[1B🎉] Feather Family [Finch]

Not to be confused with the game's official group, The Feather Family.

"🕊️ Explore the world as one of many types of birds! Choose your species, customize yourself, hatch from an egg, grow up, build your own nest, and join flocks!"

Feather Family is an animal role-playing game on ROBLOX. Players select birds to play as and fully customize to create scenarios with other players. The game is available in several languages and on all forms of accessing ROBLOX.

Birds

Birds are the birds and bird-like animals playable in Feather Family. Birds can be customized in many different forms and renamed. There are currently three kinds of birds categorized by their obtainability.

Standard

For the category page, see Standard.

Standard birds are accessible to the player as soon as they join the game. These birds all work fairly typically aside from Egg which serves as its own kind of playable.

Standard
Bird	Skin	Flight Status	Sexual Dimorphism
Egg	-	Flightless	No
Sparrow	-	Flying	No
Pigeon	Rock Pigeon	Flying	No
Pigeon	Mourning Dove	Flying	No
Cardinal	-	Flying	No
Finch	Zebra (Estrilid)	Flying	No
Finch	Canary	Flying	No
Robin	North American (Thrush)	Flying	No
Robin	European (Flycatcher)	Flying	No
Starling	Common	Flying	No
Starling	Myna	Flying	No
Chicken	Leghorn	Limited	Yes
Chicken	Silkie	Flightless	Yes
Duck	Mallard	Flying	No
Duck	Mandarin	Flying	Yes
Goose	Canadian	Flying	No
Goose	Chinese	Flying	No
Quail	Valley (New World)	Limited	Yes
Quail	King (Old World)	Limited	No
Turkey	Wild	Limited	Yes
Turkey	Ocellated	Limited	Yes
Swan	-	Flying	No
Pheasant	Ring Necked	Limited	Yes
Pheasant	Golden	Limited	Yes
Partridge	Chukar (Rock)	Limited	No
Partridge	Grey	Limited	No

Unlockable

For the category page, see Unlockable.

Unlockable birds are purchased with the game's main currency, Feathers, which are earned over time as you play. Most of the game's birds are unlockables. Unlockables range in price from 10 to 3,000 Feathers.

Every bird above 500 Feathers in price is an extinct bird and added in the various Summer of Fossils events. All except Dromaeosaur and Skeleton have brown names with bones on their menu icons. The two exceptions have yellow names and stars on their icons.

