Fishing Frontier
A reworked fishing loot table system in Minecraft, with a progression system, custom enchantments for new mechanics, and many more fish items!
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About this Mod
Explore new frontiers of fishing with this datapack!
- Several new enchantments, with new avenues and strategies of fishing.
- A new progression system based on gear, which rewards players for spending time fishing.
- Many new fished items based on what tier of fishing you're in, which are edible customized items!
- Biome and location specific loot for fishing, go and explore!
Progression system!
Fish up new armor pieces, all part of the Fisherman's Set to climb your way through the ranks
Live Catch
Catch live creatures loaded with goodies using this new enchantment. Some are useful in more ways than just slaying them...
Not compatible with Treasure Hunter!
Treasure Hunter
Use this enchantment to not only fish up loot crates, but encourages fishers to explore and find rare structures to be able to fish up loot crates that let you collect armor trims!
Not compatible with Live Catch!
Fireproof Line
This enchantment unlocks the ability to fish in lava, and combines with the other enchantments for an entire new dimension of fishing! The overworld has some lava loot, but the nether is the main place for lava fishing!
A Hidden Enchantment!
Rumors tell of an enchantment only the most dedicated fisherman are able to fish up, will you find it?
Fish chumming!
On your fishing journey you may find fish food you can use to chum the waters and influence what you catch, use them wisely and hook to your heart's content!
Rare enhanced fishing rods
You may encounter fishing rods with enhanced Lure enchantments on them, letting you fish faster than before, the maximum that can come up is Lure 5, but be careful when combining it with other rods! If the other rod has lure, the level will be clamped to 3 in the resulting rod!
Advancement-based tutorial:
This datapack uses advancements to guide players through their fishing journey, check it for the most up-to-date info and tips!
Informational books!
An informational book is available which will be given to any fisher who gets their first boots, but you can also craft it with this recipe.
Should you require more exact info, the encyclopedia located at the end of the info book will give more info to the determined fisher!
For PAPERMC (lava fishing burning immediately)
If your lava-fished items are burning immediately when fished up, and you are on a paper server, this is due to paper's incompatibility with certain vanilla technical features, such as distance=0 selector not working on the same tick an entity is summoned.
SOLUTION: Ask your server owner to change the value of fix-entity-position-desync to false inside of paper-global.yml
Planet minecraft link: https://www.planetminecraft.com/data-pack/fishing-frontier/
Performance: This datapack shouldn't have any real impact on tick lag at all, as it only should be performing any real logic when fishing is occurring, and I've tried my best to only perform logic when needed, hope this is a lag-free pack!
Credit to minecraft-heads.com for some custom mob heads!
Available Versions
How to Install Fishing Frontier on Your Server
Order Server
Order a Minecraft Java server with at least 3 GB RAM (4 GB recommended).
Set datapack Loader
In the panel under "Egg", select the datapack loader and matching Minecraft version (1.21.11).
Install Mod
Open the mod browser in the dashboard and search for "Fishing Frontier". Click "Install" – done! Alternatively, upload the .jar via SFTP to the /mods folder.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Minecraft Versions
1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.9 (+9 more)
Server-side
✓ RequiredRecommended RAM
4 GB(min. 3 GB)Frequently Asked Questions
Fishing Frontier server crashes on startup – what to do?
Most common cause: wrong datapack version or insufficient RAM. Check the server log (latest.log) for "OutOfMemoryError" or "Mixin" errors. With Mado Hosting: ensure at least 3 GB RAM is allocated and the loader matches the mod version (1.21.11). You can switch loaders with one click in the panel.
Is Fishing Frontier compatible with datapack and fabric and forge and neoforge and quilt?
Fishing Frontier officially supports datapack, fabric, forge, neoforge, quilt for Minecraft 1.21.11, 1.21.10, 1.21.9. Note: Forge and Fabric mods are NOT cross-compatible – pick one loader and stick with it. The Mado dashboard automatically detects incompatible loader combinations.
Server lagging with Fishing Frontier – how to optimize performance?
Recommended RAM: 4 GB (per 8 players). Use /spark profiler to check if Fishing Frontier consumes the most tick time. Common fixes: reduce server view-distance to 8-10, install "performant" or "starlight" as supplementary mods on Forge. With Mado Hosting, your server runs on NVMe SSDs with dedicated CPU cores for minimal latency.
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