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Hello, and welcome to Nyctophobia! My name is Riley, and this is my comprehensive Kadoatery guide. Here you'll find some tips and tricks on feeding those Kadoaties, as well as a few other tidbits. I hope you find it useful and/or enjoyable. :)

This page was last updated on 02 October 2011.

The Kadoatery is a game introduced to Neopia on 10 September 04. It is found in the Neopian Plaza - you can also access it by clicking on a Kadoatery trophy on a person's user lookup.

The Kadoatery holds twenty Kadoaties. Each Kadoatie has been dropped off by an imaginary Neopian who is presumably sick of sleeping with the lights on. You cannot place your own Kadoatie in the Kadoatery.

Each Kadoatie wants an item to make it happy during its stay at a certain point in the day. After this point, the batch of Kadoaties is "refreshed", and there will be new Kadoaties who will also believe in material happiness. It is up to you, and other users, to make these Kadoaties happy, but remember: lots of people will want to feed a given Kadoatie at a given time, so best be quick!

Here are some terms you may come across in your quest to feed:

KADOATIE
What you feed at the Kadoatery. The actual petpet restocks at the Neopian Petpet Shop, and the description for it reads, "Kadoatie is what we like to call a pain in the neck. When it is bedtime and the lights go out, the Kadoatie cries continuously until you turn them back on. I hope you like to sleep with the lights on." Kadoaties are also known as Kads.

KADOATERY
Where imaginary Neopians leave also-imaginary Kadoaties.

MAIN
When the majority of Kadoaties at the Kadoatery are restocked. This means that the Kadoaties are replaced with new ones who ask for new foods.

MINI
When the minority of Kadoaties at the Kadoatery are restocked. This is basically the same as the main, except these Kadoaties were fed at least seven minutes after the Kadoaties of the main were. Note that there is not always a mini, and that there is sometimes more than one mini.

PENDING
A main or mini might not occur when it is supposedly going to. This places the Kadoaties on a "pend," meaning that you must wait seven more minutes to refresh at the Kadoatery. For example, "main pending rf @ :07" means the the Kadoaties may go hungry at the seventh minute of that hour. If they don't, they are placed on another pend, and the main is then pending at the fourteenth minute of the hour.

MERGE
When the main and mini(s), or several minis, go at the same time, combining themselves into one main or mini.

NTO
Not taking over. This comes into effect whenever there's no set timekeeper and someone posts the times, but does not want to take over for an extended amount of time.

RF
Refresh.

More information about Kadoatery times is located here.

GLF
Good luck feeding. This is generally said before the main is supposed to go.

CF
Congrats feeders. This is generally said after the main goes to congratulate those who managed to feed.

HN
Had nothing. This is generally said if the main went but the user did not manage to feed.

OF
Overfeed, which means to feed Kadoaties beyond the seventy-five required for the avatar.

SW/SSW
Shop wizard / Super shop wizard.

UB
Unbuyable. This refers to an item that costs over 99,999 Neopoints, and thus cannot be bought from the Shop Wizard.

You may, of course, come across other terms, but these are a handful of the most common ones.

Likely, when you visit the Kadoatery, you will see something like this:

These Kadoaties have been fed, so you cannot feed them. You will have to wait until the Kadoatery restocks to feed.

Feeding a Kadoatie if you have the item it is looking for is simple: just click on its cage! Remember to have the item in your inventory and to click on the cage as fast as possible.

If you succeed, you'll see a page that looks like this:

If someone gets to the Kadoatie before you do, you'll see this:

If you click on a hungry Kadoatie when you've fed one already visible, you'll see this page:

And if you click on a Kadoatie but don't have the corresponding item, you'll see a page like this one:

And that just about covers it!

Kadoaties are picky eaters. Fret not, however! Kind users have compiled lists of the select foods Kadoaties will eat, and you'll find that there are more than you probably think. Phil747's Petpage and Silverjojo's Petpage are both excellent lists to look at.

You do not have to be rich, an expert, or the recipient of a super-duper Internet connection to feed! Many Kadoatie foods are cheap, and the average computer user should have little trouble feeding with some practice.

