Virtual What

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For all 0 people who asked us to add a virtual pet to our game, it's here!! <ref>[1]</ref>

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
20.0cm	Physical What	File:Physical what.png
24.0cm	Basketball	File:What basketball.png
29.8cm	Kelp	File:What kelp.png
38.0cm	Bowling Pin	File:What bowling pin.png
50.0cm	Bandicoot	File:What bandicoot.png
75.0cm	Coughing Baby (1yo)	File:What coughing baby 1yo.png

1.00m ~ 4.50m
Size	Object	Image
1.00m	Baseball bat	File:What baseball bat.png
1.30m	Large Boulder the size of a Small Boulder	File:What large boulder the size of a small boulder.png
1.75m	Hakuno	File:What hakuno.png
2.25m	Xmas tree
3.00m	Tiger	File:Tiger.png
4.50m	Car	File:Car.png

6.10m ~ 30.0m
Size	Object	Image
6.10m	First Hydrogen Bomb
8.00m	House	File:What house.png
11.6m	T-Rex
15.0m	HOLLYWOOD sign height	File:What h.png
20.0m	Leedsichthys (largest known fish)	File:What leedsichthys.png
30.0m	Blue Whale	File:What blue whale.png

45.0m ~ 184.0m
45.0m	Luxury yacht	File:What luxury yacht.png
68.0m	Commercial Airliner (wingspan)	File:What commercial airliner wingspan.png
96.0m	Big Ben	File:What big ben.png
110.0m	Football field	File:What football field.png
147.0m	Great Pyramid of Giza (original size)	File:What giza.png
184.0m	Space Needle	File:What space needle.png

27.00km ~ 530.0km
27.00km	Large Hadron Collider
42.20km	Marathon
107.4km	Paper folded 30 times
213.0km	Phoebe (Saturn moon)
446.0km	Grand Canyon
530.0km	Neo Metro City	File:What neo metro city.png

879609km ~ ???
879609km	Paper folded 43 times	File:Paper folded 43 times.png
1392680km	Sun
149750000km	Distance Earth to Sun (AU)	File:What distance earth to sun au.png

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:

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  Floppy hat

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  Cap

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  Top hat

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  Beanie

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  Christmas hat

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  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.

File:Old Tiger.png

Tiger's old sprite

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