Mewgenics Breeding Guide – How To Breed The Best Cats

Are you curious about how to breed cats in Mewgenics? There are a lot of intricacies involves, mainly due to interrelated mechanics that govern this unique feature. As you end the day, your cats will attempt to get in on and, with a bit of luck, they might have offspring to carry on their genes. We’ve got numerous tips to help you come up with the cutest and most capable kittens in the game.

Note: Are you just as curious as a cat? You can learn about the basic mechanics and core gameplay loop in our beginner’s guide. Likewise, you can find all of our other articles in our Mewgenics guides hub.

Familiarize yourself with furniture and functions

At the start of your playthrough, you’re limited to just a single room in your home. Then, as you unlock additional upgrades–usually by donating specific types of cats to NPCs–you’ll eventually have more rooms where your cats can reside. In relation to this, you’ll be able to purchase furniture from an NPC named Baby Jack.

The fixtures in your home can be placed on floors, walls, and other surfaces. They also grant corresponding stat boosts properties that impact the breeding system in Mewgenics. These stats have effects that apply to the room that they’re placed in, except for Appeal, which applies to the entire house.

• Comfort – Affects the likelihood that cats are relaxed in your home.
  • High Comfort causes cats to breed more often. Low Comfort causes them to fight.
  • Each cat lowers the Comfort level in a room by -1 point. Poop in each room also lowers this value by -1 point.
• Stimulation – Affects the likelihood that kittens will inherit the skills and stats of their parents.
  • High Stimulation ensures that kittens choose gain the higher of two stat values from their parents. For example, if their father has 2 Constitution and their mother has 8 Constitution, their baby would be born with 8 Constitution.
  • Due to the large selection pool of skills, Stimulation can help ensure that kittens have ideal abilities.
• Health – Affects the condition of your cats.
  • Low health values lead to the spread of diseases. Slightly older cats may perish suddenly.
  • High health values can automatically cure injuries or extend a cat’s life.
• Mutation – Affects the likelihood that cats will undergo mutations, most of which tend to have positive boons.
• Appeal – Affects the entirety of the house and the strays that appear at the start of each day.
  • High Appeal stat causes stray cats with better stats and skills to appear.
  • Low Appeal means you’re likely to see mediocre strays.

Breeding in Mewgenics – Let’s get it on!

After sending a party of cats on an adventure (or not), you can choose to end the day. This causes cats in the same room to attempt to “get it on.”

• If the coupling is successful among a male and female cat, they might have one to two kittens.
• Cats that mate regularly form breeding pairs and are, pretty much, “in love” with each other.
• A hidden stat called Charm impacts just how well a cat would entice a potential partner. Low Charm means the other cat won’t be that interested.
• Kittens will only inherit the base stats of their parents–i.e. the ones without pluses or minuses in the stat line. If both parents have 7 in a stat, but these are actually at +2 due to other factors, then their offspring will only have a stat of 5.

Tink’s information unlocks

By default, very little information is shown when you check on your pets. However, once you’re able to donate to an NPC named Tink, you’ll see more information related to breeding cats in Mewgenics.

Tink requires 10 kittens sent as donations, and each batch unlocks additional visual aids and functions. These are what you’ll notice as shown in the inset (from the left of the cat’s name):

• Symbol/icon – You can assign icons to all your cats to help you keep track of them.
• Libido: High, average, or low – Determines whether a cat will mate often or rarely.
• Aggression: High, average, or low – Determines whether a cat will get into fights more often or not.
• Inbred: Not inbred, slightly inbred, or moderately inbred – A cat that’s inbred is likely to have debilitating birth defects.
• Gaydar: Heterosexual, gay, or bisexual – These are denoted by flags (gay or bi) or no flag at all (heterosexual).
• Bonus stats and base stats – Differentiates between the bonus/modified stats to the left and the base stats to the right.
• Family tree – Lets you check the parents and ancestors of a cat.

The Gaydar and sexual orientation: Gay, bisexual, and ditto cats

Aside from heterosexual cats, there are also sexual orientations and a more gender fluid option to consider:

• Gay cats will attempt to mate with the same sex, but the coupling will not result in an offspring.
• Bisexual cats have a chance to mate with the same sex or the opposite sex.

However, if you have ditto cats–i.e. those with question mark “?” icons–you can have them fulfill the role of either a male or female cat:

• A ditto cat might have babies with a male cat on one day, then babies with a female cat the next.
• Ditto cats can also breed with other ditto cats.
• Ditto cats can mate with gay and bisexual cats since they’re gender fluid. This allows gay cats to pass on their traits by having offspring.

The family tree and how to avoid inbreeding

There’s a pretty good chance that you’re going to end up with a few inbred cats in Mewgenics. More often than not, the results of inbreeding are downright negative–i.e. uglier cats and those with birth defects that lower stats.

This can happen even if the parents are distantly related, as you can see in the image above. Both parents are still considered kin–i.e. the father is also the mother’s maternal great-great-great grandfather.

To avoid these mishaps, we recommend the following:

• Bring in strays that drop by your house each day. Strays are not related to anyone in your clowder, which means they’re unlikely to produce inbred cats.
• Double check the family tree to see if cats in the same room are related.
• Assign icons to cats that are part of a certain genealogical line or branch. Those that are part of the same branch must be kept apart or bred with strays.

Pay attention to mutations, disorders, and diseases

Mutations are another factor that affect how your cats develop in the game.

• As mentioned earlier, cats can have mutations via the Mutation stat from furniture. They may also obtain these from events in adventure runs.
• The vast majority confer +2 in one stat and -1 in another, so you still obtain a net positive.
• A select few mutations offer only positive boosts to stats, and these are the ones that you should continue breeding for succeeding generations.
• Disorders can also be inherited by kittens, as they’re considered innate in a parent.

Diseases also appear in the same bracket as disorders in the game. The key difference is that some diseases are contagious. Cats can only recover from diseases through the following methods:

• High Health values in a room that they’re staying in.
• A random chance to recover at the end of each battle if they’re taken on adventures.

Because of potential transmission, we suggest moving cats outside the house if they have a contagious disease. Alternatively, you could donate them to an NPC if they meet the requirements or just dismiss them completely.

Making your own fight club and increasing the stats of winners

As cited earlier, cats in your home could end up fighting. This can happen due to the following reasons:

• The Comfort level in a room is low.
• A cat has high Aggression level.
• Two cats are partnered with each other, but another attempted to mate and thus became a rival.

A catfight can result in injuries or even death. Still, to the victor go the spoils, as they say. The cat who wins the bout receives a random stat boost as a reward.

If you have an extra room in your house, you can make a “fight club” of sorts. Lower the Comfort levels by rearranging furniture, place all the cats with mediocre attributes there, and watch them battle each other. Sooner or later, you’ll have some champions with boosted stats that are raring to go on adventures.

That does it for our Mewgenics breeding guide. We hope these tips help you make some ferocious felines. If you’ve yet to send them out as a party, then we’d like for you to check our class tier list and best skills guide to prepare for the journey ahead.