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Starcatcher

A fishing overhaul mod with 100+ fishes, and a ton of new fishing related content
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Description

Starcatcher adds a new skill-based fishing mini-game, lots of secrets, trophies, tournaments and everything else an angler could ask for 🎣

There are 100+ new fishes ready for you to catch and record in your catalogue, uniquely restricted by biome, weather, daytime, elevation and more!

Fishing a cod in a river, as one usually does

Starcatcher features a handy book companion to aid you throughout your angler journey! It will guide you through all the content Starcatcher has, alongsides cataloguing all your catches 🐟

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Starcatcher has a lot of features waiting for you! 🐟 ✨

  • 🎣 Hooks, Bobbers, and Baits for your rod
  • 🐡 100+ Unique fish with different size, weight, and fishing conditions
  • 🐛 Tackle Boxes to store your fish and swap your rod attachments
  • 🔥 Unique Minigame gimmicks for different fishes
  • 🏆 Trophies to reward your progression
  • 🕵️‍♀️ Catalogue to record all your catches
  • 🏆 Fishing Tournaments to challenge your friends
  • Aquariums to showcase your best catches
  • 😮 Display block to showcase your progress to your friends
  • 🕵️‍♀️ Secrets Messages left for you to find
  • 📜 Player written Message-in-a-Bottle to share your stories with the server
  • 🤑 Selling bin to turn your catches into money
  • 🥇 Golden Fish variations for those who want only the best
  • 👒 Different Cosmetics to show your fashion sense
  • 🎣 Fishable Entities to fish live fish
  • 🔧 Built-in Compatibility with fish from other mods

Will you fill out your collection? 🔎 Some of these catches are harder than they appear!

Nether Fish

Salmon Entry

A more detailed list of the different features will follow. Not every feature of the mod is shown here, for more information please visit the wiki! 🐠

Tackle Boxes

Tackle boxes allow you to store your Fishes, Hooks, Bobbers, baits, as well as modify your rod attachements! It's important to use the correct attachments when hunting for the harder fish 🎣

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Aquariums ♒

Starcatcher features a dynamic multi-block aquarium to display your fish! You can interact with a few different items to change that block's decoration.

Starcaught fish placed inside will be scaled based on their size & weight percentile 🤏

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Trophies & Secrets

There are a lot of Trophies to collect and Secrets to uncover! Keep your eyes out for bottles and you might just be able to follow along the story of anglers from many moons ago

Players can also write their own message-in-a-bottle and send them out to sea for other players to fish up 📜🍾

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Cosmetics

There's a lot of different cosmetics to collect! Fisherman Hats can be found inside shipwrecks, whilst templates for your Rod & Tackle are found mostly through treasures!

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Selling Bin 💰

Starcatcher features wd's Selling Bin to allow for the selling of fishes and other items 💸 The sale price is based on the Size & Weight, with a bonus for Golden Fish!

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Tournaments! 🏆

Do you consider yourself the best fisherman in all of the overworld? Why not put it to the test against your friends with the tournament system? 🏆

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Compatibility!

Starcatcher features compatibility with many fish-related mods

Farmer's Delight 🍣

There is an farmer's delight addon available for all your fish cooking needs! Go check it out! Only available for Starcatcher v3 and above

starcatcher's delight

Extra Fishes & Compatibility 🐟

Starcatcher's entries are data-driven meaning you can easily add new items & entities as fishable! The following mod's fish have been added.

[!] Please note that items such as fishing rods from these mods do not work with Starcatcher and should be disabled or ignored when putting together a modpack [!]

Above v3:

  • Tide 2 🐟

Below v3:

  • Tide 2 🐟
  • Aquaculture 2 🐟
  • Nether Depths Upgrade 🦴
  • Fish of Thieves 🦜
  • TerraFirmaCraft fishes 💀
  • Sully's Mod 🧟‍♀️
  • Upgrade Aquatic 🦈
  • Environmental 🌳
  • Collector's Reap 🦀
  • Miner's Delight ⛏
  • Alex's Caves 🗻
  • Critters and Companions 🐛
  • Aquamirae 🌟
  • Hybrid Aquatic 🐠
  • Fintastic 🏄‍♀️
  • Spawn 🐹
  • Unusual Fish Mod 🐡

v3+ had some major changes to the difficulty system, and as such compatibility will be added back over the upcoming updates. You can still implement compatibility yourself through datapacks.

For more information on how to make a datapack head over to the wiki!

EMI/JEI

Both EMI & Jei feature custom integration with Starcatcher. The guide book will NOT display recipes for the mod. It is recommended you use either JEI or EMI for recipe lookup and items usages.

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Wiki / Guide

I've recorded a video going over every feature as of v2.3

Credits

There have been a lot of different artists who were either comissioned or donated their time out of their own will to contribuite to the mod! Here you'll find everyone who has contribuited to the mod's development 🐟

Licensing

Starcatcher's Source Code is distribuited under MIT, whilst every Asset unless specifically stated otherwise is distribuited under All Rights Reserved. If you wish to modify or use any of the assets in Starcatcher please contact me first.

The Main Starcatcher's Fishing Rod Asset was acquired under a custom license which can be found here.

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