Unlockable
Bird	Price	Skin	Flight Status	Sexual Dimorphism
Chickadee	10 Feathers	Black Capped	Flying	No
Chickadee	10 Feathers	Tufted Titmouse	Flying	No
Swallow	10 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Jay	10 Feathers	Blue (New World)	Flying	No
Jay	10 Feathers	Eurasian (Old World)	Flying	No
Guineafowl	10 Feathers	Helmeted	Limited	Yes
Guineafowl	10 Feathers	Vulturine	Limited	No
Parakeet	25 Feathers	Budgerigar	Flying	No
Parakeet	25 Feathers	Ringneck	Flying	No
Raven	25 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Gull	25 Feathers	Herring	Flying	No
Gull	25 Feathers	Little	Flying	No
Sandpiper	25 Feathers	Western	Flying	No
Sandpiper	25 Feathers	Timberdoodle	Flying	No
Peafowl	50 Feathers	Indian	Limited	Yes
Peafowl	50 Feathers	Congo	Limited	Yes
Woodpecker	50 Feathers	Pileated	Flying	No
Woodpecker	50 Feathers	Red Bellied	Flying	No
Hummingbird	50 Feathers	Ruby Throated	Hovering	No
Hummingbird	50 Feathers	Racket Tailed	Hovering	Yes
Magpie	50 Feathers	Eurasian	Flying	No
Magpie	50 Feathers	Australian (Butcherbird)	Flying	No
Cockatoo	100 Feathers	Cockatoo	Flying	No
Cockatoo	100 Feathers	Cockatiel	Flying	No
Macaw	100 Feathers	Scarlet	Flying	No
Macaw	100 Feathers	Spix's	Flying	No
Auk	100 Feathers	Puffin	Flying	No
Auk	100 Feathers	Dovekie	Flying	No
Cuckoo	100 Feathers	Common	Flying	No
Cuckoo	100 Feathers	Roadrunner	Flying	No
Crane	150 Feathers	Common	Flying	No
Crane	150 Feathers	Crowned	Flying	No
Hoopoe	150 Feathers	Eurasian	Flying	No
Hoopoe	150 Feathers	Wood	Flying	No
Penguin	150 Feathers	Emperor	Flightless	No
Penguin	150 Feathers	Rockhopper	Flightless	No
Loon	150 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Cormorant	200 Feathers	Great	Flying	No
Cormorant	200 Feathers	Shag	Flying	No
Rhea	200 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Kiwi	200 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Heron	200 Feathers	Blue	Flying	No
Heron	200 Feathers	Great Egret	Flying	No
Kingfisher	250 Feathers	Common	Flying	No
Kingfisher	250 Feathers	Kookaburra	Flying	No
Pelican	250 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Toucan	250 Feathers	Toco	Flying	No
Toucan	250 Feathers	Toucanet	Flying	No
Gannet	250 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Flamingo	300 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Hornbill	300 Feathers	Rhinoceros	Flying	No
Hornbill	300 Feathers	Red Billed	Flying	No
Bird of Paradise	300 Feathers	Greater	Flying	Yes
Bird of Paradise	300 Feathers	Superb	Flying	Yes
Emu	300 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Ostrich	350 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Nightjar	350 Feathers	Standard Winged	Flying	Yes
Nightjar	350 Feathers	Great Eared	Flying	No
Shoebill	350 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Hoatzin	350 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Falcon	400 Feathers	Peregrine	Flying	No
Falcon	400 Feathers	Kestrel	Flying	No
Owl	400 Feathers	Great Horned	Flying	No
Owl	400 Feathers	Barn	Flying	No
Secretary	400 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Stork	400 Feathers	Marabou	Flying	No
Stork	400 Feathers	White	Flying	No
Seriema	400 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Cassowary	450 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Vulture	450 Feathers	Griffon (Old World)	Flying	No
Vulture	450 Feathers	Condor (New World)	Flying	Yes
Osprey	450 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Petrel	500 Feathers	Giant	Flying	No
Petrel	500 Feathers	Cape	Flying	No
Hawk	500 Feathers	Red Tailed (Buteo)	Flying	No
Hawk	500 Feathers	Sparrowhawk (Accipiter)	Flying	No
Albatross	500 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Eagle	500 Feathers	Bald	Flying	No
Eagle	500 Feathers	Harpy	Flying	No
'Ō'ō	600 Feathers	-	Flying	Yes
Sapeornis	700 Feathers	-	Limited	No
Great Auk	800 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Elephant Bird	900 Feathers	-	Flightless	Yes
Dodo	1,000 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Confuciusornis	1,100 Feathers	-	Limited	Yes
Archaeopteryx	1200 Feathers	Updated	Limited	No
Archaeopteryx	1200 Feathers	Classic	Limited	No
Jeholornis	1,300 Feathers	-	Limited	No
Moa	1,400 Feathers	-	Flightless	Yes
Hesperornis	1,500 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Gastornis	1,600 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Kelenken	1,700 Feathers	-	Flightless	No
Pelagornis	1,800 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Harpagornis	1,900 Feathers	-	Flying	No
Argentavis	2,000 Feathers	Updated	Flying	No
Argentavis	2,000 Feathers	Classic	Flying	No
Dromaeosaur	3000 Feathers	Deinonychus	Flightless	No
Dromaeosaur	3000 Feathers	Microraptor	Limited	No
Skeleton	3000 Feathers	Harpagornis	Hovering	No
Skeleton	3000 Feathers	Archaeopteryx	Hovering	No

Game Pass

Main article: Game Passes

Game Pass birds are purchased with ROBLOX's microtransaction currency, Robux. Game Pass birds currently make up the least of the bird roster but are still notable in the fact that each one is unique in some form from the standards and unlockables. All game pass birds can hover fly in some form, they all have a unique stage and all have a Magic action and coloring option. Griffin and Peryton in particular are very unique for their completely overhauled coloring.