There are three primary ways to feed Kadoaties:

Invent Feeding

This is typically the easiest method to feed with, and it is definitely the method I recommend new feeders use.
Invent feeding requires having a small bundle of Kadoatie foods in your inventory. Then, when the Kadoatery restocks, look for a Kadoatie asking for an item you have - if there's such a Kadoatie, click on it! Simple. :)
Having 35-40 foods in your inventory would be ideal, but don't be afraid to use less or more depending on how often you have other items in there. If you restock, you may want fewer foods, and if feeding is all you'll be doing, you may want more. Just be careful to not go over 50 items total!
Extremely helpful would be to have your invent foods have something in common. It is popular to pick a group of food with spelling as common ground. For example, say that your invent so far consist of parsnip items. There aren't many of them, though, so instead of choosing meat items to complete your inventory, try sparkling items - when the Kadoatery main rolls around, hit CTRL + F and type in "par" to find your items! You can also try using items in the same food group (fruits or vegetables or dairy) or meal (lunch: sandwiches, packed lunches, etc).

Wiz Feeding

This method requires two things: Neopoints, and your Shop Wizard! If you are a premium member, the Super Shop Wizard in sniperspace is recommended.
When the Kadoatery restocks, quickly highlight an item name, copy it, paste it into the search bar, and purchase the item. Then hurry back to the Kadoatery and click on the Kadoatie's cage! Unless you're Superman, there is a good chance someone will have fed the Kadoatie before you; there is a considerable success rate with this method, however.
Refreshing the Kadoatery right after it restocks will help, as it will eliminate the quicker feeds and increase your chance for success.
To make the process speedier, click on the item name three times with your mouse to highlight it, use CTRL + C to copy, and CTRL + P to paste. It will shave precious seconds off your time that could be vital.
Wiz feeding is a good supplement for invent feeding, though it can also work as a standalone.

SDB Feeding

Some people like to feed from their Safety Deposit Box. This is a blend of both of the aforementioned methods, as it requires the speed of wiz feeding with the horde of items used in invent feeding.
To feed this way, gather a rather large assortment of Kadoatie foods and stash them in your SDB. When the Kadoaties go hungry, use the steps of wiz feeding to get your item: copy and paste the item name into your SDB's search function, take the item out, and click on the Kadoatie's cage.
Again, refreshing right after the Kadoatery restocks and using CTRL + C and CTRL + P will help with your success.
This method is best with hundreds of Kadoatie foods that have something in common - ideal if you'd like to feed faerie items, or possibly cakes. The latter could also branch out into cheesecakes and subsequently cheeses - there's a whole world of possibilities for foods here. You can feed a random assortment of items, but it may take a few seconds you might not have to remember if you have the item or not.

Keep in mind that there will not always be a Kadoatie asking for an item you have. Their requests are totally random; just have patience. A Kadoatie will come along soon enough.

There are three types of Kadoatery boards: ones for times and lists, ones for chatting, and ones for both.

You can find each of the first two on the games chat. The one for times and lists has a title that looks like this:

This board is not for chatting, in order to make the content easily accessible. The content in question are the times that the Kadoaties may restock, as well as lists of foods from the last main or mini. Please note that the times listed are not the times that the Kadoatery will restock, and that the lists are not the items that the Kadoaties will ask for during the next main or mini.

The people posting on this board are "timekeepers". They should be the only ones posting, unless they miss a list or part of it, in which case another user may post the missed items.

If someone repeatedly disrupts the board, this is often considered spamming and can get the user warned, suspended, silenced, or frozen. Please use your manners.

If someone on the board asks for a new timekeeper, only volunteer if you can timekeep and know how to generate the lists of foods. Information on that can be found here.

The board that is for chatting does not have a set title. However, "the Kadoatery" will be present in it somewhere, and it will likely have a smiley/several smileys in it.

This board consists of feeders chatting to while the pends. It is ideal if you are looking to make some Kadoatie-feeding friends.

And then there are the boards both times/lists and chatting. They are located on the avatar chat and charter, the latter of which is a premium-only board.

These boards are not always present, however, so the boards on the games chat are recommended foremost.

And now we arrive at the part that has beginners and a fair amount of older feeders confused: the times and lists!

The times, needless to say, are the times that the Kadoaties may be refreshed. The times always go in cycles of seven or twenty-eight minutes.

Say you visit the Kadoatery Times and Lists board, and see that the latest post declares "main pending rf @ :22". This means that the Kadoatery may restock at twenty-two minutes past the current hour, twenty seconds in.

