Wildlife

The game's world is lived in by animals: birds that scatter, boars that charge, crystalflies to catch and cats on the roofs. They give the meat, fowl and materials cooking and crafting spend, and fill in the archive's living beings. They are a kind of enemies' camp with an AI of their own, standing where the spawned places fit them. The fleeing birds and beasts of Mondstadt are built, as the as-built page describes; what follows is what is still to come.

Decisions

• Three kinds, by what they give. Pets, the cats and dogs, cannot be interacted with. Birds and beasts drop their items when struck down. Material sources, crystalflies, butterflies, lizards, frogs, crabs and the like, are picked up as an item through the interaction prompts and vanish in a puff of smoke. A fish in shallow water can be struck or picked up.
• Each kind's numbers are the game's, where a table holds them. EnvAnimalGatherExcelConfigData gives the material sources their escape radius and time, how long they live, the weathers they hide in (rain, thunderstorms and snow for some) and the items they give. CaptureExcelConfigData gives what each beast drops when caught, and the monster table its kind, which the enemies' run already reads.
• Birds and beasts are the archive's animals, and no table gives their flight. The environment table holds the critters, fish and gadgets. The birds and beasts are monsters filed under the archive's aviary and animal groups, and no row of the table gives their escape radius or time. Until a recording times them, they stand on the closest values the table does hold, the gadget rows' radius of four metres and time of one second, marked provisional.
• They flee on the enemies' step. A startled animal runs from the player once within its escape radius, as a stepped state beside the enemies' own, and most come into being only when the player is near. Boars charge and can hurt a player in their way; Sumeru's beasts fight back with health bars and draw the player into combat; Chenyu Vale's flee and vanish when struck.
• Struck down by a hit, as combat deals it. A bird or beast falls to the hit combat prices, one hit for most. A hit on wildlife triggers a weapon's passive but never an artifact set's, as the wiki notes. The capture table's rows name drop ids (21330001 and on) whose drop tables the community dump does not carry (DropTreeExcelConfigData and its kin return 404 on AnimeGameData), so what a bird or beast gives is the wiki's Wildlife page: a White Pigeon one Fowl (item 100064), a Squirrel one Raw Meat (100061), a Crimson Fox two Raw Meat. Both items are already in data/items/materials.json with their names, so they show as any material does.
• They come back on the game's refresh, as gathering points do, by their kind's policy.

How it works

stateDiagram-v2
  [*] --> Idle: spawned when the player is near
  Idle --> Fleeing: the player within its escape radius
  Fleeing --> Idle: escaped, after its escape time
  Idle --> Fallen: struck down
  Fleeing --> Fallen: struck down
  Idle --> Picked: a material source picked up
  Fallen --> [*]: its items dropped
  Picked --> [*]: a puff of smoke

Scope and order

Built: the fleeing birds and beasts of Mondstadt, stood at their fitted places and running from the character in Windrise's scene (as-built page).

Still to come, in order:

packages/genshin-world/src/services/wildlife/
├── strikeWildlife.ts
└── WildlifeKindDropMap.ts

1. What a struck bird or beast gives.
   • WildlifeKindDropMap.ts: each WildlifeKind to its DroppedItem, as the Decisions give them.
   • WildlifeState gains Struck, and strikeWildlife.ts sets an animal not yet struck to it and returns its drop, or nothing for one already struck; stepWildlife leaves a struck animal where it fell.
   • Tests: strikeWildlife.test.ts (a Crimson Fox gives two Raw Meat once, and nothing when struck again) and a case in stepWildlife.test.ts (a struck animal in reach does not flee).
2. The strike reaching the animals. The animals move from components/World/Wildlife/Index.vue's own list into the session's combat, beside useWorldCombat's enemyMap, so components/World/Character/Index.vue's strike loop tests each against checkIsInAttackArea as it does an enemy and calls strikeWildlife, dropping what it gives as an enemy's drops are; the Wildlife component draws the list it is given and skips a struck one.
3. Material sources, picked up.
4. Boars, and the wildlife that fights back.
5. Pets, and each region's own animals when its region lands.

Data and measures

• Read from the game's tables: EnvAnimalGatherExcelConfigData for the material sources, CaptureExcelConfigData for the birds' and beasts' captures, and AnimalCodexExcelConfigData and the animals' monster rows.
• Placed by the spawned places: where each kind lives, from the official map's marks.
• Measured: how fast each bird and beast flees, and its escape radius and time, timed off recordings of each. Until a clip lands the flight stays provisional.

Key files

Sources

• Wildlife, Genshin Impact Wiki: fleeing when approached, boars' charge, Sumeru's that fight back and Chenyu Vale's that vanish, pets, item drops and material sources gone in smoke, fish struck or picked, weapon passives triggered but not artifact sets', and spawning near the player.
• AnimeGameData, the community's per-patch dump: the capture table, whose drops the build does not yet read.