Reel Rivals
by SapperSquad
Reel Rivals turns vanilla fishing into a competitive minigame, where players weigh catches and compete on a server-wide leaderboard.
What it does
Reel Rivals runs competitive fishing tournaments on a server. Players catch fish that are weighed to the decimal, and each catch is announced to the whole server with the player's name and a ledger entry. Tournaments are player-hosted and can use a rule set such as total weight, biggest catch or most catches over 5, 10 or 15 minutes. Hosts pick the fish species, from rivers, lakes, oceans or a trophy hunt, and the gear class, from an open class to fair play, luck, sea or rods-only rules. Stakes are set with an emerald buy-in of 1 to 64, with a winner-takes-all or a 60/30/10 split of the pot.
Some fish depend on where and when they are caught. Rivers, quiet ponds, oceans, warm reefs, frozen seas, swamps and jungles each favor different species, and ocean schedules change with sun, rain and thunder. Three legendary fish sit at the top of the ledger. Catching a species once makes a craftable lure for it available, and special lures such as Nightcrawler, Storm Jig and King's Roe change which bites come. Reel Rivals is developed for NeoForge and adds a data pack, so it is installed on the server and players need nothing extra to join.
Key features
Weighed catches
Each catch is weighed to the decimal and announced in chat, with a record shown when a species record is beaten.
Live tournament display
A bossbar shows the countdown and live standings while a fish frenzy runs, with score updates after every catch.
Craftable lures by species
Catching a species once makes a craftable lure for it available, and holding the lure in the offhand raises bites from that fish.
Biome and time rules
Fish appear by biome and time of day, such as Mudskip Gar at night in rivers or Midnight Eels at noon.
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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: Server owners who want a fishing competition with a shared leaderboard, and players who like the hunt for rare species.
How it compares
Starcatcher is a Forge and NeoForge fishing mod for 1.20.1 – 26.3, with client and server sides and a custom license, and it is not open source. Fishing Frenzy is open source under the MIT License, published for Fabric and NeoForge on 1.21 – 26.2, and runs on client and server. LuckyVault is server-side only, open source under the GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 only, and targets 1.21.4 – 1.21.5.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reel Rivals | NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.2 | Server required, client optional | 2026-08-30 |
| Starcatcher | Forge and NeoForge | 1.20.1 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-10-14 |
| Fishing Frenzy | Fabric and NeoForge | 1.21 – 26.2 | Client and server | 2026-09-04 |
| LuckyVault | NeoForge | 1.21.4 – 1.21.5 | Server-side only | 2025-04-08 |
Questions
Does Reel Rivals need to be installed on the client?
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In the catalog
Reel Rivals is one of 2,135 Minigame mods on ModsFinder, and one of 712 Minigame mods for NeoForge. 13,894 mods support Minecraft 26.2.
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What the author says
Reel Rivals turns vanilla fishing into a competition. Every fish you reel in is weighed to the decimal — flashed on your screen, inked onto the catch — and the moment you beat a species record, the whole server hears about it, with your name on the ledger to prove it. From there, it escalates. Rivers hide Golden Bass…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/reel-rivals
- Owner
- SapperSquad
- Published
- 2026-07-18
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-08-30
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15