About the Game
Peck your way to power! Consume endless popcorn to mutate your birb into increasingly powerful forms. Will you remain a bird, or become something... more?
When you're not feasting, step through the portal into dangerous realms.
Explore Procedural Dungeons: Battle unique enemies.
Boss Battles: Face off against powerful foes to prove your dominance.
Take a break from the chaos at the Moonlit Waters.
Fishing Minigame: Cast your line to catch dozens of unique fish types.
Fill your Fishdex: distinct rarities, shiny variants, and weight records.
Manage your Aquarium: Show off your best catches or trade them for buffs.
Home is where the twig is. Unlocking powerful passive bonuses, automation features, and helpful companions like the Seagull, Parrow and Sparrow.
Social Flock
You are not alone! See other players moving in real-time in the park, chat with the flock, and compete for the top spot on the Global Leaderboards for Popcorn Eaten and Fish Caught.
Features:
Satisfying Idle progression
Active RPG-style combat expeditions
Hundreds of upgrades and skill trees
Retro Pixel Art aesthetic
Prestige system for infinite replayability
Are you ready to join the flock?
Screenshots
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Version Information
Steam Patch Notes
Official update history
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 purchase effects.
- Improved crop, path, and windmill placement.
Tree Interior
- Integrated interior upgrades into the existing Nest shop as special purchases.
- Added Provisions Pantry: increases the SP bonus provided by Training levels by 50%.
- Added Flock Table: Dave’s Seed-training milestones increase Parrot damage, up to +25%.
- Added Project Bookcase: +25% Carpentry crafting XP, including automatic crafting.
- Added seating behavior for interior chairs.
- Simplified upgrade descriptions and removed unnecessary information.
Production & Storage
- Carpentry’s tool upgrade now increases Plank output instead of Twig production.
- Added Reinforced Beds and Reinforced Rows, providing up to +100% Seeds and Popcorn respectively.
- Added Covered Storage, increasing the offline limit through 9, 10, and 12 hours.
- These new improvements use Planks, with additional Wood required for Covered Storage.
- Added the active hybrid fish and its actual bonuses to the buff display.
Companions & Training
Training & Cooperation
- Field Notes now generates SP outside Expeditions and during offline progress.
- Added cooperation upgrades for Nest Twig production, Dave’s extra collections, companion XP, and Training.
- Companion XP bonuses now affect Dave and Seagull, not Sparrow.
- Reorganized the cooperation branch into a more compact, readable layout.
Dave
- Each Forage point now grants one additional pickup per peck, replacing the previous fractional progression and six-pickup cap.
- Updated collection previews and tooltips to reflect actual pickups, range, and carrying limits.
- Added a guided tutorial for Dave.
Sparrow
- Earned milestones now remain recorded through Rebirbs and Evolution.
- Improved milestone tracking for older saves and accumulated Mitoses.
Seagull
- Improved the companion menu, milestone display, and Rebirb controls.
- Hook-speed bonuses now correctly affect Seagull’s fishing timings.
- The first eligible daily Legendary catch on Expedition Floor 4 now guarantees Mariana Phantom.
- Incompatible bait is ignored for the current fishing location without clearing your selected bait.
Parrot
- Parrot Rebirb II now requires reaching Floor 6 instead of Floor 7.
- Improved Rebirb requirements, navigation guidance, and progression recommendations.
Red Panda
- You can now rename your Red Panda after its initial naming.
- Improved the Help, Nap, and rename controls.
- Nap now grants +50% Twigs, replacing its previous Popcorn and Seed bonus.
Expeditions
Combat Readability
- Enemy tiers are represented visually through the health bar rather than additional text.
- Improved health-bar placement above enemies and bosses.
- Hovering over an enemy or holding Shift enlarges its health display.
- Improved overlap prevention when inspecting groups of nearby enemies.
- Replaced damage labels with sword icons and clearer colors.
- SP rewards now use the currency icon and appear below defeated enemies.
- Aura and Potion drops now use icons and colored amounts.
- Improved SP reward previews to reflect applicable reward bonuses.
Enemies & Areas
- Added tier-specific enemy visuals across Expedition Floors 1–9.
- Removed the orange fire effect beneath bosses.
- Fixed the Floor 8 boss disappearing during an animation frame.
- Improved enemy movement, scenery layering, and positioning around trees and obstacles.
- Rebalanced enemy health and SP progression across several depth bands, including Floors 2 and 6–10.
- Increased SP rewards for progressing into Floors 6 and 7.
- Adjusted late Floor 8 and Floors 9–10 enemy health scaling.
- Doubled the enemy population in Eden Night.
Quests & Sacrifices
- Floor quests now automatically pin when entering their area.
- Manually unpinned quests remain unpinned until a later visit.
- Improved quest reward previews.
- Updated selected major quest rewards to stack multiplicatively, while preserving previously earned reward progress.
- Rebalanced Sacrifice milestone bonuses across SP, Popcorn, Seeds, and Aura rewards.
- Milestone XVI now grants +10% Aura quantity and +10% Aura chance.
- Clarified Common Aura costs and rarity-promotion bonuses.
Parrot Totem
- Totems now return to their saved position when reopening the game.
