Catte

"A bucket has suddenly been placed on top of you.."

Template:Gootraxian Catte (pronounced simply as Cat) is an orange feline Gootraxian that wears an orange bucket similar in coloring on its head. They have pure white eyes and light creamsicle underbellies, neck fur and inner ears. They usually have their left ear covered by their bucket hats.

Players infected by a Catte do not have a bucket on their head like those infected normally do, but they are able to pick up new orange buckets.

Abilities

Bucket Drop (Death)

When killed, the bucket from the Catte's head will drop to the ground, waiting to acquire a new host to transform.

Eject

They may eject the bucket they have on their own, but will take 15 HP damage in the process. The Catte is able to re-obtain their bucket by finding another one and stepping on it, which does not include the recently ejected bucket or a bucket dropped via another player. The ejected bucket will despawn after a period of time if no one picks it up.

If a Catte with low health attempts to eject their bucket, the text "Your health is way too low.." will appear, preventing them from killing themselves via the ability.

Catte's eject ability.
Catte's new eject animation.

Transformation (Blackout Only)

They can transform into a Buck during Blackouts if they obtain a black bucket. The orange bucket must be ejected to equip the black buckets, otherwise the buckets will disappear but you will not wear it.

Spill

When a Catte has Eject equipped, the player may press the key G (PC) or a UI button (mobile) to create an orange puddle. If stepped in, these puddles deal 30 damage per instance, which may be reduced to 18 if the individual is wearing a Hazmat Suit. Puddles may be increased in size when using the ability on a preexisting one. Creating a puddle deals 10 damage to the Catte, while expanding an existing puddle deals 1.75.

Puddles may be stepped in multiple times by survivors, but the puddles disappear after 15 seconds.

If attempted to be used with Grab or Attack the game will state "You need to have Eject equipped to use your ability."

Catte spilling the bucket, leaving behind a dangerous puddle.

Catte spilling the bucket, leaving behind a dangerous puddle.

Acquirement

Catte can be acquired by walking over an orange bucket from anywhere in the map, losing all health to a Catte puddle or by being directly infected by another Catte Gootraxian, though you won't have the bucket upon infection for the latter two. It takes about 23 seconds to be infected after putting on the orange bucket.

Tips

Please note that most things listed in this section are not objective, and are not the "Correct" way to use them. This section is used to give advice to players who want to learn how to use their tools more efficiently.

Catte is very good at shutting down large areas of the map via covering it in buckets and puddles, so it's recommended to set up a puddle in a place where a lot of humans travel through, such as the Cafe Gate, Hound Room, and Garden.
Your puddles only last around 15 seconds, so it's usually not a good idea to leave your puddle's general area unless you either have another Catte take care of it or don't care about the puddle disappearing.
It is impossible for Catte to put puddles anywhere inside the Flooded Area and Bathrooms, so it's not recommended to be near those areas unless you don't plan on staying.
For easy access to playing as Buck, it's usually a good idea to just play as Catte and wait until the event starts, rather than playing another Gootraxian and trying to guess when it happens.
- Catte's unique ability to create puddles on the floor allows you to secure yourself an area to wait near buckets instead of resorting to using the smaller puddles around the map.
  - Due to the fact that Catte's abilities are more versatile and easily usable, while Buck's are more difficult and event-locked, some would prefer to avoid playing as Buck if they have a high infect streak.

Bestiary Entry

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Trivia

File:Spill BOOM.gif

An appropriate punishment.

Catte were the first kind of Gootraxian to have the ability of leaving behind a transmogrifying item after death, this item being its bucket.
- They were originally going to have traffic cones instead of buckets<ref>https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/510886407770734645/992367705745264650/unknown.png, https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/510886407770734645/992368161938747522/unknown.png Cone heads, April 12 2021.</ref>, but this was changed during their development due to similarities to a transfur from a different game.
  - This was most likely reworked into the Slime Pups and their ability to wear traffic cones on their head for extra HP.
If you use the Overseer machete skin and kill a Catte if they have a bucket, the bucket will turn invisible, making it act like an invisible "landmine".
- This applies to other Gootraxians that also drop a transmogrifying item after death.
Catte's redesign was released in V3.1<ref>https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/510886407770734645/992367950512271440/unknown.png Update log of Catte's redesign, September 13 2021.</ref>.
When a Catte turns into a Buck, its face will briefly change to its death face.
In the Experimental Build, there is a badge called Trick Shot that is obtained by ejecting its bucket and having it land straight up. If done correctly, the bucket drops a few credits, shoots out confetti and a text saying "PERFECT FLIP!" will appear above it.
- If the bucket lands on it's top instead of it's bottom, the confetti and badge will not appear, but the "PERFECT FLIP!" text will be replaced by either "SO CLOSE!" or "ALMOST THERE!"
- This feature has since been added to the main game in the V3.1 Late Winter Update, but you will not be rewarded with a badge upon landing the bucket.
They are the only Gootraxian that are able to turn into a different Gootraxian without dying.
- In this case, Catte turns into Buck.
Attempting to use Spill in the bathroom stalls will blow up the Catte trying to do so.

Bugs

Currently, there's a bug where if you pick up a Catte bucket and get transfured in a Catte puddle, the bucket will be flung out of your head, but you will still have the "Eject" ability.
There's certain area of the map where Catte will not be able to place puddles.