Cattails: Wildwood Story Beginner’s Friendship Guide

This guide provides all the information you need to know about anything related to friendship, dating, and marriage.

Basic Information

What is friendship?

Friendship is a value representing how favorable a cat is towards you. It comes in three different types of values: friendship, dating, and marriage. These values are used independently based on your relationship with the cat. If you’re dating a cat, the dating value is used, and likewise for the marriage value. All other cats use the normal friendship value.

Each type of value can be represented by a number in the range of 0 – 1000. These numbers then correlate to a specific tier, which is displayed in the table below.

TierValue Range
00 – 199
1200 – 399
2400 – 599
3600 – 799
4800 – 1000

Each type of friendship has a unique symbol. The normal friendship symbol is a star, the dating symbol is a heart, and the marriage symbol is a ring. Each tier represents how many symbols are displayed for that specific type of value. For example, having a tier 2 relationship with a cat you’re dating will result in 2 hearts being displayed.
Note: Spirit cats do not have a visible friendship bar until you begin dating or become married to them.

Reaching new tiers causes cats to unlock new dialogue and allows you to experience new events.

Who can I date or marry?

Almost every cat can be married, including spirits. The only exceptions are kittens, as well as cats who are participating in a rival marriage.

Note: Spirit cats have a x0.85 friendship difficulty modifier, meaning they’re 15% more difficult to gain friendship with.

Friendship Value

Normal friendship is the default type of friendship. This value is used when you are just friends with a cat, meaning you aren’t dating nor married to them. The following table shows benchmarks for this type of friendship.

EventValueNotes
Lower Limit0Friendship cannot go below this number.
Daily Decay Limit201Friendship cannot naturally go below this number from Daily Decay (see “Losing Friendship”).
Starting Value250All types of Friendship values start at this number.
Birthdays400+This cat can now wish you a Happy Birthday! You’re guaranteed to receive a gift on your birthday.
Gifts400+This cat can now give you gifts!
Buddies600+You can now take this cat out with you as a buddy!
Dating800+At this point you can start dating this cat.
Gifts800+This cat now has a +1 chance of giving you a gift! (x2 more likely)
Rival Marriages900+If you have 900+ friendship with both cats in a Rival Marriage, they may now approach you for confirmation.
Upper Limit1000Friendship cannot go above this number.

Dating Value

After reaching four stars with a cat, you can begin to date them. This can be done by giving them a Red Rose, which can be gathered from the Old Farm at any time, or bought from Ember after Day 15. The following table shows benchmarks for this type of friendship.

EventValueNotes
Lower Limit0Friendship cannot go below this number.
Breakup50-Once this value is reached, talking to the cat will cause them to break up with you. Because of the Daily Decay Limit, this cannot happen naturally, rather only from gifting them hated or disliked gifts repeatedly.
Daily Decay Limit201Friendship cannot naturally go below this number from Daily Decay (see “Losing Friendship”).
Starting Value250All types of Friendship values start at this number.
Gifts400+This cat now has a +1 chance of giving you a gift! (x3 more likely)
Marriage800+This cat can now be married.
Upper Limit1000Friendship cannot go above this number.

Marriage Value

After reaching four hearts with a cat, you can marry them. This can be done by giving them a Shiny Trinket, which can be crafted at an Anvil using 3 Diamonds and 9 Gold Ore. It can also be bought from Ember after Day 25. Marrying a cat will cause them to move in with you. The following table shows benchmarks for this type of friendship.

EventValueNotes
Lower Limit0Friendship cannot go below this number.
Breakup50-Once this value is reached, talking to the cat will cause them to break up with you. Because of the Daily Decay Limit, this cannot happen naturally, rather only from gifting them hated or disliked gifts repeatedly.
Gifts200+This cat now has a +1 chance of giving you a gift! (x4 more likely)
Daily Decay Limit201Friendship cannot naturally go below this number from Daily Decay (see “Losing Friendship”).
Starting Value250All types of Friendship values start at this number.
Gifts600+This cat now has a +1 chance of giving you a gift! (x5 more likely)
Kittens900+The next time you sleep, this cat will ask you if you want kittens. This will be approximately 2 days after reaching 4 rings (See “Gaining Friendship”). Kittens will always be born exactly 8 days after confirming you want kittens. Selecting “Maybe Later” will result in a delay of 10 Days before you get re-asked.
Upper Limit1000Friendship cannot go above this number.

Gaining Friendship

There are quite a few ways to gain friendship with a cat, whether that be gifting an item, completing a task, talking to them, or some other ways. These friendship gains can be modified by three different things.

1. How many “Social Hearts (purple)” you have
2. Whether your colonies “Prey Stockpile” perk is active
3. What difficulty you are playing on (Kitten, Easy, or other)
Displayed below is the base gain each action has on a cats friendship value, as well as the effects from the three bonuses, if applicable.

ActionBase GainHeart BonusStockpile BonusDifficulty BonusMaximumNotes
Talking+30+1 / heartKitten +5
Easy +3
+38You can check if you’ve talked to a cat through the Social menu.
Giving a Loved Gift+40+2 / heart+3Kitten +10
Easy +5
+59You can find a list of each cats’ loved gifts HERE.
Giving a Liked Gift+30+1 / heart+3Kitten +10
Easy +5
+46You can find a list of each cats’ loved gifts HERE.
Completing a Task+30+3+33Completing a task for a cat boosts your friendship with them.
Using “Kindly Purr” Skill+(5-9)+3+(8-12)Provides all cats around you with a friendship bonus.
Friendship gain changes slightly based on the skills level.
Best used in large clumps like festivals or weddings.
Using “Nine Lives” Skill+5+3+9Can provide each cat near you with a friendship bonus.
This can affect each cat ONE time per use.

Losing Friendship

It’s much more difficult to lose friendship than it is to gain friendship, and there’s only a couple ways to do so. Neither stockpile nor difficulty has any effect on how much friendship is lost.
Displayed below is the base loss each action has on a cats friendship value, as well as the effects from the heart bonus, if applicable.

ActionBase LossHeart BonusMaximumNotes
Daily Decay-10+1 / heart-7Daily Decay automatically happens at the start of each day.
Friendship cannot go below the Daily Decay Limit from this.
Giving a Hated Gift-50+5 / heart-35You can find a list of each cats’ hated gifts HERE.
Giving a Disliked Gift-25+5 / heart-10You can find a list of each cats’ disliked gifts HERE.
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