How about some recipes for taming ocean beasts that have ingredients like Kelp, Plankton, etc.

For Breeding you could have them swim up the river to a Spawning Ground. LOL

Can you eat underwater?

I KNEW I FORGOT SOMETHING. Krazyfan1, I totally meant to include that. ♥♥♥♥. I'll get on that.
As for the underwater ingredients, that's also in the plans! So much in the plans... o.O

i woulkd like to see a few diffrent coustomizations for the fish end of the charicter and posible even diffrent types.?! like octopus tenticles o-0 also the option to play as a normal human for use in maps with a lot of land on them. i have to admit ive been thinking of a ark that is mostly under water for a wile now and this is the first step to that and it sounds awsome!

also as long as we have the topic of map building were guna need some form of small island system as long as a swamp and arctic biome. 0o0 can you imagin a underwater world beneath the ice! or dark murky tunnels that go deep into the swamp! omg this is to amazeing. if i were a ark dev ide sponsor this mod and make it a dlc

#better than aberation

claws99 yes!!!!

fins! visible gills!
perhaps webbed hands and feet, tails?
chitin and crustation bits?

ooh! a way to crouch and crawl on the bottom of the seabed!

and yeah, a way to choose to be human on character cration would be good for servers...

.....and have you thought about other kinds of races?
like, fragile bird people who could fly/climb and glide? (aberation will make this easier i think?)

Customization is going to be tricky. I don't know if I'll get to the fish-half alterations like that, but someone mentioned something about having pants that changed the appearance of the bottom half. Someone else might be able to get to that at some point and it should stack with this so...

The "normal human" option would be tricky. There are only two "slots" for player models in the game: Male and Female. I had to overwrite them to get this mod to work. If the map is mostly land, then this mod probably isn't a good fit. This would probably go well on the Center? Since you can access a lot with just the water and you're never too far from a source of water to keep hydrated.

I'm trying to find a way to just tack this onto the character creation, but there doesn't seem to be anything available in the dev kit :/ That would make other races possible too, but it's not a priority for this mod, sorry :/

I am working on designs for the character model. It probably won't be too soon seeing as I have no modeling skills whatsoever. They are in the plan though.

But the map! The map is my current project! I've had a hell of a time getting the layout figured out. It's going to be 100% under the surface of the sea. The land parts are going to be inside "bubbles" in the water. Land inside, ocean outside. Both with their own struggles.

To be included: Snow biome, swamp biome, beaches, cave system
Might be included: Redwoods, volcano

Trivvn , I was thinking about some "Land SCUBA' Gear, only it would be named "Self Contained Land Breathing Apparatus" or "SCLBA". Then the Merfolk can venture further onto land than otherwise possible. They would have to fill it up with water and the water would slowly leak out or become used up and drained out as its used up. Perhaps a "Wet Suit" to go with it. Sound like a viable option to you?

That actually sounds pretty interesting... I'm still working on getting the "inverse drowning" to work, so we'll see.
And how about "SCABA" as a name? Self Contained Atmosphere Breathing Apparatus?

SCABA Dooba Doooo!!! Sry Couldn't resist. LOL! SCABA name will do fine.

I think one of Dragon Mods had Water dragons and they had breathing issues on land.

it was the "Dragontail" Mod:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=843960973
Maybe you could load Dragontail into ARK-DevKit and find the Drowning Effect in there.

Sadly, it doesn't work like that. A cooked mod can't be loaded into the dev kit, I'd need to get the source code from the creator and that seems unlikely since people don't typically like sharing their work.
I know another modder that has made inverted drowning for someone else. I think they posted their graphs somewhere, I'll do some digging and see what I can find.

Maybe add it to where you can disable and enable this mod in game by pressing c

hmmmmm mabe instead of makeing air domes there could be new underwater recources like you can get wood from coral and add mettle nodes and normal rocks and crystal under water. as well as replace the red wood biome with a coral reef and replace mountains with trenches. there are coral models that someone could rig up to give wood when harvested. also many land dinos will be compleetly out of the picture such as the functional dinos like the beaver with a mobile smithy or the anky and doedic with there harvesting abilities. all the land dinos with special uses will need to be replaced some how.
oh i almost forgot
you could make it so that you can get berries and fiber from small kelp.
see no need for a dome for every biome

That was one of the original ideas, but I tossed it pretty early on... But hearing it like that... I kind of like it. I'll look into that!
There are going to be new harvestable nodes underwater, including kelp and coral. I haven't gotten around to implementing them yet, but they're planned

How about a version that essentially turns the player character into a zora?? Like from LoZ?