Squalicorax

Squalicorax are fish in Additional Creatures.

## Synopsis

It's always something one never expects to happen until it does, a shark attack in fresh water. While Bull Sharks were the usual culprit back home, something else here- something more aggressive- is the responsible fiend on the Arks. Squalicorax is a small-sized shark prone to patrolling the freshwater river systems of the ark. Adults of the species vary wildly in size, similar to coelocanth and salmon, but make no mistake: they are all far more aggressive than even modern bull sharks, which they share much of the same ecology with. Excluding this, however, is their formidable gang tendencies, schooling in small-to-mid sized groups like certain other predatory fish, such as piranhas. While perhaps it started as a method of defense against predators, it causes these sharks to be extremely potent predators. They are aggressive, hounding in on prey from a distance and sinking their teeth into the victim to cause excruciating bleeding. When feasting, they become revitalized, ready to join the hunt again. While unable to be ridden, both sport fishermen and survivors alike value this shark for its aggressive pack-hunting tendencies. While sport fishermen enjoy its intense fight on the line, survivors find they make extremely efficient oceanic pack hunters, tearing through much larger targets, which makes them good aquatic guard dogs as well. Valued among both groups though are the rare, elder individuals, with sizes equal to - and even exceeding- the largest great whites of our modern era! If one's crazy enough to tame them, they

won't be disappointed...

## Code Information

**Spawn Code -**

squalicorax\_character\_bp\_c

**Blueprint Path -**

Blueprint'/Game/Mods/AC2/Squalicorax/Squalicorax\_Character\_BP.Squalicorax\_Character\_BP'

## Color Regions

**Color Region 0 -** Main Body

**Color Region 5 -** Underside and Lateral Stripe

## Base Stats, Attacks, and Abilities

 Stamina
 Food
 Weight
 Melee Damage
 Movement Speed
 Torpidity

**Attacks -**

Bite - 25 Base Damage, Inflicts Bleed

While not under the category of "Small Fish", squalicorax can appear as various sizes and be fished via fishing rod.

Squalicorax are scavengers. They are attracted to corpses from far distances, and gain a healing buff from eating corpses.

Squalicorax in groups have a gang bonus of +6, maxing out at 7 individuals. This buff, when maxed, causes a 120% damage and 33% defense increase for all individuals.

Squalicorax can be set to a "Savage Nature" mode with the radial wheel. When not on passive and this mode turned on, the Squalicorax will be hostile towards hostile carnivores. It will ignore players, herbivores, and other non-hostile targets.

Squalicorax deal 2.25x damage to Hesperornis.

Squalicorax, if not set to passive, will be aggressive to Hesperornis. They have a 5% chance to obtain a golden hesperornis egg when they kill one.

## Notes/Trivia

* Squalicorax means "Crow Shark".
* Squalicorax was the most common shark of the Late Cretaceous, having a worldwide distribution with their teeth being extremely common, especially around fossils of other animals. This is believed to be because they were common scavengers that fed on the bodies before they fossilized.
* Squalicorax was originally considered with Additional Creatures due to being a popular creature for the mod creator, being a creature in an ARK fanfiction he created where it had similar characteristics: a pack animal of river systems. While considered, it was initially disregarded due to a pivotal part of Squalicorax in the story was its ability to inflict debilitating injuries, which wouldn't be very player-friendly. It was eventually added without this ability.
* Squalicorax originally did not have color regions. These were added later.