You refresh at the Kadoatery at the time. Nothing happens, so you head back to the board to see that the timekeeper has now posted "main pending rf @ :29". The Kadoatery has just pended, so seven minutes have been added to the previous time.
Or maybe you refresh, and the Kadoatery has new Kadoaties begging for food instead. The time is now "main rf @ :50". The main has gone, so twenty-eight minutes have been added to the time.

Minis are virtually the same as far as the times go. The item must have been fed at least seven minutes after the last main, and the time must coincide with a possible main time.

Say the main is set to go at :50. The item needs to be fed after :57 in order to be a mini. You then add twenty-eight minutes to the time, and round down to a possible main time.
Imagine the mini was fed at :01. 1 + 28 = 29, and :29 is not a time that the main will go at. :25 is, though, so we now have "mini @ : 25" along with our main.

Don't worry if you don't fully understand the main and mini. Just be aware of what they are and why the Kadoaties aren't going at a given time and follow the times on the Kadoatery Times and Lists board.

The lists are significantly easier to understand and get than the times: it's a game of copy-and-paste!

Simply refresh at the times given by the timekeepers. If the main or mini doesn't go, then you've got another seven minute break. If the main or mini does go, stop!

Copy and paste the first item name into the reply box. Triple-clicking the name with the mouse is the quickest way to highlight, and using CTRL + C and CTRL + P is the easiest way to copy and paste. Press enter, and get the item of the next Kadoatie in the row. Repeat for the rest of the row.
Press enter twice to signify a new row is starting. Then start the process over again for the rest of the Kadoatery.
Click on "post your reply" and you've generated a list!

That said, one does not usually post a list unless he or she is the timekeeper. If the timekeeper misses the list or a few items in the list it is acceptable to post them.

The Kadoatery does not award the Tax Beast's income or rare items for feeding Kadoaties. Instead, you'll get a trophy, an avatar if you've fed 75, and a good, warm, fuzzy feeling! Doesn't that sound so much better?

Bronze Trophy - feed one Kadoatie to obtain.
Silver Trophy - feed ten Kadoaties to obtain. This will take the place of the bronze trophy.
Gold Trophy - feed 25 Kadoaties to obtain. This will take the place of the silver trophy.
Avatar - feed 75 Kadoaties to obtain.

There is also an Unofficial Kadoatery High Score List.

Below is a list of Editorials from the Neopian Times directly pertaining to the Kadoatery, from earliest to latest.

Issue 159
I want to give the Kadoatie to my pet, but it's too expensive. How can I get it? - Reika88888
It is possible to win a Kadoatie from the Kadoatery if you look after enough Kadoaties. Otherwise Kadoaties are sold in the Petpet shop for around 18,000 NP.

Hi everyone. I love the cool new game The Kadoatery. It's sweet, but I noticed that the prices for some of the foods are extremeley high. I was wondering if you would ever have cheap food items out to buy for the Kaodoaties. - Princezz_meeh
The things the Kadaoties ask for are totally random. If you are lucky you may be asked for something simple like a ball of string, however, knowing Kadoaties they are bound to be more demanding than that :)

Issue 167
What is all the kadoaties obsessions with Blue Draik Egg??? I recently saw 8 (Yes, EIGHT!) kadoaties asking for Blue Draik Eggs! I know you said that its completely random, but this is a conspiracy! And anyway, if these kadoaties already have owners why do they want draik eggs? Eh, eh? -Rrhcpmunkeyrocker
Maybe one particularly spoilt Kadoatie started asking for it and now they all want one :p I will look into it and see if this is right. They should ask for more varied things.

Issue 168
Will you please take Draik Eggs off the food list for them? Nobody feeds them the eggs, and the ones that sit there for weeks just lessen chances of feeding. There are cuttently FIVE asking for Draik Eggs. - Laile_denali
The Kadoaties in the Kadoaterie do ask for totally random things. Kadoaties that ask for Blue Draik Eggs are incredibly rare, they just tend to stay there longer as their demands are so outrageous.

Issue 169
I heard there are other ways to feed the Kadoatery pets, can you explain - cottondego
As far as I know there is no other way to feed a Kadoatie.

Issue 172
I think you should have a Kadoatie Feeding high score list, then we can always see who fed the most! Can you consider this? - 14hermionegranger
Consider it considered!

