Bats
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.
Needs overlap
The table below lists the needs Bats share with other species:
 Beavers
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 Foxes
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 Frogs
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 Harpies
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 Humans
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 Lizards
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 Biscuits Coats Education
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Skewers
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 Paste Brawling
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Paste Coats Education
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Biscuits Coats
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Skewers Brawling
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Bat firekeeper ability
- Main article: Hearths#Firekeeper_bonus
| Name | Description |
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 Steel Gut |
Focused minds forget hunger. Villagers have a 15% chance of not consuming food during a break. |
Steel Gut interactions with other mechanics
- 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]
- 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]
- 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]
- If there is no food available to eat (either because of consumption control or completely running out of food) a hunger stack will always be gained by villagers on break, so Steel Gut does not prevent hunger if there is no food to eat in the first place.
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:
Bats don't have a Comfort specialization. Instead, they have Dedication and bring the Manorial Court blueprint (Starting Ability).
Manorial Court
- Main article: Manorial Court
Dedication
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.
Cornerstones and Perks
pending template update
Strategy
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
- Testing done by Reddit user u/nightw17 (Discord username: nightw7176)
