Neko Atsume: Wallpaper Guide

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What is Neko Atsume?

Neko Atsume is a kitty collecting mobile game in which the player puts down food in their garden to attract lots of different cats. When a specific cat visits your garden enough times, it will leave you a present called a memento. Each one is unique for each cat! The aim of the game is to collect all kitties in your cat book and to collect all mementos from each cat.

How Do I Access the Wallpapers?

You can access the wallpaper by navigating to the shop section, via the in-game menu.

All of the wallpapers cost the same, each one is twenty gold fish. Gold fish can be earned via the cats that visit your garden, they will leave fish after visiting. The player must 'unlock' each wallpaper by achieving specific requirements.

You can download the wallpaper at any time after purchasing it, it will be stored on the player's device under the image file "Neko Atsume".

Wallpaper Number 1: Pumpkin

How to Unlock

There are two requirements to unlocking this wallpaper, they should be relatively easy to achieve with regular gameplay since Snowball is the first cat that you meet, though it may take a while to reach 100 visits if you don't play often:

1. Have Snowball the cat visit your yard 100 times
2. Unlock the cat Pumpkin in your cat book

Wallpaper Number 2: Featuring Multiple Cats

How to Unlock

To unlock this wallpaper you must have lots of different cats visit your yard 40 times each. As long as you have plenty of goodies and check the game multiple times per day, you should unlock this relatively quickly. The cats that need to visit are:

• Snowball
• Gabriel
• Sunny
• Pickles
• Fred
• Ginger

Wallpaper Number 3: Snowball

How to Unlock

This is one of the easiest wallpapers to unlock, as there is only one requirement. However, cats do not have a set amount of times to visit before dropping a memento. Since it is completely random, it could take a while of regular gameplay:

• Obtain Snowball's memento (the flowered collar)

Wallpaper Number 4: Sassy Fran

How to Unlock

This is another wallpaper that only needs one requirement to unlock, however, this is slightly more difficult as it involves a rare cat. To have a rare cat visit your yard frequently, you need to have their favourite goodies out for them. Mementos drop randomly so it may take a short time or a long time before you get it:

• Obtain Sassy Fran's memento (the coffee cup)

Wallpaper Number 5: Featuring Multiple Cats

How to Unlock

The requirements to unlock this wallpaper are quite complex as they were set before future updates, meaning that some cats are exceptions to the rule. These cats will be listed. Mementos drop randomly so there is no way to predict how quickly you will be able to obtain them:

1. Obtain all but four of the regular cats' mementos, i.e. none of the rare cats' mementos count. (This rule excludes Gozer, Willie, Pasty, Chip, Melange and Macchiato).
2. Have all regular cats visit your garden ten times each. None of the rare cats count towards this. (This rules also excludes Gozer, Willie, Pasty, Chip, Melange and Macchiato).

Wallpaper Number 6: Spud

How to Unlock

This is another wallpaper that has two requirements to unlock. Since mementos drop randomly, there is no way to determine how quickly you will be able to obtain them. To ensure that certain cats visit your yard, make sure you have their favourite goodies on display:

1. Obtain Socks' memento (the Small Mittens)
2. Have Ginger, Spud, Marshmallow and Spooky visit your yard 40 times each

Wallpaper Number 7: A Photo Negative

How to Unlock

There is only one requirement to unlock this wallpaper, but it may take a significant amount of time to reach, through semi-regular gameplay. To ensure that these cats visit your yard, make sure to have their favourite goodies on display:

• Have Socks, Pepper, Gabriel, and Smokey visit your yard 50 times each.

Wallpaper Number 8: Frosty

How to Unlock

There is only one requirement to unlock this wallpaper, however, it can take a long time to achieve, because Frosty is a rare cat and has a very low power level, so is often kicked off toys. Mementos drop randomly so there is no way to know how quickly you will obtain it:

• Obtain Frosty's memento (the Thaw-Proof Snowman)

Wallpaper Number 9: Ms Fortune

How to Unlock

This wallpaper only has one requirement to unlock, and can be done quite easily with regular gameplay. Mementos drop randomly, so there is no way to determine how quickly you will be able to obtain it:

• Obtain Ms Fortune's memento (the Oval Coin)

Wallpaper Number 10: Peaches

How to Unlock

This wallpaper has 2 requirements to unlock, it may be slightly difficult and take a reasonable amount of time to achieve. Peaches has the lowest power level in the game. To get the most visits from Peaches, as quickly as possible, it is recommended to fill your yard with Peaches' favourite toys. It might take a while to save up enough fish to buy the full 21 pages of goodies, the only way to maximise this is to check back in the game often and to fill up the bowls as soon as they are empty to ensure that cats are always leaving you fish.

