cömeth a plague upön böth öur höuses!**”**
–Wigfrid

**“**Nice fur!**”**
–Webber

**“**That's one part of home I was hoping NOT to see again.**”**
–Winona

**“**Don't let the filthy little pestes near my kitchen!**”**
–Warly

**“**You won't run off with my flute again, hm?**”**
–Wortox

**“**Hairy stuff stealer**”**
–Wormwood

**“**It look like Spiderfolk, but it squeaking..?**”**
–Wurt

**“**I'd share, but they seem more interested in just TAKING our stuff.**”**
–Walter

**“**Get away from my clocks!**”**
–Wanda

**“**Hello, family.**”**
–Winky

**“**Instigator, problems. Rather dead.**”**
–Wathom

**“**Begone, you mangey thing!**”**
–Wixie

**Rats** are neutral Animals that spawn in groups next to the player. Similar to Splumonkeys, they will steal items they find on the ground and carry them to their Burrow. A Rat's attacks are unique to any mob since they drain the player's max health.

## Behavior

After day 30 Rat Raids will begin to happen if the player has a dirty base. The player will be notified by a character quote and a group of Rats will spawn. These Rats will rush to the closest items and take them, after which they spend some time roaming around and then return to their Burrow, where they'll deposit all the stolen goods.

Rats are afraid of ghosts, and will attempt to run away from ghosts such as Abigail.

In order to locate the Rat Burrow, the player must follow the initial rats, as it will always spawn in a random location at a fixed distance from where the raid happened. If the player fails to see where the rats went it can still find it by walking in a big circle around the place where the raid started. It will know the Rat Burrow is near when it starts to find rats roaming around the place. The player can also use the Rat Mask to help guide them to a burrow.

Rats will sleep at night and wake up if the player attacks another rat or tries to dig the Burrow.

## Hunting

Rats are tricky creatures to fight due to their big numbers and Pig-like kiting patterns which will force the player to tank a lot of hits if it desires to fight in melee combat. Thankfully both their health and damage are below average but the risk of getting stunlocked is high.

An unprepared player can wait until all Rats fall asleep at night to strike. They'll shortly wake up but it will be enough time to kill one or two. If rats chase a player for too long during night they will go back to sleep, allowing for another easy kill.

The best way to kill Rats, however, is through the use of traps. Note, however, that despite being small animals they are immune to regular traps, so Tooth Traps, Bramble Traps or Poison Jam will need to be used. Poison Jam is specially effective as it will attract any nearby rats and kill them instantly. Each bottle of Poison Jam contains enough poison to kill 4 rats before fading away. Other area of effect methods such as Abigail, Weremoose Charge or Catapults are also really effective at dealing with rats.

The max health reduction of their attacks isn't very significant, but can stack quickly and won't be mitigated by armor, making tanking a poor strategy. A Plague Mask can be wore to prevent max health reduction. If the player does not have one it will have to use Booster Shots or sleep to recover the lost max health.

## Tips

* Wolfgang deals enough damage to one shot the rats when wielding a weapon with 50 damage or more. This allows him to hold F and kill any rats that try to attack him before they are able to deal damage. Other characters can do this too once the rat is damaged.
* If the player doesn't have any traps, attacking rats at night is preferred, but be careful not to get your lantern stolen.
* Tooth Traps, typically used as Hound defense, can be repurposed for Rat Raids, since attacking one will aggro the rest, it'll be easy to bait them to the traps.
* Pigs can be used to deal with rats as they will help thin the horde.
* Catcoons can kill rats in 1 hit.
* Rats will go through walls.

## Gallery

Wilson being a bad comedian.Wilson in a well defended base.