Thx @Soul_Manipulator, the chopped down version I'm messing with now might hopefully fix that at least. It's mega time consuming to work out how to do things even half-properly somehow >.<

The bird was still in it's smallbird stage. Removing the mod would let the game run as normal, now with a pissed off smallbird trying to kill you, but it would no longer crash.

@Soul_Manipulator thanks, that should help find the particular problem area. From what I can see so far I was probably manipulating every tallbird in the world, even if they spawned naturally in the wild, though I didn't mean to and I think specifically tried not to. I'm doing a lil cleaning up and working out what does what, but potentially my jank was what made it all work lol need a bit more testing time to see if I lost any functionality by cleaning, to then fix anything I might have lost.

Just to confirm, if you happen to know, their bird was already adult yeah? or smallbird still? or teenbird? All good if you're not certain, I will try to test the whole process from start to finish before I might upload a new version of the mod in any case.

Sorry btw for the crash, were you able to reload your save minus tallbird mod? If you then saved, would enabling the tallbird mod be possible again? Not a long term solution, just wondering.

Background info: was playing on a 6 player world with some friends, one of em hatched a tamed smallbird. Works for a while till the game updated. After update (don't remember update number) i tried to load into the world in singleplayer. I was standing multiple biomes away from the bird when i joined. As soon as any amount of the bird's sprite appeared on the screen, the entire game would freeze and crash. Otherwise everything functions as normal. Attempted to open as multiplayer and game would instantly crash as soon as original owner would load in, presumably from the same issue. I can try and find you a crash log if you'd like.

or was this someone else's tallbird you approached? I never even tested this mod multiplayer lol

@Soul_Manipulator honestly I'm surprised anything still works after almost a decade!
I did subscribe to my own mod because I can't find the original files, and it's.. interesting what I ended up doing to make things work at the time XD

I sat for a few in-game days trying to go through the process of hatching an egg, raising the smolbird, teenbird, etc. and it was sort of mostly successful, though I did crash at a couple points. I'm interested to see where and why things don't work anymore, and if I can maybe fix em, just I barely knew how to mod this game in the first place, so that might all take a hot minute.

If you have a specific error message to provide from a crash, that would help me be more certain I've addressed the problem you found, but I will keep in mind tamed tallbird crashes when player enters its attack/aggro area you say? I assume that's after a load when they no longer recognise you, else they'd never have left your range anyway?

@hepburnrayne16 I think that's default for the game like if it spawns a nest in the world, it just does what it does. I didn't make a new special nest or anything I don't think, it just creates a vanilla tallbird nest where u place it. Will see if I can do anything about that but idk

@barfbin Sorry about that! I assume I can fix the wrong target issue, it just never woulda occurred to me that u could be "attacked" by something that isn't attack-able back! Poor birb just wants to defend u I think but he sees no aminal to attack except u lol I wonder does the same thing happen if u have a pigman companion, or any other?

Walking into view of a tamed Tallbird/Smallbird crashes the entire server.

unfortunately for me, when i pick a cactus around my tallbird he gets angry and starts attacking me

everytime i build a nest it instantlly spawns adult idk what issue there might be

sry @vulpis_in_love idk what kinda mod compatibility/new game version compatibility issues there might be

When the Teenbird grows into a Tallbird my server crashes :(

lol its good and stupid at the same time mostly good good mod

@KappaccinoYT I found some files and zipped them up for you: https://file.io/vLeW45AMEaqY
@Gabe Newell u too if u want em hehe

I haven't played and modded DST for a very long time, and what I did is probably outdated, plus I never got it to do what I wanted- this was just what I could manage XD enjoy

Okay, well can I possibly get in contact with you so I can make the mods compatible when needed?

sry kappa, at this point i literally don't remember how to make a mod for dst lol
not sure what's involved in giving npcs a head slot, tho i know the piggies can wear some hats so i guess that'd be a place to start. as for the health i quickly searched the interwebs and found this https://www.gog.com/forum/dont_starve/guide_to_modifying_the_game_files_in_dont_starve

they say u can edit hp and attack of things from the tuning.lua file, so you could probably poke around there to give tallbirds overall more/less health if u wanted.

