Minecraft Fishing Guide: Everything You Need to Know

Minecraft is a sandbox game with several distinct features, which include combat, grinding, exploring, building, farming, mining, and even fishing. You’ve probably played around with most of them. However, depending on your preference and gameplay style, you can enjoy just a couple of features and not be that interested in the rest. Though, that doesn’t make those other features any less valuable or worse. In this guide, we will be taking a look at fishing, one of the key Minecraft features that many players forget about, but it comes with some amazing rewards and advantages. So, without further ado, let’s learn how to fish in Minecraft

What are the Fishing Mechanics in Minecraft?

Fishing is a feature that’s been present in Minecraft since the 1.2.0 update. With the help of a fishing rod, you can throw the bobber in any water block (water source or flowing water) and have a chance to reel something in. That can be a fish, a junk item, or a treasure. Do check out the last section of this article to learn what rewards you can get by fishing.

Furthermore, fishing is a simple and slow mechanic. It mostly requires the player’s patience and attention. It’s a change of pace compared to the other major features. Some people could even call it plain or bland because of this. Even though there are surely ways in which this feature could be improved, it shouldn’t be overlooked.

How to Fish in Minecraft: A Step-by-Step Guide

All you really need to start fishing in Minecraft is a fishing rod and a water source. Bodies of water can be found pretty much everywhere in your world. From lone water sources, small puddles, and surface and underground lakes to rivers and oceans, you won’t have issues finding water for fishing. You could evenmake a bucketto transport water and create your own pools. So, let’s first focus on our main requirement for fishing – a fishing rod.

Step 1: Craft a Fishing Rod

Fishing rod is a tool that can be either crafted, found, or traded. The easiest and fastest way to get a fishing rod is through crafting, though. To do so, you will need 3 sticks and 2 pieces of string. Follow the crafting recipe in the image below to craft a fishing rod in Minecraft. For a detailed guide onhow to craft a fishing rod in Minecraft, follow the link here.

Step 2: Catch Fish in Minecraft

Now that we have the fishing rod and found a body of water, it’s time we learn how to fish in Minecraft. Follow the process explained below to do just that.

Minecraft Fishing Rod Enchantments

As you will realize fairly quickly, fishing is a slow and (kind of) boring process in Minecraft. So, to make it more fun and efficient, you can improve the fishing rod usingenchantments in Minecraft. Here are all the enchantments you can use with

All of these enchantments are compatible, so you can create the perfect fishing rod. You can also get most of these enchantments through theenchanting table, but applying them withenchanted booksis definitely more reliable. The best way to get ahold of those is by trading withMinecraft villagers. If you need any help with enchanting or the villagers, make sure to check out our linked guides for details.

How to Repair Fishing Rod in Minecraft

Similarly to other tools in Minecraft, from pickaxes to the newbrush added in Minecraft 1.20, the fishing rod has limited durability. Every time you use the fishing rod, its durability decreases. But if you move far away from the bobber or switch to some other slot in your hotbar, the fishing line will disappear and no fishing rod durability will be reduced. So, let’s learn how to preserve your fishing rod with repairs.

The Fishing rod cannot be repaired as adiamond pickaxefor instance, by somehow combining it with string in ananvil. But, it is repaired like a bow. So, you can merge two fishing rods together in a crafting grid or an anvil if the rods are enchanted. This impliesyou need two fishing rods in order to restore the durability. Both of their remaining durability will be added together, and you will get a few more uses out of it.

Fishing Loot in Minecraft: What are the Rewards?

Just like with anything else in Minecraft, we are mostly interested in the loot, right? Besides all the item drops you can get, we should first mention the XP you receive by fishing. Every time you reel something in, you’ll get experience orbs worth 1-6 XP. Although fishing is slow, this is an amazing way toget XP in Minecraft. Furthermore, if you use the mending enchantment on your fishing rod, it will instantly use the XP from fishing and repair itself. So, you basically have a forever-lasting fishing rod at that point.

Thejungle biomes fishing loottableis a bit different than other biomes. A couple of items are added to the fishing junk loot table of these biomes, which you will see below.

1. Fish

Fish are the primary fishing loot. Without the luck of the sea enchantment, you have about an85% chanceof catching fish.FishChanceRaw Cod60%Raw Salmon25%Pufferfish13%Tropical Fish2%

2. Junk

Apart from fish, you can also get junk items from fishing in Minecraft. You have about a10% chanceof catching junk without the luck of the sea enchantment. Most of the time you can call these junk, but occasionally, they may not seem like junk at all.Junk ItemChanceLily Pad17%Bowl10%Fishing Rod (damaged and unenchanted)2%Leather10%Leather Boots (damaged and unenchanted)10%Rotten Flesh10%Stick5%String5%Water Bottle10%Bone10%Ink Sac (10)1%Tripwire Hook10%Biomes Outside the Jungle BiomesJunk ItemChanceLily Pad14.2% (Bedrock Edition)15.5% (Java Edition)Bamboo8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Cocoa Beans (Bedrock Edition only)8.3%Bowl8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Fishing Rod (damaged and unenchanted)1.7% (Bedrock Edition)1.8% (Java Edition)Leather8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Leather Boots (damaged and unenchanted)8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Rotten Flesh8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Stick4.2% (Bedrock Edition)4.5% (Java Edition)String4.2% (Bedrock Edition)4.5% (Java Edition)Water Bottle8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Bone8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Ink Sac (10)0.8% (Bedrock Edition)0.9% (Java Edition)Tripwire Hook8.3% (Bedrock Edition)9.1% (Java Edition)Inside Jungle Biomes

3. Treasure Loot

Unlike the fish and junk loot that have no particular requirements, treasure items do. If you want to reel in a special item, the bobber needs to be at least in a 5 x 4 x 5 whole area. So, there should be at least 2 blocks worth of space above the bobber, 2 blocks of water sources below the bobber, and the water block that the bobber sits in should have at least 2 water source blocks horizontally in all directions. Basically, try and place the bobber in open water with plenty of water source blocks around it and air blocks above it.

You have about a 5% chance of catching a treasure item without the luck of the sea enchantment. However, with this enchantment, there is an11.3% chanceyou’ll get a special item.Treasure ItemChanceBow (damaged and enchanted)16.7%Enchanted Book16.7%Fishing Rod (damaged and enchanted)16.7%Name Tag16.7%Nautilus Shell16.7%Saddle16.7%

Frequently Asked Questions

You probably haven’t fulfilled the requirements explained above. The bobber needs to be in an adequate area and you shouldn’t fish in jungle biomes.

No, you cannot.

No, it’s really not. You should just have enough patience to wait for the fish to bite and also get the loot that you want.

Radojka Travar

I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.

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