Virtual What

Developer	Anarch Entertainment
Publisher	Anarch Entertainment
Engine
Version
Platform	Mobile
Release Date	April 1, 2024
Genre	Virtual Pet
Mode	Single player
Languages	English, Japanese
Rating
Media	Digital
System Requirements

For all 0 people who asked us to add a virtual pet to our game, it's here!!

Description

Virtual What (stylized as 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡) is a virtual pet included in NOISZ STΔRLIVHT as a bonus minigame. In it, you can raise your very own What.

𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 is accessible after clearing Chapter 2.IV by tapping on the What button on the main menu.

Stats

Your What has 10 main stats. These have a numeric value, randomized on adoption:

• Majestic
• Sassy Points
• Gender Power
• Hairball
• Chaos Animal
• Winning Smile
• Friendship
• Nyan Energy
• Dunk Accuracy
• Catastrophic

It is also possible to name your What through the Stats screen.

Size

Your What also has a Size stat, measured in cms (20.0cm initially). This size affects how big the sprite appears on the screen, although not to scale. By tapping on the What button inside the stats screen, you can see how big your What is in comparison to other common, well known objects:

20.0cm ~ 75.0cm
Size	Object	Image	Description
20.0cm	Physical What		Due to it's simple design, it was possible to manufacture it as an actual plush toy. For some reason, the initial test batch are actual slightly smaller than the others (subsequent batches share a design proof), so some members of the dev team have a smaller one.
24.0cm	Basketball		Though it's one of the most popular sports in the world today, basketball was originally invented in 1891 as a rainy day gym class activity. Since basketballs obviously didn't exist at the time, it was first played with a soccer ball.
29.8cm	Kelp		Grace's beloved plush toy. At one point, Kelp had the Japanese name "Konbu-kun" which is literally "kelp" but also evocative of a "small Genbu".
38.0cm	Bowling Pin		Bowling has an incredibly long history--bowling balls and depictions of the game from 3200 BC were found in Egypt. When bans were placed on nine-pin bowling in the early 1800s due to associations with gambling, everyone just added a 10th pin, resulting in the modern ten-pin form of the game.
50.0cm	Bandicoot		At only 12 days, the Eastern Barred Bandicoot has one of the shortest gestation periods of any mammal! ...But you missed one box...
75.0cm	Coughing Baby (1yo)		Bronchiolitis is the most common reason for infant hospitalizations, and presents with coldlike systems, such as coughing, runny nose, and fever. Seeking medical attention is recommended if the child is under 3 months old, has difficulty breathing, or has other risk factors such as being born prematurely or having a heart condition.

1.00m ~ 4.50m
Size	Object	Image	Description
1.00m	Baseball bat		In the mid-19th century (the rules of baseball were first published in 1848), batters were expected to whittle their own bats, resulting in a variety of different designs. The rule that bats had to be round was only added in 1893. Of course, today, there are far more restrictions on the design.
1.30m	Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder		Technically, rocks greater than 25.6cm are classified as boulders, so maybe this is actually a small boulder the size of a small boulder...?
1.75m	Hakuno		A girl who loves cats. What first appears as her LUNE avatar, drawn by herself as a pun on her name. Surely she'd be excited to see it's become so big!
2.25m	Xmas tree		The concept of the Christmas tree is said to have originated in the 16th century, possibly started by Martin Luther. Early instances were decorated with apples, representing the forbidden fruit of the tree of knowledge, but these were later replaced with the round ornaments seen today.
3.00m	Tiger		Though you'd expect the only difference to be coloration, white Bengal tigers are actually slightly larger (up to about 3m) than the common orange variety (up to about 2.8m). Something to think about next time no future world destroyer carbon fiber annihilator
4.50m	Car		Cars are actually getting bigger over time: the average car sold in America has increased about 10% in size over the last decade. It's unlikely they'll catch up to your Virtual What anytime soon, though.

