Cockatrice

Cockatrice
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Price	500 Robux
Bird Category	Game Pass
Species	Cockatrice (Mythology)- Serpent, domestic chicken
Gameplay
Flying Status	Hovering
Flying Animations	4
Extra
Event	Yes
Remodeled	Yes (Male neck fluff only, given female version)
Sexual Dimorphism	Yes

Cockatrice is a playable bird in Feather Family. It was added on October 23rd, 2020. It is a gamepass bird, and can be purchased here.

Appearance

Egg

The egg has a very similar shape to the normal Egg, though its slightly longer and larger. It has a lime base with large, shiny green spots.

Chick

The chick has cream yellow feathers on its head and neck, as well as on its waist. It has a crooked, orange beak and large eyes with green irises and slit pupils. It also has a split tongue. Its body, thighs and tail are all green with a light green underbelly that starts from its chest. It has three small spikes on its back and a small fan of feathers at the base of its tail. Its wings are pretty small compare to its body. Each wing has four long fingers that each end with a black talon and are connected with webbing that fades from cream yellow to yellowish-green. It has paw-like feet that are grey in color, each having a black talon.

Rooster

The rooster has green eyes with a slit pupil. It has a yellow, crooked toothed beak. Its head, chest and neck are brown, with the chest being a darker brown. Its neck has heavy neck fluff. It has a red comb that sticks up from the top of its head. The body is green, with a beige underbelly and paw-like, grey feet. It has two fans of feathers at the base of its tail, one being white and the other blue. It has black spikes along its back and tail as well as black talons on its feet and at the tips of wing fingers. It has a red arrow on the tip of its tail. Its wings are webbed, with it fading from yellowish green to cream yellow. It is larger than the hen.

Hen

The hen has green eyes with a slit pupil. It has a yellow, crooked toothed beak. Its head, chest and neck are brown, with the chest being a darker brown. It has a small red comb that sticks up from the top of its head. The body is green, with a beige underbelly and paw-like, grey feet. It has two fans of light brown feathers at the base of its tail. It has black spikes along its back and tail as well as black talons on its feet and at the tips of wing fingers. It has a red arrow on the tip of its tail. Its wings are webbed, with it fading from yellowish green to cream yellow. It is smaller than the rooster.

Coloring

Egg

• Shell - Colors base of egg.
• Extra - Colors spots.

Chick

• Eyes - Colors irises.
• Beak - Colors beak.
• Head - Colors head and crest.
• Neck - Colors neck and chest.
• Chest - Colors underbelly
• Body - Colors torso, thighs and tail.
• Coverts - Colors arms and fingers of wings.
• Primary Feathers - Colors half of webbing gradient.
• Secondary Feathers - Colors half of webbing gradient.
• Legs - Colors legs.
• Tail 1- Colors tuft of tail feathers.
• Tail 2 - Colors feather fan.
• Talons - Colors talons on feet and back spikes.
• Extra - Colors tail spike and tongue.
• Magic - Colors eye particles and emitted light.

Adult

• Eyes - Colors irises.
• Beak - Colors beak.
• Head - Colors head and neck.
• Neck - Colors bottom layer of neck feathers and some of chest.
• Chest - Colors underbelly.
• Body - Colors torso, tail and thighs.
• Coverts - Colors arms and fingers of wings.
• Primary Feathers - Colors half of webbing gradient.
• Secondary Feathers - Colors half of webbing gradient.
• Legs - Colors legs.
• Tail 1 - Colors upper feather fan.
• Tail 2 - Colors bottom feather fan.
• Talons - Colors talons on legs and wings, back spikes and teeth.
• Extra - Colors tail spike, comb and tongue.
• Magic - Colors eye particles and emitted light, as well as flight trail.

Actions

Egg

• Shake - Egg slowly moves from side to side.
• Crack - Toggles crack marks on egg’s shell.

Chick

• Run - Increases walking speed. Triggers run cycle.
• Call - Causes chick to make a sound.
• Sit - Goes into a sitting position.
• Eat - Chick raises head up and down while biting.
• Hurt - Chick lays on its side to appear injured.
• Eyes - Opens or closes eyes.
• Magic - Emits square-shaped particles from both eyes and makes two spots of light appear in front of it.

