Cats are well known for licking their family jewels, but in the CryptoKitties universe, our players are a lot more likely to be chasing those jewels (which is much more polite). That’s because Family Jewels are a badge that celebrate Mewtations, versions of Cattributes that are new to a CryptoKitty’s family tree. You get a Mewtation if no more than 500 other families share a Cattribute when your new Kitten is born. Depending on how rare a Mewtation is when it’s discovered, we give you one of four Family Jewels: diamond, gilded, amethyst, and lapis, in descending order.

One of the great things about Family Jewels is that you can combine different jewels on the same cat, or chase a cat that has a jewel in every one of its trait categories!

For a while, that meant that players were chasing cats with eight diamonds: accent colour, highlight colour, base colour, eye colour, eye shape, pattern, fur, and mouth. The last time we counted, we found 48 Kitties that had achieved diamond Jewels in all eight categories! Pretty awesome! The first ever 8-diamond-success was Kitty 556151; don’t you just love that this Kitty is rocking the ganado pattern, which happens to look like a bunch of diamonds?

But they didn’t stop there! Users started hunting for ways they could incorporate the Jewels with other aspects of the Kitty. One user created a generation 88 Kitty that has eight diamond Jewels! It’s pretty fine for a senior feline.

Want to get in on the chase? There are more than eight Cattributes, so it’s possible for a Kitty to end up with nine or even ten diamonds! It was really difficult to do when there were only a few wild genes, but we’ve been releasing more and more of them, so you might be the first one to capture a diamond wild Jewel in an all diamond line! Look for Kitties with daemonwings, daemonhorns, trioculus, or elk genes!

If you want to add that tenth Jewel, you’ll have to add an environmental trait to whichever wild gene you manage to get diamonded! The first environmental trait we released was salty. Now, those swimming felines are joined by the cutest of all internet cat memes: cats in tiny boxes! You’ll need to hunt down a diamond in either of these to hit that coveted ten-diamond goal.

So, will you be the first?