About SeaAnimals
From ThunderstoreGive life to Valheim’s oceans with dangerous creatures, rideable marine beasts, and true ocean exploration. The sea is no longer empty.
SeaAnimals Description
SeaAnimals transforms Valheim’s oceans into a living, dangerous, and fully explorable ecosystem.</br> The mod adds a wide variety of marine and coastal creatures, each with unique behavior, biome-specific spawning, custom drops, and full integration with vanilla and modded systems.</br> Beyond facing new predators, you can tame legendary sea creatures, equip them with a Maritime Saddle, and ride them as fully controllable aquatic mounts.</br>
MARITIME MOUNTS (click to expand)
</br> The following creatures can be tamed and ridden:</br> • Orca (Taming Time = 1200)</br> • Dolphin (Taming Time = 1200)</br> • Crocodile (Taming Time = 1800)</br> • White Shark (Taming Time = 1800)</br> Food items for tameable creatures:</br> • Blue Shark Meat, Crocodile Meat, Humboldt Squid Meat, Whale Meat, Sea Turtle Meat, Shark Meat, Turtle Meat, and Serpent Meat.</br> </br> Controls</br> All mounts use a custom control system, independent from vanilla mechanics:</br> • W / A / S / D – Directional movement</br> • Space – Jump</br> Mounted attack – The player can command the mount to attack while riding</br> • Mouse Click - Attack 1 and Attack 02</br> This enables true naval combat, underwater chases, and full domination of the seas.</br>CREATURES & ECOSYSTEM (click to expand)
</br>The mod introduces a large variety of marine animals, each with specific biomes, distinct behavior, and exclusive drops:</br>
• Orca</br> • Dolphin</br> • Crocodile</br> • White Shark</br> • Blue Shark</br> • Hammerhead Shark</br> • Tiger Shark</br> • Whale Shark</br> • Right Whale</br> • Humboldt Squid</br> • Leatherback Sea Turtle</br> • Turtles (Blue, Green, Red, and Yellow)</br>
All creatures respect:</br> • Vanilla biomes</br> • Altitude and ocean depth</br> • Spawn time</br> • Game progression (global keys)</br> • Domesticated animals do not reproduce, take good care of them.</br>
DROPS & COOKING (click to expand)
</br> Creatures drop exclusive meat items, which can be:</br> • Cooked on the regular cooking station</br> • Cooked on the iron cooking station</br> Fully integrated with Valheim’s vanilla cooking system.</br>SPECIAL ITEM - MARINE SADLE (click to expand)
</br> The Maritime Saddle is required to ride aquatic creatures.</br> Used on:</br> • Orca</br> • Dolphin</br> • Crocodile</br> • White Shark</br>PREFAB LIST (click to expand)
</br>| PrefabName | Name | Spawn Biome(s) | Main Drop | GlobalKey | |----------------------------|-------------------------|----------------------------------|----------------------|----------------------| | SA_Orca | Orca | Ocean, Deep North | SA_WhaleMeat | KilledEikthyr | | SA_Dolphin | Dolphin | Ocean, Deep North | SA_WhaleMeat | KilledEikthyr | | SA_Crocodile | Crocodile | Black Forest, Swamp | SA_CrocoMeat | KilledEikthyr | | SA_WhiteShark | White Shark | Ocean, Deep North | SA_SharkMeat | KilledBonemass | | SA_BlueShark | Blue Shark | Meadows | SA_BlueSharkMeat | None | | SA_HammerHeadShark | Hammerhead Shark | Plains | SA_SharkMeat | KilledBonemass | | SA_TigerShark | Tiger Shark | Mistlands | SA_SharkMeat | KilledBonemass | | SA_WhaleShark | Whale Shark | Ocean | SA_WhaleMeat | KilledElder | | SA_RightWhale | Right Whale | Ocean, Deep North | SA_WhaleMeat | None | | SA_HumboldtSquid | Humboldt Squid | Ocean | SA_HumboldMeat | None | | SA_LeatherbackSeaTurtle | Leatherback Sea Turtle | Ocean | SA_SeaTurtleMeat | None | | SA_BlueTurtle | Blue Turtle | Black Forest | SA_TurtleMeat | None | | SA_GreenTurtle | Green Turtle | Meadows | SA_TurtleMeat | None | | SA_RedTurtle | Red Turtle | Plains | SA_TurtleMeat | None | | SA_YellowTurtle | Yellow Turtle | Mistlands | SA_TurtleMeat | None |
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Dependencies
Needs 1 other project installed alongside it.
SeaAnimals on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Optional on the server
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 0.3.9, released 2026-10-02
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 26 recorded builds of SeaAnimals.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.3.9 | 2026-10-02 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.3.8 | 2026-09-11 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.3.7 | 2026-08-20 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.3.6 | 2026-03-16 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.3.5 | 2026-03-14 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.3.4 | 2026-02-12 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run SeaAnimals on a Valheim server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Works on a server
From source side supportThunderstore lists server-side support for SeaAnimals as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server. 1 other project installed alongside it.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓AuthorMarlthon, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
