AmbientBlackbirdBadlands

AmbientBlackbirdBadlands Version 1.1 — for DayZ 1.30 Stable, exclusively for Badlands (Nasdara). Based on Blackbird 2.09, this separate Badlands edition brings a living, animated blackbird to the landscape. Watch it hop across the ground, peck for food, take flight and find an elevated perch from which to sing. Features Animated hopping, pecking and flight. Varied song phrases, flight calls and alarm calls. Flight and escape behaviour that responds to the surroundings. A body that can be picked up and butchered for meat, which can be cooked and eaten. Server-controlled spawning through DayZ's ambient animal system. Badlands-specific territory files for 23 possible spawn areas around vegetated settlements, with one bird per activated area and up to 20 naturally spawned birds across the map. Players and server owners Players: subscribe and load this edition when joining a Badlands server that uses it. Load only one Blackbird edition. Do not load AmbientBlackbirdBadlands together with the normal Blackbird mod on either the server or clients. The normal Blackbird mod is not an additional dependency. Both editions share internal bird classes and resources. This edition is restricted to Nasdara. Server owners: install the complete mod on the server and clients, copy the supplied public key into the server's keys folder, and follow README_DE.md and ServerFiles/README.md. Both include German and English instructions. Merge the supplied XML fragments into the active Badlands mission; do not replace the complete mission XML files with fragments. Keep Anims/cfg/skeletons.anim.xml in the complete mod folder. Replacing only the PBO or addons folder is insufficient. Keep the PBO and its matching signature together. New spawns are suppressed within 350 metres of an existing living blackbird. Credits WDallgraphics — for the beautiful blackbird model. Hunterz and his team — Ambient Animals Pack — for the inspiration and for helping me understand how to bring animals to life in DayZ. Sol and Astra — my AI coding companions, for their help, patience and many hours of bird-related problem solving.