Changelog
3.8.8 / 3.8.3–3.8.0 · 2026-10-02
Added the hummingbird: it looks for flowers in Flower Forests, Sunflower Plains, meadows and savannas, hovers to drink nectar, uses sugar-water baths and pollinates nearby crops. The catalog now contains 17 birds.
Hummingbirds spend the night in trees; sugar-water baths lose one portion per drink, and visited vanilla flowers can be carried back to a bath. Added five hummingbird calls and a wing loop.
Night herons alternate between ground pursuit and short orbits, then look for a safe landing when the owner stops. A carried fish and the gift timer survive a save reload.
3.6.4 · 2026-09-30
All 16 bird species now have a base render distance of 192 blocks, scaled by vanilla Entity Distance. Entity tracking extends to 16 chunks. A wider cleanup protection range reduces sudden disappearances of visible wild birds.
3.6.3 / 3.6.2 · 2026-09-29
Night herons now fly to catch up with their owner and circle nearby, including during the day. They do not teleport. Fish delivery requires a safe landing, then following resumes. Stay and Roost still allow resting.
Tamed night herons no longer flee from ordinary player proximity or startled wild flocks. They still evade danger when attacked.
3.6.1 · 2026-09-29
Night herons now offer random fish gifts. By default, every 5–10 minutes of eligible activity gives a 50% chance of producing one raw cod or salmon. A fishing rod, water, and live fish are no longer required.
Fixed the conflict between off-hand feeding and empty-hand commands. Removed extra interaction text while keeping taming hearts, eating, and fish-carrying animations. The heron retains its fish when the owner's inventory is full.
3.5.8 / 3.5.6 · 2026-09-29
The in-game handbook adapts to window size and GUI scale, with new standing thumbnails for all 16 birds. Removed the in-game installation page and added feather fan anvil diagrams, plus fuel examples, time, and XP for smelting recipes.
3.5.3 · 2026-09-29
The in-game guide now uses a forest background and a cream reading area. It includes birds, items, and gameplay documentation, with offline reading, full-text search, font-size controls, and Chinese and English support. Recipes come from the current world.
Walking animations follow actual movement distance, with adjusted stride, turning and stopping transitions to reduce foot sliding. The umbrella cockatoo's body motion while walking is also adjusted.
3.5.2 · 2026-09-29
Adds three ambient and feeding calls for tamed cockatiels. Fixes some birds floating before flapping on takeoff and facing the wrong way while moving.
3.5.0 / 3.4.9 · 2026-09-25
Adjusts takeoff poses and the timing of wing flaps. Converts 47 bird-call recordings to mono so the game can apply positioning and distance attenuation.
3.4.7 · 2026-09-25
The field guide adopts an inventory and recipe-book layout, with search, pagination, model zoom and observation actions. The settings screen gains categories and scrolling.
Adds 11 original umbrella cockatoo recordings, combining short calls and phrases during ambient and feeding interactions. Updates the inventory icons for all six bird baths.
main update · 2026-09-24
The main branch now includes the umbrella cockatoo's model, animations, feeding, shoulder perching, observation and mimicry. The field guide, nest, cages and other items have new inventory icons.
The camera gains a filter library, manual focus and creative shooting.
3.4.6 · 2026-09-21
Added the UwU Funk music disc to make pigeons dance, adjusted the particles on spiked bagged fries, and updated the camera, film and photo frame icons.
3.4.5 · 2026-09-17
Added kestrels, cassowaries and sky flock ecology. New content includes sky bird ecology and bird guilt notification toggles, raw fries, cooked fries, bagged fries and laxative.
Earlier versions
Version 2.0.0 reworked photo storage, flight navigation, natural spawning and configuration. It added crow collections, seagull food theft, companion commands and more birds. The full history is in the repository.