Game Pass
Bird	Price	Skin	Flight Status	Special Features
Phoenix	400 Robux	Updated	Hovering	Unique egg, magic action, hover flight, rebirth ability, unique flight particles, spawns in Volcano
Phoenix	400 Robux	Classic	Flying
Cockatrice	500 Robux	Updated	Hovering	Unique egg, aquatic, sexual dimorphism, magic action, flight trail, spawns in Fantasy Field
Cockatrice	500 Robux	Classic	Hovering	Unique egg, aquatic, sexual dimorphism, magic action, flight trail, spawns in Fantasy Field
Peryton	600 Robux	-	Hovering	Unique egg, sexual dimorphism, magic action, flight trail, spawns in Forest
Griffin	600 Robux	Updated	Hovering	Fledgling stage, sexual dimorphism, lie and rest actions, magic action, flight trail, spawns in Skylands
Griffin	600 Robux	Classic	Flying	Fledgling stage, lay and rest actions, magic action, flight trail, spawns in Skylands

Gameplay

The player is able to customize their selected bird in the Character Creator to adjust the bird's colors, texture, markings, particle effects and size. All but effects and size have an 'Advanced' option that offers more options for the mode of customization. Colors have a limited array of relatively desaturated colors but turns into a functionally infinite selection with the Advanced mode which allows use of HSV and RGB color codes plus sliders. Markings by default are applied to the entire body except the beak, eyes and legs but can be placed on individual parts (excluding eyes), resized and rotated in Advanced mode. Texture works very similarly in that it applies to the same parts by default but can be changed to select parts in Advanced, additionally allowing changing of the eyes albeit very limited changing. Effects simply emit from the body and can be recolored. Size simply changes the scale of the bird and the pitch of their call (larger birds have deeper calls and vice versa). Combinations can be saved in 12 different save slots which can be renamed to better identify them.

Once the player is finished customizing their character, they spawn in whatever biome has been assigned as the spawn. Below is a list of all the game's biomes.

For the category page, see Biomes.

Biomes
Name	Teleport Placement	Spawn For
Village	First	None
Sanctuary	Second	None
Forest	Third	Peryton
Jungle	Fourth	None
Ice Mountain	Fifth	All standards and unlockables
Volcano	Sixth	Phoenix
Desert	Seventh	None
Beach	Eighth	None
Fantasy Field	Ninth	Cockatrice
Skylands	Tenth	Griffin

All of these can be teleported between at will but are also naturally connected. They each serve as different settings for role plays. Players can assign themselves a name and bio, pick up items (Egg and its variants cannot pick up items), interact with certain things, find NPCs and more. Each bird has a set of actions they can perform. With a few exceptions, the set of actions a bird can perform are very uniform. Below are the arrays of actions birds can have.

This list has copious amounts of information and is collapsible for reader convenience.

Regular Hatchlings

Run - Increases ground and water movement speed. Can either trigger a unique sprinting animation or simply speed up movement animations.
Call - Bird makes a noise accompanied by a brief animation.
Sit - Sits down in place. Any movement will cancel the sitting.
Eat - Performs an animation reminiscent of the bird eating something. When eating an item, this bird's Eat animation is used.
Hurt - Performs an animation making the bird appear injured or dead. Any movement will cancel the hurt pose.
Eyes - A toggle that keeps eyes closed or leaves them open with natural blinking.

