Biome-Specific Fish

Rainbeau’s Biome-Specific Fish

Fishing and Village Fisher Chests Now Yield SENSIBLE Loot!

(A Data Pack for Minecraft 1.19, 1.19.1 & 1.19.2)

This data pack is a simple QoL utility to make sure that the fish you catch while fishing – or obtain by looting a village fisher’s chest – are actually consistent with the biome in which they’re found.

In vanilla Minecraft, the chance you have of catching a particular type of fish isn’t affected by the biome in which you’re fishing. At all. You have the same chance of catching a salmon when fishing in a desert pond as when fishing in a frozen ocean, and you’re just as likely to catch a tropical fish in a tiaga as in a jungle. That makes no sense. And village fisher chests always contain cod and/or salmon, no matter where the village is located.

With “Biome-Specific Fish,” you’ll no longer be able to obtain salmon in warmer biomes, nor will you find pufferfish or tropical fish in colder biomes. Cod will be obtained only in more temperate biomes.

The pack also makes a couple of other related changes. First, you’ll no longer find barrels in village fisher chests. I know it’s a trivial thing, but it’s always bugged me. Second, and more significantly, you’ll no longer be able to dig yourself a little pond and fish for treasure in it. If you want to fish for treasure, you’ll need to do so in an ocean, river or swamp biome, where hooking treasure while fishing actually makes at least a little bit of sense.

“Biome-Specific Fish” ought to be compatible with pretty much anything else, except, obviously, for other data packs or mods that alter fishing results. Note, however, that if you’re fishing in a biome added by a mod or data pack, you’ll only be able to catch cod, as non-vanilla biomes will all fall into the default “mid-temperature” category. (My own “Sky Islands” and “Water World” data packs are exceptions, as are “Terralith” and “William Wythers’ Overhauled Overworld,” as “Biome-Specific Fish” *does* recognize the new biomes that those packs add.)

— Rainbeau Flambe (Darryl Burgdorf)