(More) Realistic Fishing
Instead of items, reel in live fish from the water!
Small datapack changing the fishing mechanic. When a fish is caught, you reel in a live fish instead of a dead one in item form.
Demonstration video:
Features:
- Fish items are replaced with living entities when fished
- Configurable velocity of the spawned living fish entities
- Stored in
/data get storage real_fishing:config motion_scale - The velocity of the spawned fish entity is multiplied by these values, with the velocity of the original item entity as the base value
- Tweak this if you feel like the fish you reel in are either
- Absolutely flying out of the water
- Barely making it above the water surface
- See
/data get storage real_fishing:config motion_scale_defaultfor defaults
- Stored in
Credits:
- Realistic Fishing Mod for the idea
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 24w33a
- 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.
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- Downloads as realistic-fishing.zip
- Download size: 19 KB
- Download link checked 29 Aug 2026 — working
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