Mermaids and Mythical Creatures

Update v4.1.0

🌊 Ready For Update 7, Plus Four New Bras

Built For Hytale Update 7

• 🧜 Mermaids 4.1.0 is built for the Update 7 pre-release (Hytale Server 0.7.0-pre.5.1), so your server is ready the day Update 7 lands.
• ⚠️ 4.1.0 needs an Update 7 server. Servers still on Update 6 (0.6.x) should stay on Mermaids 4.0.1 — 4.1.0 will not run there.
• 💾 Back up your worlds before moving to Update 7. A world saved on the pre-release isn't guaranteed to open on Update 6 again. That's Hytale, not Mermaids, but it's worth a copy first.

New: Four Mermaid Bras

• 👙 Four new tops to wear with your tail, each in its own color, crafted at the Mermaids Workbench on its Armor tab:
• ⭐ Starfish Bra — two plump sea stars on a pearl halter. 2 Starfish, 1 White Crystal Shards and 3 Plant Fiber.
• 🌿 Kelp Bandeau — golden kelp gathered under a coral sea star, strapless. 8 Tall Seaweed, 1 Starfish and 2 Plant Fiber.
• 🐚 Nautilus Bra — tiger-striped nautilus shells on a fine gold chain. 2 Swirly Coral Shells, 2 Gold Ingots and 2 Plant Fiber, on an upgraded (tier 2) Workbench.
• ✨ Siren Scale Bra — woven from shimmering Mermaid Scales and trimmed with pearls. 3 Mermaid Scales, 1 White Crystal Shards and 3 Plant Fiber, on an upgraded (tier 2) Workbench.
• 🛡️ All four protect like the Seashell Bra: +250 Oxygen, +10 Health and 8% physical and projectile resistance. Each one has a Wardrobe entry too, and they're translated into all four languages.
• 🐚 The Seashell Bra has a new, much lighter model — 22 parts instead of 54 — with the same ribbed scallop shells on a slimmer cord. All ten dyes carry over, so every Seashell Bra you already own updates by itself.

Under The Hood

• 🌊 Update 7 changed how the game stores the world, so everything in Mermaids that looks at the blocks around you has been rebuilt: finding water to transform in and to stay wet, the rain shelter check, the transformation blocks (cauldrons and mud), the vampire's water shelter from the sun, the Trident's tide boost, the Siren Song's lure, and where your companion appears.
• ⏳ Mermaids still never makes the server load ground just to look at it. While the ground under you is still loading — stepping into a dungeon, say — you aren't treated as being on dry land, so drying out doesn't start early.

Fixes

• 🧛 In Update 7, damage from a burn or poison counts as coming from whoever applied it. Mermaids keeps those ticks from counting as bites, so a Vampire doesn't drink blood or lifesteal from every tick of a burn they started, and a Werewolf isn't hit by the silver multiplier on every tick of a poison. Vampires and werewolves keep their 4.0.1 balance.
• ☀️ The death screen now says what got you: "You dried out on land!" when a mermaid dries out, and "You were burned to ash by the sunlight!" when a vampire burns. Both are in all four languages.
• 🚪 The Mermaids, Werewolf, Vampire and Lamia menus only go back up to the Mythical Creatures menu when you press Escape or Back. If the game or another mod closes them, they now stay closed instead of popping the Mythical Creatures menu back open.
• 🔔 The update notice no longer tells a server running a newer build than the latest listed release to "update". The Info tab and /mermaids info now agree with the chat notice.

Compatibility

• 📦 Built for Hytale Server 0.7.0-pre.5.1 (Update 7 pre-release).
• ☯️ Works with Cultivation 0.11.0, which is built for Update 7 too. The Merfolk race and the Siren Song technique load as before.
• 🐚 Pair it with Mermaids Premium 1.6.0 and the free Mermaids v2 Tails 1.1.0, both built for Update 7 alongside this release.
• 🔗 The optional integrations (Orbis Origins, Endless Leveling, Wardrobe, the hunger and thirst mods and the rest) haven't changed. Each needs its own Update 7 version to load on an Update 7 server.
• 🔉 Hytale retuned some of its own sounds in Update 7. The transformation chime, the Siren Song and the potion drink use those sounds, so they play a little quieter now.

🐚 Dive Into The Trove

• 🛍️ Want more tails, more companions, and more ways to be a mermaid? Mermaids Premium registers straight into the menus you already use — nothing new to open, nothing new to learn:
• The Orca and Dolphin tails — broad whale flukes on the Curve Tail's body with every Curve animation, the orca's black-and-white markings or the dolphin's pale belly, and four whale fins of their own (Orca Blade, Dolphin Fin, Paddles, Flippers)
• 215 tail colors across 13 palette families — on every Curve tail, the Orca and Dolphin, and the original tails from Mermaids v2 Tails
• 18 companion species across three sections — Reef, Drift and Shallows — on top of the base mod's own two
• 24 exclusive shimmers across four themed families — Tide, Reef, Siren, Bioluminescence — and 7 curated tail presets for an instant, ready-made look
• 47 vampire skin colors and 3 extra vampire eye colors
• 5 full race lines for Endless Leveling — Mermaid (9 tiers), Werewolf (6), Vampire (6), Merfolk (4) and Lamia (6 races, with the Venom Fangs passive)
• 🏪 Grab it (and everything else Siren makes) at The Trove — mermaids.dev/store.

Same seas, new engine underneath, and four new looks to wear in them. See you in the water when Update 7 arrives. 💙