Cages

Cages are placeable decorative furniture items that display animated critters. A critter caught with the Bug Net or is combined with a Terrarium to craft a cage.

Gold cages are regular cages containing gold critters. They sell for each. Aside from the sell price, they are the same as regular cages.

Cages are background furniture, and nothing can be placed on them, nor can they be placed on top of each other. All cages measure either 6 tiles wide by 3 high, or 3 tiles wide by 2 high, and are partially transparent. Cages cannot be opened, broken, or crafted back into their ingredients, so once a critter is crafted into a cage, that particular critter can no longer be released.

There are currently 57 cages in-game, 10 of which are golden variants.

Action patterns
The behavior of a caged critter is described by its action pattern. This pattern, while seemingly random, is based on certain rules and chances. These are visualized below.

Tips

 * Gold critters inside Terrariums sell for the same price as without one, so it may be desirable to sell the animal without a Terrarium.
 * Some critters that have a sell price have no value when placed in a Terrarium.

Trivia

 * Gold Critters have a unique sprite with golden lids and bottoms. So do Gem Critters, with silver lids and bottoms.
 * On the map, when hovered over with the mouse, the Red Squirrel Cage erroneously displays the text "Orange Squirrel Cage".
 * The Penguin's sprite in the Penguin Cage resembles the Baby Penguin, rather than the Penguin used to craft it. This may be due to resolution constraints, which would make it difficult to draw a proper penguin inside the cage's borders.
 * The Truffle Worm Cage's tooltip is, alluding to the fact that the Truffle Worm is very difficult to catch.