Whistle & Wander

# 🌊 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!

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### ✨ 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)!

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### 🔧 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.