🦖 ARKCraft — Smart Aquatic AI, 13 Model Fixes & NeoForge Stability (v1.3.9)

🦖 Dinosaur Mechanics, AI & Riding

• Shoreline AI for Aquatic Creatures: Mosasaurus, Plesiosaurus, and Shonisaurus will no longer beach themselves or try to climb onto shore blocks when following the player, safely maintaining position at the shoreline and deep water.

• Prone Aquatic Riding: Fixed the rider's lying-flat posture and passenger offset on marine mounts; ensured seamless continuation while underwater.

• Underwater Night Vision: Added and balanced a continuous night vision effect while mounted on aquatic creatures to improve visibility underwater.

• Continuous Water Ascent (Space Key): Holding the Space key on underwater mounts now triggers a smooth and fluid upward swim toward the surface.

• Sarcosuchus Saddle & Rider Alignment: Fixed the 180° body rotation issue on the Sarcosuchus saddle layer, snapping the saddle and rider perfectly onto the spine.

• Authentic ARK Jump Strengths: Assigned custom vertical jump heights to every dinosaur species faithful to ARK: Survival Evolved values.

• Scale, Hitboxes & Rider Offsets: Realigned all mount sizes (including the Shonisaurus platform and Pteranodon wingspan), hitbox boundaries, and 3D saddle passenger offsets to official ARK standards.

• Kill Loot & Item Auto-Collection: Fixed loot dropping from killed entities so it automatically collects without getting trapped under the dinosaur, alongside improved mounted item pickup.
  
  

🦴 3D Models & Visual Fixes (13 Dinosaur Revisions)

• Parasaurolophus Ground Clipping Fixed: Adjusted rendering bounds upward without altering the base model geometry, fixing animation-driven floor sinking so feet align precisely with the ground.

• Frustum Culling / Disappearing Fix: Expanded the Visible Bounds across all large models to prevent them from suddenly vanishing when viewed from specific angles or wingtips.

• Foot, Toe & Claw Rotations: Realigned inverted or misaligned foot and claw cubes for Parasaurolophus, Utahraptor, Therizinosaurus, T-Rex, Dilophosaurus, Thescelosaurus, Trinisaurus, Xuanhanosaurus, and Yutyrannus.

• Wing & Tail Segments: Corrected wing cube geometry for Tupandactylus and Hatzegopteryx, alongside tail bone structures for Utahraptor and Yutyrannus.

• Hatzegopteryx & T-Rex Updates: Updated Hatzegopteryx flight/wing animations, refreshed the T-Rex texture, and cleaned up leftover redundant files.
  
  

🖥️ UI, Accessories & Quality of Life (QoL)

• Engram UI Modernization: Reorganized and modernized the engram screen across 6 main functional categories.

• HUD Numbers Mode: Player HUD health/stamina display is now set to exact numerical values by default.

• Hat & Tail Cosmetics: Adjusted inventory GUI icon sizes for player and dinosaur cosmetic items to fit slot borders perfectly, while increasing their rendered size on dinosaurs.

• Mindwipe Tonic Consumption: Fixed the consumption behavior and stat redistribution logic for the status-reset tonic.
  
  

⚙️ System, Crashes & NeoForge Compatibility

• NeoForge Mod Bus Startup Crash Fixed: Resolved a crash on game launch caused by registering RegisterSpawnPlacementsEvent and IModBusEvent classes incorrectly onto the common event bus; event subscribers have been properly separated into Bus.MOD and Bus.GAME.

• Entity Super Class Migration: Migrated the BaseDinoEntity hierarchy to TamableAnimal, greatly improving native taming and owner-following mechanics.