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

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4.5
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Posted: July 12, 2026 at 4:38:26 PM UTC
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Starcatcher is an amazing mod adding a fishing minigame where a pointer revolves in circles, where you have to time it with sweet spots to advance the minigame. It has a large assortment of fish, and many different varieties on the minigame, where many fish especially the harder ones have unique challenges to catching them.

Something that is very welcome especially to mod/modpack developers like myself is data and registry driven design, making some base behaviours modifiable by any modpack dev. Nnew types of conditions, minigame modifiers and so on are simple enough to add through Java.

Its art is nice, can be a bit here or there I guess, though that may be a result of pulling art from various sources and artists.

It has many first party integrations with other mods such as Create (new fishes), and compatibility with fishes from other mods, and with mechanics like seasons from mods like TerraFirmaCraft. This means the mod can be drag and drop, though as the dev as said (afaik) these integrations are being thought over to make them better.

Modded biomes, since they currently rely on their common biome tags for compatibility, can be a bit barren especially in conditions like rain or ever just shine, and few fish types can be found in them.

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Posted: July 12, 2026 at 4:38:26 PM UTC
5 hrs
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4.0
Aesthetics
4.0
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4.5

Starcatcher is an amazing mod adding a fishing minigame where a pointer revolves in circles, where you have to time it with sweet spots to advance the minigame. It has a large assortment of fish, and many different varieties on the minigame, where many fish especially the harder ones have unique challenges to catching them.

Something that is very welcome especially to mod/modpack developers like myself is data and registry driven design, making some base behaviours modifiable by any modpack dev. Nnew types of conditions, minigame modifiers and so on are simple enough to add through Java.

Its art is nice, can be a bit here or there I guess, though that may be a result of pulling art from various sources and artists.

It has many first party integrations with other mods such as Create (new fishes), and compatibility with fishes from other mods, and with mechanics like seasons from mods like TerraFirmaCraft. This means the mod can be drag and drop, though as the dev as said (afaik) these integrations are being thought over to make them better.

Modded biomes, since they currently rely on their common biome tags for compatibility, can be a bit barren especially in conditions like rain or ever just shine, and few fish types can be found in them.

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Gourmandd

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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 🐟

image

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 baits and take your fish back home
  • 🔥 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
  • 🦈 Dynamic model size based on the specific catch
  • 🎣 Fishable Entities to fish live fish
  • 🔧 Extensive built-in Compatibility with several other fish related mods

Coming soon:

  • 🍣 Farmer's Delight add-on coming very soon!
  • 🐠 Unique per-fish uses and characteristics (v2.4?)
  • 🕵️‍♀️ Even More Secrets (coming every update)
  • ⚓ Even more Mod Compatibility

The discord has preview development versions containing some of the upcoming features! Link at the bottom 🐟

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 🎣

image

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 🤏

image

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 📜🍾

image

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!

image

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!

image

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? 🏆

Stand

image

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!

starcatcher's delight

(Only available for neo 1.21.1 as it's still in development!)

Extra Fishes

Fishes (and more) from these mods are automatically added as catchable entries, with the corresponding entity & bucketed fish version (when available)

  • Tide 🌊
  • 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 🐡

Seasons

If any are installed, fishes will be limited by season

  • 🌸 Serene Seasons 🌸
  • 🌞 Ecliptic Seasons 🌞

Fishing Real

If Fishing Real is installed, completing the minigame will fish up the live fish! (Similar to the built-in behavior with the Almighty Worm)

EMI/JEI

Both EMI & Jei feature custom integration with Starcatcher's fish restrictions and ways of obtaining items, as well as the "information" tab

image

Wiki / Guide

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

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For Modpack Developers & Modders

  • There are a lot of built-in configs available, both for client and server, make sure you check all of them if you're looking to customize the overall experience for a modpack!
  • All the mods above have their fishes (and extra marine creatures) added as fishable entries to Starcatcher.
  • If the mod also provides baits, that mod's fishes will be attracted to the respective mods bait.
  • If the mod adds fishing rods (such as Aquaculture & Tide), they are not and will not be overridden by Starcatcher. You must use a Starcatcher rod, unless the mod's author has added compatibility on their side with Starcatcher's fishing minigame.

