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.