Issue 181
I was just wondering who comes up with the names for the Kadoaties (like, it and help!!!) LOl :D - Mooniewitch
Hehe. Its not just one person, its more of a team effort across the office. We have all come up with a whole loads of different names, some of which are the names of our real-life pets, some are the names of our Petpets and some are just plain wierd.

Issue 192
Could you please eliminate blue draik eggs from the Kadoatery list? - Beccanae_liz
After a little persuasion, Blue Draik Eggs should no longer be on the Kadoatie wish list. This will not affect Kadoaties who are currently asking for eggs though.

Issue 194
In issue 'Issue: 192 | 26th day of Hunting, Y7' This question was asked: "Could you please eliminate blue draik eggs from the Kadoatery list? - Beccanae_liz" This was the answer: "After a little persuasion, Blue Draik Eggs should no longer be on the Kadoatie wish list. This will not affect Kadoaties who are currently asking for eggs though." The Kadoties are 'still' asking for Blue Draik Eggs. Will you or will you not be taking Blue Draik Egg of the Kadoatie wish list? - victoriarose1968
I just checked the Kadoaties in the Kadoatery and they are not asking for Blue Draik Eggs currently. We also double checked the code and they can't ask for those. We will keep an eye on it over the next few days just to make sure.

Issue 213
Obviously...the Rhuby Fruit is a new item sold at the Lost Desert. But the Lost Desert stores are closed, so no one can buy them! So what are we supposed to give to the kadoaties who what them? ~ ___sugarsweet___
Geesh, don't those Kadoaties know what's happening in the Lost Desert?! Have they been living in a cage or something?! ... Oh, right. Well, hopefully someone will figure out this mess and get Sakhmet back to normal so those Kadoaties can be fed.

Issue 231
Can you set something straight for us Kadoatie feeders. How many items are you allowed in your inventory to feed?? Some people said they read in the neopets magazine you can have 69 items and other people are saying it's 50 items and if you have more you will get frozen or all the items in your inventory will be deleted. Please explain thank you :D ~gemsibaby
There really is no hard-coded limit on your Inventory since you can move lots of items from your SDB to your inventory at once, so you will not be frozen or have your inventory cleared just for having too many items out while moving things around. However, having hundreds of items in your inventory for prolonged periods of time is quite fishy and you may be investigated by site monitors who will make sure you're not cheating or anything of that sort. 69 items is the max you can have on hand and still be able to use quick stock. However, we recommend you have 49 items in your inventory as it allows you to still be able to buy items you might need in a hurry for those Kadoaties or be able to accept gifts from friends.

Issue 234
Hey TNT. I've seen a few people feeding Kads on side accounts, and I've been wondering if this is allowed or not. Can you please clarify? Oh, and can you please also clarify the amount of items that are allowed in your inventory at one time? Thanks! ~chenbi
Since you can't gain any items or Neopoints from feeding Kadoaties on your side accounts, this is fine. You can feed 'til the Kaus come home!

Issue 239
TNT, please answer this because it is really confusing me. In Editorial #159, you said you can win a Kadoatie from Kad feeding. However, in Editorial #234, you said it is safe to kad feed on side accounts because you can't gain any items from doing so. Was the Kadoatie prize forgotten, or is it impossible to win one from Kad feeding? Thanks for answering! ~ misterp55555
It was intended to be a prize from the start, but several things have made it so that we had to remove this functionality. :( (Before you ask, no one won a Kadoatie from it before it was removed!) Sorry for the conflicting information. To clear things up, you cannot win a Kadoatie at the Kadoatery.

Issue 252
Hi! I was wondering where you got the names for the Kadoaties in the Kadoatery. I've seen some incredibly strange names, like Lawyerbot, Food4Turmy, and Moooo, but there are also some average names like Honey, Cupcake, and Cassie. Can you please clear this up? ~ allo_allo_numa
Kadoaties are rescued by Kadoatery staff who clean and groom them before they make their way to the Kadoatery floor. (This helps them attract feeders!) Once this is done, they are set free in a HUGE room at the back of the Kadoatery. This room has Petpet toys and quite a large space for Kadoaties to play. This room also has many, many cages, each with a name on it. Every Kadoatie can wander until they choose the cage - and the name - that suits them best! Only then are they placed out front to await the kind feeders of Neopia.

We hope that answers your question and you don't write back asking who put the names on the cages in the first place or anything like that.