Adult

• Run - Increases walking speed. Triggers run cycle.
• Call - Causes cockatrice to screech. Hen’s call is higher pitched than rooster’s.
• Sit - Goes into a sitting position.
• Eat - Moves head down slowly and lifts it up quickly to look like its tearing flesh.
• Hurt - Lays on stomach with wings spread out on the ground.
• Display - Cockatrice bends over with wings spread in front.
• Preen - Cleans tail fan with beak.
• Eyes - Opens or closes eyes.
• Magic - Emits square-shaped particles from both eyes and makes two spots of light appear in front of it.
• Fly - Takes flight. Able to hover in place and move in any direction at will.

Trivia

• Cockatrice is the third game pass bird, and the fourth game pass.
  • Cockatrice is the only game pass bird whose game pass is named differently from the bird itself, being named Basilisk. This was done because Roblox censors its actual name and ‘basilisk’ is considered synonymous to cockatrice.
• Cockatrice was given a female variant, hover flight and a neck fluff redo in the Updated Griffin update.
• Despite no mention of sexual dimorphism of cockatrices in mythology, Cockatrice in Feather Family has gender variants. This is most likely done due to it being partially chicken, a sexually dimorphic animal.
  • This also applies to Griffin and Peryton, with Updated Griffin having sexual dimorphism because lions are sexually dimorphic while Peryton has sexual dimorphism because deer are sexually dimorphic.
• Cockatrice is the third aquatic bird in the game, with the others being Auk, Penguin, Loon, Cormorant, Gannet, Great Auk and Hesperornis. All of these birds are very fast in water and can stay underwater without floating to the surface.
• Cockatrice and Hesperornis once experienced an issue which affected their swimming speeds and swimming handling, an error caused by a bug in Roblox’s water physics which messes up swimming for larger player models. This was fixed in July 7th, 2022.
• Cockatrice's species wasn't revealed until the addition of Skeleton, which is 3 weeks before the release of Cockatrice.
  • Similar reveals happened with Griffin and Peryton, as Griffin's species wasn't revealed until about 1-2 weeks until release and Peryton was teased for several months with its species only being revealed on release.
• Cockatrice was first mentioned when ShinyGriffin teased a possible new game pass bird when announcing the Phoenix remodel.
• Cockatrice's design was changed to look more avian than it's described as in mythology.
• Cockatrice, Skeleton and Peryton are the technically the only birds who can have glowing eyes. However, some birds (especially older morphs) actually have glowing eyes as well.
• Cockatrice is one of the four birds that doesn't use the default spawn, the others being Phoenix, Peryton and Griffin. Cockatrice always spawns in the Fantasy Field.
• Cockatrice and Peryton, unlike the other two game pass birds, have their eggs spawn in different spots than where normal eggs spawn when the respective biome is chosen as the default spawn. The adult Cockatrice still spawns in the normal adult spawn while adult Peryton does not.
• Its magic emote is likely inspired by mythology, as cockatrices are told to be able to turn anyone to stone once they lock eyes with them.
• Changing the texture of a cockatrice egg changes the base and leaves the spots as they were, similarly to Phoenix eggs only changing the texture of their base.
• We normally wouldn't be able to tell whether the Feather Family Cockatrice is a snake/serpent-rooster or dragon-rooster. However, the game pass description confirms that Feather Family's Cockatrice is in fact a serpent as opposed to a dragon.
• If you use Eat and start walking, Cockatrice's mouth will move as it walks. This is a bug.
• When in first person, you can see Cockatrice's wing webbing. This is likely a bug.
• When Call is used while Display is on, then Cockatrice will temporarily levitate while the Call animation is going. This is a bug.
• During flight, a trail will appear at the tips of cockatrice's wings, the color of which can be changed with the Magic option during customization. This was not initially a feature on the Cockatrice and was added in the Flamingo remodel update.
• Cockatrice's menu icon is currently bugged and doesn't show its wing leathering texture.
• On some unknown date around November of 2021, Cockatrice's swimming animation was changed from paddling to a more serpentine/crocodilian swim, with the cockatrice tucking its limbs in and moving by swaying its tail left to right.
• The adult cockatrice's Controls section has a large gap towards the bottom. This is because cockatrice reuses its Controls lineup from phoenix and that space is where phoenix would have its rebirth ability which cockatrice lacks.

Gallery

Cockatrice on the menu screen.

All growth stages of the Cockatrice.

The icon for the Cockatrice game pass.

Feather Family's icon for the Cockatrice update.

The eyes of the adult Cockatrice when Magic is enabled.