Whiskerwood

Minakata Dynamics · Hooded Horse

Released: Nov 6, 2025
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11 Sep 2026Developer post
Patch #27: Exploration Dock, Ship Loadout Controls, Nerfed Cannon Taxes
Patch #27 Welcome to the Patch after the Nautical Update! My name is Daniel and I'm the lead programmer on Whiskerwood. I want to say thank you to so many players for starting Whiskerwood! Thanks to you and returning players we actually had more people playing Whiskerwood after t
Patch #27
Welcome to the Patch after the Nautical Update!
My name is Daniel and I'm the lead programmer on Whiskerwood. I want to say thank you to so many players for starting Whiskerwood! Thanks to you and returning players we actually had more people playing Whiskerwood after the Nautical update than we did at our early access launch!
The nautical update was a big undertaking for our team. Over the weekend we released 5 hotpatches and I appreciate everyone's patience during that buggy time.
This patch brings both a ton of deeper bug fixes plus new features driven by player feedback. The two highlights I want to give are the Exploration Dock, and configurable ship loadouts.
The Exploration Dock
New in this patch is the exploration dock. Many players reported it was confusing that they first needed to build a fishing dock, then set sail, and only then override the commands of a fishing ship. We realized the Exploration Dock would be a better first introduction to nautical mode. Now with the exploration dock you can set sail into the wild ocean and your goal is purely exploration. Once you've found something to fish, harvest, or trade then you can invest research into unlocking the matching schematic.
Configurable Loadouts
If you want to explore or trade further you'll need more food. Or perhaps you desire to fishout the ocean and need more nets! Now with configurable load outs you control if the Whiskers load up extra items for the voyage.
Bonus: New Music!
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Thank you for playing our game!
Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
Changelog
v0.7.206 Patch #27
Features
Add Exploration Dock now introduced before Deep Sea Fishing Dock to allow players to scout the ocean
Add dock controls to increase loadout before setting sail. Now players can increase how much Canned Food, Nets, etc are loaded before a ship departs. The ship navigation mesh now tracks ship paths for obstruction detection, and ships whose path is blocked by new buildings quickly compute a new path to circumvent the new obstacle
The ship navigation mesh now tracks ship paths for obstruction detection, and ships whose path is blocked by new buildings quickly compute a new path to circumvent the new obstacle
Add new BGM Isle of Outlaws for islands with populations above 199
Add manual only fishing action which does not require nets but catches fewer fish. Useful for long voyages
Add more variety of accepted items on trade islands
Gameplay
Nerf cannon frame and cannon production ratios from 5:8 to 1:1
Reduce taxes generated by cannonframe and cannon production
Tweak world map generation to make empty islands more common nearer the player island
Add tin ore and copper ore to mining related trade islands
Halve fish production by shore fishing
Boost fishing stocks on fishing spot, increase fish per net
Increase number of whiskers carried by ferries
Damaged ships have their maximum movement speed reduced as damage increases
Optimization: Pirate ships attempting shakedowns now only update their path when necessary
Ships within the fog of war now do not display their foam trails
Switch rock salt to table salt in trade offerings
Optimization
Add shakedown pathing optimization for fast case
Optimize building supports batching
Bugs
Fix island trade personality randomization causing duplicates and underfill of personality variations
Fix a radiant quest exact duplicates being offered before first instance is completed
Fix Stormie's ship missing scouting permission
Fix ships docking yet still claiming to be starving
Fix starving ships sometimes teleporting to assigned dock instead of sailing home
Fix players cannot attack smuggler ships
Fix cursor in nautical map leaking position of potential trade islands
Fix large shipyard building armed barque despite no matching schematic
Fix sunk ferry dock lifeboats do not destroy selves after getting back to a raft side. Becoming a zombie ferry
Fix ferry ships only picking up one whisker per travel if there are whiskers waiting at both docks
Fix escort ships getting stuck at the home dock in certain circumstances.
More accurate pathing for ships with turn radii at both ends of straight paths.
Fix Barge ship ignoring food consumption mechanic
Crash Fixes
Fix crash when selecting raft building linked to invalid pair
Fix crash when interacting with ships that have sunk while at main dock
Fix crash when corpses arrive on docked ships
Fix corrupted docked ferry causing map loads to crash
Acknowledgements
Thank you to the many players who reported excessive taxation from the too generous cannon production recipes
Thank you to FatFreddy01 for reporting the ferry building crash
Thank you to our composer Lucas Ricciotti for making Isle of Outlaws
Thank you to brilyn on the Discord for reporting the missing permission on Stormie's ship and reporting the ships claiming to starve at docks
Thank you to Goose Rookie on the discord for reporting that Smuggler ships are unattackable
Thanks to bana on the Discord for reporting the information leak
Thank you to Simoni on the Discord for reporting the large shipyard building Armed Barque by default bug
Thank you to StrikeWyrm for reporting the crash when clicking on docked yet sunk ships
Thank you to Brilyn on the Steam forum for suggesting we increase the carry capacity of ferries
Thank you to DiabloThe2nd on the Discord for reporting the dead sailor crash
Thank you to GustaGamerMTW on the Discord for reporting that escort ships were getting stuck at the home dock
Thank you to Locoparentus on the Steam forums for suggesting we switch rock salt to table salt
Thank you to Careful(Expanse) on the Discord for reporting that barges were ignoring food
Thank you to Satsuki Shizuka on the Discord for suggesting we expand the accepted items in trade
Thank you to Lena for reporting the corrupted ferry path crash over email
Steam Reviews
We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!
Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide
We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.
We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:
View game page
Join the Whiskerwood Community
Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.
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03 Sep 2026Developer post
Patch #26: The Nautical Update (Ships & Shipyards! Naval Battles! Trading!)
Set Sail for the High Seas! Hello Everyone, My name is Daniel Dressler and I am the lead programmer on Whiskerwood. On behalf of myself and the team, I want to express our thanks for your support. About 4 months ago, I asked for your patience as we started work on our biggest upd
Set Sail for the High Seas!
Hello Everyone,

My name is Daniel Dressler and I am the lead programmer on Whiskerwood. On behalf of myself and the team, I want to express our thanks for your support.

