Can we ride grass gators too?

[goatt]

Just like riding beefalo.

and ride them on water.

they don’t need to have high attack damage.

they don’t need to have great speed.

 

[-Variant]

As fun and cute as it would be, this isn't simply done.
This has been suggested a number of times but the answer is still the same, the amount of work and effort required would be immense. 

Despite sharing animations with Beefalo, they'll need to reanimate each of its animations to support player riding, not to mention include all the emotes Beefalo can do, and sounds such as /yawn and /carol. 

EDIT: Dug this up from one of other threads asking for this. Still makes me chuckle.

[Lokena]

I suppose in that case they shouldn't be able to throw you out of the saddle in the middle of the ocean?.. Drowning every time without the opportunity to return would be inefficient and unpleasant. Does this mean that you shouldn't be able to get off at all while you're in the water?.. Sounds like something that requires a certain amount of adjustment.

[Mike23Ua]

14 minutes ago, Lokena said:

I suppose in that case they shouldn't be able to throw you out of the saddle in the middle of the ocean?.. Drowning every time without the opportunity to return would be inefficient and unpleasant. Does this mean that you shouldn't be able to get off at all while you're in the water?.. Sounds like something that requires a certain amount of adjustment.

Not really, Grass gators head is made of grass and twigs as seen in image above- A Grass Gator whom “Dies” out at sea could simply collapse into the water and become one of the newer additions to the game “Grass Raft” I mean look at its head! There’s enough grass there to make an emergency escape with.

Thing is: How much work and effort does Klei want to put into it? Would it be worthwhile? Would it break future content plans? 
 

Now that I’ve suggested something like this: it’ll likely be a mod within a few weeks.

Whos gonna say “No” to a Water Beefalo that doubles down as an escape raft after death? It sometimes saddens me that most really cool ideas never make it into the game and only end up in Mods.

But.. I’ve also seen some mods inspire current official content.

[Well-met]

Absolutely behind this idea. Make it unable to attack for all we care, the idea would be ocean movement and that's great enough of a perk

 

[DajeKotlyar]

There is a list:

Koalefant: can actually take water to his trunk and water crop tiles/extinguishe fire. Also give him ability to tile soil. Sometimes drop poop

Grass gator: all of that and sometimes drop twigs and grass.

Rook. The hardest one. You shoul feed him by gears, wires, gems (3 gears, 2 wires, 4 red/blue/purple gems or 2 other gems per day). To even start domasticating process, you should go into ruins and repair one of them. After completing taming it's transform from damaged to normal. The fastest one, but takes time to stop. Break structures while run, as well as trees and rocks. Also take time start running. Also it's hard to control, so turning slowly, like a car. Can't deal dmg directly, only by running into something. Don't drop nothing.

Spider queen. The slowest one. Only way to start: wear spider hat (and cause it break fast you need at least 5 to domasticate, or be Webber). Deal highest dmg (near 200 with battle saddle) but only 1/second. Rarely spawn a spider (only normal one) or drop a silk. Spiders ignore you, while you ride (as beefalo do, while they in heat). Any other mobs, who normally attack spiders hostile to her.

 

Maybe somehow Warg and Ewecus, but idk how to become friendly with them

5 minutes ago, DajeKotlyar said:

how can I delete this?

 

[Lokena]

1 hour ago, Mike23Ua said:

Not really, Grass gators head is made of grass and twigs as seen in image above- A Grass Gator whom “Dies” out at sea could simply collapse into the water and become one of the newer additions to the game “Grass Raft” I mean look at its head! There’s enough grass there to make an emergency escape with.

I wasn't talking about gators dying. Drowning in that case would at least make sense (although I like the idea of a grass raft). I meant any dismounting from the saddle, in particular by the will of the player. You can't really do it, like with a beefalo, because water. So I guess it means to disable this feature on the water?

[Mike23Ua]

2 hours ago, Lokena said:

I wasn't talking about gators dying. Drowning in that case would at least make sense (although I like the idea of a grass raft). I meant any dismounting from the saddle, in particular by the will of the player. You can't really do it, like with a beefalo, because water. So I guess it means to disable this feature on the water?

Oh in this case.. I don’t believe the creature would come with a Saddle, I imagine you just hope on its back and hold onto the twigs growing out it’s back. As far as Dismounting Goes- I assume it would be like Abandoning a Boat Platform plank.

[Psychic Chicken]

Maybe there could be a special grass gator saddle that prevents bucking, and you could pet or feed it when it's about to attempt to buck you off (so that it doesn't attempt to buck you off and get annoyed when it fails)

Also, you could click the character's sprite with food to feed it while riding (or use the feed creature button on console), since dismounting in water isn't an option.