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Siren

Aquatic charm caster. Fragile out of the water and weak in melee on land, but a 4ร— damage multiplier when submerged makes the Siren the strongest race in the game underwater.

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At a glance
16
Max Health
8
Hearts
Neutral
Holyness
Yes
Supernatural
Chat prefix: [Siren]  ยท  Colour code: &3 (cyan)
Passives & identity

The Siren has a custom oxygen system via the WaterBreather passive: a pool of 300 oxygen that regenerates 30 every 4 ticks while properly submerged and drains 1 per tick when not. At โˆ’20 oxygen the Siren takes drowning damage. Notably, bubble columns drown her rather than helping, soul-sand bubble columns become hazards. This is the same custom oxygen architecture I later spun out into the standalone AquaticPlayers plugin.

Abilities
Trident Active
Launches a vanilla Trident projectile with 5ร— damage and 1.5ร— velocity. Pickup is disabled (the trident vanishes), so it's pure burst, no item economy attached.
Siren Song Active
Locks a target into 5 seconds of forced motion toward the Siren, with Blindness II and Nausea II applied. The target is teleported every tick to face the Siren, with their velocity overridden, effectively a long-range pull. Combos brutally with the underwater 4ร— damage multiplier.
Speed Swimming Active
Adds the Siren to the Speed Swimming list for 20 seconds, granting accelerated underwater movement. Pure mobility for closing or escaping.
Spawn Sea Lantern Active
Places a Sea Lantern at the block the Siren is looking at, up to 100 blocks away. Long-range light placement, flavoured as the Siren marking territory.
Summon Shark Summon
Spawns a custom Shark follower (mechanically a custom Dolphin variant with 40 max HP). Race-aware AI, won't aggro on other Sirens.
Combat profile

Damage dealt

  • 4ร— damage dealt when underwater.
  • 0.5ร— damage dealt when not underwater, a steep penalty that pushes the Siren into aquatic combat zones.

Damage taken

  • No race-specific defensive multipliers, the Siren is fragile (16 max HP) and depends on environment-shaping rather than tanking.
Followers
Shark
A reskinned, beefed-up Dolphin (40 max HP), the only follower with custom max-HP scaling in its summon code.
Design notes

The Siren's design philosophy is geographic: she's mechanically punished for fighting on land (ยฝ damage out, no defensive perks, low HP) and richly rewarded for fighting in water (4ร— damage, custom oxygen, signature pull, aquatic follower). Pick your fights.