Stardew Fishing FAQ

Craft or obtain a fishing rod and cast it into water like normal; the Stardew-style minigame triggers when something bites. You'll see a bar with a moving fish icon and a controllable green zone — keep the fish inside the zone until the progress bar fills.

When a fish bites, a vertical bar appears with your bobber as a green zone you move up and down, and a fish icon that darts around. Keep the fish overlapping your green zone to fill the catch meter; if the fish escapes the zone too long, the meter drains and the fish gets away.

The most common mistake is chasing the fish too aggressively — small, smooth adjustments keep it in the zone better than jerky movements. Some fish are intentionally erratic, so a Trap Bobber or Cork Bobber can make the zone more forgiving.

Each bobber changes the minigame or your catch: Trap Bobber slows the meter drain when the fish escapes, Cork Bobber enlarges your green zone, Treasure Bobber improves treasure chest odds, Sonar Bobber reveals what's on the hook before you reel, and Quality Bobber boosts the quality of what you catch.

Bobbers are equipped on the rod rather than used from your hand — check the rod's slot or the mod's bobber-attachment interaction. Only one bobber applies at a time, so pick the one that matches what you're fishing for.

Rare species typically require specific conditions — particular biomes, times of day, weather, or depth — and often put up a harder minigame fight. Check each fish's page for its spawn conditions, and bring a bobber that helps with difficult catches.

The Pokémon is one of the mod's catchable fish and appears under specific conditions rather than everywhere. Treat it like the other rare species: match its biome, time, and weather requirements, then be ready for a tough minigame.

Place the Fish Display and interact with it while holding a caught fish to mount it. It lets you show off your best catches as decoration instead of leaving them in a chest.

Yes — several species only bite during rain, at night, or in specific weather, similar to Stardew Valley. If a fish isn't showing up, try changing the time of day or waiting for rain.

It's designed to add its own fish and minigame on top of vanilla fishing, so other fishing mods may conflict if they override the same rod or loot behavior. On servers, the mod generally needs to be installed on both client and server for the minigame to work correctly.

It replaces Minecraft's instant-catch fishing with an interactive minigame inspired by Stardew Valley. You click to move a green bobber bar upward and keep it aligned with the fish to fill a progress bar and catch the fish.

Click to bump the green bobber bar upwards, and keep it on the fish to fill the progress bar on the side. Filling the progress bar completely catches the fish.

The Modrinth project page lists Minecraft versions 1.20.1, 1.21.1, 1.21.11, 26.1.2 and 26.2.

It is available for Forge and NeoForge.

No, both integrations are optional. Aquaculture support only adds compatibility for its rods and fish difficulties, and without Quality Food the quality NBT tag is simply not added.

It works with mods that use the vanilla fishing bobber, and it has optional support for Aquaculture fishing rods.

Use a datapack to change fish behaviour. You can set values like top speed, acceleration and average move distance, both for all fish and for specific fish.

Yes, you can use a datapack to give all fish a simpler movement behaviour.

Fish quality is based on your accuracy in the minigame, with higher accuracy giving higher-quality fish. This uses Quality Food integration and is stored as an NBT tag.

Yes. It registers items and blocks including the fish display, cork bobber, quality bobber, sonar bobber, trap bobber, treasure bobber, and fish such as the blazing oarfish, chromatic arapaima, crystalline snakehead, cyclops mahimahi, demon gar, golden snook, goliath grouper, sabre-toothed tigerfish, storm tarpon and vampire payara.