Could you make tamed tallbird health a config or let us give them a head slot item

Good luck, @Gabe Newell! :D
Modding is fun hehe hope u enjoy success

It shouldn't be too hard I suppose, besides I could use some experience looking through code, old or new, it'll be fun for me, well wish me luck and thanks for the mod, it's a really fun mod to play with

@Gabe Newell tbh it was years ago so my memory is sketch- sorry i'm not of much help but it'd be sweet to hear you worked out how to correctly poke a bird brain :)

i think it was an (easier?) option to create a new creature and give it a specific brain in the first place, but i wanted to make the mod effect all tallbirds, and idk if i was i supposed to create a new creature with a new brain and overwrite all tallbirds with it maybe? instead of putting a new brain in the birds?

i don't remember if you can force feed a wild tallbird and gain a friend with this mod actually lol i think it might be possible since i did everything i could to all of them if i remember right XD

Alright fair enough, it's still a great mod, I'll look into it to see if I can figure it out. I know a bit of code and just like helping out

@Gabe Newell nah man really I could barely get the bird brain to do anything different at all- I just never fully understood how it worked sadly. You can stuff some food in their mouth real quick after server restart and it should re-recruit them if I remember correctly, though they will try to headbutt you lol I think the act of feeding them has them remember u and apologise :)

Did you ever get the tallbird to remember you after server restart?

Great
With the update coming their eggs will be extremely useful, and this mod will help me a lot

@cavalogrosso lol i would love to create saddles for tallbirds! :D
i think maybe if u jump on the Klei forums and make a Mod Request/Suggestion post, someone might be up for it.

sadly i don't have any artistic talent, and it would need a new saddle model/tallbird with saddle model/animation probably, in order to actually show you riding it and running around on it. that and i haven't modded cool stuff in years lol i would have to re-learn how to mod at all XD

with the feeding adult birbs who forgot u, i think it almost always required facetanking at least one shot, if it does still work like i remember. sorry u had to kill ur buddy, i never got things to where i wanted them really

@ outseeker (au) I played yesterday and noticed that when I re-entered my world, indeed the bird attacked me, but I didn't know that I could feed him angry so that he would be my friend again, so I killed him.
But I will try this again later with a new bird. Oh, I'll come back here to tell you if it worked. Thanks.

Another thing that I don't know if it's possible, but can you create saddles so we can ride tall birds like we ride beefalo? ^^

@cavalogrosso When you first open your game/save, and the world all exists again, that is a fresh start, where your birds aren't able to remember you. If you're running the mod on a server, even when you exit your game the world is still running, so birds would remember you upon your return, until that server is closed/restarted.

In the case of single player, each time you close your game, you close the server/world, so when you next return you would need to feed your birds again before they would remember you.

I believe I was able to feed an angry tallbird (that I had hatched) and make it my friend again after returning, but it's been literally years lol I don't entirely remember. If you made a tallbird army, this might cost you a lot of stone suits trying to feed them all when you get back XD

I never did it, but thinking about it you can possibly use a panflute to make them all sleep, then wake each up by feeding them, and I THINK it will all work out.

When you say they will get aggressive after "restarting the server", what exactly are you referring to? Was it just me leaving the game and then returning?

It's just that I usually play alone and I create my own world. So if I leave my world and go to sleep, the next day when I play the adult Tallbird will it attack me?

@Cornflower a cool idea but nah they won't claim a nest sry mate XD

if i put a nest near a tallbird i raised will my tallbird take that nest?

