Wild Ravens
Wild Ravens are untamed ravens you find perched around treetops.
Finding them (where they show up)
Most of the time they spawn above leaves, so look up:
- forest canopies
- large oak roofs
- leaf-dense areas with open air above
Spawn notes
- Feathered Friend natural spawning runs periodically (not every tick).
- It samples columns around players, scans down for leaves, then spawns a Wild Raven one block above.
- Per-player wild raven cap is server-configurable (
wildRavensPerPlayer).
Behavior before taming
Wild Ravens avoid close pressure:
- close approach: they fly off
- very close rush: they can blink away
They only stay interested when you hold the correct lure item.
Luring a Wild Raven
You can lure using either:
- Iron Nugget
- Gold Nugget
Hold the nugget in either hand. If you put it away, they lose interest quickly.
Bring extra iron/gold nuggets. Wrong inputs consume nuggets (except Creative) and force a reset by despawn.
Taming (the nugget song)
Each Wild Raven has a hidden sequence of Iron/Gold nuggets (length 3-6).
Audio cues:
- Low caw = Iron
- High caw = Gold
Example sequence you might hear:
Sample nugget song: Iron -> Iron -> Gold -> Iron -> Gold
Step-by-step tame
- Hold Iron/Gold Nugget and let the raven approach.
- Listen and decode the caw order.
- Right-click with the correct nugget for the next step.
- Repeat until sequence completes.
Wrong nugget order
If you feed the wrong nugget, the raven despawns with FX and taming attempt ends. You must find another Wild Raven and start over.
After successful tame
After full sequence completion, you get the naming screen, and the Wild Raven is converted into your owned raven companion record.
DEEP DIVE: ownership limits
Feathered Friend allows one owned raven companion per player. If you already have one, Wild Raven taming cannot start again until that ownership state changes.
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