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Introduction

Welcome to Gator Country! This mod is focused on adding one new animal to the game: Alligators! We aim to introduce them in a fun, unique, and fleshed-out way. While we don't have many mobs, we strive to make up for it by adding a fairly complex mob with various features including a hunger system, happiness system, multiple uses, new items, and a structure!

Alligators

These large chonky reptiles are relatively uncommon. They spawn throughout swamp biomes and near gator nests. They come in a regular green skin, a darker green skin, and a rare albino skin. They are usually passive but will prey on nearby small animals for food when hungry, attack those who break their eggs, and might ambush the player if they are in water nearby!

Happiness System

Gators start off slightly happy in the wild but their happiness will decrease if they are not exposed to the sky or if they are in a cold biome. If a gator's happiness reaches zero, it will begin to cannibalize other gators nearby and be aggressive to almost everything! Gators killed in this way will not drop anything, so farming must be done ethically to avoid ending up with only 1 gator. As a side note, unhappy gators will drop less while very happy gators drop more than usual!

Interactions

Happy gators can be right-clicked with any mob skull to make the gator attack that specific type of mob. Using an ender dragon head will make the gator attack EVERY mob other than gators and the player who showed them the ender dragon head.

Drops

On death, alligators will drop their meat and leather. Their meat is a giant slab that can be placed on the ground or eaten regularly to give major hunger and saturation bonuses with a slight slowing effect. If it is crafted with a bowl, carrot, and mushroom, it will become Gator Gumbo, an even more saturating food item with resistance also applied on consumption. If a slab of gator is crafted with a bowl, potato, and bone, it will become Gator Chow which can be fed to any non-parrot tames to give strength, resistance, and regeneration.

Enjoy your next wild adventure with these formidable creatures! 

FAQ:
1.20 port?:
Once this mod is stable enough, I will be working on the 1.20 port :)

Fabric port?:
Sorry no, I'm a Forge/Neoforge dev only. 

This mod is most likely feature complete but if you have any ideas, you can always drop them down in the comments and I could consider them.