Tankful
by IggyMods
Tankful adds aquarium blocks that players fill with fish, along with fish food and two decoration items for building underwater scenes.
What it does
An aquarium is a block that players build and fill with water, and fish placed inside it swim about freely. Each fish carries its variant with it, so a placed axolotl keeps its colour and a tropical fish keeps its pattern. Placing aquariums next to each other merges them into one volume, and the glass between them disappears so fish can swim across the boundary. Aquariums can be stacked, fanned out into a U-shape or built into a 27-block cube wall, and whatever shape is built, the fish use it.
The two decoration items are a shipwreck and an ocean ruin. Each drops a miniaturised version of one of the vanilla underwater structures into the aquarium, using real shipwreck variants with the mast sideways, a full hull or a broken one, and real cracked mossy brick and warm-stone pieces for ruins. Both turn up in the same loot chests as their vanilla counterparts. Players can place any block tagged tankful:plants as substrate, and kelp, seagrass and coral are included by default. Datapacks can extend that list. Craft fish food using the recipe in the mod, then right-click an aquarium to release a few drifting orange motes; the fish notice them, swim over and eat.
Key features
Fish keep their variants
Cod, salmon, axolotls, pufferfish, tropical fish and tadpoles keep their variant data when placed in an aquarium.
Bubble columns and fish movement
Soul sand and soul soil make upward columns, magma blocks make downward ones, and fish move through them.
Merging and stacking aquariums
Adjacent aquariums combine into one volume, and the tanks can be stacked, fanned out or built into large walls.
Miniature underwater structures
Shipwreck and ocean ruin decorations place small versions of vanilla structures inside the aquarium.
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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.
How it compares
Axolotl Sterilizer is a Fabric mod for 1.21.11 that is not open source, and it is required on the server while clients may leave it out. Underwater Torch is a Fabric mod for 1.20.1 – 1.21.4 released under the MIT License, and it is open source, with a client and server environment. Fish and Bizz is also open source under the MIT License, covering 1.19.3 – 1.20.1 on Fabric, with a client and server environment.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tankful | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Client and server | 2026-05-20 |
| Axolotl Sterilizer | Fabric | 1.21.11 | Server required, client optional | 2025-12-31 |
| Underwater Torch | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.21.4 | Client and server | 2026-05-24 |
| Fish and Bizz | Fabric | 1.19.3 – 1.20.1 | Client and server | 2026-02-10 |
Questions
Does Tankful need Fabric API?
Does the server need Tankful?
Can fish be moved in and out of an aquarium?
In the catalog
Tankful is one of 11,058 Mobs mods on ModsFinder, and one of 5,189 Mobs mods for Fabric. 19,862 mods support Minecraft 1.21.11.
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What the author says
Tankful adds a multiblock aquarium block. You scoop a fish into a vanilla mob bucket, click the bucket on the aquarium, and now there's an actual fish swimming around in there with the variant colors and pattern it had in the bucket. Then you build it up, decorate it, feed the fish, knock the glass, whatever you want.
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/tankful
- Owner
- IggyMods
- Published
- 2026-05-20
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-05-20
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15
