Duck

The Duck is an A.I. animal that spawns in Lakes in both Land and Arctic. It comes out with 4 evolutions: Egg, Duckling, Adolescent Duck, and Goose.

• Egg
• Duckling
• Adolescent Duck
• Goose

Main article: Egg

This was previously a removed feature, but has been re-added and is currently accessible in-game.

Adolescent Ducks and Geese can lay Eggs. They are defenceless, and cannot move. After a while, they will hatch into Ducklings. Note that eggs can and will only be laid on islands on lakes, not actual water.

This was previously a removed feature, but has been re-added and is currently accessible in-game.

Duckling
Gives:	73XP
Spawn:
Rarity:	Common
Can be eaten by:	All animals from -
Release date:	December 25, 2017 (readd:February 1,2022)
Remove date:	October 2020

Ducklings were added into the December 25, 2017 update and are presumably equivalent to Tier 3 animals.

Technical

• Eggs will hatch into Ducklings if uneaten.
• Ducklings will move around aimlessly and can tail-bite animals.
• When hit by a predator, Ducklings will run around like Ducks and Geese do.
  • They may also randomly run around when a predator is nearby to them.
• Ducklings can be eaten by all animals within Pig and Cheetah tiers.

Appearance

Ducklings are small, yellow critters with barely noticeable wings on their bodies. They have large eyes and small stubby beaks.

Duck
Gives:	12K - 24K XP, varies.
Spawn:
Rarity:	Common
Can be eaten by:	+
Release date:	December 25, 2017

Ducks will evolve from the previous Duckling, and were released on December 2017. They are equivalent to Hedgehog (tier 6).

Technical

• Ducks upgrade from Ducklings after some period of time and spawn on their own.
• There are two kinds of Ducks, brown and white. Both have the same capabilities, and will spawn in Land and the Arctic.
• They move aimlessly, periodically quacking. If they are outside the boundary of a lake, they will quack constantly until in a lake and beeline for one.
• Ducks don't take freeze damage in the Arctic.
• Ducks can lay Eggs.

Appearance

Duck

The duck has brown wings and a white body. Its head is a dark shade of green, and it has a long, canary-yellow beak. The Arctic Duck has the same beak, but its body is pure white.

Goose
Gives:	Varying
Spawn:
Rarity:	Rare
Can be eaten by:	+
Release date:	December 25, 2017

The Goose is a further evolution of Ducks, and also the final evolution. They are also equivalent to the Hedgehog (tier 6).

Technical

• When adult ducks still go uneaten, they will age into Geese. They cannot age more than this stage, but will not die. Geese periodically spawn in Lakes, albeit less frequently than Ducks do.
• If a predator that is tier 12 or less bites a Goose, it will attack them by spreading its wings out and going into the predator, doing damage on contact. Geese will lose health in the process and effectively be killing themselves.
• They can lay eggs like Ducks.

Appearance

The Goose has a light brown body and wings. It has a small line of black tail-feathers. Its head is black with white underneath both eyes, and its beak is also black and long.

When attacking, its wings will spread out. The Geese will angrily honk, having bared eyes and an open beak lined with small teeth.

Strategy

As a low tier animal, i.e. Pig-Fox tier, eating Ducklings is a great way to level up. For Donkey-Cheetah, you can especially eat Ducks and Geese as the Geese will attack you but essentially will be inadvertedly killing themselves in the process.

If you are a high tiered animal that can eat ducks, they give a decent amount of XP even if you are a high-tiered animal such as hippo. Hit the ducks. They should run away. However, they will travel back to you later.

Farming ducks in the arctic is an amazing way to level up. They not only give high XP, also less people go for them as less people go into the arctic. Also, they take freeze Damage.

If you are a Black Dragon and on low health, eat ducks. Since they are killable in a single hit for Black Dragons, you can eat all ducks at the lake to regain your health if necessary. For other animals it will be harder to chase them down. If you aren't BD, avoid ducks when on low health as they can unsuspectingly tail-bite and kill you in an instant.

Duck-Grabbing

Duck grabbing is a feature not yet released into the game. What happens is, a duck can be grabbed, choked, and thrown onto the ground. This will probably be used as a way to eat the duck, because after the grabbing the duck will be stunned. This feature has been teased by KoA on the YouTube community in videos about "DiDu the Duckling". Refer to the gallery for a visual.

Gallery

An older Mallard skin from a KOA video.

An older Arctic Duck skin from a KOA video.

An older Duckling from a KOA video.

A Goose attacking a Wolf.

Many Arctic Ducks

A Bigfoot grabbing a Duckling and killing it.

Large duckling. They can only become large by eating Meat or by tail-biting.

Ducks in a lake being targeted by the crosshair from a Snowy Owl.

A Duckling that went outside the lake and found a Sabertooth Tiger

A Dragon in a Lake, with some Eggs, Ducklings, Adolescent Ducks, and a Goose.

Teaser

MOPE.IO DiDu THE DUCKLING

Trivia

• The ducks in Mope.io seem to be based on the Mallard, a common type of duck in media.
• Ducks were at one point planned to be playable and fly (as seen in one of KOA's videos), but those ideas were scrapped.
• Ducks used to be able to eat animals that were below them on the food chain (i.e. tier 1 to tier 5), but now cannot.
• When bitten by a predator, Ducks and Geese would sprint around in the opposite direction(similar to the Chicken's ability. If they ran into a map wall, they would turn around to the opposite direction of that wall. Ducks can also sprint when they bite tails, and could climb on hills while sprinting.
• Ducks took biome damage in the Arctic, but don't anymore.
• Geese had their attacking AI removed at some point.