About 4 months ago, I asked for your patience as we started work on our biggest update to Whiskerwood yet. And today is the day it ships! With the introduction of an expansive open ocean, this update charts a new chapter in Whiskerwood's core gameplay! Thanks to your feedback during Early Access, we've been able to design a better nautical feature that better integrates with our core in-island gameplay. Our original ideas for nautical gameplay missed critical opportunities we could only catch thanks to feedback from players.

Thank you all again for your feedback on Whiskerwood, and your patience as we developed this update :)

Daniel,
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

A Nautical World!
We consider this update to be Act II of Whiskerwood. Until now, you've been playing Act I as you come to terms with living under the rule of the Claws, focusing on only your island and its place in the Colony System. Now you'll explore the whole region, traveling between islands and charting the high seas.

In doing so, you'll encounter Pirates, whose threat slowly wears away at the Claw's colony system. These lawless Pirates smuggle and pillage from the Colonies and challenge the Claw's nautical supremacy. Either willingly or by force, your actions will feed the pirates. In turn, the Pirate Wars will bring the Claws to acts of desperation, acts which will grant you the schematics to outfit a navy!

The Highlights!
Here's a brief overview of what you can expect from this update:
A full Nautical experience, including open ocean & NPC islands!
Naval Combat on said open ocean between your armed ships and pirates!
Act II of the storyline, "The Pirate Wars", and new ways to engage in relations with the Claws
Uncapped resources through trading and open ocean resource nodes
Guano farming on Guano Rocks for unlimited Fertilizer
Industrial scale fishing in the deep sea
Cannon Towers to defend your colony from Pirates
Defensive Walls and Towers with extra HP
Cannon bombardment is now fully simulated, walls and terrain defense provide functional protection. Build up defensive castles and walls
All ships are simulated with open ocean pathing you can manipulate. Consider sending pirates attackers through a maze of cannon towers.
Ships are capital assets requiring heavy investment to construct but can be freely reassigned between docks
Over 19 new quests
Over 3 buildable ship types
Over 9 new buildable docks and structures
Assign ships to create fast ferries

The Open Sea!
Nautical gameplay starts in the mid game. Once you've researched Tier 1 in the following winter, you have a random chance of discovering a lone sailor in desperate need of assistance. If you choose to rescue him immediately, or later on, it will trigger a spiral of consequences which will see you come into possession of vital secrets: the Schematics to Ship building!

Using these schematics, you can fulfill requests from the Pirates, which in turn will buy your colony periods of protection from Pirate raids. In doing so, the Pirates' pressure on the Claws will increase, until it reaches a boiling point and the Claws establish an anti-pirate corps. From there, by currying favor from the Claws, you'll gain the means to build a fighting navy!

And all the while, you'll leverage the bounty of the ocean. Trade, fish, and harvest guano to fuel your industry! Explore the open ocean to uncover valuable points of interest, including Guano Rocks, Fishing Spots, and Sunken Ships rich with salvage to collect.

Speaking of sinking ships, there are a number of situational dangers to be found on the ocean. Most pressing is the constant requirement to eat. Whiskers need food both on shore and at sea -- but on the open ocean, there are no berries to pick. Instead you must pack your own canned food to survive. Run out of food and your sailors and officers will starve. Other dangers include patrolling Pirates, and accidentally selling off your entire food store to another island.

Should your ships arrive at their home dock in one piece, the ship's crew will unload the spoils and bury any dead. On the off chance the ship sunk, the carried cargo will be left floating in the ocean as salvage and any survivors will row home in the emergency lifeboat.

Keeping your crew alive is vital, as not just any Whisker can crew a ship. Only Whiskers with the new skills of Sailor or Officer can set sail. Larger ships require Officers & Sailors, while smaller ships can make do with only Sailors. Whiskers with Sailor and Officer skills will slowly and randomly become available in Whisker ships, but their skills carry a heavy cost. As with other Skills, nautical skills can be taught to other Whiskers using the School.

Late game ship gameplay is focused on maximizing Guano harvests, selling cargo to other colonies at better rates than the smuggler, importing basic resources to feed your industry, exporting finished goods at twice what the smuggler pays, and ultimately eliminating every Pirate island.

We hope you enjoy this expansion to Whiskerwood. We eagerly await your feedback.

Thank you for playing our game :)

Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
Changelog
v0.7.201 Patch #26 Hotpatch #1
Bugs
Fix floating dock pier pilling
Fix playable areas at the edge of giant maps are in forced nautical zoom range
Fix cotton consuming too much space on belts
Fix raft and ferry docks not longer connecting
Fix missing loc key in guano processing unlock prereq display
Fix Machinist showing a blank ship recipe
Fix missing rebind for navy view toggle
Crash Fixes
Note: If you have mods installed at present at least one mod is known to cause a crash on the main menu. Please disable mods if you are experiencing crashes. If you prefer to play on an older build, the new branch “pre_nautical” contains the build prior to the nautical update and all mods are believed to work on it.
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Shintai on the Steam forum for reporting the main dock visual glitch
Thank you to p_max666 on the Discord for reporting that panning to the edge of giant maps was getting forced to nautical mode
Thank you to Goose Rookie on the Steam forum for reporting the massive wasted space Cotton Bales were taking on the conveyor belt
Thank you to many players who reported the ferry related docks not connecting bug over Steam Forums, Email, and Discord!
Thank you to p_max666 on the Discord for reporting the mechanist incorrectly showing a ship recipe
Thank you to RizPrime on the Discord for reporting that the nautical map toggle hotkey was missing from the rebindings
v0.7.200 Patch #26
Features
Add open ocean with other islands and points of interest
Add Sailor and Officer skills for Whiskers
Add shipyards & ship construction
Add Cannon Towers for island defense
Add Guano Harvest, Deep Sea Fishing, Trade, and Naval Docks
Add lifeboats when ships sink
Add cell-based open ocean fog of war
Add health points to Cannon Towers and Walls
Add ballistic simulation to cannon ball bombardment
Add waypoint based path finding unified between open ocean and in-island ship movements
Make all ships use simulated navigation
Add sailing navigation simulation for NPC islands
Add trading with other whisker colony islands
Add sail manufacturing schematic and building
Add 3 new pieces of music
Hide islands and points of interest until players discover them by scouting
Add 4 types of cannon balls, Stone, Bronze, Iron, and Chainshot
Add map makers to hint at location of islands and points of interest
Add 19 new story quests
Add compute shader based always persistent ship foam simulation
Add escort naval ship behaviour to protect defenseless ships
Add new nautical related achievements
Optimization
Add logic to write vision state into RT upon map load
Add navmesh clustering for fast isolated region rejection
Optimize ship vision writes to only write when moving between cells
Gameplay
Add Guano harvesting from Guano Rocks
Add Gauno to fertilizer recipe and schematic
Add deep sea fishing
Retune ship construction costs
Tune nautical fishing based on current balance formula numbers
Integrate nautical ship to replace existing placeholder, fix clicking and hide widget when dock is assigned
Make winter stocks quest give approval
Make Cotton Farms quest give logs
Make ship firing ammo limits
Unify combat simulation between ship and building combat
Add two layer ship navigation mapping to accommodate small boats and large ships
Add auto-attack logic for towers to attack hostile ships
Make fishing trip end early if no known fishing spots are stocked
Add randomized trade offerings per island
Add flag on islands to show owning faction
Add acceleration & deceleration to ship movement simulation
Add angular velocity to ship movement simulation
Make escort ships use same path with offset if current pathing is similar enough and goal is far away
UI
Add priority notifications to notify players of important nautical events
Add display of building HP on building details screen and construction tooltip
Separate random ship name generation between player/claw/pirate/trader
Add trade dialog with NPC islands
Draw home icon over a ship's dock
Retune panning in overworld to be 3x faster in overworld only, preserve in-map pan speed
Add aged paper styling to overworld
Teleport camera to ship when selecting ship card
Make arc assignment snap to valid docks
Add easy to read grid coordinates in format A1
Add outlines on selected ships
Show hover status when hovering ships and islands
Display ammo on ship status
Add on-hover widget to show contents of ships
Make dismissed ships travel back to claw homeland
Make drag and select function even with ship selected
Make selection range setting operate in screenspace
Add hover over POIs to show type/name and stockage
Switch ship icons from nautical meshes to in-map meshes
Bugs
Fix moving mouse outside editor/window during click and hold panning causes camera to jump to original location. Use last in-window mouse location instead
Fix plan arc not ending at ocean level
Fix player island sizes not impacting player ocean vision
Fix construction yard workers missing from job list
Fix fly-in animation to match further max zoom
Fix jittery ship zoomed in movement
Fix newly built ships claiming to have food and crew[ [/p]
Fix newly built ships moving instead of staying docked
Fix Blocked by ship label may not be instantly dismissed upon assigning the ship
Fix it is possible to send the ship to sea without a crew
Fix NPC island spawning outside playable map
Fix right clicking mouse during action menu deselects ship too
Fix navigation to islands for trading
Fix ship status clipping with islands
Fix spawned salvage not toggling visibility when spawned in-map
Fix not all code paths de-hovering towers
Fix multi-story navmesh bug
Fix trade notification not clearing
Fix damage numbers appearing for ocean hit shots
Fix ship widget rotation not updating in same frame as ship rotation causing jitter
Fix geometric edge case
Crash Fixes
Fix crash when placing warehouse in shipping build
Mod API
Add nautical related parameters to moddable system tune table
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to the many players who’ve played through Act I and requested an expanded late game!
Thank you to many players who requested uncapped methods of obtaining Ores & Fertilizer
Thank you to everyone who gave us their trust as we worked silently on this update!
Steam Reviews
We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!
Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide
We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.