Regular Adults

Run - Increases ground and water movement speed. Can either trigger a unique sprinting animation or simply speed up movement animations.
Call - Bird makes a noise accompanied by a brief animation.
Sit - Sits down in place. Any movement will cancel the sitting.
Eat - Performs an animation reminiscent of the bird eating something. When eating an item or building a nest, this bird's Eat animation is used.
Hurt - Performs an animation making the bird appear injured or dead. Any movement will cancel the hurt pose.
Display - Performs an animation where the bird does any form of unique animation. Less uniform than other actions in terms of animation and usually references a unique action the bird performs in real life.
Preen - Performs an animation where the bird cleans a part of itself using its beak, typically a wing.
Eyes - A toggle that keeps eyes closed or leaves them open with natural blinking.
Fly - Depends on how capable the bird is in flying; can either let the bird take flight for an unlimited amount of time, let them fly for a limited time before having them slowly descend or have a popup appear noting that the chosen bird cannot fly. Most flying birds automatically move where they are facing though Hummingbird, Skeleton and all Game Pass birds (except the classic skins of Phoenix and Griffin) can hover in midair and only move on command.

Eggs

Shake - Shakes to the sides with a brief noise.
Crack - Toggles a cosmetic feature where the egg has a crack on its shell accompanied by a brief animation on toggle.

Below are sets that reuse standard sets. Actions included in standard sets for their stages will not be included.

Phoenix

In addition to the respective actions for the hatchling and adult, Phoenix has a unique action added for both stages and another unique action for its adult form.

Magic - Spews a stream of fire particles with an animation and noise. Can ignite items.
Rebirth - Exclusive to adult Phoenix. Activates its Display animation with fire surrounding its body before morphing back into its egg form.

Cockatrice

The hatchling and adult forms of Cockatrice also have normal action sets with Magic added on.

Magic - Toggles a mode where the Cockatrice's eyes glow, emitting square shaped particles and a stream of light in its line of sight.

Peryton and Griffin

These two have the most extensive sets of actions and have the same action lineups. They use the same lineups in their adult forms and share lineups between the Peryton hatchling, Griffin hatchling and Griffin fledgling.

Peryton Hatchling, Griffin Hatchling and Griffin Fledgling

Lie - Functionally identical to Sit except performs a different animation where the bird is closer to the ground.
Rest - Functionally identical to Sit except performs a different animation where the bird is curled up.
Fly
- Griffin Hatchling - Displays flightless message.
- Peryton Hatchling and Griffin Fledgling - Takes flight for a period of time before slowly flying down.
Magic
- Peryton - Turns semitransparent and single colored with glowing eyes. Footstep and flight sounds are muted while the toggle is on.
- Griffin - Mounts on a cloud where it flies the same way a hover flight bird would, though at a slower pace and without the downwards speed bonus. Uses the Sit animation.

Adults

Lie - Functionally identical to Sit except performs a different animation where the bird is closer to the ground.
Rest - Functionally identical to Sit except performs a different animation where the bird is curled up.
Magic
- Peryton - Turns semitransparent and single colored with glowing eyes. Footstep and flight sounds are muted while the toggle is on.
- Griffin - Mounts on a cloud where it flies the same way a hover flight bird would, though at a slower pace and without the downwards speed bonus. Uses the Sit animation.

Feather Family, being a roleplaying game, relies on other players for optimal gameplay. Many features are in place for players to interact with each other. The most direct kind of cross-player interaction is carrying, activated by clicking on another player's bird. Doing this will prompt three options: pick up on back (bird must be smaller, you must be an adult), pick up in beak (bird must be smaller) or pick up in foot (bird must be much smaller). Egg cannot carry other birds. Players can create and join Flocks, groups hosted by one player for organized roleplay. Members of a flock have a label above their head with their flock and flock rank, can teleport to each other and the flock base, and can receive flock announcements from the owner of the flock. Flocks can be locked to prevent players from joining and have joining restricted to certain birds. Roleplay Servers are the largest scale of cross-player interaction. Only able to be hosted by players with the Very Important Bird game pass, roleplay servers are hosted by owning a private server. The host is able to assign a name and description to the server, manage which birds are allowed and have a wide arrange of commands. Up to 75 servers can be hosted world-wide at once.

