Make a woodland cat story without leaving survival behind.

Survival stays survival

An inner game, never a replacement

Participation is optional. Woodland Cats never replaces or rewrites inventory, permissions, normal /team teams, claims, PvP choices, moderation, combat, or collision. Players who do not create a cat profile keep the existing PlushSMP experience.

The goal is original woodland-cat character roleplay fun: make a fictional cat, morph and emote, form a clan, link an existing claim as fictional territory, set a den, describe alliances or rivalries, choose whether to use the roleplay chat channel, and complete gathering quests.

Character workshop

Create and customize a fictional cat

/cat create opens a secure inventory GUI for Java players and a Bedrock form through the existing platform bridge. Text customization remains command-based so every value receives the same permission, moderation, length, and transaction checks.

Custom coats use a vanilla black-cat fallback on Bedrock while retaining the selected collar. Cat names, biographies, clan names, descriptions, and relationship notes are fictional profile text. Keep them family-friendly and never place real personal information in them.

Native cat form

Morph, return, and express yourself

Use /cat morph and /cat unmorph. Your desired state persists and is restored after reconnecting, changing worlds, respawning after death, or other safe refreshes. The visible form changes, but the underlying player hitbox, collision, and normal combat rules do not.

While morphed, equipped helmets, chestplates, leggings, and boots are visually hidden from you and other players so the cat silhouette remains clear. Your real armor stays equipped: protection, attributes, enchantments, durability, death handling, Crown and wearable-stuffy effects, and inventory display all remain normal. Held items are not hidden.

While actively morphed, use /cat emote <sit|lie|stretch|hiss|purr|meow>. Sit and lie are toggled poses, stretch is brief, and hiss, purr, and meow use native cat sounds.

Fictional groups

Woodland clans are not normal teams

Create one with /cat clan create <name> <description>. Clan commands cover invite, invitations, accept or decline <invitation-id>, leave, kick, role, info, disband, territory, den, den go, and relation. Accept and decline require the exact invitation record ID shown by the server.

Woodland clans are a separate fictional roleplay layer from normal /team teams. A chosen profile role may be Guardian, Herbalist, Hunter, or Apprentice. Leader, Deputy, Queen, and Elder are clan-assigned.

A Deputy may perform a limited set of routine clan actions only while the Leader is offline. A Deputy cannot transfer leadership, assign or remove a Deputy, or disband the clan.

Growing characters

Adult and kitten are life stages

/cat create adult creates an adult profile and /cat create kitten creates a kitten Apprentice. Kitten is not an authority role. Kittens use baby versions of all 31 cat appearances and all 16 collars, then mature automatically after exactly 14 real days, including offline time. Maturation keeps the cat as an Apprentice.

Consent and safe movement

Queen relationships and kitten follow

An adult Queen and a kitten Apprentice in the same clan may create one relationship through explicit request and acceptance using /cat family request, requests, accept, decline, cancel, unlink, and status. Either endpoint can end an accepted relationship.

The relationship is fictional roleplay state only. It grants no claim, trust, teleport, moderation, private-chat, account, or real-world guardian authority. A linked kitten may opt into /cat follow on; follow never teleports, loads chunks, bypasses claims, suppresses damage, or changes normal movement authority. It pauses for combat, hazards, obstruction, unsafe ground, unloaded chunks, or invalid relationship state.

Stories over protected land

Claim land, link one clan territory, then set a den

1. Create or choose the protected land. To create a personal claim, run /claim personal, then use the claim tool to right-click two opposite corners. For a team-owned claim, a team Manager can use /claim team. You may instead link a suitable claim you already manage.
2. Check the boundary. Stand inside the finished claim and run /claim visualize. The cat clan territory will use this entire claim, not an independent or larger roleplay boundary.
3. Link the clan's one territory. While still inside the claim, the clan Leader runs /cat clan territory. A Deputy can do this only while the Leader is offline. The command succeeds only when that player has MANAGE authority for the claim.
4. Choose the exact den spot. Walk to a safe location inside the linked claim where clan members should arrive. Stand on solid ground with clear space around you, face the direction arrivals should face, and run /cat clan den.
5. Test it. Run /cat clan den go. Travel is allowed only while the claim, linked territory, arrival permission, world border, and landing spot remain valid.

Territory is a fictional clan label over protected land. It does not transfer claim ownership, add trust, grant building or management access, increase claim count, or increase claim-block allowance. Linking a different claim replaces the old territory and clears the old den, so set the den again inside the newly linked claim.

BlueMap can show the fictional clan name and territory polygon. It does not publish player identities, the roster, den location, or private relationship notes.

Explicit opt-in

A public roleplay channel, not private chat

/cat chat on opts you into both sending and receiving. /cat chat off opts out, and /cat chat <message> sends only after you opt in. This command-based channel does not intercept normal chat.

Woodland chat is not private. The normal family filter, moderation checks, rate and duplicate controls, permissions, and persistent /ignore choices apply. Only other explicitly opted-in participants receive ordinary roleplay messages. Successful Woodland messages are retained internally for up to 90 days under the public conversation policy; private channels are excluded and no public conversation page is active.

Small daily ritual

Gather in linked territory

/cat forage advances the persisted UTC daily gathering goal while you stand inside your clan's active linked territory. /cat quest reports today's progress. Gathering grants roleplay progress only: no Plush Coins and no items.

Conflict-safe presentation

Character identity where it fits

Participating players show their cat name and authoritative role in the sidebar and player list. While morphed, the native cat custom name provides overhead identity. While unmorphed, the normal player overhead name remains unchanged. This avoids competing with the scoreboard presentation already used by PlushSMP.

Client compatibility

No client mod required

Woodland Cats uses native cat forms and works entirely through the server. Java players do not install a client mod.

Java and Bedrock players can use Woodland Cats, though exact visuals and form behavior can vary by device.