We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:
View game page
Join the Whiskerwood Community
Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.
Original post
26 Aug 2026Developer post
Major Patch #26 Preview: The Nautical Update!
Hello, my name is Daniel, and I’m the lead programmer on Whiskerwood. Just over 3 months ago, I announced in our last update that we would spend the next 4+ months making a massive expansion to Whiskerwood’s gameplay... I am proud to announce that we are ahead of schedule and it'
09 Jul 2026Developer post
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26 Jun 2026Developer post
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01 Jun 2026Developer post
Whiskerwood News Roundup at the Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale
Spring is in full swing, and so is Whiskerwood's update schedule! Two recent patches have released for the game, introducing new music, new buildings, and even a new roadmap! Daniel and the rest of the team have continued to work on the improvements that their community is asking
26 May 2026Developer post
Save 35% on Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale . In this city builder, you must establish your Whisker colony and build it into an industrious empire. Set up intricate production chains, optimize your cities, and tend to the needs of your mouse coloni
08 May 2026Developer post
Patch #25: Construction Yards! Roadmap to next update!
A Bigger Scope for the Next Update Thank you everyone for playing our game! I want to give you all a heads up about our intermediate plans. You see, we've noticed players asking for a bigger scoped updates. A much bigger scope. Thus we've decided to focus for the next 4+ months o
A Bigger Scope for the Next Update
Thank you everyone for playing our game! I want to give you all a heads up about our intermediate plans. You see, we've noticed players asking for a bigger scoped updates. A much bigger scope. Thus we've decided to focus for the next 4+ months on landing these big gameplay expansions.
Why we are doing this
If you are reading this during this development period: I want to reassure you that we are working hard! Whiskerwood is our passion project and we appreciate everyone who has given us their play time.
For background: exactly 6 months ago we released Whiskerwood into Early Access. At that point we started doing daily patches while writing down every feature request and bug report. We soon after 2 weeks of daily patches the features commonly requested were getting bigger & bigger in scope. In hindsight this was a natural progression. When doing daily patches we could only destabilize the codebase for 1 day. That limited the size of tasks we could tackle. Thus we realized we needed to switch to larger patches in incremental steps.
Thus we switched to weekly patches for several months, then switched to the current bi-weekly pace. Bi-weekly has proven a good balance, but now we've arrived at a point where a grand leap forward in gameplay is required. We cannot reach our next goal through bi-weekly updates. We need to ask for your trust, as we work longer on a massive update.
What we are working towards
You see, our goal for the next update is to add full ship construction, trading between other colonies, naval battles, and island defenses (towers and fortresses). This is a large chunk of work and we need to destabilize the codebase. We are in effect going back into production mode. We plan to post news about this update as it progresses, but I need to ask players to be patient. Please bear with us during this waiting period and please be excited for the new content we'll be able to add and polish thanks to this wait!
Once the big update ships we intend return to daily, then bi-weekly patches.
Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
Patch #25's Construction Rework
What we have shipped in this Patch #25 is a focus on stability and a much needed rework: construction. Now you can control construction workers more precisely, and even boost construction efficiency through the new construction yard.
Construction yard:
Construction yard is now an insta-build/movable camp that can be assigned a required (apprentice) foreman and 5 additional builders
Researchable in second research tier (T1)
All workers gain a small speed/productivity buff, and use carts for delivery
Yard workers only work on sites within their work radius (configurable)
Yard workers work on sites sorted by distance/priority relative to their construction yard.
Construction yard supports overtime, with associated buff and ability to work through the night.
Construction sites and policies:
Construction speed now accounts for whisker productivity. It was previously just based on builder count. with RapidConstruction applying a flat multiplier on top of it.
RapidConstruction policy and construction yard bonus now act consistently via agent modifiers with productivity and speed bonuses. Thus the description of rapidconstruction has changed slightly.
Rapidconstruction otherwise scaled ridiculously high being a X2 mult over all other modifiers
Late Construction policy has been fully removed from the game. Instead being a benefit of construction yard overtime.
Globally, workers will try to finish a construction delivery in their hands instead of immediately failing upon nightfall.
Construction site UI has been improved, showing lines to inbound whiskers, number of whiskers building, their overall productivity, and time remaining.
Changelog
v0.6.193 Patch #25
Features
Add insta-build Construction Yard which can be staffed with an Apprentice foreman and 5 builders
Construction Yard builders will use carts and work only within the yard’s radius
Add overtime construction mechanic through construction yard
Gameplay
Rework construction progress logic now to consider Whisker productivity in build times
Remove Night Construction policy to be replaced with the Construction Yards as a mechanic
Rework Rapid Construction logic to boost based on Whisker traits
Change night time builder logic, now Whiskers complete a delivery before transitioning to seeking night time activities
Claws now charge a fee for forcing them to fire their cannons
UI
Add lines to show on construction site ui to display active builders
Add estimated time remaining to construction site ui
Bugs
Fix work radius preview when moving camps showing default radius
Housing bedding/furniture consumption is now reported in daily statistics
Fix case where whiskers may refuse to replace their tailored cloaks before becoming threadbare (May take a couple nights to take effect)
Fix Copy/Paste of farm field settings not correctly copying ‘remove rocks’ toggle
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Dragon King on discord for helping with clothing bug
Thank you to Phlimmphlam on discord for reporting farm rocks bug
Thank you to Lady on discord for reporting missing bedding reporting
Steam Reviews
We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!
Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide
We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.
We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:
View game page
Join the Whiskerwood Community
Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.
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24 Apr 2026Developer post
Patch #24: Delayed Mod Loading, New Music, & More Optimizations!
