Community26 Aug 2026Major 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'll go live on September 3rd . We have a clear runway to ship our update and are working on polishing and debugging. W…
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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 for most. Here's a roundup of all the update news you might have missed, and a look at the new development roadmap!…
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 colonists. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse May Publisher Sale
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…
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: The whole team this patch again has been focused on optimizations. Compared to last patch this batch of optimizations should be…
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 buildings, and, as always, made a few optimizations to ensure these new systems run at peak efficiency, much like your c…
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. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse April Sale
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 mad…
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 a…
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. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse Spring Sale
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 isla…
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 development news for Whiskerwood that you might have missed! Whiskerwood is also part of the Hooded Horse Publisher Sale…
Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse 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 colonists. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse Publisher Sale
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. U…
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…
Patch #18 Based on feedback from players, and the hard work of the entire team: I am super proud to announce the addition of 5 new additions to Whiskerwood's belt mechanics! Each new machine has a specific purpose in mind. We hope players will design their late game logistics around these conveyors. The new machines are: · A Splitter which takes in 2 paths and outputs 2 paths. It will round rob…
Patch #17 After last patch a large number of players came forward and strongly objected to the increase in steam engine costs. Based on their well sourced and measured reasonings, and inspecting save files myself, I concluded they were correct. The last patch's increase in Steam Engine Steam consumption indeed hurt the game's balance. As such I am releasing this rapid patch to both role back th…
Ever since Whiskerwood launched into Early Access back in November, the development team has been hard at work delivering patches that improve both the player experience and the lives of their Whisker colonists. Here's a roundup of all the recent development news for Whiskerwood that you might have missed! Whiskerwood is also part of the Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale at 35% off. Hooded Ho…
Patch #16 Do you feel a bit overwhelmed after Christmas? Fear not, our Patch #16 is a low key down to earth make-things-better patch! Nothing that should force you to replan your colony but a lot of improvements which will make the game feel better to play long term. Two big headlines on that point: · Large save files will now load much quicker thanks to a rewrite of our terrain data lighting c…
Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse January 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 colonists. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse January Publisher Sale
Patch #15 Thank you for everyone's patience over the past two weeks! Last week we skipped releasing the patch and instead pushed all the changes into today's patch. Our major addition this patch is related to work and service ranges. Now Fire Tenders and Luxury Suppliers have a service limit range. Not just a range: but a configurable range. The resource camps now also have this configurable ra…
Whiskerwood is currently 35% off during the Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale . In this city builder, you must establish a 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. Serve your cat overlords faithfully, or defy their oppressive rule. Hooded Horse Winter Publisher Sale
Patch #14 Our headline feature for this patch is one I think many players wanted without realizing: Truss platforms! Until today if you built a long and tall bridge, or filled a cavern with a town, you were faced with a dense matrix of wooden supports. Many players requested a method to control this "pillar spam". I am happy that the modding community was able to provide players a quick solutio…
Patch #13 We've got two major features for this patch! One highly requested since demo, the other highly requested the instant players reported playing past 300 whiskers. Today I am proud to present to you: · Mirroring! · & Better Performance! Now you press the T key while placing most asymmetric buildings and get their left vs right variation. This rebindable T hotkey will also provide you ext…
Patch #12 Hello Everyone, Have you ever noticed how the schematic progression includes a number of houses in the same shape but better quality? You can now upgrade in-place upgrade those houses once you unlock them! Adding this feature required handling quite a number of edge cases, but the result should be a quality of life improvement for players. It rather feels like the long haul of gamedev…
Patch #11 Highlight: +New Large & Giant warehouses! +New setting to control display of status/problem/event icons +New decorations A bunch of players have asked for larger warehouses. We always planned to add more warehouses, hence why the largest one upto now was called medium, but based on the large volume of player requests we made this task a priority! So I am proud to present to you the La…
Hello everyone, The 2025 Steam Awards have begun! Nominations are open, and we’re hoping you’ll consider nominating Whiskerwood in the Outstanding Visual Style category. The competition this year is incredible, and there are so many great games that deserve recognition in this category. But your nomination can help spread the word about Whiskerwood and introduce new players to everything it has…
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