Bird Monster

* Fast in Mud
* Consume Carcasses
* Immunity to Desert burning

* September 2, 2023 (Beta)

"*UPGRADED to the Bird Monster!
Fly, and do a powerful Electric Swoop attack! Aim it well.*"

The **Bird Monster** is a tier 16 Land animal equivalent to the Land Monster, Dino Monster, Giant Scorpion, Sea Monster and Ice Monster. It was first released in Beta Mope.io on September 2, 2023 and released to the main game on September 21, 2023.

## Technical

* Only obtainable for free from the Shop on the mobile app version of Mope.io. Once is it "bought" on mobile, it can be used on other devices.
* Upgrades to the Black Dragon/King Dragon at 10M XP.
* Has an energy bar instead of a water bar.
	+ Energy drains passively and while flying. It refills in the same way as the water bar, that is, drinking water, staying on mud or beaches, and eating foods that give water.
* The Bird Monster has two special abilities: "Electric Swoop" and "Electric Tornado";
	+ Electric Swoop is activated by holding `W` or right click. While held, the Bird Monster will fly towards a large red crosshair where the mouse (or joystick on mobile) is. It can target an individual animal or anywhere. When clicked, the Bird Monster will dive toward the crosshair, creates a large meteor impact, and inflicts a bite's worth of damage once to any animals in the radius that stuns for two seconds and pushes them back slightly. The cooldown for this ability is currently unknown.
		- Energy depletes faster while in flight. Flying lasts until energy runs out.
	+ Electric Tornado is activated by pressing `S`. The Bird Monster stops moving and turning, becoming unable to do either in its duration, and flaps its wings (without taking off from the ground). Small electric bolts fly off behind it and a non-damaging wind is sent outwards from each wing after a couple seconds that pushes prey and food away. A few seconds later, it will send a tornado forwards and is able to move again. The cooldown is unknown but is shorter than Electric Swoop.
		- Electric Tornado can be used while on fire and while in a cave.
		- The tornadoes are much larger than the Phoenix's tornadoes and is more unique in appearance, matching the size of the old tornadoes previously in the game. Electric bolts fly off it in random directions. Tornadoes will roam around and follow the nearest player, picking a new target if their target dies or hides. Both the bolts and the tornado size up with the animal.
		- Tornadoes have a health bar that depletes over time, but despawn a few minutes after being spawned before it can fully be depleted.
		- Electric bolts will visually electrocute and lightly damage animals upon contact and cause them to say "ZZZZZZ!" in chat. Electrocuted animals are unable to use their ability for about 2 seconds.
		- Possibly due to a bug, tornadoes don't affect AI animals in Beta testing. It's unknown if this occurs in the main game.
* The Bird Monster can eat all types of food except for berries, dates, and cactus Pears and can eat all animals from tier 15 to tier 7 (Dragon to Fox). It can consume carcasses.
* Its predators are the Black Dragon/King Dragon and can be tail-bitten by equivalents and prey.
* The passive abilities of the Bird Monster are; Climbing on hills and rocks, faster movement in mud, and debuff immunity in the Desert.

## Appearance

The Bird Monster is a large navy blue bird with the general aesthetics of a thundercloud. It has a crown-shaped head with two barred eyes enveloped in light blue electricity. It has a wide and serrated icy blue beak. The Bird Monster has a pair of large fluffy wings with 4 lightning bolts at the edge. Its body is darker and it has large tufted tail feathers. 4 teal lightning bolt-like feathers curve inwards from just before the tail feathers. It has 3 icy blue talons on each foot crackling with electricity, a detail only seen during its abilities.

In-game, electricity emanates from the center and makes its way to the sides of the animal in a 4 part animation. While using an ability, this disappears.

The Bird Monster physically flaps its wings during both abilities. As seen in its second ability "Electric Tornado", its eyes are capable of glowing blue.

## Gallery

### Assets

The Bird MonsterA rough remake of the Bird Monster's in-game animationThe Bird Monster's headThe Bird Monster's head during Electric SwoopThe Bird Monster's bodyThe Bird Monster's body during the dive part of Electric SwoopThe Bird Monster's body during Electric TornadoThe Bird Monster's right wingThe Bird Monster's left wingLeft wing during an abilityRight wing during an abilityFirst frame of the passive electric animationSecond frame of the passive electric animationThird frame of the passive electric animationFourth frame of the passive electric animationThe first frame of the tailwind produced when landingThe second frame of the tailwind produced when landingThe third frame of the tailwind produced when landingThe fourth frame of the tailwind produced when landingThe fifth frame of the tailwind produced when landingThe sixth frame of the tailwind produced when landingThe crater made by Electric Swoop in the Land and Volcano biomesThe crater made by Electric Swoop in the Ocean biomeThe crater made by Electric Swoop in the Arctic biomeThe crater made by Electric Swoop in the Desert biomeThe crater made by Electric Swoop in the Forest biomeWind created by the Bird Monster during the Electric Tornado abilityThe tornado produced by the Bird Monster's Electric Tornado abilityLightning bolt shot by the Bird Monster at the start of Electric Tornado and produced by the subsequent tornado
### In-game

The Bird Monster in-gameUpgrade message for Bird MonsterElectric Swoop in action against Ducks (Beta)Bird Monster during the charge up of Electric Tornado.The Bird Monster in the shop.The confirmation message that appears after trying to buy it.
### Teasers

