The CAT Updates

How we track a game with no changelog

Ikigai Cybercore Studios does not publish a public patch-notes feed for The CAT (Roblox: The Cat Shelter). There is no Trello. There is no public Discord invite we can cite. Store-page [UPD] tags, gamepass additions, and server-size changes are the observable record. This hub is that record, not a fake Tuesday blog.

The patch notes page goes deeper on what we refuse to invent. Here we keep a timeline you can scan, then point you at play guides when a store tag does not actually change the loop.

The CAT is a released free-to-play online multiplayer roleplay: Cat versus Caretaker (vet / guard), then feral cat in the city after a breakout. Place 76526090659517, universe 10094225577, group 980379194. If a YouTube title says the game is still unreleased, it is outdated. If it pastes a changelog the studio never wrote, it is fiction.

Timeline

28 April 2026 — launch

The Cat Shelter goes live on Roblox. The pitch is already the one on the store: tease caretakers as a cat or annoy cats as a caretaker, escape the shelter, dig tunnels, steal weapons and keycards, rescue other cats, fight security, then cause chaos as a feral stray. Free to play on the usual Roblox platforms. Role skill, not a battle pass, is the progression. No promo-code system ships with launch — the codes hub is still empty months later.

June 2026 — breakout numbers, then a 29,998 CCU peak

By mid-June the experience is a platform-level roleplay hit. Independent snapshots around 12 June already showed tens of thousands of favorites and visits in the low tens of millions. On 13 June 2026 concurrent players peaked at 29,998. That is the CCU number this wiki will keep using until a higher official peak is published. Latest API snapshot around 13 September 2026 showed about 56.4 million visits and about 666k favorites, with the experience last updated 9 September 2026.

Server size in that window is reported at 24 players. It later moves to 26, which is the current cap. A two-seat bump matters in an asymmetric shelter: two extra cats or two extra caretakers change tunnel traffic and jail pressure. We do not have a studio sentence that says why the cap moved. We have the live server setting and the older 24-player snapshots. That is the whole note. Details of what we can and cannot infer sit on patch notes.

OP passes land on the store

After launch the store grows a high-Robux tier that did not exist as a full board on day one. The current board this wiki documents:

Gamepass	Price (R$)	What we can state
Rainbow Leash	25	Store pass
Bypass Team Limit	79	Lets you ignore the usual team cap
HMG	149	Weapon pass
AWM Sniper	149	Weapon pass
Elite SWAT	249	Caretaker-side kit
CAT HAT Bundle	259	Cosmetic bundle
Boss Mafia Cat	299	Golden AK at the feral base, +60 HP
Elite Cat Surgeon	299	Tranquilizer, +150 HP
Private Jail Cell	399	Personal jail
Premium	399	Perks unpublished
Director	549	Grant weapons to vets
El Gato	549	Perks unpublished

Director, El Gato, Premium, and Private Jail Cell are the ones players shorthand as OP. We list Director’s vet-weapon grant because that is published. We do not invent Premium or El Gato perk lists. If a video recites a twelve-bullet Premium kit, it is guessing. Compare prices on the gamepasses page before you buy; this hub only timestamps that they exist.

9 September 2026 — last observable store and API update

Roblox API and store snapshots around 9 September 2026 are the last movement this wiki treats as confirmed. Visits sit around 56.4 million. Favorites sit around 666k. That is not a written patch. It does not come with a bullet list of bug fixes, map tweaks, or balance changes. Combat scripts that hooked older remotes started failing around the same window, which is typical and not a studio announcement. There are still no public notes and still no promo codes.

If you joined after that tag and something feels different in the sewers, log it as a player report, not as official notes. We will not write The studio buffed the toilet break because a streamer said so.

What still has not appeared

• Promo codes. None as of September 2026. No redeem UI. See How to Redeem only as a hypothetical.
• Public patch notes. Covered on the patch notes page.
• Public Discord invite and Trello. Creator Exchange shows a Discord named The Cat Shelter Community; the invite is unpublished. No Trello board is public. Use official links.
• A second mode that replaces Cat vs Caretaker. The loop is still shelter escape, then feral city.

What a store tag should make you re-learn

When [UPD] lights up, you do not need a novel. You need a short checklist:

1. Confirm you are on place 76526090659517, not The Cat [Alpha] (6114598339), Catch the Cat, or a Cat Shelter clone.
2. Re-test the five escape methods: pickpocket keycard, toilet-to-sewer without a card, dig tunnels/secrets, rare Angel cat jump-out, group rescue. Rankings live on the escape-route tier list.
3. Re-test caretaker tools: taser, Arrest Cat, police baton, shotgun, jail. Start from Caretaker play if you main that role.
4. Glance at the pass board for new rows. Do not assume Premium perks were published just because the price is visible.
5. Ignore script working claims for at least one client cycle.
6. Ignore new-codes videos. The codes hub stays empty until a redeem button exists.

New players should not wait for a patch recap at all. Open Getting Started, controls (sprint is Shift, player-reported), and the guides hub. The escape checklist is more current than a fake changelog.

How this hub will grow

Each future store tag gets a date and a list of observable deltas: server size, new passes, renamed store title, playable-role changes we can reproduce. It will not get flavor text. It will not get a copied patch from a clone game. It will not get Discord-only rumors we cannot link.

Until the studio starts writing notes, the updates beat for The CAT is slow on purpose. Launch in April, a June peak that defined the year, a 24-to-26 seat change, a stack of expensive passes, a 9 September 2026 store and API tag with no essay attached. Play the shelter. Bookmark this page. Come back when the store title changes again — not when a thumbnail says UPDATE with a stolen bullet list.