Patch #24 Thank you everyone for playing our game :) I want to thank Lucas for returning to contribute more music to Whiskerwood's OST. This patch we've added a grand song which will play randomly for larger islands. You can check out the full song on Lucas's youtube: View game p
Patch #24
Thank you everyone for playing our game :)
I want to thank Lucas for returning to contribute more music to Whiskerwood's OST. This patch we've added a grand song which will play randomly for larger islands. You can check out the full song on Lucas's youtube: View game page
The whole team this patch again has been focused on optimizations. Compared to last patch this batch of optimizations should be even more impactful. Our optimizations have focused on gameplay CPU logic. This does mean computers limited by rendering will not see a significant change. Meanwhile saves at high whisker populations should see a decent jump in FPS.
Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
Changelog
v0.6.190 Patch #24
Features
Add new song “Rising Dominion” composed by Lucas Ricciotti. Activates for colonies with at least 100 whiskers
Add logic to check for delayed mod downloads. Fixes mod loading on geforce now and certain PCs
Optimization
Optimize path finding generation to speed up pathing by about 60% by improving cache coherency using purpose designed data structures for pathable state
Optimize Whisker animations by limiting skeletal budget per frame
Aggressively optimize high population save files by frustum culling visible skeletal meshes
Add LOD support to Whisker skeletal meshes and reduce skinning complexity at distance
Optimize visual positional update rates for far away Whiskers
Optimize various buildings to reduce idle compute cost
Optimize mine cart tick
Reduce development tooling burden in shipping builds
Ratelimit animation changes for heating to avoid stutter spiking when bulk heaters change state
Optimize pathing by caching decorations with movement effects
Reduce performance impact of navmesh updates
Bugs
Fix tooltips not working correctly in Whisker selection lists
Fix industry workers sometimes fetching small amounts of input multiple times before starting work
Fix Raft Dock sometimes not showing warning when entrance is not accessible
Crash Fixes
Fix crash after pirate bombardment when attacking a warehouse on bad timing, caused by prior optimizations
Fix loading crash with elevators
Fix rare crash when removing all destination platforms from an elevator shaft
Acknowledgements
Thank you to players who reported that mod loading did not function on Nvidia Geforce Now since it only downloads mods after the game has launched
Thank you to everyone who has been patient as we improve performance
Thank you to Gavin for reporting the warehouse crash over email
Thank you to mvrck on the Discord for reporting elevator crash when deleting segments.
Steam Reviews
We'd really appreciate it if you could take a moment to share your thoughts about Whiskerwood in a Steam review. Each review helps us understand what you enjoy, what you'd like to see changed, and what you'd like to see added next. It's a powerful way for you to not only share feedback with us directly but also influence what comes next in a patch. We're carefully reading through all feedback, and your opinion matters!
Official Wiki and Beginner's Guide
We have some fantastic resources to help get you started on your colony building in Whiskerwood. Check out our beginner's guide and our official community wiki page to help get you the answers you need.
We also have a compilation of tips and tricks sourced from the community to help you out right here:
View game page
Join the Whiskerwood Community
Become part of the Whiskerwood community. Join us on Discord to chat with other players, share your villages, and see what others are creating. You can also follow updates and discussions on Reddit, stay informed through BlueSky and Twitter.
Original post
20 Apr 2026Developer post
Whiskerwood News Roundup at the Hooded Horse April Sale
Like the hardworking Whisker colonists, the Whiskerwood Dev team has been hard at work creating and releasing new patches. Recent updates have allowed players more control over the function of many buildings, allowed these settings to be copied and pasted on most configurable bui
12 Apr 2026Developer post
Save 35% on Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse April Sale . In this city builder, you must establish your Whisker colony and build it into an industrious empire. Set up intricate production chains, optimize your cities, and tend to the needs of your mouse colonists. Ser
10 Apr 2026Developer post
Patch #23: Optimizations, Optimizations, Optimizations, and Heater Settings
Patch #23 Performance improvements is a constant struggle for us. Every time we improve the performance: players just build bigger islands! We like that. It is an honour as a game dev to have players push our games to its limits. Going forward we will continue to work on pushing
Patch #23
Performance improvements is a constant struggle for us. Every time we improve the performance: players just build bigger islands! We like that. It is an honour as a game dev to have players push our games to its limits. Going forward we will continue to work on pushing those performance limits further.
While I have your attention, I want to direction you to this incredible new mod made by our first time modder Green Grove!
View game pagePlayers have asked for metrics and charts for a while, and it is impressive to see it arrive as a mod.
Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
Changelog
v0.6.188 Patch #23
Features
Add configuration for heater auto-pause temperature
Add Steam Booster variant with steam socket under track
Gameplay
Snow is now being removed more aggressively under cover
Whiskers at minecart station will only board minecart if their destination is in the direction of departure. Only applies to non-looping tracks
Whiskers are soaked and slowed if walking in heavy rainfall without cover. Terrain and buildings will block rain
Switch saving to the autosave file when exiting. Instead of the main save file
Optimization
Optimize long whisker list scrolling by using delayed instantiation
Optimize rain effect to reduce fps impact at high graphics settings
Optimize draw cost when viewing lists of hundreds or more Whiskers
Optimize rendering of large warehouse stockpiles
Optimize thread synchronization to improve CPU fill rate
UI
Redesign the Heater UI
Add toggle to allow overflow on belt filters
Bugs
Fix light not being updated correctly in some cases when removing light blockers
Fix snow being displayed underwater
Fix mine support beams not always being cleaned up properly during local updates.
Cannonballs can no longer be avoided by saving and loading during firing.
Fix farmers idle at workplace never leaving to address hunger during the day unlike other workplaces
Fix incorrect warning icons persisting after copy-pasting settings between warehouses or input hoppers
Fix dining hall containing ghost light
Daily report screen now accounts for approval spent during end-of-day pause
Fix camera rotation bindings not sticking if camera is set to smooth rotation
Fix missing lamp to small and medium warehouses
Fix belt animation speed not matching item move speed on belts
Mod API
Add icons and toolbar tables to modapi
Add support for scrolling when many decorations have been added by mods
Fix removing a mod which added a new item, causing the savefile to crash if the the mod is later removed
