4.0.0

🧜 Mermaids and Mythical Creatures v4.0.0 - New Tails, A New Creature, and the Trident

🧜 New: The Curve Tail is the mermaid tail

• Every mermaid now wears the brand-new Curve Tail: a sleeker, more natural tail with a curved, tapering silhouette and a full fluke, built to Hytale's style and light on the client.
• An animation for every player animation: a real dolphin kick in the water (swim, sprint, dive, hover, float, sink, breach), seal-style crawling, bounding and resting on land, and sitting, sleeping, riding, climbing and falling that all fit a tail.
• Thirteen new fins - five dorsal (Crest, Ridge Spines, Long Sail, Twin Crest, Plume), five pectoral (Hip Fans, Sweep, Frills, Wing Fins, Streamers) and three ear fins (Fan, Spine, Frill). They trail every kick, flutter while you idle, and fold back at speed.
• Eight colors - orange, pink, purple, rose, lime, blue, aqua and cyan - and the fins always match your tail.
• Two variations on the Model tab, with every animation and fin: the Curve Veil - a flowing, scalloped fan fin with small round scales - and the Curve Swift - a deep-forked, swept-back fin like a tuna's, with a dark flank stripe. Your color carries over when you switch.
• Six ready-made presets: Default, Full Fins, Sea Dragon, Reef Frills, Veil Dancer and Swift Hunter.
• The wild mermaids wear the new tails too, and their pods mix all six familiar colors again - orca and dolphin mermaids included.

📦 Moved: The original tails are now "Mermaids v2 Tails"

• The original mermaid and mammal tails, their eight fins, colors, presets and animations, and the two ear-fin Wardrobe items now live in a separate addon: Mermaids v2 Tails. Install it beside Mermaids to pick them from the Model tab exactly as before.
• Your look carries over automatically. The first time you join after updating, a mermaid on an original tail moves to the Curve Tail and keeps their color (orca and dolphin become black and grey; a Premium color keeps its exact shade). Original fins have no Curve version, so they come off - pick new ones from the fin tabs. Saved presets convert the same way.
• If the addon behind your tail is ever removed, you fall back to the Curve Tail instead of an error.

🐍 New Mythical Creature: The Lamia

• A fourth creature beside the Mermaid, Werewolf and Vampire: your own upper body, hair and cosmetics over a long serpent tail.
• Pick Lamia as your active form in the Mythical Creatures menu and you're a Lamia on land and in water - no water, night or potion needed. The Lamia Transformation toggle turns it off for yourself.
• An animation for every slot: she glides on a slithering wave instead of running, and her tail pushes her up when she jumps.
• 12 tail colors (the 8 free colors plus Black, Crimson, Deep Violet and Abyss) and three optional cosmetics: Cobra Hood, Back Spines and Scale Fringe.
• /mc lamia opens her menu; /mc lamia toggle switches the transformation.
• Server owners: Enable-Lamia-Transformation, a Lamia settings section, and Endless Leveling support - with the race lock on, races whose id starts with lamia become Lamias.

🔱 New: The Mermaid Trident

• A Mithril-tier spear forged beneath the waves: stab up close, or charge it and throw it.
• Hold it in the water for the Tide effect: +40% swim speed while it's in your hand.
• Made for tails: its attacks move only your arms, so every tail keeps its pose, and swimming forward it strikes along your line of travel.
• Crafted at the Mermaids Workbench (new Weapon tab): 6 Mithril Ingots, 3 Storm Leather, 4 Mermaid Scales and 1 Mermaid Tear.

🐙 New: Octopus, Manta and Seahorse tails

• Octopus - eight curling arms that step along on land and curl as you swim, in its own Octopus Red, with two cosmetics of its own: the Arm Web and flapping Dumbo Ears.
• Manta - wide wing-fins from the hips and a thin whip tail. You swim with a slow wing-flap, and the wings drape flat on land. Signature color: Manta Midnight.
• Seahorse - a curled, gripping tail in leafy streamers, like a leafy sea dragon. You crawl on land with the tail laid flat behind you. Signature color: Seahorse Gold.
• Each also comes in the 8 free colors, with an animation for every slot. Purely cosmetic - no stats.
• $4 each, one-time at the Treasure Pavilion, bound to the Hytale account you sign in with, and usable on any server running Mermaids 4.0.0. They sit on the Model tab for everyone, locked with a store link until you own one. /mermaids store lists yours; /mermaids store recheck picks up a new purchase sooner.

