would you consider an eevee race mod at any point? would be really cute

I definitely agree; I've been loving every bit of work you've been doing on this and your other race mods! Easily some of the best work I've seen for mods like this in a while and it's nice having something so high quality for quadrupedal species enjoyers.

And, what I originally came to comment about: A friend and I realized the tether system could be used to set up something similar to what Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon had. Two dragon race players can both use a wand and collar to tether to each other as a fun little gameplay challenge.

Thank you!
This was by no means a simple project, but the codebase it provides today (built on top of the already awesome functionality provided by MrPlague’s Authentic Races, mind you!) has let me create many varied races for everyone to enjoy. We’ll see where my inspiration takes me next…

I wanted to say that I genuinely like this mod and the other ones that branched off of it, and I look forward to anything you develop for terraria in the future.

This is a mod conflict. Some mods may modify the player's hitbox in a way that's different from how the L'il Dragon mod does it, so the player's position doesn't get preserved properly.
If you can find which mod is the culprit, I *might* be able to write a patch for it, but otherwise your best bet is to disable hitbox resizing in the L'il Dragon common server config.

So an odd bug has popped up, when we spawn in, in both single and multiplayer, the character is dragged to the left. Is there a fix to this?

No wait 5,000 DPS

Always use electricity breath, it's the one with the highest DPS, unless against a worm boss, once you get it it WILL give you 6,000 DPS with the intense version and can bounce off walls to give you another chance at hitting a target.

The health that Rescue Regen heals you up to and the amount needed to be rescued should now be one and the same. It should also heal you up to full even with extra bonuses, but in case it doesn't it *should* still free you once it decides to stop healing you. Let me know if it still has issues in the latest patch!

Oop~, must be some quirk with where I'm checking for the player's max health... I'll roll out a patch in a few minutes to adjust the behaviour and hopefully it should resolve any cases like that!

Rescue Regen despises the player having extra HP added by equipment or 3rd party effects and purposefully tries to not heal you above your base max HP. and with Reaver or Hydrothermic armor in calamity, it's a softlock sometimes due to another bug that stops you from accessing anything while petrified.

realy nice mod play him 10 hours

As it turns out, Calamity simply subtracts directly from your breath value a few times a second, bypassing all normal forms of breath extension.

I've now implemented a change to slowly regenerate the breath of those with electric affinity. By default, it's quite slow, and not a substitute for proper gear, but you can configure it to be much faster!

even races with natural water breathing drown there

the abyss does weird stuff with breath time, the only thing I've seen give infinite breath time in the abyss is dancing with the dragon's ocean dragon

I’m not super well-versed in Calamity but I’ll check it out when I get the time. Chances are I’ll probs go for something simple though, like doubling the breath time for electricity affinity (assuming Calamity isn’t doing some whacky stuff with breath in the abyss).

lightning dragon not water breathing in abyss, if possible, could you make the breath strength increase the distance you can go in the abyss before water breathing gives out?

(calamity mod)

Thank you! Enjoy the dragons, and spread the word to everyone you know who might enjoy this mod ;)

Just wanted to let you know Turtleren, Just found out about your mod, and I LOVE it

Great mod, thanks!

Thank you for the comment, dragons for all!

This is so good, I've been waiting ages fro a dragon mod for this game, thank you!

The config code is actually surprisingly simple. Splitting things up into smaller categories helps with finding what you want faster, though.

@turtleren probably looked crazy in the code

Hi all! Please note that there will be an update coming which will split the current server config file into multiple files. As a result, you will likely lose a number of config customisations you've made, if any.
The current server config file is getting pretty large, so this split will help with managing the config options in the future. Sorry for any trouble!

Actually, maybe the armour penetration would fit more on lightning breath than fire considering it's lower base damage

Frost breath edges fire out simply because of the debuff it applies, considering that the chance to crit debuff it applies allows the breaths themselves to crit, what if fire also had innate armor penetration that scaled with upgrades, or started applying oiled when you reached hardmode? I feel like oiled is an awesome debuff that doesn't ever get used

Fire breath has the highest damage of the three crowd controlling breaths, to my knowledge- it should hold up DPS-wise against the others, but I realise that it may be a little weaker than expected considering the utility of the other breath types.
I can give it a little buff to help it out~

Is there any chance the Fire Breath would be buffed at any point? Compared to the other breaths(ice, electricity, even life to some degree), its DPS is somewhat lacking, even as a crowd control option.

