Little Aviary news & patch notes

Hello! ːpigeon_sitː I saw a few people mention a lack of decorations so I wanted to ask if there's anything specific people would like as decorations, please let me know!

Also a small update responding to some recent feedback;

Balance:

Bird sell values are now always higher than the egg value (they used to be lower to encourage idling but some people had issues with it so it's been changed)

Bug fixes:

Small fixes to the login bonus/weekly quests not resetting properly

Little Aviary is bundling with MaoMaoMao for it's launch, a cozy desktop idler with cats! You can gab the bundle below :)

Hey everyone! Little Aviary was recently made eligible for Steam Trading Cards and community items so I've just released a set of badges/trading cards/profile backgrounds & more!

Link to the Points Shop

• Fixed an issue with earnings not always matching the rarity
• Birds born from breeding now have a "bird born" notification not "bird discovered"

I've seen a lot of people mention the late-game balance and yeah it was a little overkill (sorry balancing is hard!), and also some general QOL stuff, so I've made some changes to the following;

QOL

• Breeding has been reworked;

  • The breeding now results in a bird NOT an egg, as well as being the same species as a one of the parents and it will generally be more similar to the parents stats (ie gold parent results in a higher chance of a gold child, etc)

  • The cooldown now shows time remaining instead of total (and can't be circumvented by switching maps anymore), the cooldown has also been increased to offset the lack of egg hatching stage

  • Birds now stay in breeding mode after breeding

• Egg hatching times have been cut by 75% (6 hours for exotic eggs now instead of 30)

• Added a button to open the food/potion menu rather than having to click Q/right mouse

Balance

• Epic, Legendary, and Exotic egg prices lowered

• Sell prices/earnings for birds have been increased for the higher tier birds

• Egg hatching times have been cut by 75% (6 hours for exotic eggs now instead of 30)

• Increased max bird capacity by 5 for each tier

Misc

• Added a delay to "sell all unlocked birds" button so it can't be double clicked and miss the "click to confirm"

• Some general bug fixes/improvements

It seems like most people close the game by crashing it through Steam or turning off their PC which I wasn't aware of so I've re-enabled the autosave, it's every 5 minutes now so will still hopefully not happen during a crash too often

Hello! Sorry for the delay with this update it was mainly due to the Christmas break and my birthday being back to so I was away from my PC a lot! Anyway here's a couple changes to reflect recent feedback/issues:

• Fixed bug with coin pouches not spawning

• Quests should reset correctly now

• Stats have been removed (at least for now) because the way they were implemented wasn't clear to everyone, all birds of the same rarity now have the same stats

• The login bonuses & quest rewards now scales with your earned money

• Leaderboard score shouldn't get overridden by lower scores anymore

• Updated "complete codex" display to include Tropical birds

Keep updating me with issues I'll keep getting them fixed as fast as I can :)

-Tom

Hello! Couple small changes:

• Disabled autosaves to hopefully reduce saves getting corrupted when the computer crashes (game still saves on exit/map change, and things like money should still be saved frequently)

• Increased the chances to get gold & rainbow birds

Happy New Year!

-Tom

Hey everyone! This update compiles a lot of the recent feedback into one big update along with some new content!

• New bird category - TROPICAL 🦜🦩

• New holiday themed decorations 🎄⛄

• Quests timer fixes + quests now refresh hourly

• Coin pouches spawn x2 more often

• Also fixed various small issues mentioned in the discussions recently!

I also wanted to highlight something cool - Little Aviary hit a peak of 113 players over a week after launch! It's been super cool to see people playing the game so much!

-Tom <3

Hello! Thanks everyone for the patience waiting on it but here's the first weekly update!

• Eggs now count down their timer while at other aviaries or even when the game is closed! 🥚

• 6 new music tracks added! 🎵🎶

• Made some changes to hopefully reduce saves getting corrupted

• Breeding cooldown is now shown on breeding toggle & doesn't get toggled off after breeding ❤️

• Fixed birds getting stuck in the air when moving decor sometimes

• Tweaked leaderboards again 🥇

• Quests shouldn't bug out anymore when they refresh 📋

Hey everyone! Thank you all again for the support with Little Aviary, it's been so lovely to see so many people enjoying the game! I'm trying to keep up with everyone's questions and bug reports but I wasn't expecting so this many people to be playing so I'm a little behind 😅 But on that note here's the plan ahead:

• Content update coming in December (date TBD) with new birds and decor! 🪿🌳

• I'll be switching to weekly updates rather than daily just so I have enough time to properly test things, the weekly updates will include any bugs/suggestions for that week (I won't be updating every single week, only if there's new issues etc)

• Maybe more content updates in 2026? 🤷

Thanks again! 🦆🐦‍⬛

Hello! I pushed the initial update earlier today but had some issues to fix and realized it probably warrants a self contained post as it's a big change:

Other aviaries now earn while you're only at one of them, the general game balance has been tweaked to account for this

Here's the day 6 updates, the earnings of the higher tier birds has been reduced to account for the fact that your other aviaries now earn when they're not in focus:

• Other aviaries now earn while you're only at one of them

• Fixed issue with play button not working for some users (was an issue with a savefile getting corrupted so certain data will be lost - your aviaries should be untouched though!)

