Fishing

Go Fish keeps the normal fishing interaction and extends the fishing hook, loot tables, and rod behavior. Cast a rod, wait for a bite, and retrieve the hook as usual. The location and conditions at the hook determine which custom entries can be selected.

How a catch is selected

Overworld

The Overworld table keeps the vanilla junk, treasure, and fish categories and adds a crate category. Go Fish fish entries are added to the vanilla fish pool. Treasure and crate entries require the normal open-water condition; ordinary fish and junk do not.

The weights below are relative loot-table weights, not percentages. They are the weights of the Go Fish entries added to the fish pool.

Condition	Catch	Relative weight
Icy biome	Icicle Fish	10
Icy biome	Snowball Fish	10
Swamp or Mangrove Swamp	Slimefish	10
Swamp or Mangrove Swamp	Lilyfish	10
Ocean biome	Seaweed Eel	10
Badlands biome	Terrafish	10
Plains biome	Carrot Carp	10
Plains biome	Oakfish	10
Forest biome	Carrot Carp	10
Forest biome	Oakfish	10
Full moon at night	Lunarfish	50
Full moon at night	Galaxy Starfish	25
Full moon at night	Starry Salmon	50
Full moon at night	Nebula Swordfish	25
Raining	Rainy Bass	100
Thundering	Thundering Bass	50
Snowing	Blizzard Bass	100
Y level 150 or higher	Cloudy Crab	50

Nether

In the Nether, the hook uses Go Fish's Nether fishing table instead of the vanilla table. Its top-level categories use these relative weights:

Category	Relative weight	Notes
Nether junk	10	Nether plants, bones, wart, vines, gravel, and fungi.
Nether treasure	5	Requires open water according to the modified liquid check.
Nether crates	5	Requires open water.
Nether fish	80	Includes global and biome-specific Nether fish.

Lava is treated as a valid liquid for Go Fish fishing. Only rods marked as lava-proof can safely fish in it; see Rods-and-Lures. Catches generated in the Nether are protected from fire and lava until they are picked up.

The entries inside the Nether fish pool use these relative weights. Biome-specific entries are only eligible in their listed biome:

Catch	Relative weight	Condition
Smokey Salmon	30	Any Nether biome
Magma Cod	30	Any Nether biome
Bonefish	15	Any Nether biome
Obsidian Halibut	15	Any Nether biome
Basalt Bass	15	Any Nether biome
Spikerfish	15	Any Nether biome
Gilded Blackstone Carp	15	Basalt Deltas
Blackstone Trout	15	Basalt Deltas
Soul Salmon	15	Soul Sand Valley

End

The End uses a separate table:

Category	Relative weight	Notes
End treasure	5	Requires open water according to the modified liquid check.
End crates	5	Produces an End Crate and requires open water.
End fish	90	Includes Endfish, Matrix Fish, Ender Eel, and other End catches.

The entries inside the End fish pool use these relative weights:

Catch	Relative weight
Endfish	50
Matrix Fish	5
Ender Eel	5
Chorus Cod	25
Dragonfish	3
Omega Floater	5
Portal Puffer	10

Biome conditions

The mod checks the biome at the fishing origin. The built-in biome groups are:

• Icy biomes: Snowy Plains, Ice Spikes, Snowy Taiga, Snowy Beach, Grove, Snowy Slopes, Jagged Peaks, Frozen Peaks, Frozen Ocean, Deep Frozen Ocean, and Frozen River.
• Plains biomes: Plains and Sunflower Plains.
• Swamp biomes: Swamp and Mangrove Swamp.
• Other groups: Vanilla biome tags such as oceans, badlands, forests, rivers, and the Nether tag are used where specified by a loot table.

Moon and weather conditions

• Full moon: The world must be at night and the moon phase must be phase 0.
• Rain: Rainy Bass can be selected while it is raining. Thunderstorms also count as rain.
• Thunder: Thundering Bass requires a thunderstorm.
• Snow: Blizzard Bass requires precipitation in a biome cold enough for snow instead of rain.
• Altitude: Cloudy Crab requires the fishing origin to be at Y 150 or above.

Rod bonuses and inventory bonuses

When a fishing hook is created, Go Fish reads fishing bonuses from the player's inventory. The item does not need to be held or worn. Each distinct bonus item type is counted once, even if the player carries multiple copies.

• Lure increases the hook's fishing speed. The effective lure value is capped at 5.
• Luck is added to the hook's Luck of the Sea value.
• Auto-smelting makes the hook replace a catch with its normal smelting result when one exists.
• Experience changes the base experience value of a catch.

Vanilla fishing rods also receive the inventory-based bonuses. Extended Go Fish rods additionally contribute their own properties.

Lava fishing safety

If a non-lava-proof rod is used in lava, the hook is removed and the rod is damaged. A lava-proof rod can continue fishing and uses the Nether loot table when in the Nether.

Auto-smelting

A catch is auto-smelted when at least one of these conditions is true:

• The rod has the built-in auto-smelt property.
• The rod has the Deepfry enchantment.
• An active fishing bonus provides auto-smelting.

The implementation looks for a normal smelting recipe for the caught item. If no smelting recipe exists, the original item remains unchanged.

Experience

Fishing starts with a base experience value of 1. The hook then adds a random vanilla-style amount from 0 to 5. The Rod of Souls adds 5 to the base value.

Fishing command

Operators can use /fish to generate fishing loot without casting a hook. See Commands-and-Advancements for syntax and permission details.