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A playful little thing.

Wilson

The Catcoon is an animal in the Reign of Giants DLC, spawning from a Hollow Stump. It will wander around, pouncing at Trees and digging at various objects, sometimes destroying them. When it sees a small Bird, Rabbit, Moleworm, Butterfly, or Bee, it will pounce on it and kill it. Catcoons are aggressive towards Pengulls and will attack them if they get close enough. This generally leads to the Catcoon being killed, as all nearby Pengulls will retaliate against the Catcoon. Catcoons will also attack a Glommer, even if players have befriended them, so caution should be taken.

Catcoons can be befriended by giving them food or "toys", and they will give "gifts" to the player by coughing up items such as Rot and Cut Grass as if it is a hairball. Each item given to the Catcoon will add a third of a day (160 sec) to the time they spend following the player[1] (up to a maximum of 2.5 days[2]) and force the next hairball to be sooner.[3] The item that they give depends on the number of times they hack before coughing it up. Currently, there are two lists for neutral and friendly Catcoons.

When killed, a Catcoon will drop Meat and has a 33% chance of dropping a Cat Tail.

Catcoons are hostile to Webber.

Gifts

Neutral

Rot Cut Grass Flint Moleworm Rocks Dark Petals Petals Ice Pine Cone Crimson Feather Birchnut Wet Goop

Friendly

Rot Cut Grass Flint Moleworm Rocks Dark Petals Petals Ice Pine Cone Crimson Feather Birchnut Rabbit Gold Nugget Twigs Tumbleweed Berries Silk Morsel Carrot Seeds Corn Seeds Ash Azure Feather Jet Feather Bone Shards Pumpkin Seeds Eggplant Seeds Durian Seeds Pomegranate Seeds Dragon Fruit Seeds Watermelon Seeds Batilisk Wing Red Cap Blue Cap Green Cap Fish Frog Legs Bee Butterfly Redbird Snowbird Crow Cut Reeds Tentacle Spots Beefalo Wool Electrical Doodad

Cat food

Eel Egg Fish Frog Legs Morsel Moleworm Rabbit

Cat Toys

Items the player can give: Birchnut Pile o' Balloons Beefalo Wool Butterfly Wings Cut Grass Egg Jet Feather Azure Feather Crimson Feather Foliage Bunny Puff Moleworm Papyrus Petals Pine Cone Rabbit Rope Silk Spider Eggs Spider Gland Tallbird Egg Trinkets Twigs


Things a Catcoon will attack or eat: Bee Butterfly Fireflies Flower Moleworm Rabbit Crow Redbird Snowbird Pengull Glommer


Below is the number of hits it takes with each weapon to kill Catcoons when playing with characters with a default damage modifier. The Weather Pain is not included due to the random nature of its projectile.

Weapon Fishing RodBug Net Lucy the Axe Shovel Pitchfork

Hammer Torch Umbrella

Walking Cane Willow's Lighter

Axe Pickaxe

Luxury Axe Opulent Pickaxe

Boomerang

PickSlashAxeSpear

Fire Dart Fire Staff

Bat Bat Ham Bat Morning Star Tentacle Spike Battle Spear

Thulecite Club Dark Sword

Tooth Trap Slurtle Slime

Blow Dart GunpowderOld Bell
No. of hits for
Catcoon
36 12 9 6 5 4 3-6 4 or 3 3 2 1

Placeholder Trivia

  • Catcoon is a portmanteau of "Cat" and "Raccoon".
  • Catcoons spawning a total of 9 times is a reference to the belief that cats have 9 lives.
  • If a Pile o' Balloons is used to befriend a Catcoon, the Catcoon will drop it on death.

Gold Nugget Gallery

References

  1. scripts\tuning.lua:
    CATCOON_LOYALTY_PER_ITEM = total_day_time/0.33
  2. scripts\tuning.lua:
    CATCOON_LOYALTY_MAXTIME = 2.5*total_day_time
  3. scripts\prefabs\catcoon.lua:
    inst.hairball_friend_interval = math.random(2,4) -- Jumpstart the hairball timer (slot machine time!)

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