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About Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood puts you in charge of a fledgling mouse colony on procedurally generated islands. You must build upward, downward, and outward while meeting daily demands from both your citizens and their feline overlords. Balancing production, logistics, and morale drives the game’s core loop, with automation and vertical construction offering ways to expand within limited space.
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Vertical Building
Space on each island is limited, so you can construct tall structures, dig deep into cliffs, or carve burrows inside mountains. Verticality creates both opportunities for efficient layouts and challenges in managing heat, water, and access.
Choosing where to build—above ground, underground, or on cliffs—affects resource extraction, climate control, and citizen preferences. Some mice thrive in solitude underground, while others prefer open, sunlit areas.
- Place heat‑intensive factories underground to reduce exposure to cold fronts.
- Use elevators and slides to move goods quickly between levels.
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Citizen Management
Mice belong to guilds and have personal traits that influence task efficiency. Assigning work that matches their preferences—such as underground living or pollution tolerance—boosts productivity.
Citizens require food, water, shelter, and maintenance services daily. Failure to meet these needs leads to abandonment, while over‑pleasing the cats can lower mouse morale.
- Check each mouse’s guild and trait before assigning specialized jobs.
- Balance cat tribute with park construction to keep morale high.
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Resource and Production Chains
The game features 40 commodities ranging from raw ore and timber to luxury spices and furniture. Extract, process, and trade these goods to satisfy both mouse needs and cat demands.
Automation tools—conveyor belts, ramps, pipelines, and steam‑powered climate systems—speed the movement of materials and reduce manual labor.
- Prioritize conveyor belts for high‑volume items like timber and ore.
- Use pipelines to distribute water and steam across distant facilities.
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Exploration and Trade
Ships arrive with initial supplies, and you can later build a fleet to explore other islands, trade with mouse factions, or dismantle pirate havens. Securing supply lines is essential for continued growth.
Maritime ventures also open opportunities for acquiring rare resources and luxury items that are otherwise difficult to produce locally.
- Send capable sailors on early voyages to establish trade routes quickly.
- Defend your armada to protect vital resource shipments.
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Climate and Terraforming
Weather affects mouse productivity; storms dampen enthusiasm while cold fronts can ruin harvests. You can terraform land, flatten terrain, or dig burrows to mitigate these effects.
Steam‑powered heating and water pipelines help maintain stable conditions for crops like mushrooms in damp caverns or wheat in sunny soil.
- Place steam radiators near cold‑sensitive farms during winter.
- Flatten land near resource nodes to reduce construction costs.
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