After you finish a morph, the game asks you to pick a mode. Roleplay mode turns off environmental hazards, hunger, and thirst. Survival mode tracks Health, Hunger, and Thirst. Running spends hunger and thirst. Cold water and falls can cause chills, broken legs, and illness. Poison and starvation tick health down, and the tick stops at 1%. Cats are not removed by hitting 0 health, so a scene can continue.
Keys documented for the private beta
These inputs are the set written up for the October private beta on PC:
| Key | Action |
|---|---|
| V | Gather prey, herbs, sticks, or moss, and store items in a fresh-kill pile or medicine den |
| Z | Toggle Scent Vision so prey trails and nearby scents glow |
| C | Crouch for a stalk |
| G | Sheathe or unsheathe claws |
| I | Hiss and take a defensive scratch pose |
| Tab | Open the player list. On mobile, use the three-dot menu |
Movement also includes walk, trot, canter, gallop, crawl, and limp. The paw menu holds expressions such as loaf, yawn, recline, stretch, sleep, curl, smile, scared, pant, and angry. Adult cats can carry a kit by the scruff. A carried cat cannot start a trade or use map teleport while held.
Hunt without losing the prey
- Press Z and look for the green scent trail.
- Crouch with C and close the distance. Birds lift off if you rush them. Rabbits are the fast targets on open WindClan ground. Frogs sit in ShadowClan marsh. Mice show up near camp mouths, hollow logs, and the horseplace barn. Fish are gathered in RiverClan water or taken from a camp pile.
- Press or hold V to catch the animal.
- Eat it to refill Hunger, or carry it back and drop it on the Clan fresh-kill pile.
Drink from a river, or soak moss and use that water, to refill Thirst. Rest in a den, and take herbs from a medicine cat, to clear injuries. The herb list and what each plant actually does is on the herbs guide.
When the cat freezes
Kit scale can lock the rig in a sit, and changing size can leave a crouch stuck. Open the menu, go to Normal Settings, and choose Animation Debug. Wait about three seconds for the model to reset. If jumping breaks on a public server, type !rejoin in chat. Raising the size off Kit is the other workaround players use for the sit lock.
Do not copy March playtest keys onto this build
A tour of the March 14–16, 2026 48-hour test shows a different emote row: Z stretch, N yawn, P pant, R sit, T curl-lay, Y side-lay, 1 alert, 2 scared, 3 angry, and 5 to cycle pupils, with limp and claws on the paw menu. RiverClan was not in that test. Treat that video as a record of the March build. Use the V, Z, C, G, and I set above for the private beta unless the game's own menu shows otherwise.