Animalia 1.0.0 — First Release

Animalia reaches its first full release! This update adds two complete animals, new equipment and building sets, expanded family behavior, improved combat, many new advancements, and a major visual and audio update.

Everything listed below is new or changed since version 0.4.0.

New Animal: Elephant

• Elephants now spawn naturally in herds of 2–7 across all savanna biomes.
• Natural herds can include calves.
• Adults have 250 health and use three model-aligned attacks:
  • Tusk strike: 10 damage with knock-up.
  • Trunk strike: 4 damage.
  • Stomp: 15 area damage with powerful knock-up.
• Elephants warn unfamiliar players within 10 blocks before attacking.
• Leaving the warning area has a two-second grace period before the Elephant calms down.
• Player-placed Hay Bales can permanently earn an Elephant’s trust.
• Trust is stored separately for every Elephant and player.
• Attacking an Elephant removes the attacker’s trust.
• Injured trusted Elephants can seek player-placed Hay Bales, restoring 25 health after eating.
• Adult Elephants naturally forage for grass and leaves, restoring 15 health.
• Their trunk procedurally reaches toward food, picks it up, renders it visibly, and carries it through the eating animation.
• Elephants can be bred with Apples.
• Calves never attack and flee when harmed.
• Nearby adults defend attacked calves, while adults share aggression with their herd.
• Elephants walk through shallow water, swim through deeper sections, cross rivers when necessary, and seek a suitable route back onto land instead of remaining in open water.
• Elephant attacks can continue pursuing their target through tusk and trunk wind-ups, preventing ordinary walking from avoiding nearly every strike.
• Stomps create temporary non-destructive ground cracks for 20 seconds.
• Some affected blocks rise slightly with randomized height and orientation.
• Stomps produce distance-scaled camera shake within 20 blocks.
• Elephant footsteps also create lighter distance-scaled camera movement.
• Complete adult and calf models, textures, animations, sounds, footsteps, and held-food rendering have been added.

Tusks, Ivory, and Building Blocks

• Adult Elephants have six removable tusk segments.
• Using an Axe removes one segment, drops one Ivory, and consumes one Axe durability.
• Each cut has a 50% chance to anger the Elephant.
• A trusted player has three seconds to offer an Apple after an unsuccessful cut and prevent the attack.
• Nine Ivory can be compacted into a Block of Ivory and unpacked again.
• Added the complete Ivory building family:
  • Block of Ivory
  • Smooth Ivory Block, Stairs, Slab, and Wall
  • Polished Ivory Block, Stairs, and Slab
  • Ivory Bricks, Stairs, Slab, and Wall
  • Ivory Pylon
  • Chiseled Ivory Bricks
  • Ivory Elephant Figurine
• Ivory pieces can be produced through the Crafting Table and Stonecutter without a furnace.
• Ivory blocks use bone sounds and require a Pickaxe for proper harvesting.
• The Block of Ivory can be placed along any axis and uses alternating side-face orientation.

New Animal: Moho

• Moho now spawn naturally as solitary adults in jungle biomes.
• Added four equally common adult variants:
  • Kauai
  • Oahu
  • Hawaii
  • Bishop
• Moho are completely peaceful and drop neither items nor experience.
• Adults alternate between walking and controlled flight, preferring flight most of the time.
• Their flight is faster than a Parrot’s but remains locally bounded instead of climbing endlessly.
• Chicks cannot fly and flee along the ground.
• Moho flee from nearby creatures and remember threats for several seconds.
• They do not fear other Moho, Parrots, Bats, Chickens, or Bees.
• Players holding Sugar or a Honey Bottle are treated as safe unless they attack.
• Sugar and Honey Bottles can be used for breeding.
• Using Honey returns the empty Glass Bottle.
• Breeding produces a delayed clutch of 1–5 eggs instead of an immediate chick.
• Eggs can be placed on any sturdy surface if the egg space is dry.
• Up to five eggs can share one visible clutch.
• Every egg retains its own incubation timer and hatches after approximately 30 minutes.
• Sneak-breaking safely retrieves all eggs while preserving their remaining incubation time.
• Landing directly on a clutch after a real fall destroys the entire clutch.
• Walking across the clutch or landing beside it does not break the eggs.
• Moho cannot crush their own eggs.
• Using a Moho Spawn Egg directly on an adult creates a chick.
• Added complete adult and chick models, textures, animations, variant rendering, songs, chick calls, and damage sounds.

Jaguar Pelt Content

• Adult Jaguars now drop 0–3 Jaguar Pelts.
• One Jaguar Pelt can be converted into one Leather.
• Added the Jaguar Pelt Cape:
  • Worn in the head slot.
  • Uses leather-helmet protection and durability.
  • Grants Jump Boost II.
  • Uses a custom fitted model and texture.
• Added the Jaguar Pelt Carpet.
• Landing on the carpet completely prevents fall damage for any living creature.
• Jaguar parents now defend attacked cubs.
• Jaguar melee reach, line of sight, action timing, head tracking, and animation ownership were aligned with the actual model.
• Added new Jaguar-related advancements.

