🏖️ Better Beaches Addon

Welcome to Better Beaches Addon, the ultimate enhancement that completely transforms your coastal experience! This comprehensive addon brings the beauty, mystery, and vibrant life of tropical paradises straight to your world. Explore gorgeous shores packed with unique mechanics, structures, custom wildlife, and immersive automated systems.

🦀 New Coastal Wildlife

The Crab

Meet the new smart, interactive star of the shores! Crabs are intelligent amphibious creatures that roam sandy beaches and gravel areas. They are highly skittish around players and predators, but they can be befriended with their favorite treats.

- Variants: 🔴 Red Crab (40%), 🔵 Blue Crab (35%), 🟠 Orange Crab (25%).

- Dynamic Scaling: They spawn in 4 distinct sizes (Tiny, Small, Normal, Large) affecting both their health points ($8\text{ to }15\text{ HP}$) and attack power.

Smart AI:

- Attracted to cod, salmon, and tropical fish.

- Capable of picking up and holding fish items in their claws.

- Peaceful by default, but they will aggressively defend themselves if attacked.

- Drops: Raw Crab Claws, Raw Crab Sticks, and Experience points. (Gives Cooked Crab Claws if defeated by fire!)

🌴 Tropical Blocks & Building Materials

Palm Wood Collection

A complete tropical wood set perfect for building beach houses, docks, and coastal villages.

Available Blocks: Palm Logs, Stripped Logs, Wood, Stripped Wood, Planks, and Slabs.

Aesthetic Landscaping

- 🌊 Sandwaves: Specially textured sand blocks that blend seamlessly into vanilla beaches for realistic coastal terrain.

- 🪨 Small Sandstone Rocks: Natural decorative rock clusters scattered across the sand to detail your shores.

Beach Collections

Collect beach treasures to decorate your builds or trade with villagers:

- 🐚 Shells: Blue, Green, Pink, Purple, Nautilus, and rare Nautilus Coral Shells.

- ⭐ Starfish: Vibrant Blue, Pink, Purple, and Yellow variants.

🥥 Coconuts

- Grow naturally on palm trees and drop as whole blocks.

- Mechanic: Must be broken using an Axe to split them into edible Coconut Halves!

🍽️ Advanced Food & Preservation System

Expand your culinary options with a brand-new seafood ecosystem and dynamic block mechanics.

Seafood Variety

Raw & Cooked: Crab, Shrimp, Crab Claws, and Crab Sticks.
Dried Variants: Take your fish and seafood further by preserving them.

🍳 The Food Dryer Block

A fully functional, wall-mounted utility block that visualizes your food as it cures!

Placement: Must be attached to a vertical wall face.
Immersive Animation: Shows the exact item hanging on the rack as it transitions from raw to dried over time.
How to Use: Right-click with raw seafood (Cod, Salmon, Crab, Shrimp) to place it. Right-click with an empty hand to retrieve your newly dried food.
Note: Furnace cooking provides instant high hunger restoration, while Food Drying offers higher food restoration options.

🎣 Exploration & Utility Mechanics

📜 Bottle with Note

Discover mystery glass bottles washed ashore or hidden on the coast. They can be placed directionally on tables or shelves as gorgeous decorations, but breaking them yields incredible cartography secrets.

- Common Loot: Paper.

- Rare Exploration Loot: Explorer Maps leading directly to Buried Treasure, Woodland Mansions, Ocean Monuments, Trial Chambers, Jungle Pyramids, Witch Huts, or various biome-specific Villages.

🪝 Seabound Trap

Take your underwater resource gathering to the next level with an automated passive fishing system.

Setup: Must be placed completely underwater (waterlogged).
Bait System: Open the custom UI (9 slots total). Place raw fish (Cod, Salmon, Tropical, or Pufferfish) into the 3 designated bait slots.
Automation: The trap features custom splash sounds and has a 90% success rate per attempt to consume bait and catch passive rewards like Shrimp, Crab, or extra fish over time.

🏗️ World Generation & Structures

Natural Beach Generation

Beaches are completely overhauled! Shores now naturally generate cluster patterns of palm trees, sandwave variations, scattered small rocks, shells, and starfish.

Tropical Structures

Explore your world to find beautiful, naturally spawning structures featuring detailed interiors, custom loot, and themed decorations:

- 🏖️ Beach Houses

- 🌴 Palm Tree Houses

- 🗼 Lighthouses (gorgeous night lighting)

- 🏝️ Sea Houses

Custom Palm Trees

Features 7 distinct procedural designs of various shapes and heights.
Includes custom leaf physics with falling green leaf particles for maximum tropical atmosphere.

🤝 Expanded Fisherman Economy

The vanilla Fisherman villager trade tree has been completely overhauled to incorporate your beach discoveries across 5 progression tiers

🌟 Technical Features

⚡ Performance Optimized: Clean code designed to ensure zero tick lag during world generation and entity rendering.
🧩 Vanilla Friendly: Seamlessly integrates alongside your favorite survival worlds and vanilla biomes.
👥 Multiplayer & Server Ready: Fully compatible with dedicated servers for playing with friends.
🔄 Active Support: Regular updates, bug fixes, and feature additions.