on the new bird spawn scarcity

[Ginosaji]

This new bird spawn scarcity mechanic after a lunar hail seems more annoying than anything if you wanna catch a new bird for your birdcage or farm for specific feathers as anyone else but Wickerbottom.

I have to literally waste days to get red feathers to make a feather hat just so i can farm some seeds.

 

I get that Klei wanted to add new ways of getting pure brilliance but most people just opt for spamming the end is nigh books in the lunar storm and then transmute all the infused shards as Wilson.

This is also a way better method than acquiring 1 pure brilliance a day from a mutated crow. If we at least could feed infinite amounts of infused shards and let's say every 5 gives you a pure brilliance, but no to actually make this worthwhile you'd have to mine for some stacks of infused shards, then bundle them, unbundle them to feed the bird for that day, rebundle them and then repeat the process after the cooldown is up.

I guess you could use a screen full of birdcages and just feed through stacks of the stuff but why all that effort? At that point you could just go and mine the ryftstals. Pure brilliance isn't that rare it just had like 2 ways of getting it which were ryftstal mining and killing a possessed boss. people are just too lazy to go and get the stuff when the rift spawned in the most dead corner of the world.

I just don't know why we have to sacrifice a core mechanic for the acquisition of more pure brilliance...

[landromat]

3 hours ago, Ginosaji said:

as anyone else but Wickerbottom.

So you dislike the need to switch to wicker because you have to wait couple days for birds to spawn naturally

3 hours ago, Ginosaji said:

most people just opt for spamming the end is nigh books in the lunar storm and then transmute all the infused shards as Wilson.

But perfectly okay with getting pure brilliance from swapping to TWO different characters, huh

[Captain_Rage]

Getting Pure Brilliance is like drying Jerky. You really don't have to stand and watch the meat dry. In the same manner you roam the world completing other objectives and eventually come across the rift or head to the rift while carrying out other tasks on the way. As for now it is easy to keep a steady flow of Pure Brilliance going.

[Ginosaji]

4 hours ago, landromat said:

So you dislike the need to switch to wicker because you have to wait couple days for birds to spawn naturally

But perfectly okay with getting pure brilliance from swapping to TWO different characters, huh

What does one thing have to do with the other?

The question is do i now have to swap to wicker just to get some wild seeds coz klei has to implement mob scarcity which didn't exist before?

The 2 character swap thing was merely an example. I'm not struggling with brilliance in this playthrough coz aside from spark arc crafts, bs smasher/staff/helm and elasticspacers brilliance just isn't used much. Yea, i named like half of the crafting tab for the smithy now but the smasher only sees use when i mine the rift for brilliance..., staff i only use for fw woven shadows and helm doubles as armor and a visor helm for storms. How often do you repair bright smithy items?

so tldr lunar rift items are not as useful as shadow rift items and it doesn't sit right with me that we now have an artifical bird scarcity for no reason other than swap one mob out for the other.

[Semind]

What do you need seeds for? That's kind of a weird one. Not judging, I'm just surprised there'd be a need to farm seeds at the point that you have rifts open. I usually have W.O.B.O.T picking up seeds even if I didn't plan it and almost always have some on hand even if I just let them rot for years at a time.

[cybers2001]

4 hours ago, Semind said:

What do you need seeds for? That's kind of a weird one. Not judging, I'm just surprised there'd be a need to farm seeds at the point that you have rifts open. I usually have W.O.B.O.T picking up seeds even if I didn't plan it and almost always have some on hand even if I just let them rot for years at a time.

Need seeds to make all those birdcages for your zombie birds

[SilverSpoon]

Bird shortages could be annoying, but you can stockpile feathers, and there are some way for seeds like to Const+Decon “Horticulture, Abridged”.

So as a compromise with those saying the threat level has dropped a lot compared to the old lunar hail, how about splitting it into two phenomena: the old player-killing glass-shard drop “Lunar hail” (which wouldn’t drop items to avoid performance hits) and the current bird-killing and resource-draining “Lunar frost,” then tuning the pros and cons of both to a good balance. That way the Rainometer would finally be useful.

Edited August 10, 2025 by SilverSpoon

[Sephirona]

I don't have strong feelings about the lack of birds because I don't farm for feathers much, but it is kind of annoying that now the bright beaked birds will leave random moonshard junk on the floor if they fly off before eating what they've pecked from the hail. I've resorted to just using the mod Rot Begone to clear them out but I do kinda miss that the old hail would at least have the stuff disappear after a while.

Regarding their uses, seeds are good for buying tokens for the Midsummer Cawnival, too. My group tends to stockpile a lot of seeds since some of us play Wurt, so we trade in the excess from our trawlers to the merm king and he drops a ton. Also helps if there's a Wicker around to spawn even more fish. But of course it's not ideal if you don't want to swap in the first place. 

[Parusoid]

On 8/10/2025 at 5:32 AM, Ginosaji said:

anyone else but Wickerbottom

her book is affected too, and i hate this fact, cant farm electric darts effectively now