Thanks, we'll give that a try

There is a config in the L'il Dragon server config to disable riding restrictions, so any race can mount any other race. It won't make your dragon invisible, but it will let you utilise the mounting mechanic despite all playing the same race!

Specifically, the config is 'Ignore Mounting Restrictions' under the 'Mounting' section of the config.

I was wondering if it would be possible to have dragons the same size ride each other? Just where the dragon doing the riding is invisible so it doesn't look weird.
Me and my friends are all dragons, but kind of want to also try out the riding stuff too.

It's handled only by the breath power gems. Dragon breath attack damage won't scale with any class (or classless) damage boosts.

Speaking of breath types, does Dragon Breath count as ranged, in terms of trying to increase its damage with percentage gear? Or is that exclusively handled by the breath crystals?

My modding is admittedly slowing down a bit as of late, but I’m still going in some capacity, at least! As always, trying to keep things highly configurable too.
The statue stuff is situational- it’s not for everyone. Outside of roleplay, it can be useful for a lazy summoner or dedicated tank in multiplayer.

And @Y.E.S, there is no way to change breath colours outside of also changing your breath type. Each breath type has its own unique projectile with its own colour and will probably stay that way.

Been a while since I have touched terraria, was nice to come back and see this mod is still getting updates. Also am glad to see config still allows customizing most stats and mechanics to how anyone wants them. ^^
Reading back like 20 pages worth of change notes, seems like there are quite a few new mechanics and items to try out and mess around with. Admittedly, I never have really touched or understood the statue stuff. I guess I simply prefer my dergs not petrified. x3

There is any way to change the breath's color?

would a vanity item that is white (and can be dyed other colors as well), but keeps the underbelly / wing-insides the color you chose at character create be a possible idea to fix it? i would love to be able to make a proper white dragon

Main reason is to help the sprites look a bit more vibrant with most other colours. And yes, a LOT of MrPlague's Races do this too.
But the consequence is that 'full white' isn't possible.

when trying to make a white dragon, it instead shows up as light blue-ish. is there a reason for this? (this isn't the only race that does that). i can technically use the dyable vanities, but it just hides all texture, and doesn't look as good

Wings are actually already dyeable! Just add a dye to your equipped wings and the dragon’s wings will get dyed too. They do need to be ‘real’ wings, unfortunately- dyeing the fake dragon wings vanity item won’t work to my knowledge.
If it looks odd, you can try enabling an alternate wing dye mode in the mod’s client settings and play around with what looks best for the dye you’re using.

I'll like to suggest dyeable wings. There's vanity pieces to dye the rest of the dragon's body, but far as I can tell, nothing for wings. This means that I could use more normal dyes on the wings just like the body pieces and they'll show up as intended.

The keybind is the Tertiary Racial Ability key from MrPlague's Authentic Races. The default is 'C', but it may also be unbound.
You can change the keybind where you change the other game keybinds, under Settings > Controls > Keybindings. Should be one of the sections near the bottom.

How do i use the amulet that petrifies u whats the hotkwy or how do u bind it?

Could be a weird interaction with something else I have but when I equip the mooncharm in a vanity slot or have visibility enabled the whole dragon body becomes invisible. Like just the head legs and wings showing

I'm not sure what the precision seal is, but I can add a config to toggle off hitbox modifications done by this mod if it helps to get around the hitbox issue.
Also, I haven't had any issues with the werewolf/merfolk transformations myself (I'm assuming this is about the Neptune's Shell and Moon Charm items) asides from the fact that they will hide the dragon's armour and not actually turn the dragon into a werewolf/merfolk, which is completely intentional.

Can we get a compatibility patch with fargos precision seal? Im pretty sure the hitbox modifications this mod makes override the precision mod. Making ohko bosses virtually impossible. Also the werewolf transformations break the character sprite.

If there's one thing that annoys me about this otherwise great mod is that the base textures of the dragon are not purely white. What I mean is, if you set the color to #FFFFFF in character creation, it's not purely white, but there's some light blue in there. This seems to noticeably cause a few other colors like cyan and pink to not show up entirely as expected. And this isn't just the dragons either but your other race mods like the unicorn has the base sprites not being pure white. It's especially noticeable with say, the unicorn mane. Which can make it annoying or impossible to get the exact shade of color you might want.

I have an idea: a Dragoquin. It's like a normal mannequin but dragon shaped. Could be useful for showing off dragon vanities or just for decoration.

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