Guides
Rat husbandry
Unlock ranching, catch/feed/breed rats, scan genes, harvest meat.
Steps, in order
Site narration
Unlock Rat Wrangler or Ranching
Starting specialization Rat Wrangler (rancher): the player learned the basics of raising rats for meat. Gear listed: Animal Cage, Rats, Food.
Network Ranching: Wild refers a Rat Rancher who visits once a week; immediately receive a Rat Ranching Starter Kit; unlocks rancher content.
Catch or buy stock
Playthroughs: mousetraps can be bought from Dr. Jackson or scavengers, or found in dumping grounds. Left in the store overnight, a rat may appear. Cheese is not required but boosts catch chance (commissary sells cheese). A second guide: cheese not needed but wait longer; a rat should be caught every few days.
Feed (calories) and breed
Husbandry UI shows Stored Calories. Husbandry tabs: Meat / Other.
A longplay reads on-screen rat stats: pregnant, mature, calories, immune compromised, fertility (spoken 50/51/53), growth rate, expected litter, immune strength, longevity, max health, hunger rate, male/female.
Gene Scanner can be toggled on to reveal the full genetic makeup of an animal.
Harvest meat / clean feces
To harvest a trapped rat you need a sharp weapon such as a shiv, kitchen knife, or cleaver. You can breed the rat with another rat or harvest for meat.
Butcher tracker: a running count of the animals butchered.
Vacuum incinerator option burns all stored feces after cleanup.
Related products in the item table: Raw Meat (Standard/Small), Offal, Animal Fat, Meat Cleaver, Skinning Knife ('perfect knife for a veteran rancher'), Processed Cheese (AgeWell also ages cheese).
Items in this system
Gene Scanner
Raw Meat (Standard)
Raw Meat (Small)
Offal
Animal Fat
Meat Cleaver
Skinning Knife
Kitchen Knife
Glass Shiv
Processed Cheese- AgeWell
Where it goes wrong
Site narration
- Playthroughs keep calling out immune-compromised rats and asking others not to catch disease — treat health/immune strength as real UI fields, not as a fully mapped disease model.
- Feces accumulate; the vacuum has an incinerator toggle.
Still open
Site narration
- Whether the mousetrap and the Animal Cage carry an official item id; neither is in the item list this site draws from.
- Gene Scanner UI fields beyond 'full genetic makeup' — the longplay stats are not labeled as scanner output in the caption.
- Whether feces-to-Pure-Water is intended or a demo quirk; 10 ml/poop is one spoken yield.