Hippocampus

**Hippocampi** are majestic aquatic beasts that can be tamed and ridden.

## Appearance

Hippocampi are creatures with the body of a horse and the scales, fins, and tail of a fish. They come in 6 different colors. Unlike Sea Serpents, their color does not affect their drops.

* Blue: Has blue scales and green fins.
* Orange: Has orange scales and blue fins.
* Turquoise: Has turquoise scales and yellow fins.
* Green: Has green scales and orange fins.
* Red: Has red scales and pink fins.
* Yellow: Has yellow scales and red fins.

## Spawning

Hippocampi can be found swimming around in Ocean and Deep Ocean biomes.

## Drops

Upon death, hippocampi drop:

* 1-4 shiny scales.
* 1 hippocampus fin (2.5% chance).

## Behavior

Hippocampi are docile, and will never attack players in any way, even when they are attacked themselves. As well as this, they are sluggish and awkward on land, using their hooves to drag themselves across the sand; however, in the water, they are fast and graceful. They are attracted by players holding kelp, which are used to tame them.

Unlike most other mobs in the mod, hippocampi will slowly regenerate health. A tamed hippocampus will instantly regain some of its health when a player feeds it kelp.

### Taming

Hippocampi can be tamed with kelp or sponges. In order to tame a hippocampus, all one has to do is use their kelp/sponge to attract it, and then feed it as many kelp as it can take before it finally becomes tamed.

Unlike hippogryphs (which sit down upon being tamed) and pixies (which follow the player around at all times when befriended), hippocampi will keep on moving about when tamed, so it is recommended that the owner of the hippocampus should either use a stick, kelp/sponges, a lead, or a safe enclosure so that it does not swim away.

Tamed hippocampi can be saddled, carry chests, and be equipped with armor. Along with this, a hippocampus with a saddle can be made to either wander or sit by interacting with them while holding a stick.

### Breeding

Two hippocampi can be bred in the same manner as other vanilla animals; in this case, right-clicking each hippocampus with the prismarine crystals will cause them to breed. It takes 1 day for a baby hippocampus to reach adulthood.

## Usage

### Riding

Once a tamed adult hippocampus has been saddled; the player can mount the hippocampus by interacting with it with an empty hand. Like with any rideable mob, **WASD** controls are used, and the hippocampus will swim up or down depending on whether the player looks up down. **Spacebar** makes the hippocampus jump if it is on dry land. **Shift** is used to dismount.

When ridden by a player, a hippocampus can swim faster than both boats and Sea Serpents. Riding a hippocampus allows a player to breath underwater.

However, in the latest version you might be dismounted instantly when trying to ride a hippocampus in water. Riding them in previous versions works as intended.

### Equipment

A hippocampus' inventory can be accessed via interacting with them while sneaking. A player can equip a chest which gives the hippocampus' inventory storage, a saddle that make it rideable, and finally Horse Armor that absorbs damage from most attacks. In 1.15+ leather armor can't be worn by Hippocampi. Different horse armor gives a different amount of armor points.

 Gold
 Diamond

## Easter Egg

Naming a Hippocampus "Rainbow" makes it change color, like a "Jeb\_" sheep. This is a reference to Rick Riordan's Percy Jackson and the Olympians, in which there was a rainbow Hippocampus named "Rainbow", who was a friend of Tyson the Cyclops.

## Gallery

A closeup of a hippocampus on landA hippocampus sitting in the waterA hippocampus with armor and a saddle onA hippocampus sitting on land. Note the unique animationhippocampus with saddle and armor (full body)
## History

* 1.4.0:
	+ Introduced.
* 1.5.0:
	+ No longer automatically tamed by default.
	+ Now rarer by default.
	+ Improved swimming AI.
* 1.6.0:
	+ Can now draw drops from a configurable loot table.
* 1.6.1:
	+ Can now regenerate health naturally, similar to the vanilla horses.
	+ Swimming AI is now much less rapid and spasmodic.
	+ Now creates bubbles when being ridden in the water.
	+ Now receives even armor points when equipped with Horse Armor.
* 1.8.0:
	+ Now has a new drop: Hippocampus Fin .
	+ Now associated with a new Legendary/Comical Weapon: the Hippocampus Slapper .
	+ Amount of experience dropped upon death has been rebalanced.
* 1.9.0:
	+ Idle animations are now smoother.

## Trivia

* There is a bug where hippocampi would not be able to spawn.