Use to cast the line into a body of water. Your position doesn't matter: You can be in the

water, sitting in a boat, or standing on adjacent land.

The bobber must be watched closely. Small splashes can be seen around the bobber.

When a fish is getting ready to bite, a small trail will head towards the bobber (unseen if

Particles are set to Minimal). When it dips below the surface, immediately right-click

again to reel in the line. The window for reeling in when a fish bites is about half a

second. If a bite is missed, the line can be left in the water to wait for another bite.

A successful reel-in causes a fish or other item to fly through the air towards the player.

Normally, it will fly directly to you, but if there are blocks in the way, it may bounce off

at an angle.

A successful reel-in also produces an experience orb worth 16 experience points at the location of the player doing the fishing.

Fish can be caught just as readily in small, shallow, and/or player-created pools.

The line will disappear if the player wanders more than 32 blocks away from the bobber, or if the

player stops holding a fishing rod.

The fishing rod will take 1 point of damage when catching an item, 2 points when reeling in the

hook when it is on the ground, and 3 points when reeling in the hook when it is hooked into an

entity. Reeling in from water without catching anything or causing the hook to disappear by

moving away or switching to a different item will not damage the rod.

Catching fish

The current algorithm:

Using a regular fishing rod, a random integer from 100 to 900 is selected. The game then

counts down each tick to 0 at which time the fish's water particles appear. At 20 ticks per

second, this amounts to a random wait time between 545 seconds. o Using the lure enchantment on a fishing rod decreases the random integer picked

by 100 per level (thus, a wait-time reduction of 5 seconds per level).

o The countdown tick itself is affected by various conditions:

If the bobber is not directly exposed to sun or moonlight[1], the tick has a

50% chance of not decrementing the count, so the wait time is doubled.

If the bobber's block is being rained on[2], each tick has a 25% chance of

counting down 2 instead of 1, so the wait time will be cut by about 20%.

o Upon reeling in you may receive a raw fish, salmon, pufferfish, clownfish, junk,

or treasure.

The older algorithm (up through 1.6.4):

Each tick has a 1/500 chance of catching a fish, unless it's raining, in which case it's a

1/300 chance instead. Rain reduces the average time between catches from 346 ticks to

207 ticks, a 40% decrease.

Junk and treasures

A newly obtained Fishing Rod with the enchantments Lure II, Unbreaking III and Luck of the

Sea II.

The player can occasionally catch treasure or junk instead of fish. An unenchanted fishing rod

has an 85% chance of catching fish, a 10% chance of junk, and a 5% chance of treasure. Each

level of the Luck of the Sea enchantment decreases the chance of junk by 2.5%, and increases

the chance of treasure by 1%. Each level of the Lure enchantment decreases the chance of both

junk and treasure by 1%. The best rod (by chance only) for treasure has Luck of the Sea III, the

best rod for catching fish has both Luck of the Sea III and Lure III, and the best rod for junk is

unenchanted.

When incorporating the speed bonus from the Lure enchantment, the combination that yields the

highest fish or treasure per second is Luck of the Sea III and Lure III. Lure III becomes the

optimum choice for junk-per-second. This is a bit counter-intuitive, but the speed bonus from

Lure overcomes the chance decrease that comes with it.

Catching fishJunk and treasures