Hippopotamus Products and Equipment

• Adult Hippopotamuses now drop 0–5 Thick Hippopotamus Pelts.
• One Thick Hippopotamus Pelt can be converted into three Leather.
• Added Hippopotamus Pelt Boots with chainmail-level protection and durability.
• The boots allow players to stand and run along underwater bottoms at land speed.
• Jumping releases the wearer from the bottom and restores ordinary swimming.
• Land-based movement bonuses retain their full strength.
• Water-based bonuses such as Dolphin’s Grace, Depth Strider, Hydrodynamic, and modded swim-speed effects contribute one-third of their relative bonus while bottom walking.
• Added collectible Bottles of Hippopotamus Sweat.
• Sweat can be collected from an adult using a Glass Bottle once every 30 minutes.
• Collecting sweat angers an unpacified Hippopotamus.
• Hippopotamuses can now remember several pacified players independently instead of only the most recent player.
• Drinking Hippopotamus Sweat takes twice as long as an ordinary drink.
• It grants five seconds of Fire Resistance and 20 minutes of the new Antiseptic effect.
• Antiseptic reduces fire and poison damage by 50% and slows oxygen loss underwater.
• Hippopotamus bite frequency has been increased.
• Bite reach, water contact, warning transitions, and attack movement were aligned with the adult and calf models.
• Nearby adults now defend attacked calves.
• Elephants and Moho are treated as safe animals by Hippopotamuses.
• Added new Hippopotamus-related advancements.

Animal Behavior and Combat Improvements

• Added age-aware collision mass to every Animalia animal.
• Large adults resist accidental hitbox pushing more strongly, while young animals remain lighter.
• Added attribute-aware locomotion playback across Animalia animals.
• Walking and swimming animation speed now responds smoothly to real movement attributes, potions, enchantments, and compatible modded effects.
• Attack reach and impact timing were aligned more closely with the models of Elephants, Jaguars, Hippopotamuses, Rhinoceroses, and baby Crocodiles.
• Expanded family-defense behavior across the animal roster.
• Corrected Crocodile family bonds so mothers and offspring react to the correct attacker without expensive global scans.
• Connected the adult Crocodile sprint animation to its opening land-chase burst.
• Reduced adult Crocodile idle sound volume by 50%.
• Improved Rhinoceros melee and ram contact ranges.
• Calf Rhinoceroses no longer apply adult-style melee knockback.
• Improved Rhinoceros swimming height, vertical water movement, shore exits, retaliation, and horn-drop positioning.
• Placed Rhinoceros Horns now damage creatures that fall onto their points.
• Connected the complete Rhinoceros sound set and animation-timed footsteps.
• Improved Elephant water navigation, shoreline climbing, river crossing, obstacle handling, food approach, and stalled-path recovery.
• Eliminated several cases where animals could remain stationary while continuously playing walking animations.

New Advancements

Added the following advancement branches and challenges:

Elephant

• Excellent Memory
• Ground Shaker
• Dentist?
• Sweet Tooth
• Immortalized
• Baroque

Jaguar

• Bagheera
• In Someone Else’s Skin
• Spot On!

Hippopotamus

• Hippoallergenic
• At the Bottom

Moho

• Silenced Forever

Visual, Animation, and Audio Update

• Added complete Elephant and calf models, textures, animations, and sound libraries.
• Added complete Moho and chick models, textures, animations, variants, egg models, and sound libraries.
• Added custom models and textures for the Jaguar Pelt Cape and Carpet.
• Added armor and item textures for Hippopotamus Pelt equipment.
• Added models and textures for the entire Ivory building family.
• Added new textures and icons for items, effects, spawn eggs, and advancements.
• Updated Crocodile Egg, Crocodile Teeth, Water Dagger, charged Water Dagger, and activation-state textures.
• Updated Rhinoceros Horn, Decorated Horn, and Figurine item textures.
• Updated the Moho clutch model with five visual egg slots and matching collision.
• Improved multiple existing action and transition animations.
• Added synchronized animation-timed footsteps and action sounds.

Configuration and Creative Menu

• Added natural-spawn configuration for Elephants and Moho.
• Natural spawning for every Animalia animal can be enabled or disabled independently.
• Habitat spawn weights remain individually configurable.
• Reorganized the configuration into clear per-animal sections.
• Added optional Jaguar and Elephant diagnostic logging settings.
• Reordered the Animalia creative tab so related animal drops, equipment, signature items, building blocks, and spawn eggs are grouped together.
• Updated English, Russian, and Ukrainian localization for all new content.

Fixes and Polish

• Fixed frequent Elephant tusk and trunk misses against normally moving targets.
• Fixed numerous Elephant water-navigation stalls, spinning loops, false swimming transitions, and failed shore exits.
• Fixed Elephants becoming permanently stuck while approaching elevated Hay Bales, grass, or leaves.
• Fixed Moho taking off without the correct flight presentation or flying excessively high.
• Fixed Moho egg collision, stacking, landing detection, incubation preservation, and chick spawning.
• Fixed Hippopotamuses running in place during attacks.
• Fixed Hippopotamus warning transitions replaying incorrectly.
• Fixed Jaguar action animations restarting or conflicting with locomotion.
• Fixed several invalid baby-animal animation states.
• Fixed Crocodile family retaliation targeting and baby bite reach.
• Fixed Rhinoceros close-range retaliation and multiple water-exit problems.
• Fixed equipped armor texture alignment for the Jaguar Pelt Cape and Hippopotamus Pelt Boots.
• Fixed the Jaguar Pelt Carpet missing texture caused by filename casing.
• Corrected the Russian localization of “Hippoallergenic.”