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Fish Tanks
Tanks display fish at true scale, so the size on the tooltip is the size you see.
- Craft a Fish Tank Assembly from a fish and a crafting table, then place and open it.
- Add blocks to the frame, glass and sand slots. Almost any block works.
- Open the shape gallery with the button beside the slots and pick a shape.
- Take the finished tank from the result slot.
Quests and the shop also give ready-made tanks.
Both come undyed and in all 16 colours:
- Borderless Glass: no frame lines
- Clear Glass: tinted but much more transparent
A shape can use any materials, and different shapes connect to each other.
- Available from the start: Standard, Skylight (glass roof), Vitrine (glass roof and floor, no sand), Cupola and Hutch (chunky-framed Skylight and Vitrine).
- Unlocked by quests: Sturdy, Trimmed, Reinforced, Honed, Faceted, Bastion, Rampart, Ornate, Shaggy, Bramble, Tooth, Film, Arch, Mullion, Lattice, Dune and Creeper.
Locked shapes show as silhouettes in the gallery. Hover one to see which quest unlocks it. Most can be unlocked by any one of several quests. Unlocked shapes also appear in the shop.
| Action | Result |
|---|---|
| Right-click holding a fish (or a block, or anything) | Puts it in the tank |
| Right-click holding a Pile of Fish | Adds the pile's top fish |
| Shift-right-click holding a fish or pile | Pulls the top fish out into your hand or pile |
| Right-click with an empty hand | Opens the contents screen |
The contents screen lists every fish and cosmetic in the connected aquarium, so you can take out exactly what you want.
Capacity depends on size. One tank block holds about five 50 cm fish, so it fits a crowd of tetras or a couple of pike. Fish you add go wherever there's room in the connected aquarium.
Tanks placed side by side merge into one body of water.
To stop a tank forming new connections, right-click it with a honeycomb. An axe removes the wax. Existing connections aren't affected.
Hold a cosmetic and right-click the tank. It goes in the floor cell you're aiming at, and each cell holds one. To remove a cosmetic, use the contents screen. Multi-cell structures come out whole.
Floor plants and coral:
- Coral and coral fans (living or dead), seagrass, kelp, sea pickles
- Flowers (including tall ones and flowers from other mods listed as flowers for the loader), saplings, azaleas, grass, ferns, bushes, sweet berry bushes, dripleaf, cactus, sugar cane, bamboo, mushrooms, nether fungi and roots
Sea pickles, pink petals, wildflowers, leaf litter and kelp grow: right-click one with another of the same.
Hanging from the lid: chains, lanterns, pointed dripstone, hanging roots, spore blossoms, weeping vines, glow berries, pale hanging moss.
Shop cosmetics: treasure chests, castle ruins, coral reefs, trees, gazebos, lamps, fence arches, campfires, mossy boulders, leaf litter and more. Some span several cells and face the way you're facing, and some are shelters that fish swim into.
Breaking a tank keeps its shape and materials, and pick-block copies them. Connections are worked out again from its new neighbours.