Console players cannot see names and descriptions, make their own, name/see names of customization saves, see flock names and see roleplay servers due to ROBLOX's terms on user-written content on console. They also have the inherent property of console users of not being able to use ROBLOX's built-in chat feature.

Controls

Mobile

Run - Run button
Fly - Fly button
Actions - Actions button (all actions there done by pressing)
Interact - Press/hold screen

Computer

Run - Shift
Fly - Q
1-9, 0 - Actions (varies between birds; typically 1-7)
Interact - E or click/hold click

Console

Formatted in Xbox button/PlayStation button.

Run - X/Square
Fly - Y/Triangle
Actions - Actions button (all actions there done by pressing)
Interact - B/Circle

Lore

Feather Family's lore is intentionally limited as to leave the game's world to player interpretation. This covers the few bits of confirmed lore.

Summer of Fossils Lore

A gray scientist penguin named Dr. Penguin can be seen in Ice Mountain's tunnels observing the preserved skeleton of what seems to be a large theropod dinosaur. He explains that this creature is an ancient ancestor of birds and expresses his interest in seeing extinct birds. When Summer of Fossils starts with the addition of Dodo, a lab is added to this area where Dr. Penguin resides and has test tubes with the skull of each bird he brings back. He is responsible for the resurrection of all birds added in this first wave, those being Dodo, Archaeopteryx, Moa, Kelenken, Pelagornis and Argentavis. After Argentavis, he expresses his pleasure with all the birds he's brought back from extinction and encourages the player to explore the lab.

Some time after this initial wave of birds, a new bird is added to this roster. Dr. Penguin is gone in this update and the bird's skull isn't present in the lab. This new bird is Skeleton, a monstrous failed attempt at bringing back the Harpagornis. Though Dr. Penguin is not present, a book written by him is left in his place that explains how he created Skeleton by accident and that he regrets his actions. He says the Skeleton ran loose and he'll quit his fossil studies out of guilt.

Much later, a new character is added to the lab, a younger medium blue penguin with a straw hat named Penguin Jr.. He is the son of Dr. Penguin who has come to use the lab for himself to bring back more birds in his father's legacy. He expands the lab, including adding an entry code to the door, and brings back five new birds: Confuciusornis, Jeholornis, Hesperornis, Gastornis and most notably, Harpagornis, the bird his father failed to bring back. He keeps fossils of the new birds in test tubes, with Harpagornis having a skull in its tube as an homage to the first wave of birds. After Harpagornis' addition, Dr. Penguin returns on the surface around the lab, expressing his pride in Penguin Jr and how he deeply regrets what he's done. Talking to him as Skeleton yields special dialogue where he apologizes for forcing its faulty existence.

A final batch of birds is created when Dr. Penguin finally reunites with Penguin Jr., who together team up to create even more birds. They add another row of test tubes and advance some of the lab's equipment, including redoing the lab door code to be randomized. They bring back the 'Ō'ō, Sapeornis, Great Auk, Elephant Bird, Microraptor and Deinonychus. The skeleton outside the lab that was once a large theropod was changed to a dromaeosaur skeleton around the start of the event, hinting at Deinonychus' inclusion as the final creature. Dr. Penguin and Penguin Jr. are satisfied with their work, with Dr. Penguin even coming to terms with bringing Skeleton into being.