A old design leak from KOA on Discord, circa 2021. It was not used in the final design.Another more recent leak in 2023 from KOA's community tab on YouTube.A promotion for mobile Mope.io with the newly released Bird Monster on Beta Mope.ioA promotion for a Bird Monster skin on Apes.io.
## History

 October 24, 2023 | * Fix: Bird Monster no longer crashes the game on low graphics or in arena.
* Fix: Black Dragon downgrade to Bird Monster skin glitch fixed.
* Fix: Electric Tornado doesn't follow in arena anymore.
* Fix: Electric Tornado doesn't crash players in arena anymore.
* Buff: Can now bite prey mid-air.
* Buff: Can now fly until energy is depleted.
* Nerf: Electric Tornado damage reduced to 1/8 of what it was previously.
* Nerf: Electric Swoop only hits animals once.
* Nerf: Electric Swoop damage reduced to do the same as a bite.
 September 21, 2023 | * Bird Monster added to the main game.
* Bird Monster was nerfed and buffed in unknown ways from Beta.
* It can be obtained for free from the shop in the mobile app version of the game.
 September 4, 2023 | * Added in Beta Mope.io.
 December 31, 2018 | * A Bird Monster is revealed to be in the works by King of Agario on a YouTube comment and would be revealed "soon".

### Criticism

The Bird Monster was first criticized during its time in Beta; points of contention were that its dive damage was very low, yet its secondary ability could take down even Black Dragons with ease. In response, the Bird Monster was nerfed and buffed accordingly before being released in live Mope. This lead to even more backlash: Its previously underpowered Electric Swoop now hit twice with immense damage, a lengthy stun, and could one-shot apexes. Its method of obtainment was also criticized for unnecessarily barring players from experiencing the new animal. Some players suggested making the Bird Monster a rare or a purchasable shop feature to lower the amount of people playing it.

These concerns were addressed in the October 24 2023 changes, lowering the damage dealt by both abilities and limiting the Electric Swoop to targetting one animal.

## Trivia

* The Bird Monster is the highest tiered animal to have a flying ability, use a crosshair, have an energy bar, and the second animal to use the S key for an ability after the King Dragon.
	+ Because of this, it is one of the only animals that can't spit after the Pterodactyl, Black Dragon, and King Dragon.
* It and the Phoenix are the only animals capable of creating tornadoes.
* Because of the Bird Monster's method of obtainment, it is the only animal in the game that can only be first obtained on a select platform.
* The Bird monster is likely based on the mythological Thunderbird given its appearance and electric abilities.
* Before the official Bird Monster leaks, a modified yellow phoenix with pink horns and a peacock tail from Reddit was frequently used to represent it.
* It was theorized that the Bird Monster would be a Forest-spawning animal to fill in the gap as the biome's monster, but this did not turn out to be true and will likely be taken by the Forest Monster when it is released.
* The Bird Monster was pushed back several years; from 2019 to the initial February 2022 "*Season 2*" update to August 2023, and was finally released in Beta in September 2023.
* The Bird Monster's upgrade message is a near copy of the Falcon's.

### Glitches

* The Bird Monster's energy bar transforms into a water bar sometimes after diving, but fixes itself with the next dive.
* The Bird Monster can eat multi-hit food in one bite in Beta.
* Seeing a flying Bird Monster formerly caused a game freeze.
* Attempting to 1v1 as or sometimes outright seeing a Bird Monster caused a game freeze.

## Footnotes

1. ↑ Mope.io Official Discord, #announcements channel (September 22, 2023). *Discord*. Retrieved on September 22, 2023. Archived on September 22, 2023.
2. ↑ Mope.io Official Discord, #lobby channel (July 29, 2023). *Discord*. Retrieved on July 29, 2023. Archived on July 29, 2023.
3. ↑ Its coming... (July 25, 2023). *YouTube*. Retrieved on July 25, 2023. Archived on July 25, 2023.
4. ↑ Mope.io Official Discord, #lobby channel (June 17, 2023). *Discord*. Retrieved on June 17, 2023. Archived on June 17, 2023.
5. ↑ Mope.io Official Discord, #lobby channel (December 6, 2021). *Discord*. Retrieved on May 11, 2022. Archived on May 11, 2022.
6. ↑ Mope.io Official Discord, #lobby channel (August 15, 2021). *Discord*. Retrieved on August 15, 2021. Archived on August 15, 2021.
7. ↑ Mope.io Official Discord, #lobby channel (July 22, 2021). *Discord*. Retrieved on November 7, 2021. Archived on November 7, 2021.
8. ↑ [Unknown Comment] (circa late 2018). *YouTube*. Retrieved on December 31, 2018. Archived on December 31, 2018.
9. ↑ (Beta Mope) Bird Monster's tornadoes do WAY too much damage | Mope.io Official Discord (September 2, 2023). *Discord*. Retrieved on September 24, 2023.
10. ↑ nerf bird monster (September 23, 2023). *Reddit*. Retrieved on September 26, 2023.
11. ↑ FFS FIX THE DAMN LAG!!!! NERF BIRD MONSTER! (September 24, 2023). *Reddit*. Retrieved on September 26, 2023.
12. ↑ I can't get the bird monster because I don't have an iPhone and the mope.io app is only on the apple store (September 21, 2023). *Reddit*. Retrieved on September 26, 2023.
13. ↑ Fixing Bird Monster (in general) (September 26, 2023). *Discord*. Retrieved on September 26, 2023.
14. ↑ if you try to 1v1 with bird monster, you gam breaks instantly (September 22, 2023). *Discord*. Retrieved on September 22, 2023.

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