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The Dodo Twitch Drops campa was a time-limited cosmetic reward program that ran alongside the Early Access launch of Windrose. The event awarded the "Dodomogged" Twitch chat badge to subscribers of drops-enabled channels in the Windrose Twitch category from April 14 through April 28, 2026.

What You Had to Do

• Link a Twitch account to a Kraken Express account (or to the in-game linking flow, confirmed to work on both Steam and Epic builds)

• Subscribe to a Twitch channel that had opted into the Windrose Drops program while that channel streamed the Windrose category

• Maintain the subscription long enough for Twitch's Drops system to credit the reward

• Claim the Dodomogged chat badge inside Twitch's Drops inventory, after which it became visible next to the claiming user's name in Twitch chat

Participating Creators

Among the most-watched drops-enabled channels during the launch window were Zack "zackrawrr" Hoyt, Ben "CohhCarnage" Cassell, Michael "shroud" Grzesiek, Jason "PirateSoftware" Hall, "Gladd," and "MadameDiablo." The total roster of drops-enabled channels was larger than these names alone; Twitch's drops directory showed the live roster during the event window.

Scale of the Event

recorded a peak of approximately 106,498 concurrent viewers for the Windrose category in the first 48 hours of the event, alongside roughly 2.2 million total hours watched. The campa overlapped with the Steam best-seller push that saw Windrose briefly hold the #1 Steam best-seller position and accrue 500,000 sales in the first 48 hours. The Dodo Twitch Drops event was credited by multiple outlets as one of the reasons the game's Twitch momentum maintained through its first weekend rather than spiking and fading.

About the Dodo

The Dodo is a flightless bird enemy (or rather, a flightless-bird creature) introduced early in the Windrose starting-island experience and one of the first recognizable in-game creatures. The Dodomogged badge des leans on this early-game association: a stylized dodo silhouette that appears as a Twitch chat badge next to the user's name in Twitch chat rather than as an in-game cosmetic.

After the Event

The Dodomogged Twitch chat badge remained attached to the Twitch account of every user who successfully claimed it during the event window. Kraken Express did not publicly commit to re-running the Dodomogged badge specifically, but did leave the door open to future Twitch Drops campas tied to later milestones (for example, a future Ashlands biome drop, or an event tied to the 1.0 release). Players who missed the Dodo window should watch the official Steam news feed and the Multiplayer article for any new Drops announcements.

See Also

• Early Access the launch window the campa ran alongside

• Launch Reception full launch-weekend context

• Multiplayer where future Drops campas will be tracked

• Dodo the creature that named the badge