Peryton/Rita Lore

A ghost appears in the Forest graveyard at midnight around October accompanied by a light blue female penguin named Rita. Rita sits in watch of the ghost, explaining her sightings of it and that she wants to come closer to it. The ghost can be interacted with which brings up distorted dialogue where it asks the player if they can see it. Ghost is temporarily removed and Rita is relocated to an icy spot in Forest near Beach where she talks about mythical creatures, the ghost and her husband who doesn’t believe in mythical beings and is a ‘stern man of science’. Ghost comes back with a slight coloring change and new dialogue where it claims it wants to be seen. It also lets out high pitched howls during the night. Shortly after this return, ghost changes into Peryton, using the same model as the playable version added in that same update. He does this when finally revealing herself to Rita who comforts him. The peryton expresses its gratitude to not be feared when talked to.

Rita is implied to be the wife of Dr. Penguin and mother of Penguin Jr., which eventually leads to the two lore branches connecting. After the Peryton is removed, Rita is also removed. Dr. Penguin is seen at the graveyard explaining that Rita died years ago, implying Rita herself was a ghost. He explains that she was the mother of his son who died when their child was young. He says his latest memory with her is arguing over the existence of mythical creatures and he wishes they could’ve had fonder memories. The icy spot where Rita was between Ghost’s removal and re-addition has dialogue in the spot where she once stood with no speaker, saying that a cool breeze passes through.

Game Passes

Main Article: Game Passes

Game passes are extensions of Feather Family that can be unlocked with ROBLOX's main currency, Robux (R$), which is primarily gained by purchases with real-world money. Very Important Bird offers many expansions to customization and roleplay, while the other four game passes are unique birds.

Very Important Bird - 300 R$

"Very Important Bird Status"

★ Premium textures and aura effects

★ Play music with custom Audio IDs

★ Color and Texture nests and flock bases

★ Host Roleplay Servers

Phoenix - 400 R$

Morph into the legendary bird, the fire-breathing Phoenix.

★ Phoenix Egg

★ Phoenix Chick

★ Adult Phoenix

★ Modern + Classic Skins

Griffin - 600 R$

Morph into the legendary creature, the lion-eagle hybrid.

★ Griffin Hatchling

★ Griffin Youngling

★ Adult Griffin and Griffiness

★ Classic+Modern Griffin Skins

Basilisk - 500 R$

Morph into the legendary monster, the chicken-serpent hybrid.

★ Cockatrice Egg

★ Cockatrice Chick

★ Adult Cockatrice

Peryton - 600 R$

Morph into the legendary bird, the deer-owl hybrid

★ Peryton Egg

★ Peryton Fawn

★ Adult Peryton Buck and Doe

Trivia

The game's original name was "Chicken's Life", as it started with a step-on chicken morph. This technically means that Chicken was the first bird ever added to the game.
The game's description has a link to a DevForum post by ShinyGriffin which serves as credits.
For a short period of time, the game could hold 20 extra players, likely for testing. This has been changed back, probably because the servers didn't perform well.
Before Moa was added, the game used the default ROBLOX leaderboard, which caused problems fitting species names like Archaeopteryx and Bird of Paradise as well as longer roleplay names or usernames.
The first alternate language the game was translated to was Spanish.
The game used to turn you into a faceless R15 character with the 1.0 body and gray skin which was visible for only around a second, though the Quality of Life update removed this.
During a reintroduction of scam bots, which would post links to websites that try to steal your account, ShinyGriffin added an additional line to the game's description: ⚠️Urgent message from ShinyGriffin: Please do not follow links to websites claiming to give you Robux. They are dangerous because they are FAKE, and they will steal your information!
Because ShinyGriffin does not own gaming consoles, Feather Family's console compatability was tested on an emulator. Console controls originally had a design flaw where the interact button was X/Square (Xbox/PlayStation), the same as the sprint button. This was briefly changed to A/Cross, but this is the jump button so it ended up being put on B/Circle.
Feather Family reached 1 billion visits of December 15th, 2024, or the 14th in some timezones.

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