高脚鸟

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Tallbird
生命	400
傷害	50 (37.5 )
攻擊間隔	2
攻擊距離	3
走速	7
跑速	7
特殊能力	Lays a in its nest
掉落物	×2
出生自
生成代碼	"tallbird"

Smallish Tallbird
生命	300
傷害	37.5 (peck: 2)
攻擊間隔	2 (peck: 4)
攻擊距離	3
走速	6
跑速	6
特殊能力	Slowly grows into a
掉落物
生成代碼	"teenbird"

Smallbird
生命	50
傷害	10 (7.5 )
攻擊間隔	1
攻擊距離	3
走速	6
跑速	6
特殊能力	Grows into a , doesn't spook passive birds.
掉落物
出生自
生成代碼	"smallbird"

「Free from the shackles of the sky.」

– Wendy

高腳鳥 是一種很高， 有兩隻腳，全身黑色的雀鳥。 它們可以在岩石地帶中找得到。它們通常都會在高腳鳥巢附近出沒。它們會在巢中產下藍色的高腳鳥蛋，玩家可以收集來進食，或者放近營火來養小高腳鳥。小高腳鳥會慢慢成長成青年高腳鳥，最後長成成鳥。高腳鳥要用3發冰杖攻擊才可以冷卻住。高腳鳥會主動攻擊所有接近的玩家或者怪物。但是，如果玩家偷了它的蛋，高腳鳥會追擊玩家一段很長的距離。高腳鳥甚至會在小高腳鳥和青年高腳鳥太接近時作出攻擊，或者是追擊玩家時攻擊它們。

高腳鳥要2.5天時間來重生。即使它們不是被動的怪物，它們仍被當在無辜的生靈，殺死時會增加玩家2點頑皮度。

小高腳鳥

小高腳鳥是被動生物是高腳鳥的幼年版。 玩家可以透過孵化高腳鳥蛋來孵出它們。小高腳鳥要10天來生成青年高腳鳥。它們被當作無辜生靈，殺死時會增加玩家6點頑皮度。

就像其他怪物一樣，小高腳鳥會被 Tooth Traps and Bee Mines 所攻擊，由於它們相當弱少，它們很有可能支持不到陷阱的一下攻擊。 小高腳鳥每天會消耗20點的飽食度，而當它肚餓時就會尖叫來叫食物 ( < 50%), 而完全空肚的話 ( = 0) 就會在4個遊戲小時內餓死(2 分鐘)。 它們會吃野莓 (只吃生的) 和種子 (生熟均吃)，它們亦會主動找地上的種子來吃(如果它們肚餓)。進食任何東西都會令它們的生命值補滿。

由於普通的小鳥不會避開高腳鳥,你可以利用它們去攻擊小烏來取得肉塊和羽毛。

Smallbirds will follow the player around, regardless of nearby danger. Smallbirds fall asleep at night. If the player goes far enough away from the Smallbird, like Chester, it will wake up and follow, then go back to sleep. If the player stands still, a Smallbird will either bounce around or stand idle. When idle, it might have a puzzled look, cocking its head/body at an angle. Since a Smallbird hops as movement, it can jump over 1-level-high walls. For players keeping multiple Smallbirds, accidentally issuing an attack on a Smallbird or Smallish Tallbird while other ones are following the player may result in them killing each other, so care must be taken.

Smallbirds will gradually grow up and become Tallbirds. It takes 10 days for Smallbirds to grow into Smallish Tallbirds and another 18 days for Smallish Tallbirds to grow into Tallbirds. As adults, they become hostile towards the player and attack as any Tallbird, so caution is recommended.

Extremely fragile as they are, Smallbirds require care to be kept alive. One method is to use a pan flute to put it to sleep, keeping the smallbird in a certain area, allowing the player to explore dangerous areas without risk of its death.

Smallish Tallbird

Smallish Tallbird or Teenbird is a neutral Mob that grows up from Smallbirds. Like Smallbirds, they follow the player and attack player's targets. They will keep a short distance from the player but won't attack them unless hungry. They are considered innocent creatures and killing one adds 6 points to the player's naughtiness level.

Like Tallbirds, Smallish Tallbirds will attack aggressive Mobs that come too close. They require 60 hunger points per day, will eat any food left on the ground when hungry and, like Smallbirds, will start to chirp more and more until fed. When they begin to starve, they will start pecking the player with a very low damage attack (2 damage per hit), and will die after 8 game hours if not fed. Eating anything heals 1/3 of their maximum health. They will eat any Meat, Fruit or Vegetable, including Glow Berries, Rotten Eggs, and Rot.

Smallish Tallbirds grow up into Tallbirds in 18 full days. When they do, they act like regular Tallbirds, no longer following the player and becoming aggressive when approached.

If the player is wearing a Spiderhat, the Smallish Tallbird will peck the player until the hat is removed.

