Whiskerwood | Episode 1 | Guide for Complete Beginners

Establish a home for your industrious mice under the oppressive paw of your cat overlords in this city builder featuring complex simulations, intricate production chains, and the age-old rivalry between cat and mouse. In this guide for complete beginners to Whiskerwood, I will start a brand new game and walk you through the basics of the controls, the UI, how to manage your whiskers, build, harvest, pay taxes, grow, survive the winter, recruit villagers, and general tips and tricks to help you survive. This is a completely non-spoiler guide, meant only to help you learn the fundamentals so you can explore and enjoy the surprises Whiskerwood offers on your own. This guide is meant for you to play along or watch to hear my thought process and see how everything is done within the flow and context of an actual game. Chapters/Timestamps: 00:00:00 Whiskerwood introduction and game mechanics 00:00:40 Guide's goal: survive the first winter 00:00:53 Controls, UI, and survival tips 00:01:27 Game setup: difficulty and map size 00:02:27 Selecting your mouse crew 00:03:40 Always start with an apprentice 00:04:11 Understanding mouse statistics 00:07:40 Choose an island to start 00:07:58 Build the Trade Dock first 00:08:45 Camera and movement explained 00:12:10 Placing the Trade Dock 00:13:06 Use spacebar to pause time 00:13:41 Whiskers are mice, Claws are cats 00:14:03 Recruit whiskers, manage taxes 00:14:58 Warehouse stores tax goods 00:15:35 Build warehouse near dock 00:17:12 Unloading starting supplies 00:18:05 Resources acceptable for tax payment 00:20:30 Check the debt screen 00:21:38 Main UI hub overview 00:24:14 Colony office and tax report 00:25:56 Immediate goals: food, logs, mine 00:26:23 Build resource extraction camps 00:26:48 Place the wood cutter 00:28:31 Build steep stairs for access 00:29:44 Marking trees for chopping 00:31:25 Build a forage hut 00:32:47 Industry before building houses 00:33:29 Place a mining camp 00:36:36 Quest: assign two miners 00:37:14 Assign workers to facilities 00:38:38 Build log cabins for happiness 00:39:23 Stacking houses vertically 00:39:53 Recruiting new whiskers with approval 00:41:43 Resources counted at main warehouse 00:44:05 Mining and using slice view 00:47:27 Indication of stackable buildings 00:48:02 Denser housing is easier to heat 00:48:33 Overtime work option 00:49:16 Town Hall requires planks 00:51:07 Supply ship choices 00:52:48 Plank paths for vertical travel 00:55:16 Trade copper ore for taxes 00:56:32 Plan to build a fishing dock 00:57:58 Negative approval reasons 00:59:47 Tax collector (cats) arrives 🔀Full Series Playlist Here:    • Whiskerwood: Guide for Complete Beginners   📀Check out the game on Steam! https://store.steampowered.com/app/24... 🔎Looking for a game to play? Short Game Spotlights: 💡   • Game Spotlight   Monthly Recaps: ✅   • Games of the Month 2025   Support: By Supporting the Channel at any level, you gain access to ad-free livestream VODs, and the Retro Ranch and Longplay Lounge video collections! 🎁 YouTube Membership:    / @drincompetent   🙏 Patreon:   / drincompetent   Connect: 🗣Discord:   / discord   🟪Twitch:   / drincompetentgamer   🟦Facebook:   / drincompetent   Merch, Gear and Recommended Doodads: 🎽Merch: https://dr-incompetent.myspreadshop.com/ 🛒https://www.amazon.com/shop/dr.incomp... 👨‍🏫🎮 About Dr. Incompetent's Gaming Channel 👨‍🏫🎮 Dr. Incompetent aims to teach you how to get better at games while having a blast and maybe exposing you to a game you haven't yet tried--or even heard of by producing gaming guides, tutorials, let's plays, and tips, tricks, and strategies. He also tries out recent hits to determine if they are worth buying. He is more than happy to answer any questions you have about the games covered, either live during his Twitch Stream or in the YT comments below. 👶🕹️👨‍🏫🎮 Dr. Incompetent's Heavily Censored Biography 👶🕹️👨‍🏫🎮 Dr. Incompetent is a college professor by day and gamer by night (and day). He has been playing games since his first ATARI, got hooked on PITFALL 2 and never looked back. He focuses mainly on RPGs, Strategy games, Simulations, ARPGs, and... well he plays pretty much everything ;) He thanks you so profoundly for watching! #whiskerwood #indiegame #drincompetent