Fish Display
by TheWhiteGuy
Fish Display lets players hang caught fish on wooden plaques built from sticks and planks, so a catch can be shown on a wall.
What it does
Players craft a plaque from sticks, logs, planks and a center piece, then right-click it with a caught fish to mount the fish on the wall. Right-clicking again with an empty hand takes the fish back, and the stored data is kept. Plaques come in Oak, Spruce, Birch, Jungle, Acacia and Dark Oak, with Crimson, Warped and Nether woods and the stripped variants of each wood type included.
The display draws the mob itself, not a flat icon. Pufferfish can be hung on a wall, and tropical fish buckets render the specific tropical fish variant inside them. The mod reads entity data from the item the player holds, and it picks up the long item entity of the Raw Fish Bucket mod automatically, so caught fish from that mod appear without extra setup.
Fish Display runs on Forge only, with files for 1.20.1, 1.20.2, 1.20.3, 1.20.4, 1.20.5, 1.20.6 and 1.21. It needs a configuration file to be set up, and it is not open source; the mod is released under All rights reserved. Client and server both need it, so the server and every player install it.
Key features
Fish on wooden plaques
Caught fish mount on a plaque on the wall, and right-clicking again with an empty hand returns the fish to the player.
Plaques for many wood types
Plaques can be made from the common overworld woods, the Nether woods and the stripped variants of each type.
Live mob rendering
Pufferfish and tropical fish display as the actual mob, with the specific tropical variant drawn from its stored data.
Raw Fish Bucket support
Long item entities from the Raw Fish Bucket mod are picked up and shown on plaques without configuration.
Gallery
Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who build decorative rooms or fishing spots in survival and creative worlds, and server owners who want fish displays on a Forge server.
How it compares
Quest Plaques is a Forge mod for 1.16.5 – 1.18.2, released under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial No Derivatives 4.0 license and not open source. Babaprata's Fishy Friends is server-side only on Forge for 1.20.1 and released under All rights reserved, so players join it without installing anything. Fish Display is client and server on Forge for 1.20.1 – 1.21, also All rights reserved.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fish Display | Forge | 1.20.1 – 1.21 | Client and server | 2026-02-17 |
| Quest Plaques | Forge | 1.16.5 – 1.18.2 | Client and server | 2022-11-17 |
| Babaprata's Fishy Friends | Forge | 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2024-03-15 |
Questions
Does Fish Display need a configuration file?
Can Fish Display show fish from the Raw Fish Bucket mod?
Which Minecraft versions does Fish Display support?
In the catalog
Fish Display is one of 12,078 Decoration mods on ModsFinder, and one of 6,149 Decoration mods for Forge. 15,770 mods support Minecraft 1.21.
Similar mods
What the author says
-Put a Pufferfish on the wall? It looks like the actual mob. -Put a Tropical Fish Bucket on the wall? It renders that specific tropical fish variant.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/fish-display
- Owner
- TheWhiteGuy
- Published
- 2026-02-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-02-17
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15