
Starcatcher
A fishing mod with lots of fishes and secrets!
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Опубликован 2 октября 2025 г.
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!

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 🐟

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!


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 🎣

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 🤏

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 📜🍾

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!

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!

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? 🏆

Compatibility!
Starcatcher features compatibility with many fish-related mods
Farmer'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.

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.
🌸 Join the discord! 🌸 https://discord.gg/tCs89QTuzn
- made by wd with lots of love
Ченджлог
2.3.19-FORGE-1.20.1Релиз1.20.1 · 2 августа 2026 г.
- Fixed crash with Legacy4J
- (not a v3 port)
3.0.6-NEOFORGE-1.21.1Релиз1.21.1 · 14 июля 2026 г.
- Create compat fish are now an optional, enabled-by-default datapack to allow for disabling with the
/datapackcommand - Removed modifier left accidently on the Sky Rod
- bump of FTS to v5.0
3.0.5-NEOFORGE-1.21.1Релиз1.21.1 · 14 июля 2026 г.
- updated Korean translation
- updated Chinese translation
- updated Portuguese translation
- bump to v1.2 of wdUtils
- Biomes from a biome tag are now shown on hover of a biome restriction
- no cheating!
3.0.4-NEOFORGE-1.21.1Релиз1.21.1 · 12 июля 2026 г.
- Built-in compatible mods are now an enabled-by-default datapack so that they can be disabled with the
/datapackcommand - Fixed all non-bucketable fish not being eatable raw
- Fixed dripstone fish having wrong biome restriction, making them impossible to fish
- Updated to v4.0 of FTS
- Improved Creative Mode Tab for Starcatcher, adding a new biome and changing some sections to use Tags
3.0.3-NEOFORGE-1.21.1Релиз1.21.1 · 10 июля 2026 г.
- bump to v3.3 of FTS
- Fixed splash sound not playing on biting
- Removed a System.out.printLn() (woops)
- Fixed "fish caught" toast not showing up for new fish
3.0.2-NEOFORGE-1.21.1Релиз1.21.1 · 10 июля 2026 г.
- Readded Tide Compatibility
- Added the 3 missing fish from v2.3's tide compat
- Added keybind for opening the guide
- Added server config to allow or disallow keybind to open guide
- Added missing translations for some tags and UI keys
- Fixed rare crash related to loading translation keys on dedicated servers
- Improved EMI/JEI info tab on worms and which items can be obtained from bonemealing farmland
- Which tags "bonemeal" farmland is now a tag
- Tournament tab overlay cycling keybind now only triggers during gameplay
- Removed Enable Seasons config
- Starcatcher now reports Starcatcher's Delight older than v3 as incompatible for easier debug
percentage_chancemodifier now displays decimals on guide book- fixed a bug where entries using just the item name would not be obtainable as the value was parsed as minecraft:air (caused by MaybeStack)
3.0.1-NEOFORGE-1.21.1Релиз1.21.1 · 9 июля 2026 г.
- trophy copper now requires any fish rarity instead of copper
- added starcaught rarity item tags
- deepslate spots now only start vanishing after minigame stats
3.0-NEOFORGE-1.21.1Релиз1.21.1 · 9 июля 2026 г.
New Fish and Items 🐟
Added 11 new create-themed fish
Added several new fish to The End
Added Cloudfin
Added Livid Bamboo
Added Petal Bass
Added Sunflower Carp
Added Glowing Bobber
Added Cloud Bobber
New Stuff ✅
- Hovering a rod whilst its in your hand will now show EVERY active modifier
- Creative mode tab now makes use of the Fancy Tab Sections lib for better management
- Added recipes for crafting hats, instead of only being able to find them in shipwrecks
- Added End tank texture
- Added End Void tank texture
- Added Icy tank texture
- Added Deep Dark tank texture
- Added golden tank outline when fishing a Legendary fish
- Golden Starcaught Fishes now render as golden
- Added Valley Tackle Skin + template
- Added Survivor Tackle Skin + template
- Added Fish Radar recipe
- Added compatiblity with Tips mode
- Added signed guide into unsigned guide recipe
- Added gold shine to golden fishes
- Added Sky Fishing
- Added recipes to convert specific fish into related items
- Added message when casting with no bait
- Added message when running low on bait
- Added recipes to craft the Fishing Hats, instead of only being found inside shipwrecks
- Added recipes to convert Worm -> Almighty Worm -> Seeking Worm
- Rods are now enchantable with Durablity, Lure of the Sea, Lure, and Curse of Vanishing
- Added Golden Worms
- Added built-in compatiblity with Bountiful
- Added compatiblity with vanilla's stats page
- Added Stats page to guide book
- Massively improved tournament system, adding a tournament history, scoring rules, and cleaned up a bunch of bugs!
Fish Tracking 🔍
- You can now track fishes through the guide book!
- Tracking a fish will show the current chance of catching it (ignoring bait bosts)
Minigame difficulty 🎣
- Every fish's difficulty has been reviewed and adjusted for a more linear experience
- Fish difficulty now increases gradually as you go away from "normal fishing areas"
- Initial grace period of the minigame now lasts forever
- Leaf Sweet-spots no longer vanish
- Leaf bobber now only adds a new Sweet-spot if there are no other leaf spots