1. Buy 21 full pages of goodies, using fish, in the game's shop
2. Have Peaches visit your yard 15 times

Wallpaper Number 11: Ginger

How to Unlock

This wallpaper has two requirements to unlock. It might take a while to save up enough fish to buy the full 21 pages of goodies, the only way to maximize this is to check back in the game often and to fill up the bowls as soon as they are empty to ensure that cats are always leaving you fish.

1. Buy 21 pages of goodies
2. Have Ginger visit you yard 15 times

Wallpaper Number 12: Patches

How to Unlock

This wallpaper has 2 requirements to unlock it. It might take a while to save up enough fish to buy the full 21 pages of goodies, the only way to maximize this is to check back in the game often and to fill up the bowls as soon as they are empty to ensure that cats are always leaving you fish.

1. Buy 21 pages of goodies
2. Have Patches visit your yard 15 times

Wallpaper Number 13: Two Cats Peeping Out

How to Unlock

This wallpaper only has one requirement to unlock, but it might take a while to achieve. It is recommended to fill your card with these cats' favourite goodies, in order to get them to visit as often as possible.

• Have Marshmallow, Smokey, Sunny, Lexy and Fred visit your yard 50 times each

Wallpaper Number 15: Two Cats Sitting

How to Unlock

This wallpaper has two requirements to unlock. The first of these requirements can take a long time of semi-regular gameplay to achieve. It is recommended to fill your card with these cats' favourite goodies, in order to get them to visit as often as possible. To get the gold fish needed for the second requirement, it is recommended to visit the game regularly and fill up the food bowls whenever they run out, to ensure that cats are constantly leaving fish.

1. Have Sunny and Callie visit your yard 100 times each
2. Buy the Goldfish Bowl. (Worth 10 gold fish)

Wallpaper Number 16: Kitten in a Pot

How to Unlock

This wallpaper has two requirements to unlock it. To be able to save up enough to be able to buy all the items required, it is recommended to visit the game regularly and fill up the food bowls whenever they run out, to ensure that cats are constantly leaving fish. To achieve the second requirement, it is recommended to have the cats' favourite goodies on display so that they will visit regularly.

1. Buy all of the buckets, pots and the Planter
2. Have Lexy, Pepper, Pickles, Misty, Bolt, Sunny, Peaches, Bandit, Smokey, Princess, Pumpkin, Tabitha, Rascal, Shadow, Ginger, Socks, Spots, and Mack to visit your Yard 10 times each.

Wallpaper Number 17: Bengal Jack

How to Unlock

This wallpaper only has one requirement to unlock it, but it can be quite difficult. Since it involves a rare cat, you need to ensure that you have this cat's favourite goodie and food on display, otherwise, they will not visit. Since mementos are dropped at random, there is no way of determining how quickly you will be able to obtain it.

• Obtain Bengal Jack's memento (the Old Map)

Wallpaper Number 18: Cat Hanging Out of a Box

How to Unlock

This wallpaper has two requirements to unlock it. This should be a relatively easy unlock, with regular gameplay. To achieve the first requirement, it is recommended to have the cats' favourite goodies on display so that they will visit regularly.

1. Have Ms Fortune visit your yard 25 times
2. Unlock Gozer and Patches in your catbook

Wallpaper Number 19: Sassy Fran's Cafe Sign

How to Unlock

This wallpaper has two requirements to unlock it. This should not take too long to obtain with regular gameplay, even though it involves a rare cat. To have a rare cat visit your yard frequently, you need to have their favourite goodie and food out on display for them.

1. Have Sassy Fran visit your yard 25 times
2. Unlock Mack and Shadow in your catbook

Wallpaper Number 20: Tubbs Reclining

How to Unlock

To get this wallpaper you must buy a sashimi boat from the store and then place it in your yard. As soon as the sashimi is placed, this wallpaper will unlock.

Wallpaper Number 21: Celebration Cats

How to Unlock

To unlock this wallpaper it is theorised that you must have chip, speckles, sooty and spots visit your yard a number of times. You also have to get the mementoes for speckles, sooty and spots, but not chips. If you have any more information please comment below.

Wallpaper Number 22: Piano Cats

How to Unlock

To unlock wallpaper number 22 you must enter 5 passwords in the menu, and get a free sashimi boat as a reward. As soon as you receive the sashimi boat, this wallpaper should unlock in the store.

