Gastropod Galore

This Mod aims to add Useful Snails and Slugs with unique functions and abilities. 1.0 is mostly focused on farming. AND YES. Theres an Immortal Snail CurseForge Link

🐌 New Mobs 🐌

Snails:

• Eat crops; can be bred with crop items (wheat, beetroot, potato, carrot) and can be tamed with bonemeal
• Harvest crops when tamed but the owner needs to be holding a hoe with Cultivation
• 10% chance to drop slimeballs when harvesting
• 1/3 Chance to drop Snail Shells when killed, or guaranteed when growing up from baby to adult (similar to turtle scutes)
• 20% to spawn a Snailet (Baby Snail) when it eats a crop
• Can be captured and contained using Terrariums
• Naming a snail “Tanky” turns it green with a purple shell
• Naming a snail “Bob” turns it dark green with a dark red shell
• Naming a snail “Gary” turns it light blue with a pink shell

Slugs & Banana Slugs:

• Eat grass, mushrooms, and leaf litter
• Tamed using bonemeal
• 20% to spawn a Sluglet (Baby Slug) when it eats Grass-related Blocks
• Destroys or Eats Grass-related Blocks
• 5% chance to drop slimeballs when eating
• Can be captured and contained using Terrariums

Painted Snails:

• Spawns in Jungles and Temperate Rainforest
• When fed flowers, drops 2–4 dyes (or 4–8 for tall flowers)

Mossy Snail:

• Spawns in Temperate Rainforest
• Moss-covered shells, Identical to Snails
• Drops Mossy Snail Shells instead of Snail Shells

Apple Snails:

• Aquatic crop-eaters (seagrass, kelp)
• Can drop Apple Snail Shells, either by killing or growing up (similar to turtle scutes)
• 25% to spawn a Apple Snailet (Baby Apple Snail) when it eats kelp or seagrass

Sea Bunnies:

• Grant Water Breathing to nearby players
• Poison attackers as defense
• Spawn on warm/lukewarm seafloors

Magma Snails:

• Speed up on magma, fire, lava, and Nether terrain
• Smelt items (raw foods, ores, clay)
• Smelting cooldown: 100 ticks normally, 50 ticks on hot or warm blocks
• Heats the ground only when provoked
• Shoots Fireballs
• Spawn in Thermal Geodes

Volcanic Snails:

• Hostile Nether predator
• Always heats the ground around it
• Shoots Fireballs
• Drops Volcanic Snail Shell

Immortal Snail:

• Summoned by right-clicking a Snail with a Totem of Undying, Grants the player valuable resources
• Hunts the player
• It will always stay within 30–35 blocks of the player
• Teleports if farther away
• Feeding an Enchanted Golden Apple makes it mortal for 60 seconds, Duration stacks
• Kills Players even Creative Mode, and Spectator Mode
• If Difficulty ≠ Hard: Killing it ends it permanently: Advancement: “You… Killed It…
• If Difficulty = Hard: Killing it only stuns it for 5 seconds, The snail revives every time Advancement: “I Always Come Back”

🌲 Biomes 🌲

Temperate Rainforest:

• Vanilla mobs: Frogs, Wolves
• New mobs: Snails, Slugs, Banana Slugs, Painted Snails, Mossy Snails

✨ Enchantments ✨

Cultivation (Hoe)

• Max Lvl: 4
• Plants crops around you in patterns (Plus, 3x3 Square, Diamond, 5×5 Square)
• Lvl 3+ expands hoe-till radius to 3×3

Zeal (Hoe)

• Max Lvl: 2
• Speeds up tamed Snails/Slugs
• Lvl 2 removes harvest cooldown entirely

📦 Blocks: 📦

Snail Shell:

• Dropped by Snails
• Can be laid down when crouching
• Craft into 3 Bonemeal
• Brew into Potion of Sluggishness
• Slowness II + Resistance II (1 minute)
• Trade 5 shells → 1 emerald (Farmer)
• Wandering traders: 1 emerald → 3 shells
• When Bonemealed, Bonemeals the blocks around it

Volcanic Snail Shell:

• Dropped by Volcanic Snails

Mossy Snail Shell:

• Dropped by Mossy Snails
• Can be laid down when crouching

Apple Snail Shell:

• Dropped by Apple Snails
• Can be laid down when crouching
• Craft into 3 Bonemeal

Terrarium:

• Can be used to Capture Snails and Slugs (doesn't save Owner so it doesn't tame when released, same with names)
• Crafted with 5 Glass, 3 Wood Slabs, and a Grass Block

Snail in a Terrarium:

• Contains a Snail in a Terrarium
• Can release the contained Snail by crouching then right-clicking

Slug in a Terrarium:

• Contains a Slug in a Terrarium
• Can release the contained Slug by crouching then right-clicking

Banana Slug in a Terrarium:

• Contains a Banana Slug in a Terrarium
• Can release the contained Banana Slug by crouching then right-clicking

🎒 Items: 🎒

Roasted Carrots:

• Cooked carrots
• Food item equivalent to baked potatoes

📦 Cut/Scrapped/Shelved Features: NOT PERMNANTLY REMOVED 📦

• Haunt - Ghost Snail that would protect farmland.
• Harmony - Tames nearby Snails or Slugs if holding its food item
• Slug Mucus - No Uses

🔧 Planned Features/Updates: 🔧

• Volcanic Snail Shell Chestplate - Slightly weaker than Netherite, gives Fire Resistance for 15 seconds or longer (based on Turtle Helmets)
• More Structures - Snail Dens, Abandoned Huts, etc.
• More Terrariums for other Gastropods
• Aquariums - Terrariums for Sea/Freshwater Gastropods
• More Sea/Freshwater-related Gastropods
• More Nether-related Gastropods