Battat

For the green Pippins associated with this minigame, see Small Mike.

Avoid BATTAT and get CATS with MAUS. VOL&SPEED makes BLUECAT, combine for RARECATS!

Instruction screen for Battat

Battat (JP: バタット) is a minigame introduced in Chapter 4 of Deltarune, available on PC, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch devices. Part of a collection of Mike minigames, it is hosted by Small Mike in the TV Studio.

Battat requires the device's mouse and microphone controls to play.

Gameplay

The SOUL is stuck in a square box, constantly moving forwards in an enclosed space. They must avoid the white-outlined meteor obstacles, called Battats, and collect Rarecats for score. Normal Greencats and Bluecats will naturally spawn, but Bluecats cannot be collected and can only be picked up with the MAUS.

The player can control their speed with their microphone's VOLUME. While going fast, Bluecats appear more often, while Greencats stop appearing outside of colliding Bluecats with Battats.

Fuel

The player will have a FUEL meter which constantly goes down 3% every second. Holding a Bluecat also makes the fuel go down faster to ~10% every second instead of the usual 3%. There are ways to gain and lose fuel throughout the minigame, and the game ends when the player is at 0% fuel for 1 second.

When a Rarecat is collected, the default fuel given is handled in the following way:

• If the player has more than 35% fuel, the default fuel given is 10%.
• If the player has between 20% and 35% fuel, the default fuel given is 15%.
• If the player has between 1% and 20% fuel, the default fuel given is 20%.
• If the player is at 0% fuel, the default fuel given is 25%.

Extra fuel is added on depending on what type of Rarecat is collected, and the different amounts are listed in the table below.

Getting hit by a Battat lowers the fuel amount by 40%, while touching the cavern walls at the top and bottom of the screen decrease the fuel amount by 5% every frame.

Rarecats

While holding a Bluecat, the player can merge it with other Bluecats to combine them and increase the held cat's "LEVEL", changing its color to yellow and, with more levels, to red. A collision between a Bluecat and a Battat will create a yellow field that converts all Battats that touch it into Rarecats. The higher the Bluecat's level was, the bigger and longer-lasting the yellow field will be, derived from these formulas:

If the Bluecat's LEVEL was 0 (simply a collision between a Battat and a Bluecat), only the Battat that was collided with will change into a Rarecat. The LEVEL obtained upon impact with a Battat will also increase the chance of getting rarer cats. The formula for rarity is as follows:

Below is a list of all possible Rarecats, their values, and the sound played when collected. (In the "How to Get" column, the one closest to the bottom wins.)

Rarecat type	Score gain	Added fuel amount to default fuel gain	How to get	Sound played
Normal	20	0%	is less than or equal to 100	snd_magicsprinkle
Blue outline	50	5%	is less than or equal to 20	snd_magicsprinkle
Yellow outline	100	15%	is less than or equal to 6	snd_magicsprinkle
Rainbow outline	250	40%	is less than or equal to 1.5	snd_magicsprinkle
Rainbow fire aura	500	80%	is less than or equal to 0.25	snd_cd_bagel_susie
Angel	1500	Sets fuel to 130%.	is less than or equal to 0.01	snd_magicsprinkle snd_cd_bagel_ralsei
White aura angel	5000	Sets fuel to 200%.	is less than or equal to 0.003	snd_magicsprinkle snd_cd_bagel_ralseix2
Orange aura angel	20000	Sets fuel to 250%.	is less than or equal to 0.000005	snd_magicsprinkle snd_cd_bagel_ralseix2
FRIEND	-50000 to +300000	If current fuel is above 20%, set fuel to 20%. Otherwise, set fuel to 1%.	chance that a Orange Aura Angel becomes this instead	snd_hurt1 snd_knight_laughx2

Ranking

Trophies received for Battat depend on the player's high score.

Rank	Score
Bronze	1,000 points
Silver	4,000 points
Gold	8,000 points
Platinum	16,000 points

Creation and development

Andy Brophy is the creator of the Battat and Jongler minigames.

Battat was teased in /rarecats/ from the Spamton Sweepstakes Silence links. The cats and FRIEND appear and can be combined in a similar fashion to the full minigame.

Noelle's experience in the /rain/ page of finding a cat that gives negative points in the Cat Petters minigames and making her lose instantly aligns with what happens when the player collects FRIEND in Battat, and the same thing happening when FRIEND appears in the "rarecats" link.

Trivia

• The name Battat may come from either "batte", which is French for a "baseball bat", or "battant", which is French for a "fighter", given that the minigame involves hitting the white-outlined "battats" with leveled-up bluecats.