The Cove's shore life: crabs up the beach from dusk till dawn (keep to the sand, pinch if you get close, crab meat to cook), gulls after food on the sand and fish on a smoking rack; online too

scripts/creatures/gull.gd

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+extends "res://scripts/creatures/crow.gd"
+## A gull (0.6.0, the Cove only): the Cove's crow, sent by thieves.gd by
+## day. It comes for food left on the sand and for fish on a smoking rack
+## that nobody's watching. Bolder and quicker than a crow: it lands, snatches
+## one and is off with it, and another soon follows. Shoot it down while
+## it's carrying and it drops what it took. Feathers.
+
+const SNATCH_AFTER := 1.2       ## seconds on the ground before it grabs one
+const GULL_SCARE := 6.0         ## (bolder than a crow)
+
+var carry: Dictionary = {}      ## {id, count, extra} once it has something
+
+func display_name() -> String:
+	return "Gull"
+
+func interact_prompt(_p: Node) -> String:
+	if is_dead():
+		return "Gull  [E] Pluck"
+	if not carry.is_empty():
+		return "Gull (off with your %s!)" % ItemDB.item_name(String(carry.id)).to_lower()
+	return {"peck": "Gull (after your food!)", "fly": "Gull (circling your food)"}.get(state, "Gull")
+
+func _think(dt: float) -> void:
+	match state:
+		"fly":
+			if not thieves.gull_still_there(food) or thieves.watched(thieves.spot(food), GULL_SCARE):
+				_leave()
+				return
+			_goal = thieves.spot(food)
+			var ground: float = terrain.sample_height(global_position.x, global_position.z)
+			if Vector2(_goal.x - global_position.x, _goal.z - global_position.z).length() < 0.35 and global_position.y - ground < 0.15:
+				state = "peck"
+				_state_t = SNATCH_AFTER
+				thieves.gull_landed(self, food)
+		"peck":
+			if not thieves.gull_still_there(food) or thieves.watched(global_position, GULL_SCARE):
+				_leave()
+				return
+			_state_t -= dt
+			if _state_t <= 0.0:
+				_peck_anim = 0.4
+				carry = thieves.snatch(self, food)
+				_leave()
+		"fly_off":
+			if thieves.out_of_sight(global_position):
+				thieves.gone(self)
+		_:
+			_leave()
+
+## Shot down with something in its beak: it drops it where it falls.
+func _die(from: Vector3) -> void:
+	super._die(from)
+	if not carry.is_empty() and not puppet:
+		var at := global_position + Vector3(0, 0.3, 0)
+		world.drop_item(String(carry.id), int(carry.count), Transform3D(Basis(), at), carry.get("extra", {}))
+		carry = {}