Alligator Gar

Alligator Gar
A solitary alligator gar
Basic Information
Real Creature	Atractosteus spatula
Nature	Passive
Health Points	20 ()
Attack Damage	0 ()
Drops	None
Modeled By	Raptorfarian
First appearances	History

Note: Make sure to name your alligator gar with a nametag. They will despawn otherwise.

8.0.4 UPDATE

The alligator gar ('ah-li-gay-tore gar', or 'æ·lɪ·gei·tər gaɹ' in IPA notation) is a small, passive, aquatic, Mesozoic creature that was added in Build 7.3, the Dinosaur Renaissance update. It is a living fossil fish that spawns naturally in the world but can also be created by the player, similar to the Nautilus, sturgeon, and Coelacanth, all of which also spawn naturally. It is around 1 block tall and 3 blocks long, half a block longer than the maximum for the species in real life. They drop raw fish when killed. Groups of alligator gar spawn in swamps, replacing the old fictional swamp coelacanth subspecies. Right-clicking a alligator gar puts it into your inventory as an item, which can be cooked.

Though they spawn naturally, they can also be created by the player through the culture vat. As they are fish, they hatch from spawn that need to be placed in water.

BEHAVIOR

Alligator Gar is an aquatic mob that can spawn naturally in the world. They spawn in deep water in swamp biomes. Since they are passive mobs and do not defend themselves, they are vulnerable to the marine predators mosasaurus, sarcosuchus, spinosaurus, and liopleurodon, as well as several terrestrial predators if they enter the water. They can only live underwater; when placed on land, they flop around, dying of suffocation at a rate of one heart per second. Right-clicking catches them, and then right-clicking again while holding the alligator gar spawns it back again. As items, you can cook them to eat.

Alligator gar can breed by laying fish spawn, which needs to be right-clicked in water by the player to hatch. Since they do not have sexes, the amount of nearby gar do not affect the breeding probability.

Like other living fossil mobs, they cannot be tamed, ordered, fed, or aged, given essence of chicken, and do not have genders or moods.

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Fish preview

Gar DNA

Gar spawn

Live alligator gar (item)

Cooked alligator gar

An alligator gar soaring through the air(done by hooking it with a fishing rod, ascending to a great height, and reeling it in).

Two beached alligator gar.

A group of naturally-spawned alligator gar.

Dinopedia entry

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Dinosaurs	Allosaurus ■ Ankylosaurus ■ Brachiosaurus ■ Ceratosaurus ■ Citipati ■ Compsognathus ■ Deinonychus ■ Dilophosaurus ■ Diplodocus ■ Dryosaurus ■ Gallimimus ■ Ornitholestes ■ Pachycephalosaurus ■ Parasaurolophus ■ Spinosaurus ■ Stegosaurus ■ Therizinosaurus ■ Triceratops ■ Tyrannosaurus ■ Velociraptor
Aquatic Creatures	Alligator Gar ■ Coelacanth ■ Crassigyrinus ■ Diplocaulus ■ Henodus ■ Ichthyosaurus ■ Liopleurodon ■ Megalodon ■ Megalograptus ■ Mosasaurus ■ Nautilus ■ Plesiosaurus ■ Sturgeon ■ Tiktaalik
Birds	Confuciusornis ■ Dodo ■ Gastornis ■ Kelenken ■ Phorusrhacos ■ Titanis
Mammals	Elasmotherium ■ Mammoth ■ Megaloceros ■ Platybelodon ■ Smilodon ■ Quagga
Pterosaurs	Pteranodon
Land Reptiles and Proto-mammals	Megalania ■ Sarcosuchus ■ Edaphosaurus
......Arthropods......	Meganeura ■ Arthropleura
Upcoming	N/A
Enemies	Anu ■ Anubite ■ Dead Bones ■ Easter Egg Mob ■ Failuresaurus ■ Sentry Pigman ■ Tar Slime
Misc	Archaeologist Villager ■ Fossil Model ■ Paleontologist Villager ■ Tamed Zombie Pigman
Carnivores appear in red. Herbivores appear in green. Omnivores appear in light blue. Piscivores appear in dark blue. Enemies/misc appear in brown. means the creature can break blocks. means the creature is an apex predator/boss.