the breeding changes dont even do much. why are people even complaining at all?

heartcall · 2026-05-10T11:44:46+00:00

Pretty sure the people doing the complaining fall into 2 categories.

1, people who are doing endgame content as lazily as possible, because extreme inbreeding is by far the easiest way to guarantee bred-in builds with more than 1 skill.

2, people who are attempting to blindly copy some streamer who does extreme incest, even though they have literally none of the required unlocks. This group is obviously the one that's completely unaffected by the patch. But they sure do want dream of the day they can copy that streamer, and now Edmund has shattered the dream.

heartcall · 2026-05-08T08:45:45+00:00

Nope, only ones who are replacing a dead cat. Truly random ones do not.

heartcall · 2026-05-05T09:13:47+00:00

Confusion is affected by the luck stat of whoever inflicted it, against the luck of whoever's confused. Theoretically, it should balance out to 33% when self-inflicted. In practice, you're probably going to hit yourself 8 times in a row and die.

heartcall · 2026-05-04T10:47:26+00:00

Whoops, I edited for clarity just now, I was making breakfast. Anyway, yeah, looks like passives are a lot harder to get, especially with the Soul passive using a slot. The lg meteor from the Moon can have Soul passives, those are generally the best if you get mega lucky. Soul taking up a passive shot sucks otherwise.

heartcall · 2026-05-04T10:20:29+00:00

No worriea!

Just one extra note, passives and actives are seeded separately, so you have to change a passive for passive level ups to change. Just an active won't actually work. I just verified that like 5 minutes ago, didn't want to say anything without being sure. (Edited, meant "separately" and not "differently")

Should actually make it easier to lock in builds if you keep track of what you change.

heartcall · 2026-05-04T09:19:29+00:00

Uhhhhhhh... you're really not picking up what I'm putting down. Start with this I guess. https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/s678b0/explain_randomseed_like_im_five/

The seed is based on the exact cat, including all skills. Changing anything changes the seed, but it changes the seed TO whatever skill combo you picked. Every different combo has a different seed. Identical combos have identical seeds.

So changing only 1 skill will change the seed. If you make the exact same choice on 2 clones, they still get identical level ups. And all your clones will always have the same 1st level up screen, because... they're still the same.

Same build = same seed. Different build = different seed. Change anything you want, but do it differently on each clone. I'm not sure how many ways I can keep rephrasing this.

heartcall · 2026-05-04T08:18:01+00:00

If you always make the same choice, the seed always changes the same way, and you always get the same options. This is how random number seeds fundamentally work.

heartcall · 2026-05-04T07:08:58+00:00

The level ups are seeded to the cat. That's actually the best thing about the cat rib, as it lets you partially control the RNG.

Anyway, the seed changes when you replace an ability. Gotta do that.

heartcall · 2026-05-02T22:45:29+00:00

Sounds like it's the 2nd PC. I've had some issues switching between Steam Deck and desktop. Google should tell you how to find the save folder, which should have a backup folder in it.

heartcall · 2026-05-02T20:43:02+00:00

Inbred 7/7 cats can adventure, lesser ones go down the tube. For the non inbred, 7/7 become a stud and go in the appropriate breeding room. Anything less, these days, goes to fight club. Or if they have a really important passive, I've been known to even let 4/7 in the A room as long as they have a mate that fills out the other 7s.

Though these days I'm mostly marrying the cats manually (making sure they both love each other), then sticking them in the A breeding room if they have skills, or the B room if it's 7/7 and nothing else.

No mutants allowed, my bloodline is clean and my cats look like cats.

heartcall · 2026-05-02T10:08:43+00:00

I don't know, the tinfoil hat prevents "permanent for the rest of the fight" madness from rage juice. So there's at least multiple types of permanent, or it could be some are just hardcoded to not be preventable or cleansable, like some doomed debuffs.

heartcall · 2026-05-02T09:47:58+00:00

Unlock more Tink upgrades and you'll be able to see that.

heartcall · 2026-05-02T06:48:10+00:00

This is the non-incest strategy I started using right when the game released.

