Birb combines incremental progression with roguelite expeditions where you evolve from a small bird into a powerful entity by eating popcorn and catching fish. Between active runs that challenge bosses, you develop your nest and unlock upgrades to boost your damage output. The game appeals to players who enjoy both passive resource accumulation and skill-based combat challenges, with leaderboard competition adding replayability.
About this game
Start as a humble birb, eat popcorn, and evolve into a cosmic force of nature! Birb blends addictive idle mechanics with active roguelite expeditions. Build your nest, catch rare fish, challenge bosses, and compete on the global leaderboard. How many pecks will it take to rule the world?
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Echo Field The Archivist’s Book now unlocks both the Echo Field and its upgrade tree. Popcorn Echo is only required to start producing Echo Popcorn. Added the Echo Field to Fast Travel, while retaining the arrows that guide you toward newly unlocked areas. Reorganized the Echo upgrade tree with more consistent spacing, clearer descriptions, and fewer crossing connections. Removed Permanent labels from Echo upgrade cards. Replaced Flock Memory with Fertile Echo, which boosts Seed production based on lifetime Echo collected instead of companion XP. Clarified Shared Knowledge’s Parrot XP bonus. Updated mushroom collection rates: Awakened Mycelium collects 1 per second, Underground Network 2 per second, Coordinated Harvest 4 per second, and Perfect Route 8 per second. Perfect Route now uses fewer, more widely spaced mushrooms with greater reach, covering the field’s edges and corners. New Echo Upgrade Branches Added 15 upgrades connecting Echo progression with other parts of the game. Planting: Echo Seedbed, Shared Harvest, and Gilded Pollen improve Echo value and Seed production. Nest: Twig Trellis, Living Forest, and Woodland Network improve mushroom collection speed and Twig harvesting. Desert: Dune Offering, Sunlit Harvest, and Amber Resonance improve Echo value and Golden Popcorn harvesting. Fishing: Shell Chimes, Tidal Return, and Pearl Choir improve Echo value and fishing Moneta rewards. Mine: Mineral Roots, Resonant Peck, and Golden Veins improve Echo value and mining damage. Woodland Network can raise Perfect Route’s collection rate to 12 per second. Nest & Carpentry Nature Upgrades Added Living Hedges: +25% Twigs collected. Added Stone Paths: +50% Red Panda movement and harvesting speed. Added Flowering Shore: +25% hybrid incubation speed, including the egg currently incubating. Added Golden Glade: new trees have a 5% chance to be golden. Felling a golden tree grants an additional four times its full Twig yield. Added natural stone paths, flowers, hedges, and ...
FishingFixed Fishdex hook and lure recommendations: equipment is now recommended only when it improves the target species’ catch rate.Fixed Pro Lure being recommended for fish already housed in the aquarium.Seagull catch probabilities and recommendations now account for catch rerolls from Sonar, migrations, routes, training, and forecasts.Expedition and EquipmentIncreased the Parrot Aura’s health regeneration by 20%.Reduced the Floor 8 Giant Black Pudding boss’s health and damage by 50%.Reduced regular enemies’ health and damage by 20% in the opening section of Floor 8.Reduced non-boss enemies’ health and damage by 50% on Floor 9.Reduced brightness on Floor 6.Fixed enemy inspection difficulty tiers on floor 10.Fixed Storm Chain lightning appearing on other maps while the Parrot continued fighting in an expedition.Consumables now appear dimmed in the Infusion tab and cannot be selected or dragged there.MineDeep Mine now requires defeating the Floor 8 boss instead of reaching Evolution VI. Existing mine progression requirements still apply.Added an unlock notification after the first victory over that boss.Fixed the pickaxe being hidden behind ores.InterfaceSpirit Scouting, Spirit Shell, and Spirit Momentum now display “Common Aura” in their costs to identify the required rarity.Languages and ChatAdded Simplified Chinese and Korean language support.Added a Korean chat channel.
GameplayAdded the Bat Hat, unlocked by clicking 50 bats in the Mine.Fixed Parrot Forge filters carrying over between tabs and hiding Spirit Aura types.Improved text alignment and readability in the Expedition floor selector.Fishing and CompanionsSeagulls can now use individual hooks and permanent lures, or follow your currently equipped gear.Seagull catches now apply each bird's selected equipment bonuses.Updated Fishdex recommendations to account for individual Seagull loadouts and unequipped hook or lure options.Updated fishing rod, line and bobber visuals.Fixed fishing rods pointing downward from certain positions.InterfaceAdded Engineering and Alphabetical number notation options alongside Standard and Scientific.Added a Receive Chat Notifications option, enabling unread chat alerts without sending a message first.Fixed chat header buttons shifting when closing the chat window.Improved canvas resizing when the game layout changes.Disabled the Nest shop's Owned tab when no items are owned.Saves and RecoveryReplaced the browser confirmation for transferring control between tabs with an in-game dialog.Added safeguards against confirming a save action after the active account or save slot changes.Desktop CompatibilityRestored accelerated canvas rendering on Linux, while retaining an option to use the previous rendering mode.Improved Windows startup diagnostics for investigating launch issues.Added a Copy Diagnostic option to the error screen to make reporting startup and runtime problems easier.He who knows does not speak; he who speaks does not know. - Laozi
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