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• Shape the land through terraforming, creating massive burrows for housing and storage within mountains, or drawing water deep inland from the coast to power your industry. Invest the time to flatten vast expanses of land in an effort to ease and cheapen your construction projects, or work around the peaks and valleys of each new procedurally generated island map.
• Climate plays a key role in the success of your new home – a stormy day might dampen the natural enthusiasm of your mice, while a cold front can quickly ruin a season’s harvest or otherwise endanger their lives. Build intricate networks of pipes to heat water and run steam-powered climate control systems, and burrow deep underground to protect winter stockpiles.
• Maximize agricultural output by paying close attention to each crop’s specific needs – a damp cavern is optimal for mushrooms, but you’ll be hard-pressed to grow wheat away from direct sunlight and fertile soil. Will you seek out the potentially distant parts of your island where these optimal conditions occur naturally? Or will you use your engineering skills to bend nature to your needs closer to home?
• Mouselow’s Hierarchy of Needs is in full effect as your citizens seek a fulfilling life in their new home. Ensure an ample supply of food and water, provide shelter to keep citizens well-rested, and organize maintenance services to tend to the wear and tear that comes with the hustle and bustle of a growing city. Then, with the basic needs provided, you face a choice – will you construct grand statues of your fearsome feline overlords to motivate your mice and increase their productive output at the cost of their morale, or will you scurry along the road of resistance by prioritizing the happiness of your mice with grand parks and fountains? The needs of your mousefolk are varied, and their happiness must be delicately balanced against the demands of the clawed paw that hangs overhead.

The industrious mouse is not only a hard worker, but a clever one too – harness the power of automation to sniff out efficiency at every corner. Implement conveyor belt systems over great distances to carry goods up and down the colony faster than a mouse’s paw alone could, and pursue advanced technologies to evolve from a humble mouse-powered colony to a steam-powered mousetropolis.

• Whiskerwood boasts 40 different commodities for you to gather, manufacture, or trade in the interest of your colony’s well-being and the satisfaction of your overlords. Extract raw materials such as metal ore, timber, and wheat. Manufacture processed goods such as ropes, coats, and prepared meals