Eagles

Eagles

A new feathered companion in 2.0.0. Eagles can fetch your shot arrows, hunt at your command, and roost in nests. They roam mountain biomes in the wild and can be tamed.

⚠️ 2.0.0 ships with eagle natural spawning DISABLED by default while the eagle model is still being finalised. The spawn egg works, the tame/fetch/hunt/whistle/perch/nest systems are all live — only the worldgen path is gated. See Enabling wild spawning at the bottom of this page.

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Acquiring an eagle

Spawn Egg (creative / pre-release)

[WIP] Eagle Spawn Egg is available in the creative tab. The [WIP] prefix flags that the model is still placeholder — gameplay works, visuals are pending.

Wild eagles (disabled by default in 2.0.0)

When enabled via config, wild eagles patrol exposed ridges in mountain-tagged biomes. They live around naturally-generated Eagle Nests and are not hostile to players.

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Taming

Feed a wild eagle raw meat until it bonds. A tamed eagle will:

• Follow its owner.
• Sit / stand on command (right-click empty hand).
• Be addressable by an Eagle Whistle.

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Fetch mode

The headline ability: a tamed eagle picks up arrows you've shot and returns them to your inventory.

• Toggle fetch mode per-eagle (right-click with the Eagle Whistle, or via the eagle's interaction menu).
• The eagle's "beak inventory" holds up to 16 arrows of mixed types before it has to come back to drop them off.
• Has a built-in unstuck guard — if the eagle's pathing or busy state gets confused, it resets cleanly instead of standing frozen.

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Hunting

With a tamed eagle nearby:

• Aim through a spyglass at a hostile mob.
• The eagle gains a hunt lock-on and dives at the target.
• Useful for harassing mobs out of reach or distracting a target while you reposition.

The eagle disengages and returns when the target dies, escapes, or you stop aiming.

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Eagle Whistle

A craftable utility item for remote control of your eagles.

• Bound mode — sneak-right-click an eagle to bind the whistle to that specific eagle. The whistle now controls only that eagle.
• Open mode — leave the whistle unbound. It addresses any tamed eagle of yours within range.

Right-click in air to summon. Sneak-right-click on the ground to toggle fetch mode for the addressed eagle(s).

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Eagle Perch (block)

A craftable block. Tamed eagles will choose to rest on a nearby perch instead of standing on the ground, giving them a visible "home" in your base.

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Eagle Nest (block) & egg-hatching

The nest is the eagle's nursery:

• Auto-fills with eagle eggs over time as long as a tamed eagle is nearby.
• Eggs hatch into baby eagles on a timer; baby eagles grow into adults and inherit owner-bond from the parent.
• In wild generation, mountain ridges may spawn nests with 0–3 eggs and 1–2 wild eagles guarding the nest.

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Enabling wild spawning

Edit config/fletcherstrestle-server.toml:

[eagles]
  # Whether eagles spawn naturally in the world (mountain-biome spawn
  # pool + nest worldgen feature).
  # Disabled by default while the eagle model is WIP. The spawn-egg item
  # still works regardless.
  # Flip to true to re-enable everything; no other changes needed.
  natural_spawning = true

Restart the world. Wild eagles will now spawn in mountain-tagged biomes and EagleNestFeature will generate nests during chunk decoration as designed.