@SedativeSpore77 you can feed them to make them follow you again, but when they are adults, after server restart they become aggressive- i couldn't fix that :<

after the server reset/closed, how do I get my tallbird to be nice again

Underrated mod

@vulpis_in_love sorry i wasn't able to modify the bird brain sufficiently to do exactly what i wanted, including that :<

Do you plan on updating the mod so that the tallbird you raised will never attack you?

@the evil vegetarian thanks for looking at it, i think its probably possible to steal their code and let your bird follow you onto the ship in that case, but i was never able to modify a bird brain the way i wanted which kinda prevents me from doing it. not sure about the 999 thing, i haven't even opened the game in years XD

ehh i changed the 999 in the info tab with script editor into 99999999 and in the game when i pulled up configuration it also show 999999999 but idk if it's applied or not >:P

hmmm.... since the tall bird will attack me when server restart but i think we can solve that issues the odd way that you just extent the days option in the configurations for more than 999, maybe 999999 or infinite idk, you get the idea, i accepted i cant have the tall bird as pet anymore but i ran into this mod called pick up your buddies and it let me pick up small bird and teen bird and yes i can pick them up and drop them on the ship and they still go around on the ship(giant ship mod) and once i hit land i pick them up and drop them on shore, the only issues is that 999 days don't seems enough cause its like 9990 minutes which is= 7 days in real life, i think this configuration fix is in your power i don't know jack about modding but i think if u can set options for 1 day to 999 days then u probably also can set it to !@#$! sky high time.

ohhh it's fine bro thanks for the inform was nice of you to respond ^%^, i'll try and request this from klei themselves, love this mod <3

@the evil vegetarian ahh sorry man I haven't been playing since forever XD
Aside from that, I think things are pretty restricted as to what we could do about what u describe.. Like it doesn't hatch on the boat because it's not within the game code to allow the birds to hatch there, and there isn't a boarding/de-boarding animation, so if it were to hatch or board it couldn't escape the boat and there's potentially no code present to deal with them starving or dying for any reason on the boat either.. also it wouldn't probably look right to have your bird or multiple birds just kinda standing on your position when youre on the boat.. in short Klei would have to really add it to the game to some degree before I could do anything about it. It might sorta kinda be doable for us peasants but it would be a lot of work and would surely be pretty janky :<
Best u can do i guess is take an egg with u and let it hatch on any given piece of land, but you kinda have to abandon ur baby when u leave

uhh is it possible to make smallbird and possibly teen and tallbird follow me on the ship? they just can't jump on ship, some say they haven't added the board animation for the birds but i also found this weird situation where smallbird won't hatch if the egg is on the ship the moment i drop it on land ground it hatch immediately, yeah they barely updated the sea to dst so they may change it later but in case they decided not to hope you can somehow make my little bird follow me to the end of the world

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use with playable pets to get the authentic tallbird experience. nice mod!

Ah, it's ok!

yeah might be the best way to go Zach. Editing the brains rly didnt work for me, much as it should have been doable :<

I see. It's fine, I got an idea. Since small and teenbirds share a file and can follow you naturally, I'l just make a seperate bird that doesn't become a tallbird.

Sorry Roses, I don't know how to edit the bird brain to do what I wanted, including follow you once they're adults. Best I could do was what u see here

@zacharythecrummyshantaedrawing sorry mate, I didn't rly even manage to get my own mod working the way I wanted it XD
You gotta edit the bird brains, and anything I tried didn't seem to alter their behaviour.

Could you make it configurable so even in adulthood, they still follow you? Or- it may be an option but- haven't seen it- yet0

I've been working on a mod that adds the character Sky from the Shantae series. Her thing is that she breeds and trains warbirds. So I figured that raising tallbirds would be a good perk for her. I tried to figure it out on my own, but every idea I have gets stumped since it doesn't seem that teenbirds that carry anything over then they become tallbirds. So I want to know if you will help me, considering this mod. If you don't want to, it's fine, I've been brainstorming other ideas.