Overview
- Embark’s 3D artist Johan says a rooster named Håkan crashed his Zoom meeting, prompting him to slip a quick photoscan into early builds as a joke.
- The placeholder model was initially treated as a hidden Easter egg that the team expected to replace later.
- When the studio needed a “resource producer,” developers chose the rooster over alternatives like robots or cats, turning the gag into a core feature.
- In play, Scrappy lives in the workshop and automatically collects crafting materials, easing routine scrounging for players.
- A training questline boosts his gathering through gifts and unlocks cosmetic touches such as fruits, beds, pillows, and a small collar, with the story shared alongside reports of roughly 480,000 active Steam players this month and a recent patch.