Acknowledgements
Thank you to MysticalBacon on Discord for reporting that mine beams weren’t cleaned up correctly
Thank you to DaXoPsy on the Steam forums for suggesting steam booster variant
Thank you to Toby on the Discord for reporting the farmer starvation issue
Thank you to PherretDan on the Discord for reporting erroneous warnings after copy/paste
Thank you to Phlimmphlam on the Discord for reporting the floating light in the dining hall building
Thank you to Fret on the Discord for making a resource adding mod, and reporting the crash on removal so we could expand that mod support
Thank you to NyxAntheia on the Discord for reporting the camera binding bug
Thank you to Alastor on the Discord for reporting the end of day approval bug
Thank you to MysticalBacon on Discord for reporting that light values were not correctly updated.
Thank you to L33cher and iceball12 on the Discord for suggesting the pause menu quit related saves redirect to the autosave instead of main save file
Thank you to Buckminsterfullerene on the Discord for suggesting we add the icons and toolbar tables to the modapi
Thank you to veertje on the Steam Forum for reporting how enough mods have added decorations to require scrollbars
Thank you to Demonocolips on the Steam Forum for reporting the filter should also allow overflowing alongside its default absolute filter mode
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27 Mar 2026Developer post
Patch #22: Reduced Pillars Underground, Copy & Paste Building Settings
Patch #22 You can now quickly copy settings from one building to other buildings of the same type! Most configurable buildings now support Ctrl+C for copying, and Ctrl+V for pasting the building's configuration! A new masonry styled long stone stairs are now available as the defa
Patch #22
You can now quickly copy settings from one building to other buildings of the same type! Most configurable buildings now support Ctrl+C for copying, and Ctrl+V for pasting the building's configuration!
A new masonry styled long stone stairs are now available as the default variety to the stone long stairs. Being a variety this does not replace any existing stairs, but instead is now an option you can use when building new stairs.
Now for the bigger details: Reduced Pillars!
I need to explain what this means exactly. It does not refer to supports, the things built out of wood underneath buildings or paths. Instead this refers to the pillars that mining used to create. These pins got extreme when players built large underground caverns, and one of our most popular mods simply deleted them wholesale.
What we've done is implement a slightly more complex solution. Now pillars will spawn to support the entrances to mined cells, but will not spawn within the mined volume. Thus any underground city or cavern you've mined will be clear and visible, without unsightly pillars blocking the view.
This is our headline feature for this patch, but if you were already using the "No Support Beams" mod I suppose you will not see any difference.
Speaking of mods, I want to point you to 3 new mods by 2 new modders:
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Please consider checking out those mods and leaving upvotes and words of encouragement! It is wonderful to see players make our game into their game :)
Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
Changelog
v0.6.187 Patch #22
Features
Mine support pillars now only spawn to retain walls or to support overhangs like mine shaft entrances, resulting in better underground visibility.
Self-supporting structures can be used to replace mine support pillars.
You can now copy the configuration of a selected building and paste it to others.
Add rebindable terraform tool hotkey defaulting to J key
Reduce visual max opacity of pollution
Make Whiskerwood default to 60fps cap to reduce GPU consumption by default on low end PCs
Switch default Steam Deck controls to improved community layout preset
The Spice Grinder industry now has animation when running.
Gameplay
Improved how whiskers distribute themselves when searching for bathing services
Houses consistently keep front facing window in their variant version
Add new visuals for Stone Stairs. Previous visuals are now a variant option.
Add new plant decorative “Small Bush” with 3 variants
Add new path decorative “Stone Wall”
Nerf netter production speed from 211 to 377 seconds per cycle
Reduce pollution generated by bakeries
Reduce fish produced per fishing dock cycle from 2 to 1
Internal logic to distribute farmers and prioritize harvest for farming efficiency has been adjusted such that assigned priority fields now should always take precedence.
UI
Improved Bathing Dock / Bathhouse UI to better communicate usage and added a statistics tab
New Copy/Paste buttons at top of most building UIs. Allows saving off a building’s settings and pasting them to others.
New Copy/Paste hotkeys CTRL+C and CTRL+V when a building is selected
Alternate camera-orbit key moved from CTRL to ALT
The selected tab on windows is preserved when selecting another building of the same type
Marking farm fields as Priority now has sound
Bugs
Fix seating UI in Cafe and Dining Hall overlapping worker selection widget.
Fix loaded camera position not matching exactly as when game was saved.
Fix saves with extreme population sizes sometimes causing whiskers to stand still
Fix whiskers sometimes getting stuck walking through ladder tiles
Fix a bug where mine pillars sometimes wouldn’t properly despawn when filling up mined terrain
Fix house window shutters not re-opening on save load, even if the house is owned. (Applies to Log and Plank housing types)
Fix production limits for farm crops not working properly
Fix farming behavior being blocked when rock removal is active and there exist farm cells containing rocks but out of range of farm buildings
Acknowledgements
Thank you to jeebus0 on the Discord for reporting the mining ladder bug.
Thank you to .theboggart on the Discord for reporting the extreme population stand-still bug
Thank you to Potloodje for suggesting we reduce max pollution opacity
Thank you to Haggisfarm on the Discord for providing the steamdeck community layout
Thank you to gman on the Discord for recommending preserving selected tabs
Thank you to iceball12, Timerstone and others on Discord for reporting that production limits for crops were not working properly.
Thank you to Tengu on Discord for reporting that unreachable rocks within farms that have rock removal enabled block other farm behavior.
Thank you to Rakryn on Discord for reporting that assigned farm prioritization was not behaving intuitively.
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19 Mar 2026Developer post
Save 35% on Whiskerwood
Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse Spring Sale . In this city builder, you must establish your Whisker colony and build it into an industrious empire. Set up intricate production chains, optimize your cities, and tend to the needs of your mouse colonists. Se
13 Mar 2026Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The latest Whiskerwood update finally lets you stop hungry mice from raiding your food warehouses – though they might riot over it
There's nothing more annoying than watching a mouse snack away on an apple in the warehouse when you explicitly built them a charming little bistro just down the street. Literally nothing. I don't want to hear about your neighbour who puts the bins out before the sun's up, nor yo