⚙️ For server owners: Store Tails

• New StoreConfig.json and a Store Tails section in Server Settings. Paid-Content-Enabled (on, applies live) - off hides the tails, puts wearers back on the Curve Tail (saved looks kept), and fetches nothing.
• Check-Interval-Hours (6), Allow-Recheck-Command (on), Recheck-Cooldown-Seconds (60, server-wide).
• Each check is a plain download of a public list of buyers' player IDs. Nothing about your server is sent, and the last list is cached if the store can't be reached.

🎨 New looks

• The Seashell Bra is redesigned: two ribbed scallop shells on a twisted seaweed cord with a pearl clasp. All ten dyes carry over, so the bras you own update by themselves.
• Two new werewolf looks: Arctic (snow-white pelt, glacier-blue eyes) and Midnight (black pelt with silver tips, amber eyes).

🔧 Fixes & improvements

• Only water turns you into a mermaid now - lava, tar, poison and slime no longer count. The Trident's Tide boost and vampire sunlight shelter follow the same rule.
• Fixed a tail that could stay stuck on after a toggle or a race/zone change - the tail, oxygen bar, glow and speed now always come off together.
• Enable-Mermaid-Transformation = false now really turns transformations off, and /mermaids onland respects the server's on-land switch.
• Dipping into a stream for a moment no longer plays the full transform-back effect, and swim speed no longer carries onto land.

🔧 Fixes & improvements (continued)

• The mermaid glow no longer stays on after you log out, and your glow setting is remembered.
• Siren Song only lures creatures in the water, and never through walls.
• Siren Song, Blood Drain and Howl cooldowns survive a relog or a toggle; toggling no longer refills the drying-out meter, and dying does.
• Werewolves and vampires no longer get stuck in creature form when a potion runs out; the night speed boost ends at dawn; permanent potions pick their creature for you. Werewolf admin hours are now 0-23, day before night.
• Companion fish no longer pile up after a restart - old leftovers are cleaned up - and your fish leaves when you stop being a mermaid.
• Presets respect color permissions, menu saves count in your Codex, and "tap again to delete" works.
• Spanish (Spain and Mexico) and Chinese are now complete - every menu, command and admin setting.
• Server owners: the admin command node is no longer granted to every player; /mermaids admin reload skips a config with a typo instead of breaking it; /mermaids info no longer freezes the world while it checks for updates; bug reports have a cooldown; Transformation-Mode 2 is documented and its messages fixed.
• The wild-mermaid population count no longer removes the wrong mermaids after a restart.

🔗 Compatibility

• Works with Endless Leveling 13; EndlessLevelingCore 12.0.0 is still the minimum. Still built for Hytale Server 0.6.2.
• Running Mermaids Premium? Update it to 1.5.0 with this release - it puts Premium's colors and presets on the new Curve tails.

🐚 Dive Into The Trove

• Want more tails, more companions, and more ways to be a mermaid? Mermaids Premium registers straight into the menus you already use - nothing new to open, nothing new to learn:
• New: the Orca and Dolphin tails - whale flukes on the Curve Tail's body, with the orca's black-and-white markings or the dolphin's pale belly, and four whale fins of their own
• New: the Lamia race line for Endless Leveling - Lamia, then Viper or Constrictor, then Gorgon or Naga, then Echidna - with the new Venom Fangs passive
• 215 tail colors across 13 palette families - on every Curve tail, the Orca and Dolphin, and the original tails from Mermaids v2 Tails
• 18 companion species - reef fish, jellyfish, and seafloor creatures, on top of the base mod's own two
• 24 exclusive shimmers across four themed families - Tide, Reef, Siren, Bioluminescence
• 7 curated tail presets for an instant, ready-made look
• 5 full race lines for Endless Leveling - Mermaid (9 tiers), Werewolf (6), Vampire (6), Merfolk (4) and the new Lamia (6 races)
• Grab it at The Trove: (browse everything at )