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Bird

Infobox values apply to both kinds.
General
Type	Animal (bird)
Category	Animals
Alignment	Neutral
Karma	0
Fame	150
Behavior	Only when attacked
Speed	Medium
Stats
Strength	10
Dexterity	25–35
Intelligence	10
Hit points	10
Stamina	25–35
Mana	10
Damage	0
Armor	0–6
Taming
Tameable	Yes
Min. skill	−6.9
Control slots	1
Bondable	Yes
Rideable	No
Favorite food	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay
Resources
Carving	1 raw bird, 25 feathers

The Bird is a small songbird that anyone can tame. The tropical bird is the same creature with brighter colors. Neither can hurt you: their melee damage is set to 0.

Overview

• In-game name: about half of the regular birds are black and named a crow, a raven or a magpie. The rest get a random bird color and a random bird name. Tropical birds are a tropical bird with a random bird color. All of them leave a bird corpse.
• Behavior: it leaves you alone unless you attack it, then fights in melee (animal AI).

Stats

Stat	Bird	Tropical bird
Strength	10	10
Dexterity	25–35	25–35
Intelligence	10	10
Hit points	10	10
Stamina	25–35 (same as its Dexterity)	25–35 (same as its Dexterity)
Mana	10 (same as its Intelligence)	10 (same as its Intelligence)
Melee damage	0	0
Armor rating	0–6	0–6
Fame / Karma	150 / 0	150 / 0

Skills

Skill	Bird	Tropical bird
Wrestling	4.2–6.4	4.2–6.4
Tactics	4.0–6.0	4.0–6.0
Magic Resistance	4.0–5.0	4.0–5.0

Both kinds have the same stats. They have 10 hit points (equal to their Strength).

Taming

Requirement	Bird	Tropical bird
Minimum Animal Taming	−6.9	−6.9
Control slots	1	1
Maximum owners	5	5
Bonding	Yes	Yes
Rideable	No	No
Favorite food	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay	Fruits and vegetables or grain and hay

Below the minimum Animal Taming you have no chance. Each previous owner makes it harder to tame.

• Anyone can try. Its minimum is below 0, so you can tame it even with no Animal Taming skill.
• Success chance. For a first-time tame, your chance of success at the end of an attempt rises by about 2% per skill point and reaches 100% at 43.0 skill (about 14% even at 0 skill). Every previous owner adds 6 points to the difficulty.
• Don't hurt it. If it takes any damage during your attempt, taming fails with "The animal is too angry to continue taming."
• Stay close. You must stay within 6 tiles of it and keep a clear path to it.
• Obedience. Once tamed, its taming requirement is 29.1 or lower, so it always obeys its owner.
• Re-taming. If you've owned this one before, taming it again always succeeds ("That wasn't even challenging.").
• After its first tame, its skills drop to 90% of their wild values, or 86% if it was paralyzed while you tamed it. Its stats don't drop.

Bonding

Only the owner can bond with a bird. Its taming requirement is 29.1 or lower, so there's no Animal Taming requirement to bond. Feed it to start bonding, then feed it again after 7 days to finish. When you see "Your pet has bonded with you!", it's done.

Loot

It carries no loot.

Carving

Use a blade on the corpse to get:

• 1 raw bird
• 25 feathers

Tips

• Anyone can tame one; at 0 skill each attempt has about a 14% chance, and it's certain from 43.0.
• They do no melee damage at all, so they're purely decorative pets.
• Carve the corpse for 25 feathers.