Salmon

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Salmon
"Pink"
Type	Underwater
Behavior	Passive[[::Category:Passive_creatures| ]]
Health	2
Max Speed	0.06
Base attack	0 Tier: 0
Spawn	Light level: 3 and above Blocks: Water Group size: 2 ± 3 Temperature: 4 to 20
Drops
1x Raw fish	100%*

The salmon is the first aquatic animal introduced in Vintage Story.

Spawning

Salmon can spawn in any body of water, including player-created irrigation, during the following conditions: at least light level 3, between 4 and 20 degrees. The average group size is 2.

Variants

There is 1 type of salmon: pink.

Behavior

If a player, wolf, fox, or hyena approaches within 14 blocks of a salmon, it might flee.

Domestication

Salmon cannot be domesticated or bred.

Harvesting

Upon dying, salmon can be harvested with a knife for a chance to loot a number of raw fish, leaving a Tiny Carcass.
After 96 game-hours, a dead salmon that hasn't been looted will decay into Tiny Carcass.

*Caveat: Any entity with the "harvestable" behavior that also is not fixedWeight starts at the minimum weight of 0.5. It goes up over time if the entity has eaten within the past seven days, and goes down if the temperature is below 0 and the entity hasn't eaten in the past four months. When the creature is harvested, the drops are multiplied by the weight value. Since salmon don't have a diet or way to eat, they always drop 0.5 fish meat. So, even though the salmon.json files indicates that harvested salmon should always drop 1 fish-raw item, players currently only get meat around 50% of the time.

History

Salmon were added in version 1.17.0-pre.1.
Bass.json exists in the assets folder, hinting at plans to add at least 1 more fish type.