Become a cat or stay a neko

Take the injection

1. Prepare a Neko Injection, food and a safe place to wait.
2. Hold the injection in your main hand. Hold Use Item (right mouse button by default) until the animation finishes.
3. The used syringe remains in your hand and Neko Sickness begins. Wait for the transformation stages below.

The needle causes a little damage. Recover your health before injecting.

Transformation stages

A single dose takes about 81 minutes of play to complete.

1. Neko Sickness — 1 minute.
2. Three ability stages — 20 minutes each. Agility, Feline Vision and Soft Paws appear in a random order.
3. Cat Transformation — 20 minutes. This is the stage when you can stop and stay a neko.
4. Cat form — the transformation is complete and Feline Scent becomes available.

Transform faster with two injections

Put one Neko Injection in each hand. Hold Use Item, then also hold Attack (left mouse button by default) until both injections finish.

Sickness lasts 3 minutes; each ability stage and Cat Transformation lasts 5 minutes. The total is about 23 minutes.

Prepare the stopping injection

1. Prepare a Potion of Sweet Amethyst from a Honey Bottle and an Amethyst Shard.
2. Put the potion in the pneumatic stand’s source slot. Add a wind charge and one or two empty syringes.
3. Collect the Crystallizing Injection and keep a bucket of milk ready for after use.

Crystallizing Injection

Pneumatic StandPneumatic Stand20 seconds

Wind Charge

Potion of Sweet Amethyst

Syringe

Syringe

Crystallizing InjectionCrystallizing Injection

ReturnedGlass Bottle1 × Glass Bottle

Stop and stay a neko

Wait until all three abilities have appeared and the Cat Transformation effect is active. Use the Crystallizing Injection before that effect ends. You will permanently stay a neko with your acquired abilities.

This choice is permanent: another Neko Injection will not resume the process. Once you are fully a cat, this injection cannot turn you back.

Crystallization lasts 60 seconds, sharply slows movement and can kill you. Drink the prepared milk to remove this effect. Drinking Sweet Amethyst itself does not stop transformation.

Nine lives

You receive nine feline lives when Cat Transformation begins. In Survival, the first eight deaths preserve your feline state; the ninth returns you to human form. Dying earlier in the process cancels the transformation.

Hardcore still ends on death, even if you have feline lives remaining.