"i like birds, even when they chatter."- Quickbeam- JRR Tolkien

Nice, as mentioned it did look very birdlikecrazy, but put me off as no other rimcritters had nearly such energy. Could be fun though, if the hippos did a stampede for the joy of it once in a while. Will reimpliment mod.

@Krake flying circles is vanilla behavior that I can't change. I did check the XML file and saw that the chance for them to fly got changed VERY high at some point(dunno when or why I did it) so pushing a quick fix to adjust; hopefully they won't be quite so annoying with constant flapping.

The birds were kinda frenzying. Fluttering around in circle and landing round a small area. Quite birdlike, but also distrakting and maybe CPU intensive? Intended behavior?

Hello!
I think bullhinches aka snowbirds would be such a nice addition for snowy winter.
I can’t find any mods that adds them.

(Only male birds have red feathers)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasian_bullfinch

Thanks for the reply-- and no pressure!! It's your mod, only change what you feel like. I actually just made like a secondary "pen" that was just a fenced garden where my colonists eat instead of the standard pen for my other animals

@Dweebus, the only alternate is that birds can be zoned... so one way or another, they're kept inside an area. But I'll edit the XML files and get an update so they are zoneable instead of pen animals if y'all want. The animations aren't that bad actually, they're only 8 frames; liberal use of paths, free transform, and gradient tool made it reasonable to batch finish them. For all 3 of my bird mods it took I'd say a week, maybe a bit more, to get them all done.

I'd also be curious to know how long it took you to do all those flying graphics. I was so excited when I heard they had flying animals, and then was mortified (for the artists wrists if nothing else) when I learned they had like 50~ frames each

If I may make a suggestion... the birds, or at least blue jays specifically, are apparently pen animals. I feel this is inaccurate as blue jays cannot be contained. (also this is a very good mod, the art style perfectly matches vanilla. Thank you!)

Birbs :3

Each species has distinct and accurate song, yes.

Should work just fine with mutliplayer, I'd assume just like any other animal.

I googled "most common songbirds" and picked interesting ones from the results. Added zebra finches because they're popular in the pet trade as a songbird.

Did you add bird songs for each species? Because that would be amazing.

Wonder if someone has tested it with the multiplayer mod yet.

someone lives on the eastern coast of the USA

Thanks y'all, my animals are def for 'the vibe' and the enjoyment.

@Zipp I'll keep that one in mind, if I do a pass to add any birds later. Looked them up, they're cute and sing a great song.

This is fucking awesome mod!!!!!!!! I usually dislike modded animals because they dont fit the games style, but this does not have that issue at all. Which is more impressive considering the animations it actually needs compared to more static animals.

If in the future you get the inspiration to make more birds, I suggest the Scarlet Tanager. The "red bird" type is already covered by the regular Cardinal but like I personally would be *so thrilled* seeing that birdie in the game,

That's a ton of work, I can really tell there's passion behind this, great mod!

Doesn't get much better than this

Yes there is a multiplier for when the flight animation is used. The vanilla birds are the same way, with roughly the same increase.

@11Bullets
Thanks for the great mod! I noticed that birds are displayed bigger when flying. (I understand they would look bigger with their wings spread, but they seem even bigger than that.)

@tanyafilina techno magic

How did you managed to draw flying textures? It seems overcomplicated to me.

Perfect for my Royal Disney Princess Play-through

Time to make some bird friends!