Megalania

8.0.0 UPDATE

Megalania
A megalania in the badlands
Real Creature	Varanus priscus
Nature	Hostile
Health Points	Adult: 50 Infant: 10 ()
Attack Damage	10 () Poison: 7 ()
Hunger Points	125
Breaks Blocks	No
Drops	- Meat - Skull - Leg bone - Arm bone - Foot - Ribcage - Vertebrae - Claw
Modeled By	ASDFGirl

Megalania ('meg-ah-lay-knee-ah', meaning “Great Roamer”) is a large prehistoric lizard resembling a komodo dragon from the Pleistocene of Australia, added in Build 8.0.0, alongside the four other “mega” mobs. It, and the larger sarcosuchus, are the only current carnivorous terrestrial reptiles in the mod, and it is also diurnal, meaning it is active during the day and will sleep at night. Like their smaller komodo dragon cousins, they have a highly potent and dangerous venom effect when attacking their prey, including the player. They are one of the eight apex predators that uses a special taming method.

Males are approximately 7 blocks long, and around 1.6 blocks tall at the shoulder. Females are around 6 blocks long and 1.5 blocks tall, and there is no difference in texture between sexes. Newborns hatch at just under 2 blocks long, and they are fully grown at 10 days old. Their texture is based off of closely related modern day monitor lizards. They, like the other apex predators, cannot be given essence of chicken to grow faster.

A fossil version of the megalania can be created by right-clicking a tar fossil on the ground, which will create a random skeleton of a Cenozoic-era prehistoric creature.

Like almost all other mobs in the mod, they do not spawn naturally in the world and must be created by the player through the culture vat. As they are reptiles, they hatch from large eggs that need to be warmed by any light source.

BEHAVIOR

Megalania, like almost all other mobs, has a mood (seen with a DinoPedia) that can drop by being in an inadequate habitat, being overcrowded, being starved, or being attacked, and can be raised with food, or enrichment items such as balls, scratching posts, or tethered logs. Adult megalania requires a high mood to not attack the player on sight.

SOUNDS

Megalania Idle 1		Megalania Hurt 2
Megalania Idle 2		Megalania Death 1
Megalania Idle 3		Megalania Death 2
Megalania Hurt 1

PHOTO GALLERY

A baby Megalania

A megalania attacking some pigs

Megalania

Two male megalania battling for territory

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.