Bats

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A Bat

Overview

Bats are a stern and fiercely devoted people, they take pride in enduring what breaks others and cannot stand being favored. Bats excel at  Metallurgy but find no particular comfort in any type of work.

Their Starting Ability is the Manorial Court blueprint. Bats have a base Resolve of 5, with a Break interval of 01:40 minutes. Their Resilience is listed as High, while their first Resolve Threshold is 12. With a Decadence level of 4, Hunger Tolerance of 4, and no ability to favor them for extra Resolve, Bats are quite fragile without a few stacks of Dedication. In addition to not being available for favoring, they don't have a comfort specialization.

Bats are only available as part of the Nightwatchers DLC. They are unlocked at level 11.

Consumption and Satisfaction

Like all species, Bats need to fulfill Complex Needs to start generating Reputation. The more Complex Needs you fulfill, the higher their Resolve will go, up to a maximum of 50. With the exception of the Housing Needs, every need fulfilled grants an additional effect, like  Skewers's increased double production chance. With a Break interval of 100 seconds, Bats require noticeably more goods to keep their Resolve up, compared to other species.

• 
  Biscuits
• 
  Paste
• 
  Skewers
• 
  Brawling
• 
  Education
• 
  Basic Housing
• 
  Bat Housing
• 
  Coats

Needs overlap

The table below lists the needs Bats share with other species:

Beavers	Foxes	Frogs	Harpies	Humans	Lizards
Biscuits  Coats  Education	Skewers	Paste  Brawling	Paste  Coats  Education	Biscuits  Coats	Skewers  Brawling

Bat firekeeper ability

Main article: Hearths#Firekeeper_bonus

1 Perk with ID 'Bats Lower Food Consumption'

Name	Description
Steel Gut	Focused minds forget hunger. Villagers have a 15% chance of not consuming food during a break.

Steel Gut interactions with other mechanics

1. If the 15% chance of not eating triggers for a complex food, the villager will not eat, but the resolve bonus of the given complex food will still apply until the next break of the villager. ^[1]
2. If multiple complex foods are available then the game will have a separate 15% roll for each available complex food to check if the food will be eaten or not. Resolve will be gained for each complex food available, even if the effect of the bonus prevented one or more foods from being eaten. ^[1]
3. If the Parasites effect is active in a Prestige 7+ game, then the 15% chance of not eating if triggers will prevent both the original consumption and the 2nd (50% chance) consumption simultaneously, saving around 22.5% of total food consumption on average instead of 15%, making the ability more powerful in Prestige 7+ games. ^[1]

Proficiency & Comfort

Bats' Proficiency specialization is Metallurgy. It grants Bats a 10% chance to produce twice the amount of resources when working in the following buildings:

•  Cooperage
•  Finesmith
•  Furnace
•  Mine
•  Rainpunk Foundry
•  Smelter
•  Smithy
•  Stamping Mill
•  Tinkerer

Bats don't have a Comfort specialization. Instead, they have Dedication and bring the Manorial Court blueprint (Starting Ability).

Bat-specific buildings

These buildings appear as Reputation rewards only when Bats are on the map. They can still spawn as Ruins. Bats are the only species to have only 2 species locked blueprints, as the third one is their Starting Ability - Manorial Court.

•  Academy
•  Grill

Cornerstones and Perks

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Trivia

• Bats are currently the only species that doesn't have a representative among traders.
• As with all species, Bats have two skins. The female model is slightly smaller, with a slender build, and has a blueish black coat.
• They also have two voice pitches, high and low.
• Bats are the only species to not have a container-based Complex Need.
• Bats are the only species that has all Complex Food available from the Field Kitchen.
• At 9 blueprints, Bats are tied with Humans for most Proficiency bonuses of all species.

References

1. Testing done by Reddit user u/nightw17 (Discord username: nightw7176)

See also

• Beavers
• Foxes
• Frogs
• Humans
• Harpies
• Lizards