Mariculture Reborn

Requires Patchouli. JEI and Jade are optional.

Mariculture is a mod about the sea: fishing it, breeding its fish, diving it and putting it to work. It is joshiejack's Mariculture from Minecraft 1.7.10, brought back as an unofficial port for Forge 1.20.1, NeoForge 1.21.1 and NeoForge 26.1.2.

There are more than 60 kinds of fish to catch and breed, from clownfish and koi to Enderfish and Blazefish. Pearl oysters on the sea floor give pearls for jewelry you enchant yourself. Diving gear goes from a snorkel up to scuba, and a workshop of vats, crucible furnaces and casters makes the titanium for the best of it.

Everything is explained in the Mariculture Compendium, an in-game book with 123 entries.

Fish and breeding

Catch a male and a female, put them in a Fish Feeder with fish food, and they work through their lives making things, from water droplets up to lapis lazuli and dragon eggs. When a female dies she leaves Fish Eggs. Hatch them in a Hatchery or Incubator, and crossed parents can hatch into a new species.

Each fish carries traits for fertility, food use, lifespan, tank size and work ethic, and likes its own water: salt or fresh, hot or cold. The DNA Extractor and DNA Injector let you copy a good trait from one fish into another.

Every fish

Fishing

Mariculture's four rods all catch better than the vanilla rod, and each takes its own baits. The Reed rod lasts 96 casts, the Wooden one 320 and the Titanium one 640. The Flux Rod never wears out and runs on power instead. Most bait comes from the Sifter. In the Nether a Mariculture hook floats on lava, and fish bite there too.

Pearls and jewelry

Pearl oysters grow on the ocean floor and come in twelve colours of pearl. Set a pearl in a binding to make a ring, bracelet or necklace, then finish it on the Blacksmith's Anvil. The pearl's colour decides how tough the piece is, how many enchantments it holds and what Elemental Affinity does with it: a red pearl makes you immune to fire and lava, a blue one to drowning, a pink one heals you on kills.

Jewelry has its own enchantments, like Step Up, Spiderman for climbing walls, Paraglide, Blink, Restoration and 1 Up. You wear it from a Mirror, which holds a ring, a bracelet and a necklace. The Magic and Celestial Mirrors also enchant, up to level 30 and 60.

Diving

There are three tiers of underwater gear. The snorkel tops up your air and the Buoyancy Aid floats you to the surface. Diving gear takes air from an Air Pump. Scuba gear runs on tanks filled by an Air Compressor. Add swimfins, a F.L.U.D.D. with hover, rocket, turbo and squirt modes, and an aluminium Speed Boat that is much faster than a wooden one.

Food

Your catch cooks into sushi, miso soup, calamari, kelp wraps, smoked salmon, fish fingers, caviar, beef and oyster pie, and fish fingers 'n custard.

The workshop and the sea floor

Limestone lies under the sand of deep oceans and rivers, with rutile in it. Salt-water reefs turn the floor to Coral Rock with coral in eight colours. The Vat mixes liquids, the Crucible Furnace melts ores for up to twice the yield, and casters turn the metal into nuggets, ingots and blocks. That gets you titanium, aluminium and magnesium for the better rods and machines: an Automatic Fisher, a Sawmill for custom blocks, turbines, sluices and a Mechanized Sponge.

Works with other mods

For pack makers

Made by Oculifelis.

Mariculture was made by joshiejack and released under the MIT licence: github.com/joshiejack/Mariculture. The original credits Poppycocks for the limestone and pearl brick textures, and SlimeKnights and the COFH Team. This port is unofficial.