The Owl

How to get it

Encountered in the forest. Hostile

Stats

Behavior

Hostile

By Biomes

Snow Biome The Forest

Hp

N/A (unkillable)

Threat

Hostile

Walkspeed

45

Damage

25+ (varies depending on day count)

Appearance

The Owl is a humanoid creature resembling an owl with elongated legs, relatively small wings with one spur each and three-clawed arms. It has exaggeratedly large eyes and a massive open mouth with a vestigial beak. The Owl is primarily white, with gray talons, brown scales and gray trim on the edges of its feathers. Its beak is orange. During the 2025 Halloween update, The Owl wore a plague doctor costume consisting of a black hat and plague mask with glass eyeholes.

Behaviour

The Owl spawns in The Forest or Snow Biome when night begins, with a chance to replace The Deer. If the Volcanic Biome is present instead, The Owl will be replaced by The Ram. When a night begins, there is a chance of a short scene playing of a Wolf being swooped by The Owl. Afterwards, the following text will appear: "The Owl has woken up" Whereupon the Owl spawns. The Owl's presence is telegraphed by wind blowing at nightfall, serving as an additional warning to players. The Owl will land near a player and stand still, searching for them. A icon of a pair of eyes will appear on The Owl which becomes redder when a player moves around, and whiter when players are standing still. If the player keeps standing still, The Owl will momentarily fly away. Fully alerting The Owl (shown by the eyes completely turning red) by excessively moving or stunning it with a flashlight during the minigame will cause The Owl to chase and attack the nearest player. The Owl can be stunned with flashlights. It will fly away once approaching the Campfire, or if it becomes Day. There is a chance that The Owl spawns wolves nearby to force the player into moving.

Tips

The player can easily escape an encounter by not moving during the detection minigame. The Owl can be stunned or get stuck in the same ways as The Deer. Its poor pathfinding allows players to get it stuck on obstacles to easily escape. Since swinging weapons and interacting do not alert The Owl during the detection minigame, the player can easily defend themselves if The Owl spawns wolves.

Notes

Category:Entities Category:Monsters Category:Animals Category:Aves Category:Birds

Patch history

The Owl was designed and animated by supernob123. The Owl was replaced with The Ram on the Volcanic Biome update, but was later reintroduced with the Taming update. The Owl and The Ram are currently the only entities in the game that are capable of scaring The Deer away. The Owl is faster than The Deer, being slightly faster than an average sprinting player (without Assassin or Alien class). The Owl may spawn before the scene of them awakening, providing no warning. Hints about The Owl's existence before it got released are present in structures, specifically the Ice lab and the Ice Temple. The Owl might be inspired by the myth Kikiyaon or the Owlman. There is a glitch where The Owl will spawn on the ground of the place where it'll land for a split second before it actually lands. This glitch happens every single time The Owl lands. There is a glitch where The Owl spawns like The Deer in T-pose without its AI, making it harmless. The Owl can still spawn in the Snow Biome regardless of an event (Cultist Raid, Hungry Deer). The Owl can still spawn in the Snow Biome even if a player is being chased by The Deer. This could be a glitch. There is a glitch where The Owl does not spawn anywhere, even after surviving 99 days. The Owl’s gender is considered ambiguous. In real snowy owls, males gradually lose their brown markings as they age, while females retain more patterning and are notably larger. The Owl possesses faint brown markings (e.g on the wings or chest), but is also incredibly large (characteristic of a female snowy owl).