6.10m ~ 30.0m
Size	Object	Image	Description
6.10m	First Hydrogen Bomb		The first hydrogen bomb was named "Ivy Mike" constructed in 1952 was housed in a sausage-shaped container that was 6.1m tall. The image shown here is not of that, but of the first Atomic bomb which was constructed in 1945, as it is difficult to find clear images of Ivy Mike (as they are classified).
8.00m	House		The letter "B" was originally derived from the Egyptian hieroglyph for the word "house". Of course, the concept of a house itself predates any writing system, with a house dating back to around 5000 BC being excavated in Iraq.
11.6m	T-Rex		Though the relatively tiny arms don't seem especially practical, at only a meter long, they're believed to have actually been extremely strong: a T-Rex could lift 199 kg with its biceps alone. What were they used for? It's unclear, but proposed functions include grabbing and slashing prey.
15.0m	HOLLYWOOD sign height		The original height of the landmark and cultural icon overlooking Los Angeles, California. Erected in 1923 as an advertisement for nearby real estate and written as "HOLLYWOODLAND", the "LAND" part was removed in 1949 as the area itself became more well known. The entire thing was actually replaced in 1979 with a more durable slightly smaller (13.7m) version...
20.0m	Leedsichthys (largest known fish)		Leedsicthys lived during the late Jurassic period, so it's only known through fossils. However, large parts of the fish's skeleton (not uncommonly for fish) were made entirely of cartilage and consequently didn't fossilize, so there's a substancial amount of ambiguity about its actual structure and size. Previously believed to be over 30m long, more recent research has demoted it in length.
30.0m	Blue Whale		Thanks to an abundance of food and being unchallenged in its ecological niche, it's widely recognized to be the largest animal to have ever lived - but those people clearly haven't met your What.

45.0m ~ 184.0m
Size	Object	Image	Description
45.0m	Luxury yacht		The definition of a "yacht" is actually somewhat vague, although one requirement is that they're at least 10m in length. The largest yacht in the world as of this writing, Somnio, is 222m long and has 39 apartments that are being sold at prices starting from 20 million euros.
68.0m	Commercial Airliner (wingspan)		The first airliner, the Russky Vityaz, was developed in Russia in 1914. Though it was intended for mass transport, it was never ended up being used for this purpose due to World War 1 starting shortly afterward, and was adapted into a bomber instead.
96.0m	Big Ben		The iconic British landmark tower that housed Great Clock of Westminister, completed in 1859. Technically, Big Ben is the name of the bell that resides within the tower and not the tower itself, which was simply named "The Clock Tower" until it was renamed "Elizabeth Tower" in 2012.
110.0m	Football field		It's a pretty interesting factoid that UK football (soccer) fields are on average between 100 and 130 yards (91-118m) long, while American football fields are standardized at 120 yards (109.9m) long. So no matter which kind of football you're talking about, the length would be more or less the same!
147.0m	Great Pyramid of Giza (original size)		Created to serve as the tomb of the pharoh Khufu, it remained the tallest manmade structure on Earth for a little over 3800 years. 147 metres was the estimated size at its inception, but it has become smaller over time due to being worn down by weather, etc.
184.0m	Space Needle		The name refers to the upper disk being designed to resemble a UFO. Other proposed names included "Star Tickler", "Top Hat", and "Big Stookum". A total of 6 people have parachuted off the Space Needle, but two of them failed to get authorization for their stunt in advance and were arrested afterward.

205.0m ~ 979.0m
Size	Object	Image	Description
205.0m	Suez Canal		Delineating the border between Africa and Asia, the Suez Canal is a key trade route through which 30% of global container traffic passes, famously blocked in 2021 by a ship experiencing mechanical issues. At 205m, your What can now neatly fit inside its widest point, causing another global trade crisis if it so desires.
330.0m	Eiffel Tower		The iconic Parisian structure was constructed in 1889 for the World's fair. It was originally intended to be torn down after the event, but people just liked it too much. At it's creation, it stood as the tallest manmade structure for 41 years.
634.0m	Tokyo Sky Tree		The Tokyo Skytree is the Kanto region's primary TV and radio broadcast site, replacing Tokyo Tower in this function after the construction of several other tall buildings reduced the latter's broadcasting coverage. As the third tallest structure in the world, it's unlikely that the Skytree will suffer a similar fate anytime soon.
762.5m	Small island named "Big Island"		It's unclear why it was named this when it's not very big. As of this writing, the whole island is currently on sale for around $200k.
828.0m	Tallest Buildings		As of July 2025, the tallest manmade structure on Earth is a certain skyscraper in Dubai.
979.0m	Salto Ángel		Salto Ángel, also known as Angel Falls, is possibly the world's tallest uninterrupted waterfall. There is some uncertainty as to whether or not South Africa's Tugela Falls is taller.

