Mallard Drake

Mallard Drake
Size (obj)Structure footprint in tile units.<br><br><i>Rounded-up from source.<br>Source: 0.181818 x 0.181818</i><br><br>xobst(only) also excepts 'unknown'.<br>yobst is ignore in that case.	0.2 x 0.2
Base-Quality	10
Hitpoints	10
Fleeing-Hitpoints	10
Creature-Products	Dead Mallard: Mallard Feather, Entrails, Mallard Meat, Bone Material or Wishbone
Seasonality	(See this page for now)
Terrain This data is specified at the individual Terrain pages.	Shallow Water
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It's a male duck. Its female counterpart is the Mallard Hen.

Hunting

Mallards almost excursively hang around in water. Anything dropped into a body of water used to instantly disappear, but (since "Fluid Incline" -patch) items now persist in shallow water until they de-spawn, same as if dropped on dry land. This makes it viable to hunt mallards with a Sling. (Requires Archery to unlock 'Shoot' and 3 Marksmanship to deal enough damage to one-shot.

Catching

"Catching" in this case means you need to grab a live one (from the wild, no releasing already grabbed one.) This is relevant for certain Credos quests. (Fisherman and Hunter at least.)

Mallards can easily be caught on horseback. Come at them from behind so that they won't flee in the direction of the water on which they spawned and then simply run after them.

Snekkja is another option, you need to be careful not to squash the mallard though, instead carefully going close enough to startle it to fly, then right click it to stat chasing it.

Without Horse or a ship, there is a trick that requires a friend (or an alt) to startle Mallard to fly it towards you, it won't change direction. Works best when both have boats and you do it on large lake.

Game Development

• Hairy Mallard (2016-12-14)◎ >"Added Mallards. Quack, quack! (Also implies a new input type for Poultry to discover if you want to see your Beeted Bird Breast again)"