Fishing Frontier

Fishing Frontier changes which items a fishing rod can catch, adding many new fish and fished items whose tier depends on the fishing progress a player has reached. Biome and location specific loot gives players a reason to travel and explore. Fish up new armor pieces as part of the Fisherman's Set and climb through the ranks by spending time fishing. Each new loot table entry is set by the datapack rather than by a mod jar, so the rules sit in a data pack alongside the world.

The mod also adds several new enchantments for fishing rods. One enchantment catches live creatures carrying loot, another lets a rod fish lava, and an enchantment that only applies to loot crates encourages players to search structures for rare items. Structures can yield loot crates that hold armor trims. An advancement-based tutorial and an informational book guide new players through the system, which is given when the fisher first crafts boots.

The mod is published for Fabric, Forge, NeoForge and Quilt, and it is also available as a data pack. Server owners install it, and players can join with or without it. Files cover 16 release versions, 1.21 – 26.2, and snapshot builds are published. It is released under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only and is not open source.