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Cat Fixes

Thank you to everyone who wrote to us about the Cats. We read every message, and this update fixes what you reported.

Your Cats wait for you rested

• Before, the time you were away was counted as the Cat being awake and active, so you often came back to a tired, exhausted Cat. Now the time you are away counts as resting, so you should find your Cats refreshed (and hungry and thirsty, as Cats should be).
• A Cat now becomes Very Hungry after 2 days without food, instead of 8 hours. If you feed your Cats once a day, they will only be Hungry, and they will no longer follow you around the Farm.
• A Very Hungry Cat that follows you now meows half as often.

Water bowls

• You can now click a full Cat Water Bowl to call a thirsty Cat to drink. Before, a full bowl could not be clicked, and some of you had to store the bowl in the Warehouse and place it again every day. No more of that!
• With Pet Animations off, the water bowl no longer gets stuck full.

No more stuck Cats

• Fixed Cats getting stuck by the pond, by the river near the bridge, on the side of the road and with the Alpacas.
• If a Cat ever ends up somewhere she can’t walk home from, she now finds her way back to her home and bowls on her own.
• Cats can now find their way across the whole Farm, even from far away.
• Cats now stay out of the pond. The ducks are very relieved.

Tabby Cat Hunting mode

• Fixed the Tabby Cat disappearing in the middle of a hunt. On other Areas she was getting tired 4 times too fast, and then walked home.
• Hunting no longer drains her Energy over time. Only running does. If you make her run a lot, she takes a short power nap right where she is (about a minute), then catches up with Joe. She never leaves the hunt because she is tired.
• Flowers are always placed where Joe can walk to pick them up. No more Flowers stuck by the tunnel.
• When Joe comes back to the Farm (for example from Alpaca Hill), the Tabby Cat now arrives right behind him and follows him, instead of getting stuck at the entrance.
• Fixed a bug where the Tabby Cat could not be clicked after traveling with Joe to another Area and back.
• Fixed the Tabby Cat sometimes freezing in place during a hunt after you clicked her.

Tip: how to fill all 4 hearts

Each Cat needs 4 things every day: food, water, play with a toy, and petting or brushing. Running together after a meal is lovely to watch, but it does not count as play. Care for them like this for about 5 days, and all 4 hearts will be full.

Let’s pray this works, because the Cat Spirit that makes real cats ignore commands seems to live in the Cats’ code.

Other Bug fixes and Improvements

• Added explanation guides when moving Shrubs, Trees, Grapevines, so you know when they are wrongly placed and why.
• Fixed item tooltips (the ones above objects) for wide cases, now they sit nicely there.
• Seedlings / Mentors bug fixes and usability improvements.
• Autumn and Winter now have latest landscape improvements, with autumn leaves and fir cones.
• Several other small bug fixes, but at this point, what’s left are glitches rather than bugs.

Happy farming!