- Aqua bobber is now dripstone themed
- Added Dripstone Sweet-spots which go away when you miss
- Aqua Sweet-spots are now deepslate themed
- Mossy hook now awards a treasure on Perfect Catches instead of changing the fish difficulty
- Added modifiers to every hat, now being a crucial part of difficulty balancing
- Added Deep Dark gimmick
- Added mirage gimmick for desert/badlands fish
Adjustments & Miscellaneous 😬
- Tackle Boxes now use concrete particles which look much better
- Modified the items in several tags
- Renamed some tags
- Added item Tags
starcatcher:crabs,starcatcher:eels,starcatcher:shrimps - Cleaned up a lot of translations
- Updated Chinese Translation (thank you DUOGy!)
- Updated Korean Translation (thank you podobee!)
- Display block now remembers if you set it to rotate or not
- Display block now rotates item by default
- Fish without a 3d model can no longer be bucketed or fished as an entity
- Guide is now placeable in Chiseled Bookshelf
- Guide and Radar are now placeable in the Tackle Boxes
- Tackle Box now accepts fish from other mods into its infinite-fish spot
- Minigame textures are now fish-dependent, allowing for per-fish tank, rod etc textures
- Minigame "spacebar" button now displays the correct keybind and adjusts for text size
- Starcatcher blocks now have a "preferred tool" for mining. They all still drop regardless of tool used
- Void fishing is now controlled through a modifier
- Player luck attribute now boosts chance of catching a higher rarity fish
- Fishing rods are no longer obtainable through fish treasures
- Massively improved settings screen, now allowing for changing the scale and position of the Radar, Tracker, Tournament & Minigame
- Guides can no longer be signed when in a lectern
- Mountain fish now use an elevation bias instead of a flat y level restriction
- Fishing biome checks are now done in an area around the player instead of just one block
- The first time you fish with a vanilla rod you will now get a starcatcher guide + rod
- You can now farm worms with a dispenser + bonemeal pointing at farmland
- Added support for pressing enter to go to the next line in the message writting UI
- Adjusted rarities of several fish
- Adjusted description of several fish
- Radar UI now dynamically adjusts for the amount of fish in the area
- Golden Starcaught Fish can no longer be eaten
- Catching a golden fish will now play a sound
- Catching a golden fish will now display the "fish caught" notification in gold color
- Golden fish will now override bucketing/entity spawning, making sure you always get the golden item!
- Starcatcher fish will not be affected by the change above, as starcatcher entities will be golden instead (killing it will award you the golden fish)
- Entries marked as
always_spawn_entitywill no longer count towards golden requirements - Entries without a guide entry will no longer count towards golden requirements
- End Fishes are now fishable in the void/air instead of water
- Moved "secrets" guide page to the messages-in-a-bottle area
- You can now check messages you've caught from other players previously
Technical 🔧
- Treasures now accept a list of loot tables, alongside weights
- Treasures now accept a list of ItemStacks, alongside weights
- Treasures now accept a list of items to blacklist, removing them from the available pool
- Added "starcatcher:has_tracker_layer" for which items show the tracker layer
- Added "starcatcher:has_radar_layer" for which items show the radar layer
- Biome restriction now checks an area around the bobber instead of just 1 block
- Fixed creative-screen obtained Messages-in-a-bottle's text
- Aquarium hit box now displays as a full block when holding an aquarium, for easier placement
- Smithing Recipe has been unified into a single recipe
- Improved EMI/JEI smithing recipe compatiblity
- Reworked treasure system (once again)
- Non registered fish item entries will no longer crash the world (using the new
MaybeStacksystem) - Fixed Aquarium z-fighting. Somewhat.
- Added minigame debug accessible through the configs, or by doing the konami code
- Added durability config to enable rod durability
- SingleStackContainer api has been dropped in favour of MaybeStack
- Added config for radar & tracker update frequency
- Added Advancement Criteria
starcatcher:fish_caught - Fixed a bug where shift clicking bait into the tackle box's rod slot would void bait if the rod was taken out right after
- Added support for applying fishing modifiers through enchantments
- Added support for applying fishing modifiers through potion effects
- Fixed Iron Trophy being catchable before the tooltip would indicate
- Fixed Rarity Count restriction not checking if set to NONE rarity and UNIQUE type Count
- Fixed "burned" modifier animation being stretched
Removed ❌
- Removed aquaculture fillet recipe
- Removed
starfield from fish properties - Removed Telescope block
- Removed Aquamirae built-in compatiblity
- Removed Waterlogged Satchel
- Removed Show Particle On Biting Config
- Removed Built-in seasons restriction (still availble through datapacks!)
- Removed crouch rod menu & respective config
- Removed Dev Worm
- Removed
/starcatcher add_minigame_modifier - Removed
/starcatcher add_catch_modifier - Removed Alpha Skin + Template
- Removed Good Ol' Skin + Template
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