1.20km ~ 12.50km
Size	Object	Image	Description
1.20km	Barringer Crater		A crater formed about 50000 years ago by a 50m meteorite. Craters are rare on Earth, since they erode relatively quickly in most of Earth's environments. The dry climate in Arizona has allowed this one to remain to this day.
2.40km	Steel Dragon 2000		The world's longest rollercoaster. Located at the Nagashima Spa Land amusement park in Kuwana, Mie (Japan) and opening to the public on August 1st, 2000, at the time of it's creation it broke several world records, including the tallest and fastest complete circuit coaster. Although it no longer holds most of its records, it is still the longest at 2479m.
3.60km	Face on Mars		Located in a region of Mars named "Cydonia", this face-like structure has attracted considerable attention after being photographed by the Viking orbiter in 1976. Humans are naturally predisposed to recognize faces even when there are none present, in a phenomenon known as pareidolia.
4.17km	Mauna Loa (Largest Volcano)		It's name means "Long Mountain" in Hawaiian, and it is the world's largest active volcano. It's also fairly active, as of writing, its most recent eruption was in December 2022!
8.85km	Mt. Everest		It's the highest mountain in the world. The first documented ascent of the peak was made in 1953, though some believe that a 1924 expedition that never returned managed to reach the top before perishing.
12.50km	Chicxulub impactor		This is the size of the asteroid that struck the earth roughly 66 million years ago, leaving a crated currently buried under what is now the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico. It's believed to have caused the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event that wiped out most species of dinosaur.

27.00km ~ 530.0km
Size	Object	Image	Description
27.00km	Large Hadron Collider		True to it's name, the Large Hadron Collider is the biggest particle accelerator in the world. By contrast, the world's smallest particle accelerator features an acceleration tube only 0.5 millimeters long, and 1/400th the width of a human hair.
42.20km	Marathon		In Greek legend, the messenger Pheidippides ran all the way from the town of Marathon to Athens without stopping in order to report their victory in battle over the Persians, after which he collapsed and died. The length of the marathon races is based on his presumed route, though it seems like a rather weird story to model a race on...
107.4km	Paper folded 30 times		This refers to folding the paper in half (doubling its thickness), of course. A popular science TV show once had an episode involving folding a piece of paper 11 times. In order to accomplish this, the sheet of paper was the size of a football field.
213.0km	Phoebe (Saturn moon)		Phoebe was the first moon to be discovered specifically through photography, in 1899 (though the photos had been taken in 1898). It's the 9th largest of Saturn's insane collection of 274 confirmed moons.
446.0km	Grand Canyon		Due to the massive variance in elevation, the Grand Canyon features so much ecological diversity that it's comparable to what you'd see traveling all the way between Canada and Mexico.
530.0km	Neo Metro City		At around the size of the entire NY tri-state area, it'd be the largest city in the world if it existed in real life. However, it's only virtual like your What, so it's okay for it to be this big.

616.0km ~ 8000.0km
Size	Object	Image	Description
616.0km	Lake Superior		Lake Superior is so big that 10% of the world's combined fresh water in rivers and lakes is in this one alone. It's more than a third of the area of the entirety of the UK.
496.0km	Ceres (Dwarf planet)		Discovered in 1801, Ceres was the first known asteroid in what is now the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. It is extremely large for an asteroid, making up an entire 40% of the mass of said asteroid belt, and earning it the classification of Dwarf Planet.
1430.0km	Makemake		The most recently discovered dwarf planet in the solar system. Being even further from the Sun than Pluto, it has an incredibly cold surface temperature of 40 K. It's believed that it's surface could be covered with solid methane, ethane, and nitrogen.
2376.0km	Pluto		Once the outermost planet in our solar system, and the subject of heated debate regarding that classification - mainly due to the requirements for a planet being updated to include needing to have cleared the surrounding area in its orbit. Similarly sized or larger objects were found in similar orbits, leading to the discovery of what is now known as the Kulper Belt.
3474.0km	Moon		The most prevalent hypothesis about the formation of the Moon is that the Earth was hit by a Mars-sized object (called the Theia Impactor), causing the entire planet to be liquified and splashing a disk of debris into orbit which gradually pieced itself into two Moons (the smaller one later got smushed onto the larger one's surface, resulting in the different terrain of the far side of the Moon).
8000.0km	Africa (top to bottom)		The most commonly drawn maps use the Mercator Projection, which vastly underrepresents the size of Africa on the map while exaggerating the size of landmasses at the poles. The African continent, from top to bottom, is more than twice moon's diameter!