• Feeder shouldn't block egg hatching anymore

It's the end of launch week and I just want to say how grateful I am for all the support since release, I've loved reading all your kind words in the reviews/discussions and thank you for the patience with the bug fixes etc!

Anyway here's the day 5 updates:

• Music pop only shows if music volume is above 0

• Eggs wobble less aggressively when hatching

• The menu on the right (with the quit button etc) now saves its location after being dragged like the other menu

• Leaderboard scores should once be less likely to bug out now

Hey everyone! *The money leaderboard has been reset but it'll add your score back as soon as you play again*

Anyway here's the day 4 updates:

• Fixed duplication glitch with transferring birds between aviaries

• Fixed the number of currently unlocked birds going up for variants also (and cleared the "Bird nerd" achievement from anyone who got it and shouldn't have yet)

• Steam leaderboards have a max score of about 2 billion apparently, so I rejigged the leaderboards a bit to account for that, your score will be a little out of whack for a bit but it should even out!

• Fixed the egg sell menu not always disappearing

• Reduced placement restrictions so you can overlap decorations more

• (hopefully) fixed UI disappearing sometimes

• + small fixes

Keep letting me know about any issues or suggestions you have!

Hey everyone! Thank you all for the continued support, this launch has been such a great experience! Here's the day 3 updates:

• Breeding should result in a egg rarity of one of the parents, not always common

• Text color tweaks

• Camera fixes

• Improved the egg selling UI

• Improved the feedback for the auto feeders

• 2 hour achievement now trigger after 2 hours not 3... whoops

• + small fixes/improvements

Keep letting me know about any issues or suggestions you have!

Hey everyone! The response to Little Aviary has been way beyond what I expected so thank you so much to everyone who played it!! I've prepared an update to fix/tweak the highest priority stuff:

• Demo players should now unlock variants properly

• Some people had an issue with the game zooming in constantly, should be fixed now!

• Decoration saving across aviaries was a little bugged but shouldn't be anymore!

• Eggs shouldn't be able to spawn overlapping anymore

• Tweaked placement controls so UI doesn't stop you from placing things

• Quests now show the rarity of the hatch/breeding you need

• Leaderboard should be more consistent

• Taskbar offset is better with the hidden terrain now

More updates are in the works, this is just the most urgent stuff!

Thanks again for all the feedback and providing clips/descriptions so I can squash the bugs even faster :))

-Tom

• The first capacity upgrade is now a lot cheaper so you can get going a bit faster
• The sell menu for eggs now pops up in the right conditions (when the egg is incubated and you have no capacity left)

🎉 Little Aviary is officially out now! 🦆

Turn your screen into a cozy aviary and watch your birds perch on your other windows!

What to expect:

• 40+ birds to collect

• Decorate you aviary however you like

• Unlock 3 total aviaries (city park, forest, beach) with bonuses for different bird types

• Play in transparent mode or set a background to play in fullscreen

• 'Focus mode' that stop notifications and stop birds from moving around

If you end up trying the game a review would mean the world to me, they help solo devs so much :)

Thanks to everyone that played the demo and gave feedback, I've made a bunch of changes from the demo:

• Font is no longer pixelated so should be more readable

• Bird menu - Sort your birds by value, earnings, or name &"Sell all" button added

• Ability to sell eggs

• Bird variations now count as independent discoveries

• + more!

If you have any thoughts/issues let me know in the Steam discussions!

Tom 🦆

Hey all,

I'm super excited to announce:

🪿 Little Aviary will be released on November 17th!! 🦆

You can play the demo now if you'd like to try it out before release, the full release will have:

• Lots more birds!

• Breeding

• Different locations to unlock

• + more!

- Tom ✨

Hey everyone!

Firstly it's been great to see so many people trying the game and thanks for all the feedback so far! I've implemented some changes and also added some Halloween decorations for the spooky season!

Changes

• Added pumpkin decorations for Halloween!

• Reduced size of selection/hover outline

• Tweaked which windows birds will land out (should mostly land on visible ones now)

• Flipped the Steam avatar in the main menu because it was mirrored, whoops

-Tom

Hi!

The demo for Little Aviary is officially out now and part of Steam Next Fest! Thanks to everyone that helped playtest it to get it ready!

What's in the demo:

• Discover the first two sets of birds (city birds & songbirds)

• Build a small set of items & buildings

• The demo has no end but you only have the starting area to build in, more biomes and decorations will be available in the full game

If you have any thoughts/issues let me know in the Steam discussions!

Tom 🦆

Hello!

Welcome to Little Aviary!

After my first game Tranquil Isle I wanted to stick to the general cozy genre but wanted to do something even more cozy, so decided an idler would be a good fit. I also wanted to make a creature collector and my partner is an avid bird watcher so that’s where Little Aviary was born!

What to expect:

• birds

A big thank you to Mooncube Games for including the game into the Back to School celebration for the announcement! Be sure to checkout all the other cool games in the event, I’m so happy to be included with such great company!

I'm also starting a playtest for the game this week and I'd love to get as much feedback as possible so please sign up if you're interested!

I hope you have a good time with Little Aviary! 💙

- Tom