Each fish and trophy is fully customizable through datapacks, perfect for modpacks looking to further customize the fishing experience! Reach out to me on discord and I'll be happy to help.

Check the wiki (wip) page on how to add your custom fish or trophy json with your restrictions, starcatcher will handle everything else.

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.

Starcatcher's includes LibTooltips which makes use of special text effects powered by Ember's Text API. Documentation available at tysontheember.dev. Jar-in-jar inclusion has been explicitly approved for this mod. See Ember's Modding License for details.

🌸 Join the discord! 🌸 https://discord.gg/tCs89QTuzn

  • made by wd with lots of love

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!

Cod In River

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 🐟

image

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 baits and take your fish back home
  • 🔥 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
  • 🦈 Dynamic model size based on the specific catch
  • 🎣 Fishable Entities to fish live fish
  • 🔧 Extensive built-in Compatibility with several other fish related mods

Coming soon:

  • 🍣 Farmer's Delight add-on coming very soon!
  • 🐠 Unique per-fish uses and characteristics (v2.4?)
  • 🕵️‍♀️ Even More Secrets (coming every update)
  • ⚓ Even more Mod Compatibility

The discord has preview development versions containing some of the upcoming features! Link at the bottom 🐟

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

Lava Fishing

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 🎣

image

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 🤏

image

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 📜🍾

image

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!

image

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!

image

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? 🏆

Stand

image

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!

starcatcher's delight

(Only available for neo 1.21.1 as it's still in development!)

Extra Fishes

Fishes (and more) from these mods are automatically added as catchable entries, with the corresponding entity & bucketed fish version (when available)

  • Tide 🌊
  • 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 🐡

Seasons

If any are installed, fishes will be limited by season

  • 🌸 Serene Seasons 🌸
  • 🌞 Ecliptic Seasons 🌞

Fishing Real

If Fishing Real is installed, completing the minigame will fish up the live fish! (Similar to the built-in behavior with the Almighty Worm)

EMI/JEI

Both EMI & Jei feature custom integration with Starcatcher's fish restrictions and ways of obtaining items, as well as the "information" tab

image

For Modpack Developers & Modders

  • There are a lot of built-in configs available, both for client and server, make sure you check all of them if you're looking to customize the overall experience for a modpack!
  • All the mods above have their fishes (and extra marine creatures) added as fishable entries to Starcatcher.
  • If the mod also provides baits, that mod's fishes will be attracted to the respective mods bait.
  • If the mod adds fishing rods (such as Aquaculture & Tide), they are not and will not be overridden by Starcatcher. You must use a Starcatcher rod, unless the mod's author has added compatibility on their side with Starcatcher's fishing minigame.

Each fish and trophy is fully customizable through datapacks, perfect for modpacks looking to further customize the fishing experience! Reach out to me on discord and I'll be happy to help.

Check the wiki (wip) page on how to add your custom fish or trophy json with your restrictions, starcatcher will handle everything else.

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 ARR. 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.

Starcatcher's includes LibTooltips which makes use of special text effects powered by Ember's Text API. Documentation available at tysontheember.dev. Jar-in-jar inclusion has been explicitly approved for this mod. See Ember's Modding License for details.

🌸 Join the discord! 🌸 https://discord.gg/tCs89QTuzn

  • made by wd with lots of love

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  • Guide's Help Page
    Guide's Help Page
  • Tackle Boxes!
    Tackle Boxes!
  • Lava fishing!
    Lava fishing!
  • Tournament Stand
    Tournament Stand
  • A secret Note.
    A secret Note. This really imagined my disk
  • Aquariums
    Aquariums
  • Cosmetics!
    Cosmetics!
  • Selling bin
    Selling bin
  • Trophies & Secrets!
    Trophies & Secrets!
  • Guide Index
    Guide Index
  • Almost there!
    Almost there! Better reel the fish in before it escapes!
  • Fishing!
    Fishing! A fish has bitten! Time to reel it in
  • Guide's Fish Entries
    Guide's Fish Entries
  • Fishes!
    Fishes!
  • Hooks and Bobbers help page!
    Hooks and Bobbers help page!

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