Starcatcher
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Starcatcher

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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
Gourmandd

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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
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Gourmandd

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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
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Gourmandd

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Description

Starcatcher adds a new fishing mini-game, tackle boxes, baits, trophies, fishing hats, 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!


✨ Perfect Your Skill

Starcatcher features a new skill-based minigame! Master the art of fishing and catch all 100+ new unique fish

Fishing a cod in a river, as one usually does


📝 Catalog Your Catches 📝

Every fish you catch will be recorded, keeping track of your best catches and much more!

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Salmon Entry


🐟🐡🐠 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
  • 📜 Message-in-a-Bottle to share your stories with the server
  • 🤑 Selling bin to turn your catches into money
  • 🥇 Golden Fish 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!

Nether Fish


🎣 Tackle Boxes 🎣

Tackle boxes allow you to store your Fish, Hooks, Bobbers, Baits, as well as modify your Rod Attachements!

It's important to use the correct attachments when hunting for Legendary fish 🎣


Aquariums ♒

Display your catches in the new Aquarium multi-block! Customize it to your liking with different decorations and fish.

Starcaught fish placed inside will be scaled based on their size & weight percentile 🤏

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🏆 Trophies & Secrets 🕵️‍♀️

As you progress through the mod you'll collect different trophies to showcase (flex) to your friends

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You might also come across some messages left behind, some might even lead you to rare treasure

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👒 Cosmetics 🎣

Tired of your boring-looking rods? Starcatcher features a bunch of new cosmetics to spruce up your fishing!

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💸 Selling Bin 💰

Turn your fish into money with wd's Selling Bin. The bigger the fish, the better is sells!

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🏆 Fishing Tournaments! 🏆

Are you the best fisherman in all of the Overworld?

Why not put it to the test against your friends with a friendly Tournament?

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🍣 Farmer's Delight 🍥

There is an farmer's delight addon available for all your fish cooking needs!

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🔧 Built with Customization in Mind 👷‍♀️

 

Everything in Starcatcher can be costumized to fit your style.

Using datapacks you can easily:

  • Add new fishable entries
  • Remove or edit existing entries
  • Modify the treasure pool each fish has
  • Edit the Minigame Difficulty per-entry
  • Modify which items have which fishing modifiers
  • Modify which items act as hooks, bobbers & bait
  • Add new Secrets
  • Add new Trophies
  • Modify what can be sold in the Selling Bin
  • Modify the available Selling Bin currencies
  • And everything else datapacks can already modify, such as recipes, tags etc.

🌸 Built with Accessibility in Mind 🌸

Not sure how to make datapacks but want to change some settings? No problem, Starcatcher features a lot of accessibility settings designed to ease out the minigame difficulty for those who want a more relaxed experience. 

Using the in-game config menu you can adjust global multipliers for:

  • Vanishing rate of vanishing sweet-spots
  • Moving Rate of moving sweet-spots
  • Missing penalty
  • Total fish HP
  • Handle speed
  • Swimaway speed (decay)

You can also change miscellanious behaviour such as:

  • Disable the minigame completely
  • Hide catches until found
  • Min & Max ticks for a fish to bite
  • Disable tackle-box item restriction
  • Fish models max & min scale
  • Hide catches during the minigame
  • Hide treasures during the minigame
  • Enable rod durability
  • Enable FTB Team catch-sharing
  • And much more!

🐟 Compatibility 🔧

Fish from these mods are catchable with Starcatcher added to the catalogue!

[!] Please note that fishing rods from these mods do not work with Starcatcher [!]

v3 and above:

  • Tide 2 🐟
  • Create 👷‍♀️ (+11 create-themed fishes)
  • Other mods will be added back overtime (more fish does not equal better!)

v2.3 and under:

  • Tide 2 🐟
  • Hybrid Aquatic 🐠
  • 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 🌟
  • Fintastic 🏄‍♀️
  • Spawn 🐹
  • Unusual Fish Mod 🐡
  • Saint's Dragons 🐉

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 🧲

Custom integration with Starcatcher will guide you on the more specific mechanics.

The guide book does not display recipes. Using either of these mods is highly recommended. 

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📘 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 🐟

A special thanks to all the translators who have helped Starcatcher reach beyond the english speaking community!

Interested in translating Starcatcher? Join the Discord and reach out to me!


Licensing

Starcatcher's Source Code is distribuited under MIT.

The Main Starcatcher's Fishing Rod Asset was acquired under a custom license which can be found here.

Every other asset is distribuited under All Rights Reserved. If you wish to modify or use any of the assets in Starcatcher please contact me first.


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

A Labour of Love by wd ♥

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 🐟

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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!

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 🎣

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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 🤏

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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 📜🍾

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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!

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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!

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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

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! Only available for Starcatcher v3 and above

starcatcher'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.

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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

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  • 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!
  • 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!

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