No Tidal Class Buoyancy!
by LegoplayIL
With No Tidal Class Buoyancy!, dragons from the listed species float at the surface of water when a rider is on them, instead of sinking.
What it does
The mod changes how dragons behave in water. A dragon with a rider keeps its buoyancy so it can sit near the middle of the water without drifting up or going under, and it does not float up to the surface on its own when the rider is not present. The buoyancy is tuned so a dragon neither sinks too far nor rises too much.
Without the mod, the dragons of these species behave as they do in their base content. The mod is installed on the server, and the Dragonscraft SMP server and its species are credited in the author text, with the usernames JakeWalters132 and LegoplayIL.
The mod needs Alpha's Rise, Archipelago Additions, Dred Dragon's, Geckolib, Isle of Berk, Isle of Berk Addons, Isle of Berk Variant Loader and Off the grid dragons. It is published for Forge on 1.18.2 only, with the latest file 1.0.2 dated 2026-07-31. The mod is server-side only, and the license is Creative Commons Attribution No Derivatives 4.0, so the code is not open source.
Key features
Rider-aware buoyancy
Dragons carrying a rider float in the middle of the water rather than rising to the surface.
Balanced sinking
Dragons without a rider sink to a depth that is neither too deep nor too shallow.
Supported species list
Nine dragon species are covered, from the Bewilderbeast and Purple Death to the Shockjaw and Frost Ravengar.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 8
Use cases
Dragon servers
Server owners running a dragon-themed world use the mod so their dragons swim and rest in water with a rider.
Modpacks with the listed species
Modpack builders combining the supported species use the mod to keep water movement consistent across them.
Who it’s for: Server owners and modpack builders who run the listed dragon species on Forge for 1.18.2 and install the required dependencies alongside them.
Questions
Does No Tidal Class Buoyancy! need to be installed on clients?
Which dependencies must be installed with the mod?
Does the mod change dragons that are not in the supported list?
In the catalog
No Tidal Class Buoyancy! is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,527 Mobs mods for Forge. 9,044 mods support Minecraft 1.18.2.
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What the author says
You know it when you want to put a bewilderbeast, purple death, floodfang, seashockers, scauldrons and such in water and make them stay there for a stable or an alpha nest, but they always float upwards and jump on the water? with this mod, which I created for my server (DragonscraftSMP), these species that were…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/no-tidal-class-buoyancy
- Owner
- LegoplayIL
- Published
- 2026-07-21
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-07-31
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15