SquidSaver is a spigot plugin to prevent squids from dying on land. Currently it requires at least 1.17.

Due to MC-132473, squids swimming near the shores now usually end up on the land after some time, where they cannot move again and eventually die to suffocation. This is particularly annoying if your base is near a river or ocean (constant squid hurt/death sounds and random ink sac items on the ground).

This plugin is a very primitive implementation for the goal of preventing them from constantly dying on the land - it just checks if all the squids are in water periodically and teleports them back in when they are not in water but have water or waterlogged blocks nearby.

Configuration

• squid-check-interval: the period which the server checks for squids out of the water. Defaults to 5 seconds per check.

Commands

• /squid or /squid status: show the current configuration.
• /squid setinterval <interval>: set the interval between checks.
• /squid reload: reload the configuration.