Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25235219-20160722044148

So now that mammals and birds are free from the shackles of dinosaur racism and have the equality they deserve, the last of the vanilla AI leftovers are these four little fishies. Some people might say they're not important enough to deserve their own AI, but I actually think they could be one of the more interesting and unique mobs depending on how it's done.

Schooling
Provided enough space, the fish, mostly Coelacanth, should form tight groups with each other for protection. Since Sturgeons and Gars are mostly solitary, they should stay away from each other until faced with a predator. When the predator attacks one, they should all scatter in different directions until they're out of the area and regroup.

The Nautilus should try and hide in their shells. I also couldn't find shit about how social Nautilus' are, so I'm guessing they're solitary too.

Breeding
Note: Only player spawned fish should be able to breed, not naturally spawned ones (unless you want a shitload of lag).

I guess this is more of a "Aquatic animals in general" suggestion instead of just a fish one. Anyway, Sturgeons and Gars should breed through egg spawn. When a male and a female fish are close to each other, there should be a small chance that they go to the bottom of the ocean, and the spawning happens (I mean the actual biology term of spawning, not MC spawning) which in turn spawns a spawn block. I have absolutely no idea how this would be represented, maybe through an animation or the dinopedia or something like that. The spawn block should look kinda like a smaller egg version of baby nether warts.

Anyway, the spawns should incubate at about the same time as normal dinosaur eggs and when it reaches 100%, 3 - 8 baby fish should hatch. That might seem like a lot, but they should only start with a single heart, making them extremely vulnerable from anything that can swim, squids, and even their own species until they grow up which should only take a few days.

Coelacanth should give live birth, and again I couldn't find shit on Nautilus other then that they lay eggs.

Food
Coelacanth should eat Nautilus and the rest of the fish should all eat... fish, the item? Food is kind of a difficult suggestion considering that every single one of them are carnivores that either eat fish smaller than them or things that aren't in the mod (I was hoping they would be herbivores so I could suggest ancient seaweed or plankton).

=Fin=

 