🌊 Whistle & Wander — v1.2.0: «The Coral Diver Update»

Welcome to The Coral Diver Update! Dive deep into vibrant warm oceans and coral reefs to meet an enchanting new companion, master underwater exploration with acoustic conch echolocation, and wear the luminous Bubble Helm!

✨ NEW FEATURES & CONTENT

🐠 1. New Companion: Splashlet (The Coral Diver)

• Habitat & Spawning: Naturally inhabits Warm Oceans, Coral Reefs, and Deep Oceans.
• Aquatic Biomechanics: Built strictly for swimming with lifelike fin oscillations, tail fluke wave physics, and resting bottom animations.
• Moisture & Land Physics: Purely aquatic creature! On dry land without rain, the Splashlet cute-flops around and will eventually dry out if not returned to water.
• Taming & Breeding: Tame and breed them using Seagrass, Kelp, or Dried Kelp.
• Reef Playfulness: Loves to chase tropical fish and enthusiastically plays water polo with Toy Balls!
• Intentional Shoulder Mounting: Will never jump onto your shoulder accidentally. Mount it intentionally with Shift + Right-Click with an empty hand.
• 🫧 Bubble Helm (Unique Shoulder Ability):
  • When perched on your shoulder, creates a glowing, translucent Bubble Helm around your head and wraps itself in an aquatic protection orb.
  • Grants infinite Water Breathing, Conduit Power, Dolphin's Grace, and 100% immunity to drowning damage.
  • Never falls off your shoulder while swimming underwater!

🪣 2. Splashlet Bucket

• Scoop up any wild or tamed Splashlet with a Water Bucket!
• Full Data Retention: Safely retains custom names (from anvils), health, tamed status, and owner UUID.
• When released, your Splashlet remains tamed, loyal, and recognizes you immediately.

🐚 3. New Item: Echo Conch

• Crafting: 1x Nautilus Shell, 4x Prismarine Shards, 1x Gold Ingot.
• Sleek 3D Model: Renders as a custom 3D spiral sea horn in your hands while blowing.
• Зов глубин (Call of the Depths): Emits deep ocean chords, rallying nearby Splashlets and Bog Buddies to your side.
• Submerged Sonar (Underwater Only):
  • Strictly operates while submerged underwater — no false echoes on dry land.
  • Directs a pinpoint, non-drifting beam of glowing sonar particles straight to the closest sunken chest, buried treasure, or ocean ruin within 18 blocks.
  • Outlines the target treasure chest with an exact golden 3D wireframe box and subtle amethyst chimes.
  • Zero chat spam, no actionbar text clutter, and no unwanted potion buffs — pure, immersive sonar exploration.

🏆 4. New Advancements

• «Pocket Ocean»: Scoop up a Splashlet in a water bucket.
• «Bubble Helm»: Dive underwater with a Splashlet on your shoulder for at least 3 seconds.
• «Call of the Depths»: Sound the Echo Conch submerged beneath the waves.
• «Fellowship of the Biomes» (Updated Challenge): Tame all 7 biome companions (Mossy Hopper, Sandy Dustbunny, Snow Puff, Pebble Pup, Bog Buddy, Petallet, and Splashlet)!

🔧 COMPATIBILITY & TECHNICAL

• Supported loaders & versions:
  • Forge / NeoForge 1.20.1
  • NeoForge 1.21.1 (full Data Components & modern tags support)
• 100% complete Russian (ru_ru) and English (en_us) localizations.