Sometimes when exploring the vast open seas, you will come across the archipelago biome at a similar rate to mushroom fields, but it generates much larger. Small islands covered in sand, beachgrass, and palms are common, along with some larger islands, and the ocean within the biome is chock full of corals, spawning the same things as warm oceans, although with some excluded mobs and some exclusive mobs. In this biome, you can find giant tortoises, which are content to rest in the sun and graze, although they may occasionally swim to other nearby islands. When fed fruits, they will breed, laying eggs on the sand. When they hatch, hatchlings will want to eat dates, they love em. If you can give them dates, they'll take a nap, and when they awaken, they'll give you a scute for your troubles, then grow up. Do note that baby giant tortoises can grow up without eating dates, but it will take three times longer than other baby animals. The biome is also home to a plethora of other tropical animals, such as parrots, flamingoes, and tree frogs, as well as some birds you may have trouble seeing above ground, such as Rodrigues solitaires and dodos, but not commonly (more than on the surface, however). Turtles and dolphins spawn more commonly, and get new variants for this biome based on the commerson's dolphin and hawksbill turtle respectively, but while we're on the topic of turtle and dolphins variants, let's add a few more! In normal oceans, dolphins spawn as common dolphins, and turtles spawn as flatbacks. In cold oceans, dolphins are striped dolphins, and in frozen oceans, they're hourglass dolphins. Lukewarm oceans have the original sea turtle, or green sea turtle, and the fraser's dolphin, and in warm oceans, loggerheads and bottlenoses, or the original dolphin, can be seen. Mangroves don't have dolphins, but turtles in the biome will be based on the Kemp Ridley turtle. Oh yes, and plants! New plants that grow here include: - Beachgrass, a new grass on the beaches of these islands. - Sea oats, a very tall grass which grows in dense beachgrass patches. - Palm trees, a new tree which grows here and on normal beaches. They have a yellowish wood color and have a very beachy look, their saplings can be made by placing coconuts on the ground and waiting. - Sea lavender patches, little bushes. - Sea holly also grows on beaches, and can be made into blue dye. - Date palms grow here too, but don't get as enormous as coconut palms. Has the same wood type as coconut palms, but a different leaf type. Drops dates instead of saplings. Also dolphins don't get a jungle variant because I think river dolphins should be a unique mob due to taxonomically being separate from oceanic dolphins, delphinidae.
