Birdhouse

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Birdhouse
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Vital statistics
Size (obj)Structure footprint in tile units.<br><br><i>Rounded-up from source.<br>Source: 0.546 x 0.546</i> 0.6 x 0.6
Storage Size 4 x 4
Skill(s) RequiredSpecific needed skills.<br>The default skills every hearthling starts off with, Oral Tradition, Primitive Tools & Wilderness Survival), are ignored. Animal Husbandry
Discovery Req.This(<i>discoveryreq</i>) is only for items that need to be discovered in addition to items listed in "Object(s) Required"/<i>(<i>objectsreq</i>).</i><small><br><b><i>(Temporary active on all pages, but leave empty if "None".</i></b><small> (None or Unknown)
Object(s) Required Board x4, Block of Wood x6, Thatching Material x2, Bone Glue x1
Repaired With (Unknown)
Can be Lifted No
Hit Points (Unknown)"unknown" is not a number.
Soak Value (None)
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Icon keyboard.pngBuild > Buildings & Construction > Houses & Buildings > Birdhouse

After building a Dovecote, wild Rock Doves will begin flocking to it so long as it is filled with fodder and water. If a Rock Dove Egg hatches inside of the Dovecote, it will then hatch into a Domesticated Rock Dove, which you can then place into your Birdhouse and Homestead it. Once the bird is Homesteaded to a Birdhouse, it will always return to said structure once release. Doves will not reproduce inside of a Birdhouse.

Attending to occupied Dovecotes for prolonged periods of time may incur HHP damage in the form of Bird Lung, which incurs a -5AGI/CON penalty and slowly heals over time.

Uses for Homesteaded Doves

After being homesteaded to a Birdhouse. Domesticated Doves may be given a single, one-tile sized, item to carry. Allowing a Hearthling to transport an item easily between any location and the Birdhouse which the dove is currently Homesteaded to.

You can use a Domesticated Dove to carry home your Slave Key after you exit your base. This way you can travel around not carrying keys and feeling more secure, and hearth back once finished.

Allowed items include:

  • keyring with or without keys.
  • leather purse with or without coins.
  • Toolbelt with or without tools.
    • Do note that a belt that contains some tool can't be dropped in the players inventory. So a general container need to be used the retrieve non empty belts from the dove.

Excluded items:

  • Any item that is bigger than a 1x1 inventory tile.
  • Critter items like worms, snails or other doves.
  • Stacks. (will take one item from a dropped stack.)

A homesteaded dove that is carrying an item will immediately fly off to its birdhouse when released/dropped. But when its not carrying an item it will instead drop to the ground. (if left outside like that it will not return to its birdhouse. Probably eventually just de-spawns.)

Caring for your Birds

Rock Doves require feeding and watering and Birdhouses have space inside for this. To fill them, have fodder material (listed below) in your inventory, then lift it up with a left-click and right-click on the coop. This will fill the fodder bar a bit. You will not be able to recover any seed or plants used in this manner. Fodder and water each fill up their own meter inside the coop. As the doves eat, the amounts that will be diminished are proportionate to the number of doves contained therein.

See swill page for plants & food items that can be used as swill.

Birdhouses can hold a maximum of 30.00(L) of swill and 30.00(L) of water.

How to Acquire

A Birdhouse can be built, generally on a 1x1 paved area.

Tips

  • There is a trick to filling a Birdhouse much more quickly than normal. Click to pick up a unit of food, then with it floating on your cursor, hold down the shift key and right click the trough. As long as you keep the shift key held down, another unit of food from your inventory will automatically be placed on your cursor, ready to right click again!
  • Warning: Edible forageables, like for example, Candleberry or Bloated Bolete also count as fodder, so be careful when shift-right clicking as you will loose them.
  • Any fodder placed in Birdhouse will turn into generic Swill.
  • Swill can be taken out by right-clicking Coop with Bucket, Barrel, or Trough and transferred freely between all of them.
  • Water can be taken out of birdhouse with bucket or barrel if it has no swill in it. (or with a barrel with some water in it, while the coop is fully filled with water.)

Notes

  • Flat ground: max elevation 3 units (0.3m).
  • Can't be build on: Forest grounds, plowed fields, frozen water, (snow?).
  • Food (and water) quality don't matter for doves below the food quality. (quality of new born dove seem random, or probably based on local quality)
  • Star-status of food also don't effects the doves, including new born doves. (which is a good thing)

Appearance

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Game Development

  • Homing Dove (2020-09-20) >"Added "Birdhouse", building. Doves may be kept and fed in a Birdhouse, but will not multiply in them. A domesticated dove (one born in a Dovecote) may be Homesteaded in a Birdhouse, and will then return to it if set free. Place a domesticated dove in the Birdhouse, and Right-click the dove to Homestead it. Domesticated Doves can carry one item. Try a hat!"