How to Get and Use Furniture in Mewgenics

Who knew a challenging turn-based roguelike like Mewgenics was also going to become a cozy little home-design simulator? Not me! And yet I couldn’t be happier!

There’s something satisfying about stacking and sorting, making space and watching your malformed little beauties run about. Whether it’s sweet little side tables, strange glowing bottles radiating green light, or even cabinets made of gore and rotting flesh, there’s a little something for every cat here. How charming!

Collecting furniture and improving your house is one of the most impactful things you can do in Mewgenics, so let’s take a look at the benefits that furniture gives and how to hoard as much of it as possible!

How to Get Furniture

NPC trading

You’ll notice that at the start of the game, your house is pretty bare. What kind of cat wants to run around an empty house, right?

You’ll be introduced to the mechanics of furniture by Baby Jack, one of the bizarre NPCs. Every Sunday, he will restock his shop and offer different kinds of furniture for you to buy.

If you send him cats that have injuries, he will stock an extra item the next time his selection changes! While not every piece of furniture is super useful, some of the pieces Jack sells can be pretty game-changing! Be sure to keep a good amount of coins on hand, just in case one of those rare pieces comes by!

And just in case you thought your initial house was getting full, you can also expand it by giving Frank retired cats, allowing your collection to grow. But this isn’t just for aesthetic purposes; you can separate cats into different rooms to stop them breeding with certain others. If your cats become too inbred, they will develop pretty detrimental birth defects, which can ruin their stats.

Furniture from Adventures

However, using your well-earned cash isn’t the only way to get furniture. You can, in fact, get it from doing runs, too!

If you enjoy doing the hard routes in Act 1, you might have noticed that sometimes you’ll get a choice between grabbing a rare chest with a random item in it or a little box. This box is called the furniture box and can be equipped for your cat, granting +8 shield and -5 speed.

However, there is really very little point in equipping this box, unless you’re in desperate need of some defense, and you think your run is going to fail without this boost. You can mitigate the speed debuff with teleporting spells and abilities, but it’s still a last-ditch solution.

Instead, simply keep the box in your inventory. Once your team returns home, the box will open, and you will receive a random piece of furniture. Generally, it will be a simple piece, but it can be worth up to about 100 coins, so this box is pretty important to keep. You can grab up to 2 boxes per run, so play safe with them.

Once you reach Act 2 in the Bunker and the Crater, you can find Rare Furniture Boxes that have even more valuable pieces inside. I brought one of these back from a successful Core run and opened a Candlestick that gave me +4 Appeal.

Using your Furniture

Stats and Bonuses

So, now you’ve got a good amount of furniture, just what on earth can you do with it? Well, if you hover over the individual piece, you’ll notice that each one gives you plus or minus stats. The stats and their effects are as follows:

• Appeal: Pieces that grant appeal stats affect the whole house, unlike the stats that follow. Placing one of these affects the quality of the cats that arrive at your house at the start of each new day. Higher appeal will cause them to generally have better base stats and more powerful passive abilities.
• Comfort: Items that give comfort will improve the likelihood that cats inside this room will mate and produce kittens, as well as bolster the chance that 2 kittens will be born instead of just 1. The more comfortable cats are, the less likely they are to fight with each other. Having too many cats in 1 room will make it less comfortable. Having a clean room is important too!
• Stimulation: If you’re looking to breed some powerful kittens, stimulation is crucial. The higher the stimulation, the more likely parents are to pass down their important stats, abilities and mutations. This is more powerful later on in the game when mutations are more common.
• Health: Health stats on an item increase the chance that injuries will heal overnight. Injuries are pretty common and can be inflicted when cats fight in the house or when your cat goes down on an adventure run. Injuries decrease your stats, so these should be avoided at all costs. In addition, having a dirty environment will also decrease Health.
• Mutation: A piece that offers a mutation bonus will make it more likely for cats to mutate and evolve during the night. Mutations can give powerful bonuses like increased stats and extra effects during your attacks. However, these furniture items are more likely to have negative effects, such as reducing Health and Comfort, so be careful not to add too many.

Item Placement

Certain furniture items with flat surfaces will allow you to place other items on top of them. Stacking multiple pieces of furniture will allow you to fit as much as possible into one room and improve the quality of the cats in the room.

Items are separated into floor pieces (tables, chairs, and lamps) and wall pieces (posters, paintings, and shelves), etc. If you want to rearrange your room, simply drag the items into the panel on the left and try a new configuration.