Wallpaper Number 23: Whiteshadow

How to Unlock

To unlock this wallpaper it is currently believed that you must have had a certain number of visits from whiteshadow to your yard. It appears that you do not need to have their memento. Exactly how many visits you need is unknown (however, a person with 37 visits has confirmed that they have the wallpaper unlocked).

Wallpaper Information and Thanks

As wallpaper 23 is new, the information about it is not 100% confirmed as of yet, however if you know more details please do comment below with the information and i can include it in the guide. I would like to thank Tony on twitter for the help discovering wallpaper 22 and 23 details, and providing screenshots as proof. I would also like to thank everyone that has commented with details of how to unlock wallpapers 20 and 21.

Share Your Experience

Thank You For Reading

I hope that this guide has been helpful, this was a guide that was highly requested. If there is anything that you feel I have missed, anything that you would add to this guide, or any requests for future guides, please comment below and let me know!

Happy kitty collecting!

Questions & Answers

Question: What about the last wallpaper that it seems no one has unlocked?

Answer: This is the only wallpaper that is in the game's code, but is not active in the game yet. It cannot be unlocked until an update that would make it live. Someone has put a link up to the image on Imgur however: https://i.imgur.com/r1z2qJA.png.

Question: Why won’t the 15th wallpaper come to my gallery?

Answer: You need to make sure that you have completed both of the steps required:

1. Have Sunny and Callie visit your yard 100 times each

2. Buy the Goldfish Bowl. (Worth 10 goldfish)

These will both take a long time if you have completed all of these steps and still have an issue, you should raise a ticket in the app with the creators so that they are aware of the issue.

Question: Tubbs has visited ninety times and I have his memento. Maybe that makes it unlock. I don’t actually know because I had automatically unlocked it. Actually, it may be because of the sashimi boats. What do you think?

Answer: It has been confirmed that you must purchase and place a sashimi boat to unlock this wallpaper.

Question: What does buy 21 pages mean do you have to buy all the goodies on the page or just one goodie on the page?

Answer: You must get all of the goodies on the page, it requires buying every item in the game.

© 2018 VerityPrice

Comments

Chimkin on September 13, 2020:

I have the celebration wallpaper (21), but I don't have any mementos, and only have had Speckles, Sooty and Spots visit, no Chip.

White Shadow fannnnn on July 15, 2020:

i dont know why but, i got the wallpaper in 5 visits. and i just checked it, its already there. well i need to collect 3 more gold to get it

Hayden on June 27, 2020:

I got wallpaper 21 without sootys memento

almez on June 18, 2020:

You need 3 visits from whiteshadow to unlock wallpaper 23

Derek on June 18, 2020:

I got wallpaper 21 without chip ever visiting me

Xcato on June 18, 2020:

The 21 pages of goodies are the pages in your "storage", not in the shop

Xcato on June 18, 2020:

I had whiteshadow visit 3 times to receive the 23rd

diaxii on May 19, 2020:

for wallpaper number 21, i already had it when i downloaded the game during in april during the 5th anniversary. it could be possible that the system gives it to you if you download the game during the 5th anniversary

Wows on May 12, 2020:

Whiteshadow only needs 3 visits, when i had 2 it was not available and only unlocked the third time he came

JillSensei on May 10, 2020:

I restarted game three days ago and wallpaper 21 is already unlocked I didn’t notice right away but suspect I didn’t do anything to earn it. So excited to have new goodies !

Jabs on May 02, 2020:

I unlocked the Whiteshadow wallpaper with 8 visits and no memento

Lizzy Gin on May 01, 2020:

I got the whiteshadow wallpaper with only 3 visits and no memento

h on May 01, 2020:

i’ve unlocked whiteshadow’s wallpaper with no memento and just 14 visits but i do have photos of him in each remodel

Scarlett Morgan on April 29, 2020:

The last one involves chip, speckles, sooty and spots. I think you have to get their mementos but not chips

Denise on April 29, 2020:

Wallpaper 20 unlock- buy and place sashimi boat. Unlocked straight away after that.

Owen on April 26, 2020:

You have to get sooty , speckles ,and spots momento but not chips it’s ok if you don’t get chips momento but you have to get him to come to you for the 20 second wallpaper

Nguyen on April 25, 2020:

Hey, I have figured out the way to unlock the 22th wallpaper. It's pretty easy. You just have to get 5 passwords and insert, and you will get a Sashimi Boat and it will be unlocked

cal on April 24, 2020:

hey there! i had the 22th wallpaper unblocked when i opened the game for the 5th anniversary. i think it involves whiteshadow since it features him in a red suit.