Fishing Evolved

Fishing Evolved is a modern Minecraft 1.20.1 revival and expansion of the classic Fishing Made Better experience.

It rebuilds fishing into a deeper, more active system with customizable rods, bait, fish tracking, fish populations, and a hands-on reeling minigame. The goal is to make fishing feel like a real progression path instead of a passive wait-and-click loop.

Features

• Active reeling gameplay with line tension, distance, fish tugging, and failure states.
• Modular fishing rods with interchangeable reels, bobbers, hooks, and bait.
• Wood, iron, and diamond fishing rods with attachment durability.
• Water, lava, and void fishing through specialized bobbers and hook entities.
• Fish availability based on liquid, depth, altitude, biome, dimension, time, weather, light, rarity, and bait.
• Fish trackers for probing nearby fish populations and finding rare catches.
• Bait buckets for automatic rebaiting and bait boxes for helping local fish reproduce.
• Fish buckets, fish slices, fillet knives, and scaling knives for fish handling and processing.
• Configurable client HUD placement for the reeling overlay.
• Cross-loader support for Fabric and Forge on Minecraft 1.20.1.

Requirements

Fabric

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Java 17
• Fabric Loader 0.16.9+
• Fabric API

Forge

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Java 17
• Forge 47.2.30+

Optional Integration

• YetAnotherConfigLib 3.6.6+1.20.1 for the client config screen.

Credits

• TheAwesomeGem for the original Fishing Made Better mod.
• SeniorS for the 1.20.1 multiloader revival.

Support

Found a bug, balance issue, or compatibility problem? Open an issue on GitHub or join the Discord.

• GitHub Issues
• Discord