Services

Basics

Services are how you keep your Whiskers well fed, squeaky clean, healthy, and happy. Generally, the more services you can provide, the more likely your Whisker will produce an increased amount of positive thoughts and a decreases amount of negative thoughts. Take care of your Whiskers so that you can keep building your Whisker nation.

Dining

Every evening, your Whiskers will seek out a meal on their way home. They will try to find an eating establishment and pick up food that at least meets their expectations. Both the food and their dining experience are evaluated separately. If a Whisker with 4-star expectations poor quality food at a high quality eating establishment, they will still complain about the food they ate but still be positive about the dining experience.

You have 3 options for eating establishments, but you should really work to avoid letting Whiskers snack at your Warehouses. They will produce more negative thoughts as a result and outside of the early game, could be an indicator theyre having difficulty finding food at all. Make sure to check your end of day report periodically for negative thoughts related to being hungry or having eaten at a Warehouse. It might provide clues to improving your dining coverage. Additionally, check your eating establishments at the start of a new day to see if theyre exhausting their food supplies or not.

Eating establishments do not have a Whisker limit, but are limited by the number of Meals inside. The staff assigned to them are bot required to be there at meal time and simply serve in a logistical capacity to go fetch the Meals you are allowing to be served there. Remember to keep an eye on what you're serving to avoid Whiskers being forced to eat raw food. It is also important because you may not want your Whiskers consuming lower quality food that you need for your kitchens.

Dining Quality of Eating Establishments

0 Star - Warehouse (any)

2 Star - Cafe

4 Star - Dining Hall

In addition to the dining quality experience, Whiskers will evaluate the quality of food they manage to eat. They will complain about bland food or raw food, if the food they eat is below their expectations. If it is above their expectations, they will produce additional positive thoughts.

Again, avoid raw food for your Whiskers once you are able to reliably cook meals. Most will be very unhappy about eating raw food. Also, focus on providing the highest quality meals you can sustainably produce.

The reason for focusing on higher quality meals are the bonuses they impart on your Whiskers over the next day. Meals can improve their speed, production speed, and/or strength. Raw food provides the least bonuses and 4-star food around 10 times as much as raw food. There is one exception, food provided by The Claws (hard tack, ration meals) will give far less of a bonus than the food quality would otherwise indicate.

Below is the list of foods you can produce or obtain in the game. Tea is not included because Tea and fine tea only provide additional positive thoughts (2 and 4 respectively). Like food though, it is served in eating establishments.

Food Quality and Benefits Table

Food	Quality	Speed	Production	Strength
Berries (raw)	1-Star	+3	+3	0
Fish (raw)	0-Star	+5	0	0
Mushroom (raw)	1-Star	0	+5	0
Canned Food (raw)	0-Star	0	+3	0
Berry Soup	2-Star	+10	+5	0
Smoked Fish	2-Star	+5	+10	0
Bread	2-Star	+5	+5	+1
Hard Tack	2-Star	0	+10	0
Mushroom Stew	3-Star	+10	+10	+1
Fish Skewers	3-Star	+10	+20	0
Jam Pastries	3-Star	+20	+10	0
Hearty Meals	4-Star	+25	+25	+2
Savory Meals	4-Star	+25	+35	+1
Fancy Meals	4-Star	+35	+25	+1
Ration Meals	4-Star	+15	+15	+1

Bathing

Whiskers are unhappy being filthy and demand facilities in which to clean themselves. At the beginning of your journey,

1 Star - Bathing Dock 2 Star - Showers 3 Star - Bathhouse

Medical

Saline Solution = +60 Medicine = +150