13 Mar 2026Developer post
Patch #21: Relocate Dock & Warehouse, Ban Warehouse Eating, Raft under bridges
Patch #21 For this patch we've worked on addressing a few of the long term popular player requests. The biggest two of which is a method to stop whiskers from eating at warehouses, and a mechanic to allow relocation of the central warehouse and trade dock. Bridges and arches also
Patch #21
For this patch we've worked on addressing a few of the long term popular player requests. The biggest two of which is a method to stop whiskers from eating at warehouses, and a mechanic to allow relocation of the central warehouse and trade dock.
Bridges and arches also got an upgrade. Now once raised 1 cell high they will allow Rafts to navigate below. This allows you to connect islands by bridge without blocking Raft traffic.
The Central Warehouse and Trade Dock are the first two buildings you ever construct when starting in Whiskerwood. Until now their placement was permanent. Now with enough Approval you can relocate them.
For eating at the warehouse we've now added a global toggle to the Cafe and Dinning Halls which ban whiskers from eating at Warehouses. Watch out: this is a powerful law that when implemented can result in hunger and unrest. Make sure you have amble dining facilities to accommodate your population.
Filters now also act as absolute filters. They never allow the filtered items to go forward on the top belt.
Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
PS: You might notice the raft navigation visual has changed. It is now a signed distance field wave pattern. We changed this to make the go or no-go nature of the navigability easier to discern for when you build bridges.
Changelog
v0.6.186 Patch #21
Features
Add relocation mechanics for Central Warehouse and Trade Dock. Costs substantial approval. Moving multiple times scales up cost
Add a global mechanic to block Whiskers from eating in warehouses. Behaviour toggleable at any Cafe or Dining Hall
Added height based clearance to allow rafts to travel under self-supporting structures. Namely Bridges, Stone Arches, and Wooden Arches no longer block ocean navigability given sufficient height and clearance.
Add new policy “Reckless Navigation” to boost raft speeds
Added 1 new ‘Small Planter’ decorative variant: flax plant
Update all localizations, thank you translators!
Gameplay
Whiskers should more intelligently distribute to the closest Cafe with sufficient food
Use signed distance field driven visuals for navigation blockers.
Optimize steam radiator computation workload during low steam pressure to reduce large scale heater recalculations
Make belt filter no longer pass filter marked items through the top belt. Instead the belt will stop moving if the filter bottom exit is full when yet-to-be-filtered items are present going in from the top
Boost speed of Splitters by 25%
Boost speed of Liftbacks by 30%
UI
Add subtle animation to background of main menu
Steam & Water Valves no longer display ambient temperature in their UI
Fix Input Hopper, Bonfire, Heating Stove & Steam Radiator displaying an incorrect ambient temperature on their UI
Cafe and Dining Hall shows progress of each visitor and what they are eating
Cafe and Dining Hall statistics tab now correctly shows historical food consumption
Move masonry tab under path tab
Make mine hotkey act as toggle
Make farm hotkey as as toggle
Bugs
Fix segment of raft dock roof ignoring snow
Fix logistics workers returning to their hub every other trip
Fix fish overlay hotkey not remappable
Fix Xess-fg and dlss fg options appearing for player despite due to stale struct init
Acknowledgements
Thank you to locoparentus on Steam for reporting that several buildings’ UIs were displaying incorrect ambient temperatures
Thank you to Kralmir and Phlimmphlam on Discord for narrowing down the logistics worker bug
Thank you to Kani_Charhan for reporting the that the fish overlay hotkey rebinding was broken
Thank you to many players who requested the mine and farm hotkeys act as toggles
Thank you to Key on the Discord for reporting the random graphical options appearing
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12 Mar 2026Developer post
Whiskerwood News Roundup at the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale
Much like their hardworking Whisker colonists, the development team for Whiskerwood has been quite industrious with creating and releasing patches. Recent updates have added a number of new buildings and improved key simulation experiences. Here's a roundup of all the recent deve
27 Feb 2026Developer post
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27 Feb 2026Developer post
Patch #20: Raft Dock & Inter-Island Ferry Transport
Patch #20 Whiskers now have a new method for traveling between islands: the Raft Ferry! This Patch brings a new building: the Raft Dock. Since the dock is instant build you can construct it anywhere, including on new islands you'd like whiskers to travel to. Any two docks can be
Patch #20
Whiskers now have a new method for traveling between islands: the Raft Ferry!
This Patch brings a new building: the Raft Dock. Since the dock is instant build you can construct it anywhere, including on new islands you'd like whiskers to travel to. Any two docks can be linked and whiskers will paddle their way to the destination. No need to staff the docks: riders provide the labor.
Unlock the Raft Dock schematic either by researching it from the first tier, or receiving it as a gift from the Claws.
This feature has been a major undertaking for our team over the past few patches. I want to thank the modders who saw this work in progress during data mining yet thankfully did not leak the surprise :)
Going forward expect more ocean mechanics :)
Daniel
Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood
Changelog
ChangeLog
v0.6.184 Patch #20
Features
Add Raft Dock and point to point Ferry transport mechanic
Add high performance ocean plane navmesh for boat navigation
Gameplay
Production limits now account for resources on belts or logistics carts
Resource tooltips now shows count currently on belts or logistics carts
Reduce fish generated by dumping food using the ocean dump to 25%
New visuals for several resource types
Increase range construction workers can travel
Increase default fire tender range by 50%
UI
Improve cursor snapping behavior when trying to place extractors against warehouses
Fix construction sites not showing their entrance arrow when selected
Resource statistics rows are now scrollable horizontally
Bugs
Fix scenario where some resources could be lost on a belt after loading a save
Fix being unable to select other buildings while Extractor’s UI was open
Fix default unreal navigation system active during gameplay
Fix missing prerequisites rejection of research selection using wrong warning message
Fix belt filters holding unlimited items as an infinite buffer
Fix Pirate ships sometimes not spawning until very late into the game
Fix iron bar item material shifting upon movement
Acknowledgements
Thank you to Prometheus0000 on the Discord for reporting the incorrect warning text
Thank you to an anonymous developer who suggested unreal navigation system optimizations
Thank you to Voidy on the Discord for reporting how belt Filters were seemingly consuming items
Thank you to Lorkenpeist for reporting pirate spawn bug
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16 Feb 2026Developer post