12742km ~ 384400km
Size	Object	Image	Description
12742km	Earth		Although 71% of Earth's surface is covered in water, said water makes up only about 0.13% of its total volume. Instead, the planet is mostly made of rocks. As a result, surprisingly, the Earth is the densest planet in the Solar System.
21196km	Great Wall(s) of China (combined length)		The "Great Wall of China" is actually not one singular wall, but an indeterminate number of walls mostly built between the years 1368-1644. While it is commonly cited that the walls are visible from space, it is quite difficult to actually verify this claim.
29000km	Saturn Hexagon		It's actually made of atmospheric gases, rather than being a solid object. It's large enough that you can view it with a regular commercially available telescope. Experiments at Oxford have shown that with the right flow conditions, it's theoretically possible to similarly form a triangle or octagon.
42164km	High Earth Orbit		A distance from earth mostly used by communications satellites, where the main advantage is an unobstructed view of the entire planet. It takes a lot of energy, time, and money to put objects into orbit this far from Earth, so it's generally not worth it.
139822km	Jupiter		This gas giant is the largest planet in our solar system. Not only is it extremely large, it's also spinning extremely fast! Did you know that one day on Jupiter is only 10 Earth hours long?
384400km	Distance Earth to Moon		There is a surprisingly large distance between the Earth and the Moon. It's not usually portrayed this way in fiction, but this distance could fit the moon 110 times! It could even fit Jupiter almost three times over, though that would no doubt cause a lot of problems.

879609km ~ 24000000000km
Size	Object	Image	Description
879609km	Paper folded 43 times		Did you know that paper was invented in China in the year 105AD, but was kept secret for many years? Anyway, if you fold an extremely long piece of paper 43 times, you could climb it to reach the moon! How has no one thought of this before??
1392680km	Sun		Surprisingly, the Sun's atmosphere is far hotter than its surface--from millions of kilometers away, you'll find temperatures over 1000000 kelvins, while on the surface itself, it's "only" around 6000.
149750000km	Distance Earth to Sun (AU)		This is actually an average value, because the Earth's orbit is elliptical. This distance is actually so long that sunlight takes about 8 minutes to reach the Earth!
1200000000km	UY Scuti (largest known star)		UY Scuti is so big that if it was placed where the Sun is, Mars would immediately be completely inside it! Though UY Scuti has about 750 million times the volume, its mass is believed to only be about 10 times the Sun's. As a result, it's mostly empty space. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to find a less dense substance that isn't a vacuum in general!
14100000000km	Solar System (radius)		The dwarf planet Sedna is roughly this distance from the Sun, although it has an abnormally elliptical orbit. Based on some abnormalities in the orbit of distant objects in the solar system, some astronomers believe a ninth planet exists about 5 times the distance away, but it has yet to be observed.
24000000000km	Voyager 1 distance (from Earth)		After being launched in 1977, this distance is, in fact, still continually increasing. It's projected that by November 2026, Voyager 1 will be one light day from Earth.

