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## SeaAnimals Description
<b>SeaAnimals</b> transforms Valheim’s oceans into a living, dangerous, and fully explorable ecosystem.</br>
The mod adds a wide variety of marine and coastal creatures, each with unique behavior, biome-specific spawning, custom drops, and full integration with vanilla and modded systems.</br>
Beyond facing new predators, you can tame legendary sea creatures, equip them with a Maritime Saddle, and ride them as fully controllable aquatic mounts.</br>

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<summary><b>MARITIME MOUNTS</b> (<i>click to expand</i>)</summary>
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The following creatures can be tamed and ridden:</br>
• <b>Orca</b> (Taming Time = 1200)</br>
• <b>Dolphin</b> (Taming Time = 1200)</br>
• <b>Crocodile</b> (Taming Time = 1800)</br>
• <b>White Shark</b> (Taming Time = 1800)</br>
Food items for tameable creatures:</br>
• Blue Shark Meat, Crocodile Meat, Humboldt Squid Meat, Whale Meat, Sea Turtle Meat, Shark Meat, Turtle Meat, and Serpent Meat.</br>
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<b>Controls</b></br>
All mounts use a custom control system, independent from vanilla mechanics:</br>
• <b>W / A / S / D</b> – Directional movement</br>
• <b>Space</b> – Jump</br>
Mounted attack – The player can command the mount to attack while riding</br>
• <b>Mouse Click</b> - Attack 1 and Attack 02</br>
This enables true naval combat, underwater chases, and full domination of the seas.</br>

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<summary><b>CREATURES & ECOSYSTEM</b> (<i>click to expand</i>)</summary>
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The mod introduces a large variety of marine animals, each with specific biomes, distinct behavior, and exclusive drops:</br>

• Orca</br>
• Dolphin</br>
• Crocodile</br>
• White Shark</br>
• Blue Shark</br>
• Hammerhead Shark</br>
• Tiger Shark</br>
• Whale Shark</br>
• Right Whale</br>
• Humboldt Squid</br>
• Leatherback Sea Turtle</br>
• Turtles (Blue, Green, Red, and Yellow)</br>

All creatures respect:</br>
• Vanilla biomes</br>
• Altitude and ocean depth</br>
• Spawn time</br>
• Game progression (global keys)</br>
• Domesticated animals do not reproduce, take good care of them.</br>
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<summary><b>DROPS & COOKING</b> (<i>click to expand</i>)</summary>
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Creatures drop exclusive meat items, which can be:</br>
• Cooked on the <b>regular cooking station</b></br>
• Cooked on the <b>iron cooking station</b></br>
Fully integrated with Valheim’s vanilla cooking system.</br>
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<summary><b>SPECIAL ITEM - MARINE SADLE</b> (<i>click to expand</i>)</summary>
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The Maritime Saddle is required to ride aquatic creatures.</br>
Used on:</br>
• Orca</br>
• Dolphin</br>
• Crocodile</br>
• White Shark</br>
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<summary><b>PREFAB LIST</b> (<i>click to expand</i>)</summary>
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| PrefabName                  | Name                    | Spawn Biome(s)                   | Main Drop            | GlobalKey            |
|----------------------------|-------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------|----------------------|
| SA_Orca                    | Orca                    | Ocean, Deep North                | SA_WhaleMeat         | KilledEikthyr          |
| SA_Dolphin                 | Dolphin                 | Ocean, Deep North                | SA_WhaleMeat         | KilledEikthyr          |
| SA_Crocodile               | Crocodile               | Black Forest, Swamp              | SA_CrocoMeat         | KilledEikthyr          |
| SA_WhiteShark              | White Shark             | Ocean, Deep North                | SA_SharkMeat         | KilledBonemass          |
| SA_BlueShark               | Blue Shark              | Meadows                          | SA_BlueSharkMeat     | None          |
| SA_HammerHeadShark         | Hammerhead Shark        | Plains                           | SA_SharkMeat         | KilledBonemass          |
| SA_TigerShark              | Tiger Shark             | Mistlands                       | SA_SharkMeat         | KilledBonemass          |
| SA_WhaleShark              | Whale Shark             | Ocean                            | SA_WhaleMeat         | KilledElder          |
| SA_RightWhale              | Right Whale             | Ocean, Deep North                | SA_WhaleMeat         | None          |
| SA_HumboldtSquid           | Humboldt Squid          | Ocean                            | SA_HumboldMeat       | None          |
| SA_LeatherbackSeaTurtle    | Leatherback Sea Turtle  | Ocean                            | SA_SeaTurtleMeat     | None          |
| SA_BlueTurtle              | Blue Turtle             | Black Forest                    | SA_TurtleMeat        | None          |
| SA_GreenTurtle             | Green Turtle            | Meadows                          | SA_TurtleMeat        | None          |
| SA_RedTurtle               | Red Turtle              | Plains                           | SA_TurtleMeat        | None          |
| SA_YellowTurtle            | Yellow Turtle           | Mistlands                       | SA_TurtleMeat        | None          |

| PrefabName | Name             | Recipe                                  | Table        |
|-----------|------------------|--------------------------------------------------|----------|
| SA_Sadle  | Maritime Saddle  | Wood: 2, DeerHide: 5, LeatherScraps: 5 | Workbench lvl 1 |

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<summary><b>MANUAL INSTALL</b> (<i>click to expand</i>)</summary>
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• Mod is required on Server for Config Sync (this is still in development).</br>
• Download the latest copy of Bepinex per author's instructions.</br>
• Place the SeaAnimals.dll inside of the "Bepinex\plugins\" folder.</br>
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### SeaAnimals Photo Gallery

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<summary><b>SeaAnimals Video</b> (<i>click to expand</i>)</summary>
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