Patch #19: Fishing Simulation, Item Dumping, Easier Spot Mining

Patch #19 Got too many of an item? Want to get rid of a warehouse of stone quick? Consider researching the new advanced Ocean Dump! Hook up a belt to this nifty device and watch as all your problems drop away! WARNING: While dilution is the solution for pollution it can have temp

Patch #19

Got too many of an item? Want to get rid of a warehouse of stone quick? Consider researching the new advanced Ocean Dump! Hook up a belt to this nifty device and watch as all your problems drop away!

WARNING: While dilution is the solution for pollution it can have temporary impacts on localized fish populations.

Yes that is correct! We've added fully simulated fishing! Now packing a ton of docks into a pond will not result in unlimited food but instead rapid collapse of your cod fishing stocks! In contrast we've boosted the number of fish an optimized fishing dock can catch!

So gaze above your open ocean, and go catch-them-all!

Every island has a generated fish population driven by the local environment. When a fishing dock performs a fishing cycle its chance of catching anything is driven by the availability of catchable shore fish within range. This range starts at about 5 cells and goes out with weakening strength to about 15 cells.

We've known for a while that we wanted to rework the fishing docks. Fishing docks within Whiskerwood's balance exist as a powerful and easy early game source of food. Late game scaling up should require careful planning and strategy. Similar to hunting. Fishing produces a lot of food for only a little labour. To reach this proper balance we knew fishing needed a proper simulation and now we have it!

Fish populations will slowly recover. A spread out network of fishing docks can catch a vast volume of fish, but be careful to balance the distances between docks to avoid overfishing.

The item ocean dump, and pollution system, integrate with this fishing layer. Most items, and pollution, dumped into the ocean will hurt the fish population, while a few will boost fishing. Press L, the new layer hotkey, to see fish populations at any time.

For players who's save files are highly dependent on large clumps of fishing docks we've created a backup branch of the last patch. You can switch to this "Beta Branch" to keep playing with the old patch as you rework your colony to accommodate this shift in fishing. This branch is called patch18_old_fishing

A third major change is mining centric. Players who do Minecraft-style tunnel and prospecting mining should have an easier time now. We've expanded the range of vision underground so you can see further and mine fewer scouting shafts.

Daniel

Lead Programmer on Whiskerwood

Switch to the patch18_old_fishing beta branch if your colony will collapse due to the fishing change. This branch will go away in the future, so please do take the chance to rework your fishing docks to not abuse the old fishing system.

Changelog

v0.6.183 Patch #19

Features

Add item dump to dispose of any items into the endless ocean
Add fishing stock simulation
Rework fishing docks to operate off fish population
Simulate fishing population impact of toxic dumping and nutrient dumping
Beach and ocean floor fertility is now driven by groundwater salinity, which permeates through sandy ground. Terraforming blocks salinity flow and drained ocean floor is often quite fertile after salinity has fallen enough.

Gameplay

Increase terrain survey depth to 2 cells
Farmers will now sow after tilling on fields with rock removal active, if there are no more rocks to remove
Farmers will never sow a field with rock removal active if there are still rocks to remove
Adjusted internal priorities of some farm tasks
Add variant of Steam Booster with opposite launch direction
Replacing flooring type will no longer remove path decoratives

Use local timezone for times and dates on load menu
Use locale date & time formatting for load menu based on selected language
Fix Liftback not grouped with other Advanced Belt research locked schematics

Bugs

Fix a bug where farmer behavior priority could become inaccurate when many farmers were working on a field
Fix unintended text downsizing on farm crop selector
Crops now correctly grow 10% faster during Clear Skies weather
Fix clicking on mine carts sometimes selecting passengers instead of kicking mine cart along track
Fix being able to click out of a reward panel without selecting a reward.
Fix rail tool consuming resources when trying to build rail underwater
Fix rail tool inconsistency in support costs when building ramps
Fix belt corners causing bottlenecks and item slowdowns
Fix buildings with directional smoke vfx not matching wind direction
Fix Extractor sometimes showing an inaccurate warning when changing filter settings.

Crash Fixes

Fix crash on load if meta save files have been corrupted, instead regenerate a fresh meta savefile
Fix crash with negative relative time when mods reduce day length

Acknowledgements

Thank you to iceball and Kralmir on Discord for drawing attention to the fact that rock removal affected farmer behavior on fields without rocks
Thank you to Eclipsechris! on Discord for suggesting inverted steam boosters
Thank you to Decado for pointing out path decor issue
Thank you to Lord Yanaek for reporting reward panel issue
Thank you to pomazánka on Discord for reporting the underwater rail bug
Thank you to Iceball12 on the Discord for reporting how corner belt pieces caused slowdowns
Thank you to Creepy Gnome on the Discord for reporting the shown play times were using UTC and not local times
Thank you to Syruptmunster on the Discord for pointing out smoke vfx was not respecting the wind direction
Thank you to Martin over email for reporting the meta save corruption crash
Thank you to Buckminsterfullerene for reporting the crash when his mod reduces the day length

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Set Sail for the High Seas!

A Nautical World!

The Highlights!

The Open Sea!

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⚠️ Note on Save File Backward Compatibility

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Inter-Island Trade!

The Ocean’s Bounty!

Build your Fleet!

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New Mechanics, New Building Settings & Tons of Optimization

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New Belts, New Mechanics, & Tons of Optimization

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