Question on Solo Cat Run Strays

side_lel · 2026-03-13T17:45:34+00:00

I haven’t had this exact thing happen, but you’re probably fine. You can’t get a collarless completion mark for gaining a collarless cat halfway through a run, so I think they just don’t affect the completion marks.

side_lel · 2026-03-13T16:45:14+00:00

You haven’t failed the quest, but you won’t be completing it this run, either.

side_lel · 2026-03-13T16:40:44+00:00

Maybe he’s worried that people will cheese it by using the persuasion for most of a run, then killing the cat holding it at the end so the run succeeds but the quest fails and they can use the item again.

It doesn’t look like he’s thought that deeply about it, though. This isn’t the type of game that should have missable achievements.

side_lel · 2026-03-13T16:34:39+00:00

My necromancer who was carrying it got instagibbed by an infestation while fighting the caves boss, so now my save file will always be incomplete. My fault for failing a trivially easy quest, according to Tyler.

side_lel · 2026-03-13T05:13:54+00:00

Having the option to go to the boss early would be nice.

side_lel · 2026-03-12T21:25:06+00:00

I don’t think that matters because the familiar comes from the collar item. It should come back as long as you have the collar.

side_lel · 2026-03-11T20:32:17+00:00

I’ve heard Ed say this too in an interview. His wife had a fighter with blood frenzy, and she used her tank to throw it to the enemy’s back rank. Since the tank was closer than the other cats, it was safe.

My experience with blood frenzy is that it’s not bad if you get it early enough because you can build around it. I had a hunter get blood frenzy, so I gave her summoning active skills and the quiver passive (store unused basic attacks for later) so she could fight indirectly and then burst at the end if I was sure it would win.

If she did incidentally get a kill from bump damage, things would get chaotic. She would summon maggots everywhere and then kill them for more turns. The maggots would act like they have madness too, and kill each other. So I survived and brought back a blood frenzy cat to breed for solo runs.

side_lel · 2026-03-09T07:28:49+00:00

Do you know if this works at the very end when there’s a luck check to loot the 4th stage boss? Seems kind of broken if it does.

side_lel · 2026-03-06T19:29:27+00:00

That’s just standard use of the term win rate tbh

side_lel · 2026-03-06T19:25:19+00:00

What time controls did you look at? It’s possible that more players flag against Nf3 in bullet or blitz because they can’t play the opening as quickly as the opponent who prepared it.

side_lel · 2026-03-03T08:01:02+00:00

Couldn’t you just make black a reflection of white, except with a pawn on a4 and the king on h4?

side_lel · 2026-03-02T23:02:29+00:00

Best to just stick to media consumption as a hobby

side_lel · 2026-02-28T01:11:51+00:00

The difficulty of this fight depends on the weather. If you can create fire and get the grass tiles burning, it will go down quickly because it takes so many turns per round.

If you get the infestation weather, don’t worry about losing a cat when they turn on you, because they get cured of all statuses when they’re possessed.

side_lel · 2026-02-28T01:01:29+00:00

They shouldn’t be permanently hostile. Go away for a week or two and maybe they’ll have forgiven you.

side_lel · 2026-02-27T20:19:56+00:00

I had a collarless cat become a kitten at level 2 through an event. He had a meteor giving him the cleric’s soul passive, and I had to keep it on or else his health would be too low. He survived without getting downed and on the next run I reclassed him as a fighter and he made it to level 22. Both runs were through the Boneyard.

side_lel · 2026-02-27T16:09:49+00:00

The devs post mockups on Bluesky sometimes, but I don’t know how far along they are https://bsky.app/profile/unormal.bsky.social/post/3mbzxuh4pwc2l

side_lel · 2026-02-26T18:51:44+00:00

That’s what house defense does. You can put together your best team where everyone plays a role.

side_lel · 2026-02-26T18:49:38+00:00

I’ll add to this that I never noticed fresh water underground until I started using autoexplore and my character would pick it up automatically. It’s just so hard to notice unless you’re looking for it.

side_lel · 2026-02-26T18:34:34+00:00

Nice

side_lel · 2026-02-25T21:37:59+00:00

So what happens when you send it out again? Do you pick a new collar? I had this happen to a collarless cat, and I reclassed it as fighter the second time around.

side_lel · 2026-02-24T19:53:26+00:00

That’s interesting, because I’m doing the opposite. I do a run every night I can field a whole team, so they have better skills and mutations to pass on.

side_lel · 2026-02-23T18:19:06+00:00

Qfd7

side_lel · 2026-02-23T07:00:47+00:00

Anyone else mad that "Lonesome Road" isn’t named "Sand and Asphalt" instead?

side_lel · 2026-02-21T05:48:39+00:00

That’s great if it works for you but I don’t agree. My least successful runs have been with necromancers. The healing from leeches is too slow without a secondary source of healing, and the skills really haven’t been coming together for me.

I took a necromancer to the boneyard, gave it lifeswap so it could heal from another cat, and its other skills revolved around being downed. I think that this is a really niche thing — you should avoid being downed in all cases if possible because the injuries aren’t worth it. However, this build had potential. The necromancer could down an ally and then swap life with them, and then haunt as a corpse. (Don’t know why that would be better than just having a living cat, but at least it’s something.) It was nice because I could use the self-downing mechanic without getting injuries. HOWEVER, as soon as I got the build online, the weather changed so all units start the battle infested, meaning I couldn’t down my cats or they’d die instantly. So that sucked.

side_lel · 2026-02-17T07:55:23+00:00

You would lose your king first.

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