Tidebound (NeoForge)

My wife wanted a newer mermaid mod, so I created one. It's still being developed, if you have any recommendations or errors, let me know and I will do my best to fix them. I present to you Tidebound, ENJOY!!!

***I am currently working on all the tail, block, and item textures. If you have any recommendations or ideas, please let us know!***

Tidebound

Tidebound (Fabric)

Tidebound: Living Seas - (NeoForge) Expansion Mod

*** Works with Curios Mod ***
**Works with Lootr Mod**

BETA VERSION RELEASED!!Much deeper oceans, better kingdoms, better underwater exploration, and much more!

🌊 Tidebound — Beta 0.0.1
Minecraft 26.2 | NeoForge 26.2.0.88
Created by Donald Corlett

🏰 Explore living underwater kingdoms with themed districts, detailed homes, balconies, towers, arches, cliff homes, gardens, merchants, guards and royal residents.

🧜 Discover eight merfolk lineages: Reef, Pearl, Abyssal, Kelpweaver, Sunscale, Stormfin, Frostveil and Tideborn Royal. Trade, build court reputation, complete quests, unlock equipment and train merfolk companions.

📿 Transform with eight necklace families. Equipped necklaces activate animated tails in water and provide aquatic abilities. Use the optional Curios necklace slot, or the supported chest-slot fallback.

🎨 Customize tails with up to four colors, blending smoothly from waist to tip while retaining their detailed shape and shading.

🐎 Transform your horse into an armored seahorse with Tidal Morph Horse Armor. Water abilities include swimming, breathing protection, rider night vision and a sprint dash.

🐬 Bond with aquatic companions, ride court Nautilus mounts, encounter custom fish appearances and find Wandering Tideguides.

⚔️ Face Dreadfins and sea witches, explore rare Dreadfin outposts and earn court weapons, shields, shell gear and royal rewards.

🌿 Harvest underwater plants and foods, decorate with underwater furniture, and build with themed materials, lights, slabs, stairs and animated coral chests.

🛠️ Includes recipe fixes, rarer kingdom necklaces, waterlogged replanting, tail-rendering improvements, night-vision refresh fixes and generation/cache optimizations.

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🐎 Crafting Tidal Morph Horse Armor

Use a normal crafting table:

Luminous Pearl	Prismarine Crystals	Luminous Pearl
Prismarine Crystals	Diamond Horse Armor	Prismarine Crystals
Luminous Pearl	Prismarine Crystals	Luminous Pearl

Tame a horse, then right-click your horse with the armor. It changes into an armored seahorse when it touches water and returns to horse form when it leaves.

• Look up or down while moving to rise or dive.
• Space: rise.
• Shift: dismount.
• Sprint to use the dash; it has a five-second cooldown.
• Feed it Seared Moonkelp, Roasted Coralberries or Grilled Pearl Lettuce to heal it and grant two minutes of land speed, jump and resistance boosts.

📿 Crafting Necklaces

All recipes use a normal crafting table. Each row below lists the three slots from left to right. “—” means leave that slot empty.

Necklace	Top row	Middle row	Bottom row
Mermaid Necklace	— / String / —	Luminous Pearl / Prismarine Shard / Luminous Pearl	— / Nautilus Shell / —
Coral Charm	— / Fire Coral / —	Luminous Pearl / Prismarine Crystals / Luminous Pearl	— / Nautilus Shell / —
Sea Crystal	Amethyst Shard / Prismarine Crystals / Amethyst Shard	Prismarine Crystals / Heart of the Sea / Prismarine Crystals	Amethyst Shard / Prismarine Crystals / Amethyst Shard
Azure Scale	— / Turtle Scute / —	Sea Crystal / Heart of the Sea / Sea Crystal	— / Luminous Pearl / —
Kelpweave	— / Moonkelp Frond / —	Luminous Pearl / Nautilus Shell / Luminous Pearl	— / Sea Crystal / —
Stormwake	— / Luminous Pearl / —	Azure Scale / Prismarine Crystals / Azure Scale	— / Heart of the Sea / —
Moonlit Tide	— / Amethyst Shard / —	Luminous Pearl / Sea Crystal / Luminous Pearl	— / Heart of the Sea / —
Sunscale	— / Fire Coral / —	Luminous Pearl / Gold Ingot / Luminous Pearl	— / Siren Shell / —

💡 Empty-hand right-click a city merfolk to trade for starter materials, including Luminous Pearls. JEI can display the crafting recipes when installed.

🎨 Crafting and Using the Mermaid Dye Table

Craft it at a normal crafting table:

—	Luminous Pearl	—
Pearlstone	Crafting Table	Pearlstone
Pearlstone	Pearlstone	Pearlstone

1. Place the Mermaid Dye Table.
2. Hold your necklace in your main hand and a dye in your offhand.
3. Right-click the table to add the first color.
4. Repeat with up to three more dyes. Colors follow the order waist → upper-middle → lower-middle → tip, with smooth transitions.
5. A fifth dye is rejected without being consumed. With fewer than four colors, the last color continues down the remaining tail.
6. Use a water bucket in your offhand, with the necklace in your main hand, and right-click the table to reset its colors.

🐚 Getting Started

• Equip a necklace and enter water to transform.
• Show a Compass to a Wandering Tideguide for kingdom directions.
• Use Luminous Pearls to tame and train merfolk.
• Use sneak-right-click or the Royal Conch for companion commands.
• Cook harvested kingdom foods by smelting or smoking.
• Read the Tidebound Chronicle and follow the advancement tree for progression.

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