Cat

* Young
* Adult
* Mature
* Charm

**Cats** are indoor only pets in *Cozy Grove*. Unlike other types of pets, cats cannot be purchased and need to be lured by placing food into the cat beckoner located inside the player's tent. When fed, cats produce hairballs and decoration recipes.

## Rarity and appearance

The cat's rarity determines its appearance and its likes: the rarer the cat, the more types of decor it likes. Common cats like one random type of decor; higher rarity cats have one type of decor they always like and one or more random likes. All cats dislike other cats, with the exception of the Rainbow cat. Additionally, every cat dislikes a random type of decor (or common items), except for epic cats that dislike no decorations. The Rainbow cat and some festival-related cats also have no disliked decorations.

The chart below shows the different cat faces and body patterns, which are specific to the rarity of the cat. Cat color isn't specific to the rarity, but depends on ingredients (discussed in Recipes).

## Obtaining

Once the player upgrades their tent to level 2, they can enter it to find the cat beckoner inside. It is in the north corner of the first room of the tent and cannot be moved. The cat beckoner is a container the player can place three food items in. (It must be three **different** items.) After placing the items, the player can check the cat beckoner the next morning to find a cat inside. The player can only get one cat per day.

The cat's color and rarity depends on the combination of items the player uses to lure it in; while any combination guarantees a cat, putting in only raw ingredients (like fruit, roots, nuts, etc.) will likely lure only common cats, and higher rarity cats require at least one cooked food.

### Recipes

Each recipe for getting a cat requires three items, although the order in which they are placed in the cat beckoner does not matter.

* The first item determines the cat's color. Each color has two or three cooked foods corresponding to it.
	+ If two or more items that determine color are placed inside the beckoner, only one color will be chosen based on a hierarchy, as seen in the table. A color higher in the table will supersede a color that is lower in the table (e.g. Using Dessert salad and Oligarch salad will result in a demon cat).
* Using a base item and any two random items will give an **uncommon** cat of that color, as long as that food combination does not result in another full recipe or color.
* The second item (from rare or ultra rare columns), when used with a base item and any random third item, will give a **rare** or **ultra rare** cat of that color, as long as the combination does not result in another full recipe or color.
	+ For rare cats, the player can use any item with that tag (e.g. Gala apple or D'Anjou pear for fruit tag; egg or panna cotta for egg tag).
* Finally, an exact combination of the base item and two specific items will result in an **epic** cat.

When the three item combo used does not correspond to a recipe, the player will always get a **common moon cat** with one random liked decor type.

## Care

Once placed, the cat can be pet, fed, and harvested like any other animal. When harvested, young cats produce mundane hairballs, adult cats produce magic hairballs, and mature cats produce hairballs of the great goddess. Hairballs can be converted to any other essence type using the cat beckoner. In addition to hairballs, mature cats will occasionally give crafting recipes.

Unlike other animals, cats have a happiness meter of nine hearts that can be raised by placing decorations a cat likes in its room. Cats dislike other cats a lot, with their heart meter dropping significantly if more than one cat is kept in a room. It is possible to have two cats in one room with their happiness maxed by placing many small rarer decorations in that room.

Cats can be sold for relic ash to any shop that buys items.

## Special cats

Special cats are not random and have a unique appearance and fixed likes and dislikes. There is no difference between regular cats and special cats in care and items produced.

### DLC cats

*New Neighbears* DLC rewards the player with a unique rainbow cat that likes cozy decor and has no dislikes at all.

Ben Hiberneczek, one of the DLC bears, will also reward the player with three special cats as they progress through his questline. The cats received from Ben have the same appearance as the regular cats, like cozy decor, and have no dislikes.

### Seasonal cats

During the festivals the player can get holiday themed cats: spring cat for the spring festival, witch cat for the fall festival, and winter cat for the winter festival. These cats can be obtained by placing a seasonal festival item and two random food items into the cat beckoner. Seasonal cats like one type of decorations (fixed for each type of cat) and dislike other cats.

## Version history

* 3.2.0: Fixed ultra rare demon cat recipe.
* 3.0.0: Introduced.

## References

1. ↑ "Putting in nothing more than a bunch of basic ingredients (raw roots, berries, etc) is unlikely to get you anything interesting. Cats are refined creatures with refined tastes." – Chedd from Spry Fox team on Cozy Grove Discord
2. ↑ The recipe information here and in the table below is based on the *Cozy Grove Cat Guide* spreadsheet by Naihra on Cozy Grove Discord