Barnacle

Barnacle

The barnacle is an ocean creature that resembles a gigantic counterpart of the real-world animal, and spawns in the deep ocean biome. It has a large mouth which it uses to propel itself through the water, and also has a long tongue-like tentacle used to grab players and pull them deeper into the ocean.

"So there I was, fighting this guardian, an epic struggle that I surely would have emerged victorious from if we'd not been interrupted by something far worse..."
- Captain Cade

Spawning

Spawn Area	Spawn Weight	Group Size
Deep Cold Ocean	5	1
Deep Frozen Ocean	5	1
Deep Ocean	5	1
Deep Lukewarm Ocean	5	1

Drops

On Death:

Raw Cod:

Condition	Quantity	Chance	Average
Default	0-1	66.67%	$\frac{1}{3}$
Looting I/II/III	0-2	66.67%	$\frac{2}{3}$

Barnacle Fang:

Condition	Quantity	Chance	Average
Default	1	50.00%	$\frac{1}{2}$
Looting I	1	66.66%	$\frac{2}{3}$
Looting II	1	83.33%	$\frac{5}{6}$
Looting III	1	100.0%	1

Behaviour

Barncles spawn deep in the ocean, lurking about until they find potential prey.

Hostility:

Barnalces are hostile to players, guardians, and axolotls. Once a suitable target travels nearby, a barnacle will slowly creep towards them to grab them with a tentacle, pulling them down to the ocean floor. Once dragged, the barnacle will continuously attack its prey. If their prey manages to travel 4 blocks away, the barnacle will continue to chase them to drag them below again. If a player is riding a nautilus, the barnacle won't begin to hunt them unless provoked.

Dragging:

When a target is dragged by a barnacle, they will be continuously pulled towards the tip of the barnacle's tentacle. During this state, players and mobs are entangled, and thus deal 75% less damage to the barnacle and no knockback. Barnacles will additionally drag boats to the ocean floor if they can see a player riding them.

Consuming:

Once a barnacle's target has been dragged to the ocean floor, the barnacle can be damaged as normal again. In this state it will continuosly attack its prey for 9 () damage, until it has died or manages to escape (after which it waits for a while until beginning to hunt again).

Weaknesses:

A barnacle cannot survive outside of water. After 15 seconds of time outside of water, they start taking suffocation damage and die.

Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-Game Description	Actual Requirements (If Different)	Gamerscore Earned
	Monster Hunter	Attack and destroy a monster.	Kill any monster.	15
	It Spreads	Kill a mob next to a catalyst.	Kill any mob that drops experience near a sculk catalyst, with the sole exception of the ender dragon.	10

History

Version	Change
26.7.4	Added Barnacle, suggested by helloiamalex
26.8.3	Increase base Barnacle Fang drop chance to 50%
26.8.4	Decrease Barnacle spawn weight from 10 to 5