- Preserved broken Totem and cooldown states across reloads.
- Added offline SP rewards based on eligible Totem combat performance.
Desert Progression
- Added Aura Trail, increasing Expedition Aura drop chance by 25%.
- Updated the surrounding Aura branch’s requirements and connections.
- Scouting, Shell, and Momentum now cost Golden Popcorn instead of Aura.
- These upgrades now follow a continuous cost progression and require completing the preceding upgrade before purchasing the next.
- Scouting, Shell, and Momentum now reset on Evolution rather than remaining permanent.
Fishing
- Shiny fish are now preserved through every Evolution.
- Added Normal and Shiny recommendation modes to the Fishdex.
- Shiny recommendations now prioritize expected Shiny catches rather than only the base fish’s appearance chance.
- Wooden Hook now provides +5% reel speed, with an adjusted rarity profile.
- Fishing rerolls now compare rarity only and keep the current fish when rarities tie.
- Added distinct Ocean Minnow and Basic Lure icons.
- Increased Prism Rod’s Golden Creature requirement from 2 to 12.
- Reduced Divine Rod’s Cosmic Seraph requirement from 100 to 20.
- The player now faces the water while casting and reeling.
Mine
- Added backward and forward travel between unlocked areas.
- Your selected farming area is saved separately from your highest unlocked area.
- Revisiting an area preserves its current ore’s rarity and remaining health.
- Evolution VI now preserves Mine progression and upgrades. Ore and Gold balances still reset.
- Improved ore damage visuals and cracking stages.
- Reorganized Mine upgrade spacing and hid the deep branch until Deep Mine is unlocked.
- Improved the Mine unlock guide and reduced unnecessary interface updates during mining.
Offline Progress, Saves & Multiplayer
- Improved offline harvesting calculations across companion collection, Nest crops, and Echo mushrooms.
- Improved consistency between production bonuses and offline rewards.
- Fixed errors affecting multiplayer room actions and their notifications.
- Fixed related save-import notifications.
Interface & Desktop Improvements
- Currency icons remain readable beside large upgrade prices.
- Improved price formatting, wrapping, and MAX-purchase previews.
- Removed redundant “per hit” text from the Twig Value upgrade.
- Improved upgrade-tree spacing and consistency across several areas.
- Added a visibility setting for the Parrot SP currency display.
- Improved window focus, dialog layering, and compact layouts.
- Updated localized text for the new and revised features.
- Reduced expensive overlay effects in the Linux desktop version.
- Improved Linux crash reports to retain more useful information for troubleshooting.
Fishing
Fixed 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 Equipment
Increased 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.
Mine
Deep 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.
Interface
Spirit Scouting, Spirit Shell, and Spirit Momentum now display “Common Aura” in their costs to identify the required rarity.
Languages and Chat
Added Simplified Chinese and Korean language support.
Added a Korean chat channel.
Gameplay
Added 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 Companions
Seagulls 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.
Interface
Added 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 Recovery
Replaced 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 Compatibility
Restored 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.
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- Fixed the Nest unlocking at an advanced tier. Evolution III now unlocks it at Tier I; existing Nest levels are preserved.
- Fixed imported saves placing Birb across the Nest river before the bridge is unlocked.
- Fixed missing travel arrows after an interrupted Desert introduction.
- Added the readiness indicator and navigation shortcut for the first Parrot Rebirb.
- Automatic mining now continues while typing in chat.
- Added a Mine unlock checklist to the entrance and Parrot Forge, showing completed and missing requirements.
- Updated Abyssal Bait and Shiny Abyssal Bait icons to distinguish them from Coral Crumbs.
Interface
- Fixed tutorial markers and panels becoming misaligned when changing UI scale.
- Improved tutorial positioning and available space on smaller screens.
- Reduced hotbar icon flickering by preserving icons when item quantities change.
- Steam now remembers the chosen player name instead of replacing it at startup.
- Moved the Settings close button to the upper-right corner.
- Added an in-game patch notes window with publication history and navigation.
Saves and Recovery
- Browser save recovery now applies recovered progress without forcing a page reload.
- Improved save conflict handling to prevent older running state from overwriting recovered progress.
- Added protection against overlapping save transitions.
- Improved history restoration with verification of the restored save before resuming.
Performance and Desktop Compatibility
- Cached fishing catch notifications to reduce repeated drawing work.
- Added performance measurements for fishing UI and Expedition achievement processing.
- Moved Steam Cloud operations off the UI thread to reduce stalls.
- Improved Linux Wayland startup and rendering compatibility.
- Expanded bundled Linux audio dependencies, including PulseAudio and ALSA support.
- Added audio recovery after player interaction and improved playback error logging.
- Added Linux runtime diagnostics for investigating freezes and rendering failures.
Server
- Optimized chat history queries and online presence broadcasts.
- Added protection against stalled chat connections accumulating outgoing data.
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Current Release
Build 26092769
Uploaded Oct 21, 2026
System Requirements
How to Install
birb.exe to play
Troubleshooting tips
• Run Redist/_CommonRedist installers if game won't start
• Add folder to Windows Defender exclusions
• Run as administrator
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