Diverse Fishing
Encourages Fishing by adding Biome-Specific & Structure-Specific Fishing Loot, rewarding you more if you Fish in different Places!
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🎣 This Datapack changes how Fishing works in the game, making it more fun and rewarding!
⚠️ ALPHA RELEASE, EXPECT BUGS! ⚠️
Features
- Biome and Structure Dependent Loot Tables! (WORK IN PROGRESS)
- Loot Tables with Non-Renewable Items (e.g. Armor Trims) making them Renewable with a trade-off of you having to Fish them up.
- Staying true to the Vanilla Style, no new Custom Items or Enchantments added.
- Appropriately categorized Loot Table, moving some Junk, Treasure and Fish to their suitable Biomes and Structures.
- Birch Forest
- Badlands
- Cherry Grove
- Deep Dark
- Dripstone Caves
- Lukewarm Ocean
- Deep Lukewarm Ocean
- Plains
- River
- Beach
- Cold Ocean
- Deep Cold Ocean
- Dark Forest
- Pale Garden
- Forest
- Jungle (& Variants)
- Lush Cave
- Swamp
- Warm Ocean
- Village
- Ancient City
🍂 Biomes
🏢 Structures
🌼 Birch Forest Loot
🛖 Village Loot
I will leave the rest of the Loot for you to Discover, don't want to ruin the immersion and surprise now, do we? :)
⛏️ Roadmap 🏗️
This section will be removed upon Version Release 1.0
- Support for more Minecraft versions other than 1.21.5 ✅
- Add the Weight/Rarity system to every Biome, all added Biomes currently has the Rarity System 🟡
- Finish up Loot Tables for all Biomes and Structures 🟡
Guides & More
❓ How to install
Existing Worlds :
- Download the Datapack.
- Open your Minecraft World and click on "Edit" in the World Select Menu.
- Click "Open World Folder".
- Open the "datapacks" folder and drag the downloaded .zip file in to that Folder.
- Rejoin the World (Recommended), or type in the Command : [ /datapack enable "file/FileNameHere ] to Enable the Datapack (NOT Recommended).
New Worlds :
- Click "Create New World".
- Locate the "More" Option, then "Data Packs", there you can drag and drop the Datapack directly in the Game Menu, or Click "Open Pack Folder" and drop it there.
Fabric : Requires Fabric API to work, drag and drop into the "mods" folder.
Forge & NeoForge : Simply drag and drop into the "mods" folder.
ℹ️ To check if the Datapack has been installed correctly or not, you can type in "/loot give @s fish diverse_fishing:gameplay/fishing/loot_table/ANYBIOMEHERE ~ ~ ~ mainhand", it should give you the loot of that Biome if installed correctly
Licensing & Credits
If you use this Datapack for a Video, Blog or anything else, please credit me and put a link to this Modrinth Page. You are not allowed to reupload, redistribute or do anything else without credits.
Extra Credits
- Thank you Ewan Howell for Blockbench's Title Generator (Ewan Howell's Website)
- Thank you jbritain for the Banner Screenshot's Shaderpack (Visual Vibrance)
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21.5, 1.21.6, 1.21.7
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
- Downloads as Diverse Fishing ALPHA 1.5.zip
- Download size: 51 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.