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Craft \"Furniture\" cats love\n2. Use the fishing rod to fill up the \"Fish\"\n3. \"Turn off screen\" rest up and coming back later\n4. Cat Appeared!!\n\n- Tap the tree on the right, collect wood and build furniture!\n- Go fishing to fill up your fish inventory. Every time cats visit, they'll gobble up your fish.\n- You'll acquire items through fishing or kitty's gifts. Upgrade using these items!\n- Swipe from the right corner of the screen (like flipping pages in a book) to go to \"Archive\".\n- Complete your Archives to acquire a Special Album.\n- Use Furniture Collection when you're out of woods!\n\n※ Craft secret furniture (Gold?) to discover a new place!\n\n\n■ Cloud Save\n- Saved to cloud, not a server. Save/link your data to Game Center to keep your progress safe.\n- Setting > Apple ID > iCloud > iCloud Drive \"ON\"\n\n\n****** IMPORTANT ******\n- Make sure the device time is [Set Automatically]. If you change the device time manually, game data may be permanently deleted.\n\n\n****** FAQ ******\nQ. I tried fishing, but didn't get any items.\nA. Once you've acquired all the items (Shards, Assembly Parts), you can no longer get any items.\n\nQ. I used an Archive Shard, but the blank spaces still remain.\nA. When you use an Archive Shard, only 1 blank space will be removed.\n\nQ. I've completed the Profile Archive, but I'm still getting Shards!\nA. There are extra Shards in the game (Around 20.) 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