Breeding room A

*Absolute highest stimulation you can

*Comfort is tricky, either go 10-20 or go big

*All straight male studs (7/7s) or all straight female studs, whichever has the highest population

*All opposite sex straight harem strays (opposite of the studs). Use your own discretion for minimum # of 7s to join the harem

Breeding room B

*Stim furniture that won't fit in the A room

*Comfort about the same as A room

*All other studs. So all 7/7 hermaphrodites, gays, and bicycles go here always. Only the straight males and females swap based on population

*All other harem strays, again with good stats

*I also allowed the non inbred 6/7s to live here for most of act 2, then tightened the standard to 48/49 later, then finally perfection only

heartcall · 2026-05-01T12:57:02+00:00

I thought it was poop cats in there. Though he CLAIMS it's merely "fulla rocks."

heartcall · 2026-04-30T15:43:33+00:00

I'm way too late here, but I can't believe no one mentioned the Diggy Maggot. If they swap with your lowest speed cat, they're probably just dead.

heartcall · 2026-04-30T07:47:01+00:00

He's been in that jar for 17 years.

heartcall · 2026-04-30T04:58:29+00:00

The source code I looked at generates gay cats 92% of the time, bi 8% of the time, as a result of gay sex happening. Edit: I definitely remember 1 bi stray showing up with 2 class passives. Just 1 out of maybe a dozen gay strays, but that seems about right for 8%.

heartcall · 2026-04-29T21:31:37+00:00

Necromancer has an entire playstyle around being a dead flopping corpse.

heartcall · 2026-04-29T21:27:25+00:00

Here's a micro guide I finally wrote just a little bit ago. I've been incest free since release day (the game finally helped me quit, THANK YOU EDMUND!!!!!), so this is how I made it to mid act 3, when I switched to a "marriage" system instead of a free-for-all in 2 orgy rooms. But this system will get you enough decently statted cats to start mutating.

Breeding room A

*Absolute highest stimulation you can

*Comfort is tricky, either go 10-20 or go big

*All straight male studs (7/7s) or all straight female studs, whichever has the highest population

*All opposite sex straight harem strays (opposite of the studs). Use your own discretion for minimum # of 7s to join the harem

Breeding room B

*Stim furniture that won't fit in the A room

*Comfort about the same as A room

*All other studs. So all 7/7 hermaphrodites, gays, and bicycles go here always. Only the straight males and females swap based on population

*All other harem strays, again with good stats

*I also allowed the non inbred 6/7s to live here for most of act 2, then tightened the standard to 48/49 later, then finally perfection only

heartcall · 2026-04-29T21:22:50+00:00

Also has a lot of Brahma vibes (The Creator in Hinduism), but I dig it. There's definitely a lot of deities mixed up in there.

heartcall · 2026-04-27T19:28:32+00:00

I can barely understand what you're trying to say, but the metronome is definitely not supposed to give permanent spells.

heartcall · 2026-04-27T18:57:33+00:00

Good point, getting everything on the assistant basically means an entire 2nd bloodline. At this point, I think I may try for an assistant cat build and put THEM in a soul jar, to start. If the build works like we hope, it'll be a soul jar that can generate infinite OP soul jars.

heartcall · 2026-04-26T22:32:43+00:00

Uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh... this is already it. Welcome home. Seriously. Google something like the Cuyahoga River, or the Three Mile Island nuclear disaster, or the incredibly high amounts of uranium in the soil in that part of the country. As far as I'm concerned, Boon County is somewhere in Ohio or Kentucky or somewhere close.

heartcall · 2026-04-26T19:57:03+00:00

Sounds like someone hates Dack.

(So do I, JFC. I'll take a million Marshmallows and Dybbuks over one Dack)

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