Issue 273
Among the Kadoatie names, there is one called Q. We have theories on what/who this refers to, but can this be cleared up for us? (There's red vines in it for Snarkie...) ~laile_denali
Unfortunately, a quantum singularity is preventing us from answering this until sometime in Y439.

Issue 311
As referred to in some issue of the NT, is it REALLY possible to win a Kadoatie by feeding Kadoaties? ~nnboogie
We're sure we amended this in another Editorial but guess that it bears repeating. While we originally intended that to be possible it was never programmed in, and we figure it's hard enough to feed Kadoaties without there being a prize gained from it. x_X So yeah, that's a no.

Issue 348
Do the Kadoaties in the Kadoatery have eyesight problems? I'm asking because, for a few days this week, they have plotted a conspiracy and all asked for carrots. o_o; All of them. ~yellowsugardog
Maybe they felt they were lacking vitamin A in their diets? In any case, we're currently working on convincing them to explore a broader range of food again.

Issue 372
I was in the middle of class when this hit me. What happens when someone puts their Kadoatie in the Kadoatery and they have a Petpetpet? Will it fall off? Also, why is it that all the Kads I see at the Kadoatery are either white, blue, pink, rainbow, or island? Please answer! Thanks. =3 P.S.: Kadoaties PWN you! }=D ~laurenalrick
O.O Pssst... people don't actually put their Kadoaties in the Kadoatery. It's just an automated system. They aren't actually anyone's Petpet from a techincal standpoint. It's just in the world of Neopia that they are.

Issue 401
Hi TNT, I want some clarification here. On some boards they enforce their own set of "rules" in order to keep the board in order. For example, there's a board for posting the times that the Kadoaties may be hungry. Other than posting the times, their rules state that you're not allowed to post. Now most people agree that this makes sense, but some say that (since these are public boards) they are allowed to post whatever they want. Are the "rules" made up on these boards enforced? ~krystalkairi
Nope, these rules are not enforced by our site monitors. Any "board rules" are up to each player to decide whether they want to respect them or not. They are public boards and anyone may post on them if they like. Remember, though -- spamming isn't tolerated either, so if your only purpose when posting on a board is to harass the people who are trying to keep it clean and organised, then you might get a warning, too.

Issue 436
*gives Kadoaties* Way back in Year 6 you guys wrote in the Editorial that we could win a Kadoatie by feeding Kadoaties at the Kadoatery. Is that still true? Thanks! ~phdinmagic
Originally it was our intent for the Kadoatery to randomly (and rarely) award a Kadoatie, but if we remember correctly we decided against it, although afterward we mentioned it in the Editorial. (This is all based off of some very rusty memories, forgive us.) Please remember that the information we offer in Editorials is what we believe to be the most accurate information at the time. This means, however, that sometimes things unexpectedly change or just develop as the site ages (or, heck, sometimes we just plain mess up and are wrong about something). Aside from Lawyerbot, we're all human here and can only do our best.

There is also an entry about the Kadoatery in the Neopedia!

A small compilation of other content that doesn't fit anywhere else. D:

Kadoaties are afraid of the dark, as I've mentioned. However, TNT is the face of indifference and turns the lights off anyway at 11 PM NST, leaving the Kadoaties all alone in the dark. They cry. It does not affect anything other than their displayed images. A crying Kadoatie will look something like this:

Help! It's dark in here and I'm named after Sloth!!

It may do you good, especially if you are just starting out, to try feeding during the night. Fewer users are on, giving you more time and chances to feed. Ideal hours are at about 10 PM NST until 5 AM NST. Don't freak out if midnight NST is three in the morning for you - you can still feed during the day! It's just a little easier at night.
Reading all of the guides in the world won't help you feed. What will help? Actually trying. Give it your best shot, and repeatedly. It takes a few tries to feed a Kadoatie, but you'll get it eventually, and it'll be easier after that!
Most overfeeders are not out to get the lives of new feeders. We're simply feeders who are either addicted to the Kadoatery and/or have personal goals that somehow require feeding more than 75 Kadoaties.

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So that was my Kadoatery guide. I hope it was even the slightest bit beneficial to you. :D
Please feel free to send me any critique, questions, or comments.

This petpage was created by myself, Riley. If you find anyone using my graphics and/or content, please let me know. :)

Anyhow, thank you for visiting, and good luck feeding!