0.018 ly ~ ?
Size	Object	Image	Description
0.018ly	Schwarzschild radius		The Schwarzschild radius of an object is the radius of its event horizon if it was a black hole, and is used instead of a size measurement for black holes, as the singularity of a black hole has zero volume and infinite density.
0.190ly	Paper folded 64 times		The average sheet of paper is 0.1mm thick. Assuming you were able to fold it over 64 times (doubling its height every time), you would eventually reach a stack around almost 0.2 light years tall. Of course, to do this, the paper would have to be at least that long to begin with, and the current world record for the most times a single piece of paper has been folded in half is 12, but don't sweat the details.
1.073ly	TON 618 (Largest known black hole)		TON 618's mass is around 40 billion times the mass of the sun, which means it's actually more like 10^38 tons.
2.925ly	Scissors folded 64 times (beats paper)		Logistics of folding scissors that many times aside, the assumption is that the blade is the part that folds, with the average blade being around 1.5mm thick.
4.217ly	Distance to Proxima Centauri		Proxima Centauri's name references the fact that it's currently the closest star to our Sun, but that's due to change in about 25000 years when it moves further away than Alpha Centauri AB. Will it lose its name when this happens? Who knows!
4.291ly	Whay		Not actually an object, just the biggest known Virtual What so far.
10.570ly	Crab Nebula

Mechanics

Wander

By entering the 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 mode, you will be able to see your What wander around the screen. It will also occasionally blink.

Acquiring kibble

Your What eats kibble. Kibble can be acquired by playing songs using free COINZ to Boost. Kibble is displayed on the 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 screen, and it comes in different colours:

Kibble colours
Primary additive colours	Red	Green	Blue
Primary subtractive colours	Yellow	Magenta	Cyan
Tertiary colours	Orange	Lime	Mint
	Azure	Purple	Rose
Grayscale	White	Dark gray	Gray
	Light gray
Non-binary flag	Violet
Bisexual flag	Cerise	Orchid	Indigo
Trans flag	Cerulean	Light pink
Lesbian flag	Dark orange	Light orange	Mulberry
	Red violet
Asexual flag	Eggplant
Aromantic flag	Forest green	Light green
Skin colours	Light skin	Medium-light skin	Medium skin
	Medium-dark skin	Dark skin

The list of kibble is sorted by colour, and always follows the same order. If you have multiple of the same kibble, they stack.

The amount of kibble obtained depends on how many free COINZ were used for Boosting. It is always 1 kibble per COINZ, but you can use several to get more kibble in a single run. Using more COINZ other than the daily free ones does not count towards kibble; you only get 1 kibble per free COINZ. You will get kibble even if you fail the song, unlike regular items.

Feeding

Once every 11 hours, it is possible to feed your What some kibble. Feeding it will increase some of its stats, and its size will increase. Through the "Feed kibble" menu, it is also possible to reroll the colour by spending COINZ.

An exclamation mark will appear on the What button on the main menu when it is time to feed your What. It is also possible to enable notifications so you get a notification for feeding time even when the game is closed.

By tapping on the counter, your What will open its mouth, and you will be able to see what kibble colours you have used so far, from right to left.

wHats

After feeding your What 5 times, you will unlock a wearable Hat (AKA a wHat). The colour of the kibble used affects the hat you unlock. wHats are divided into 5 sections, and each kibble decides the colour of each of these sections, starting from the top. The same colour may be used multiple times, but if they are consecutive they are treated differently. Depending on the number of different colours, a different asset might be used to generate the wHat, which might use different sections when assigning the colours to the wHat.

wHats come in different shapes:

• 

  Floppy hat

• 

  Cap

• 

  Top hat

• 

  Beanie

• 

  Christmas hat

• 

  Oskari hat

wHats are displayed on the 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 screen, as well as the current unlock progress. You can put a wHat on your What, or incinerate it to get ashes and kibble. Incinerating a wHat yields 5 ashes and 1 kibble.

You can put on several wHats at the same time, stacking them up.

Oskari hat can only be produced by feeding What two purples, one dark gray, and two more purples. It will automatically assume the correct shape. There are multiple valid purple colors that can be used.

Petting

By rubbing on your What, you can pet it. Hearts will appear on the screen, and your What's Friendship stat will increase. This value appears separate, indicated by parenthesis as a boost to the base Friendship stat.

Trivia

• 𝑉𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 was originally announced with a tweet on November 30th, 2023. Soon after, another tweet posted on December 1st, 2023 asked for "1 followers by 11/31" to add it to the game.
• The Tiger was originally orange, but was recolored by ktern and replaced in patch 3.121.

Tiger's old sprite