Parakeet Fish School

The Parakeet Fish School is a Creature in 's Expansion Pack Genesis: Part 1 that can be found in the ocean biome.

Behavior
Normally Parakeet Fish Schools will wander slowly around the deeper areas of the Ocean biome.

However when approached they will target the player and attack. The player will receive a message at the top of their screen that they have been 'Targeted by a Microbe Swarm'.

They will often target nearby wooden structure (but deals no damage), and several wild creatures if approached, such as

Appearance
Despite being a single entity, Parakeet Fish Schools appear as a school of small fish swimming around each other, blue in color with glowing fins.

Combat
This section describes how to fight against the Parakeet Fish School.

General
The swarm is similar to the one in bog,but does about ten times more damage. Basic swim speed is just enough to outrun it and will lose interest if you swim far enough.

Strategy
The Parakeet Fish School does a respectable amount of damage at 20 damage per attack, regardless of armor. Try to burst them down or do hit and run tactics by swimming through them with bites until they're dead.

Weaponry
Anything melee, but it's not recommended to fight it without a mount.

Dangers
They deal a high amount of fixed damage, killing players with relative haste. They can also kill unattended tames if they're on passive. Lastly, they have a respectable health pool which makes them hard to kill.

Weakness
The Parakeet Fish School travels rather slowly and can only easily damage stationary players and tames. Swimming through them with tames or a pike can normally keep them away from targeting you much. They also don't target boats anymore though the presence of Leedsichthys dissuades the use of those in the ocean biome.

Roles
While they cannot be tamed Parakeet Fish can be lured to Passive Tame Megachelon.

Swarmers

Damage

Notes/Trivia

 * Parakeet Fish Schools may be named after real-world Parrotfish.
 * Despite being named Parakeet Fish, when the player is targeted by them they are referred to as Microbes.
 * They make sounds of.
 * cannot be collected from killed Parakeet Fish School