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Tankful

by IggyMods

Tankful adds aquarium blocks that players fill with fish, along with fish food and two decoration items for building underwater scenes.

FabricClient and serverAll rights reserved1.21.11

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

  1. Fish keep their variants

    Cod, salmon, axolotls, pufferfish, tropical fish and tadpoles keep their variant data when placed in an aquarium.

  2. Bubble columns and fish movement

    Soul sand and soul soil make upward columns, magma blocks make downward ones, and fish move through them.

  3. Merging and stacking aquariums

    Adjacent aquariums combine into one volume, and the tanks can be stacked, fanned out or built into large walls.

  4. Miniature underwater structures

    Shipwreck and ocean ruin decorations place small versions of vanilla structures inside the aquarium.

Compatibility

Latest build for each game version and loader.

1.21.111.0.0
ReleaseBetaAlphaNot available

Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.

How it compares

Full comparison

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.

ModLoadersGame versionsEnvironmentUpdated
TankfulFabric1.21.11Client and server2026-05-20
Axolotl SterilizerFabric1.21.11Server required, client optional2025-12-31
Underwater TorchFabric1.20.1 – 1.21.4Client and server2026-05-24
Fish and BizzFabric1.19.3 – 1.20.1Client and server2026-02-10

Questions

Does Tankful need Fabric API?

No required dependency is listed for Fabric.

Does the server need Tankful?

Yes. A server running it needs every connecting player to have it too.

Can fish be moved in and out of an aquarium?

Yes. The mod works with the vanilla mob bucket, so fish can be carried between tanks.

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.
IggyMods, on the Modrinth page

Official listing

Owner
IggyMods
Published
2026-05-20
Updated on Modrinth
2026-05-20
Facts verified
2026-10-15

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