All this mod does is make vanilla fish attempt to swim away from projectiles, dropped items, and primed tnt.
The shorthand explanation
This mod is a joke about some of the advertising/behind the scenes of Call of Duty: Ghosts, where one of the points made about their new innovations is "Next generation Fish AI".
Their selling point was having fish swimming away from players (and maybe projectiles) to make them seem more dynamic and responsive. In practice, it works.. but isn't very reliable or breathtaking. Definitely overhyped.
So onto minecraft. In the base game, fish will already swim away from nearby players. This mod makes them attempt to swim away from dropped items, primed tnt, and projectiles as well.
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.21.1
- 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 — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as villainousfishai-neoforge-1.21.1-1.2.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 16 KB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.