Night

At night, the Tallbird will go over and curl up into its nest. Sometimes they will also do it during the day. The player can push them off the nest and steal the egg, although sometimes it's possible to steal the egg without touching the Tallbird. However, they do wake up after few seconds and give chase.

Tallbirds will remain "curled up" for a few seconds after being attacked while they are asleep, allowing the player to land a few hits before they wake and give chase. If the Tallbird took any sort of damage previously, then landing a few hits while they are asleep may end up killing them.

Fighting Strategy

Tallbirds cannot be stun-locked and are thus quite dangerous in melee combat. They can be kited, though it may be difficult as there is only a short interval between their attacks. To do this, dodge an attack, press the F to attack it once, then dodge again. With good timing, it is very possible to defeat a Tallbird without taking damage. It's even possible to hit a Tallbird twice and run out of its pecking range without taking damage.

Tallbirds can lunge over small enough gaps between two landmasses (with ocean in the middle) and land a hit on the player.

Tallbirds can be set alight using Fire Darts or a Fire Staff, causing it to run around. Usually, the fire will go out before doing enough damage to kill the bird. The weapons are generally safe to fire at a Tallbird since they spawn in rocky areas devoid of things that can burn, though care should be taken to prevent them from spreading the fire to their nests.

A Tallbird can be put to sleep by Sleep Darts after multiple hits, by use of the Pan Flute, or by eating a Mandrake; however, using a mandrake is generally a waste of resources when they can be easily killed using other methods.

Also, Tallbirds, once aggroed on a mob that invaded their territory, will only go after that mob and not change targets even after being hit by the player or other mobs. This can be exploited to kill them safely by making them aggro on Chester or other followers and then attack the Tallbird without retaliation.

Below is the number of hits it takes with each weapon to kill Tallbirds and their offspring when playing with characters with a default damage modifier. The Weather Pain is not included due to the random nature of its projectile.

Weapon
No. of hits for	95	30	24	15	14	12	10	7-14	10 or 6	8	7	7	6	4	4	2	1
No. of hits for	71	23	18	12	10	9	8	6-11	7 or 5	6	6	5	5	3	3	1	1
No. of hits for	12	4	3	2	2	2	2	2 or 1	2 or 1	1	1	1	1	2	1	1	1

Trivia

• Tallbirds run faster than the player. In previous versions, unless killed or stuck, they would continue chasing the player forever, because their chase timer used to reset every time they attempted to attack.
• Tallbirds may spawn together in a Tallfort, where 20 or so Tallbird nests are placed in a square guarding multiple clumps of rocks.
• Maxwell mentions the Tallbirds may have been a failed experiment.
• Tallbirds cannot make new nests when their nests are destroyed.
• Although eggs hatched by the player create Smallbirds, eggs left in a nest without an adult Tallbird present will create an instant adult.
• In older versions of the game, when playing as Wendy, the player had to watch out for Abigail as she would kill Smallbirds and other creatures following the player. Since the "Strange New Powers" update, Abigail gets along with the player's followers.
• If a Smallish Tallbird eats a damaging food item, it will regain the health it lost.
• A Smallbird can be used as a Steam chat emoticon.
• Two Smallbirds can be seen on a Steam profile wallpaper, which can be earned by crafting or trading.

Bugs

• The Smallish Tallbird may stop following the player if it can't reach a food on the ground and the player goes too far. (may also happen from eating too much rot - not being fed directly from the player)
• If the Smallish Tallbird stops following the player, it will keep distance and won't accept food directly, only if it is on the ground.
• If a Tallbird gets stuck on the other side of an ocean barrier, it may still be able to strike and harm you (only if the barrier is small enough).

Gallery

Tallbird laying an egg. Tallbird sleeping with its egg at dusk. Tallbird Nests seen on the overworld Map. Wolfgang near a TallFort. How to kill the Tall Bird-1 How to kill a Tallbird. Frozen Tallbird.PNG A frozen Tallbird. Falcon Peck.png Tallbird attacking. Dead Tallbird.png A dead Tallbird. Charge Tallbird.png Aggressive Tallbird preparing to run at an enemy. Smallish Tallbird pecking the player when starving.png Smallish Tallbird pecking the player when starving. Frozen Teenbird.jpg Frozen Smallish Tallbird. TeenBird Idle Anim.jpg The Teenbird bends its knees and stares ahead in one of its idle animations. TeenBird Dead.jpg A dead Smallish Tallbird. Smallbird attacking a redbird.png Smallbird attacking a Redbird. Sleeping Smallbird.png Sleeping Smallbird at night. SmallBird battlecry.png When commencing an attack, the Smallbird will emit a battle cry similar to a Tallbird. Smallbirds.png Wilson with his Smallbirds. Frozen Smallbird.PNG A frozen Smallbird. Dead Smallbird.jpg A recently deceased Smallbird. Puzzled Smallbird.jpg A puzzled Smallbird. DS Smallbird Wallpaper.png A Steam Smallbird profile wallpaper. A Tallbird along other monsters chasing Wilson in a promotional image for Don't Starve.