Travellers Rest - Quick Guide to Crowley / Bird

Crowley / Bird Guide

Time: Crowley is available starting on Wednesday the 17th of your first month. Afterward, you’ll find him at the campsite every Wednesday and Thursday, after 19:00.

Location: Crowley is in the southeast area. From your tavern’s door, go south / down to the river, then east /right to the campsite.

Necessities: These are additional things you’ll need to buy from Crowley, in addition to the eggs:

Perch: You’ll need one perch for your bird to rest on, so it can talk to your customers, and you can interact with it. Place it in your tavern with the Decoration mode, then place the bird on the perch. (Note: Your tavern can only have one bird in it, so more than one perch isn’t required.)

Bird Crackers: These are how you’ll train your bird, and level it up. You’ll need 14 for the week, but should grab a few extra just in case you accidentally feed it too many.

Cage: You probably won’t need one right away, unless you intend on hatching several eggs. Once birds have hatched, a cage is the only way to store them; they can’t be placed in any chests.

Eggs: You’ll need to buy at least one egg. Once it’s in your inventory, leave it there for about an hour of playtime. You don’t need to do anything but hold it for a while, it will hatch on its own, and you’ll be given a notice to let you know.

Variations: There are 24 total birds: 8 Toucans and 16 Parrots.

Training: Once a bird has hatched and it’s on your perch, it will occasionally make a comment, similar to the chatter of your patrons. This could either be Negative (red number), giving a small hit to your tavern’s Reputation, or Positive (green number), giving you a small boost to the Reputation. When the comment is Positive, interact with the bird and feed it a Bird Cracker. This will give it +5 XP. You can actually hear the sound alert of your bird’s comment when you’re outside or in the cellar — it makes the same sound as your patrons giving you positive or negative scores as they leave. If you’re out doing errands and hear the positive chime, you can try to sprint back to feed it a cracker. Note: You can only feed a bird two crackers a day! Be careful you don’t feed it at the wrong moment.

Void Cookies

Availability: These are only available from Gass during the Halloween event, but you can buy them any time he’s available. You’ll need about a dozen, though you might want to buy several just in case. You’ll find Gass on the lower half of the river map, south of your tavern, any day after 21:00. Until you get close to him, you’ll see him as a floating lantern; he only becomes fully visible once you approach. Speak to him, and you can buy the cookies. (Note: Sometimes he’s not visible right away. Go right into Crowley’s campsite and return, until you can see the lantern.)

Purpose: Feeding Void Cookies to your bird will turn it into a skeleton. Right now, there are only two models, one for the parrot and one for the toucan. Doing this will take a few days, since even these can only be given two a day. Afterward, your bird can still be fed normal crackers to train it, or put into the bird cage. (Note: This brings the total number of bird variants to 26.)

Reversing: If you decide you don’t want to have your modified bird anymore, go talk to Crowley. He’ll give you a stern talking-to for being so foolish, and tell you to return the next week. After this, he’ll have an item available that will reverse the Void Cookie’s effects.

Bonus Tip: Sometimes it’s a little too easy to accidentally feed your bird if you place its perch next to something else you interact with, such as the bar menu book, the door to the back room, the fireplace, et cetera. If you keep a single Void Cookie in your inventory, it’ll force the game to give you a pop-up to choose the cookie to give, which you can cancel to avoid feeding it anything.