Mermaids and Mythical Creatures

🎃 Update v4.1.1

🕯️ The Haunted Tides — Three Halloween Tails, Three Halloween Bras

• 🌕 Something has been stirring beneath the waves… For the month of October, the seas turn spooky: three new Halloween tails and three bras to match, free for every mermaid.

🧜 Three Tails From The Deep

• 🎃 Jack-o'-Lantern Tail — pumpkin ribs carved with glowing jack-o'-lantern faces (a big one on your back, a smaller one on each side), a lower tail burnt black and cracked with embers, and a jagged leaf fluke with smoldering veins.
• 💀 Boneyard Tail — a fish skeleton in bone white over shadow: a spine of vertebrae down your back, a ribcage wrapped round your hips, and a torn fluke strung on bone rays that poke out past the membrane.
• 🦇 Nightwing Tail — midnight leather under a fur ruff, witch-light spots glowing down each side, and a scalloped bat-wing fluke on four finger bones, every scallop trimmed in witch-green.
• 🕸️ Find them under the new Halloween heading on the Model tab. They're built on the Curve Tail's body, so every Curve fin fits them and they play every Curve animation — with rolls of their own, so those wide flukes land on the floor instead of sinking through it.
• 🎨 Seven Halloween colors on all three — Pumpkin, Midnight, Witch Purple, Bone, Slime, Blood and Ghost — plus the eight free colors. The embers, the bones and the witch-light keep their own glow whichever color you pick.
• 👻 Three new presets on the Presets tab for an instant costume: Pumpkin Queen, Bone Siren and Night Witch.

👙 Costumes For The Masquerade

• 🧵 Three Halloween bras, crafted at the Mermaids Workbench on its Armor tab:
• 🎃 Pumpkin Bra — two carved jack-o'-lanterns on a curling vine halter, with a pumpkin leaf between them. 2 Pumpkins, 1 Essence of Fire and 3 Plant Fiber.
• 💀 Bone Bra — rib-bone cups and a little skull clasp on a vertebra band. 4 Bone Fragments, 2 Fishbones and 2 Plant Fiber.
• 🦇 Batwing Bra — a little green-eyed bat clinging between the cups with its wings spread over them, trimmed in witch-green. 2 Dark Leather, 2 Spider Silk and 1 Essence of the Void.
• 🛡️ All three protect like the Seashell Bra: +250 Oxygen, +10 Health and 8% physical and projectile resistance, and they're translated into all four languages.

🌕 Only While October Lasts

• 🗓️ The Halloween tails and bras are free for everyone, but they can only be newly picked or crafted in October (by the server's date). Once you're wearing a Halloween tail it's yours to keep all year, and so is any bra you've crafted.
• 🔒 Outside October the tails and their presets are locked with "pickable again in October", and the Workbench turns the bras away with a note in chat — without eating your ingredients.
• 👗 The Halloween bras have no Wardrobe entry: a Wardrobe look can be worn all year, which would slip right past the October rule.

⚙️ For The Keepers Of The Server

• 🗝️ Two new switches in the admin menu (Appearance) and MermaidsConfig.json, both live — no restart needed:
• 🎃 Halloween-Content-Enabled (on by default) — switch it off and the whole Halloween set vanishes. Anyone wearing a Halloween tail goes back to the Curve Tail the next time they transform, and their saved looks are kept.
• 🕯️ Halloween-All-Year (off by default) — switch it on to keep the tails and bras pickable and craftable all year round.

🔗 Compatibility

• 📦 Built for Update 7: compiled against Hytale Server 0.7.0-pre.5.1 like 4.1.0, and it starts cleanly on the 0.7.1 release server too. Servers on Update 6 stay on Mermaids 4.0.1.
• 🐚 Works with Mermaids Premium 1.6.0 and Mermaids v2 Tails 1.1.0 as before. Premium's colors stay on the tails it knows; the Halloween tails bring their own palette.

🐚 Dive Into The Trove

• 🍬 Treats, not tricks! 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 the Curve, Veil and Swift tails, 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 — just in time for the season
• 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.

Pumpkins, bones and bat wings, only while October lasts. Happy haunting, and see you in the water… if you dare. 🎃🦇💀