River Fishing 0.6.1 — the tackle & fight update

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Minecraft 1.20.1 · 1.21.1 · 26.1.2 · 26.2 — Fabric, Forge (1.20.1 only) and NeoForge. Requires Architectury API; on Fabric also Fabric API. Serene Seasons and Biomes O' Plenty are optional and the balance assumes them.

Tackle now has a weight, and weight is a decision. Before this update a rig was a rig and a lure was a lure. Now the grams you tie them at decide how far you cast, how long you wait, and which fish will even look at what you are offering.

The Tackle Station

Right-click a Fishing Stall with an empty hand and it becomes a tackle bench. Pick a form, step the weight, feed it hooks, iron and string, take the finished tackle out. The block that gives a village its fisherman is the same block you tie your own gear on.

• 6 bottom rigs and 8 lures, each with its own weight ladder. Rigs come out with their hooks already slotted.
• Three systems read that weight: your blank's cast-weight window, the lure-size filter, and cast distance. A lure's mass is its size — a heavy pilker genuinely silences the small stuff, and it sets a floor on how small the hooked fish can be.
• Dye a lure at the bench. The colour affects the bite.
• Every piece carries its maker's name and its weight on the tooltip.
• The heaviest classes of spoon, wobbler, jig and castmaster are sea sizes and exist only here — the sea spinning, boat and trolling blanks finally have tackle inside their test windows.

Hand-crafted lures carry no weight stamp, which the game reads as 0 g: they add nothing to the cast and never enter the size filter. The recipes still exist and the wiki says plainly that they are the basic path.

The fight has physics

• The rod bends under tension — six bend steps driven by the real stress on your tackle, and everyone nearby sees it, not just you.
• A running fish loads the tackle by itself. You no longer have to be cranking for the line to be in danger.
• Fish tire out. A long fight is winnable by outlasting the fish instead of out-clicking it.
• Small fry stop fighting like monsters — a 200 g roach no longer behaves like a carp.
• Opening the drag always pays line, so crouch-spamming is no longer free.
• Trolling starts reliably and the boss bar reads the fight correctly.

The fisherman is not a fish market

The old trade tables were mostly fish, and gear almost never showed up.

• Three offers per level instead of two, drawn from a per-tier pool.
• Tier 1 always includes one simple fish, so the first trade is never a wall.
• Rods are sold fully assembled only — no more bare blanks you cannot cast.
• Tackle from the stall is real bench tackle, carrying the same weight stamp the bench writes.
• The stall also stocks plain vanilla goods — string, a boat, prismarine, a nautilus shell.

Crafting

• Every rod blank and every reel is craftable, on one cost ladder — 24 recipes, no gaps.
• Hooks #2 and #1 joined the hooks tag, which had silently locked the two biggest hooks out of every lure recipe.

Four new river species — 70 in total

Common dace, Volga zander, White-eye bream and the Round goby, each with its own habitat gates, fight profile and journal page. Plus a realism pass over the existing species: weights and lengths corrected against the real fish.

The wiki, online and in three languages

qwazar14.github.io/riverfishing — 18 pages in English, Russian and Ukrainian, one URL with a language switcher. Every rod, reel, line, rig, bait, species and mechanic with the actual numbers, and all 91 recipes drawn as real crafting grids generated from the recipe files, so they cannot drift from what the game loads.

Ukrainian

The mod now speaks Ukrainian — every one of its 812 strings, with real Ukrainian angling vocabulary and real Ukrainian fish names rather than transliterations.

Community

discord.gg/Kk2nKvsuRh — there is now a Discord, and a button for it on the journal's guide shelf. Bug reports and catches equally welcome; a report with a screenshot and your mod list gets fixed far faster than one without.

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The 0.6.1 fixes

Every item below came from a player report in the week 0.6.0 shipped. If you are installing for the first time, you are getting all of this already.

The cast no longer disappears on its own

The important one. The mod checks that you are still holding the rod your cast was made with, and it was making that check by comparing the rod's item by memory reference. That reference goes stale the moment anything rewrites your inventory slot — which happens far more often on a server than in single player. From that moment the mod believed you had swapped rods, and it ended the cast silently, with no message at all.

From the bank that looks exactly like the rod reeling itself back in a moment after you cast. It hit every rod class, which is why it was reported for lures and for bait alike, and it was much worse in multiplayer. It now tracks the hotbar slot instead, which cannot go stale. Confirmed fixed by the player who reported it, on the server where it happened.

The Fishing Stall opens its bench on Forge

On 1.20.1 Forge only, right-clicking a Fishing Stall with an empty hand opened the Tackle Station server-side but never drew the screen — the block simply did nothing. The screen was registered on every other loader. Fixed.

The mod no longer tells you to fish the wrong way

• The message after a lure cast said "Hold right-click to retrieve". Holding is the one input that cannot work: it auto-repeats about five times a second, which winds the lure in at full speed and is too fast a cadence for a fish to take, by the mod's own design. The guide page said the opposite. The cast message now says what actually works — individual clicks with a rhythm.
• Every rod's tooltip now says how that rod is fished, on the first line: active rods are worked with rhythmic clicks, float and bottom rods are cast and then left alone. Before this, a bottom rod and a spinning rod carried word-for-word the same hint, and nothing in the game distinguished them. (The winter rod is exempt — it is jigged through an ice hole, and already says so.)
• A new journal guide covers the waiting flow, the float and bottom rods. The journal had thirteen guide pages and not one of them was about the two rod classes you do not retrieve, while three of them taught you to crank.

Earlier fixes, from 0.6.0

• The rod's assembly screen wrote tackle into a detached copy of the rod, so changes could be silently lost. This is the bug behind the "the rod is not assembled" reports.
• The "not assembled" message now names which part is missing instead of just refusing to cast.
• Five registry gaps, including the saltwater blanks' durability and the drag curve being computed in two places with two different answers.
• Cast-bar and pump-reel corrections from six playtest rounds.
• On 26.1.2 and 26.2 only: the four new species rendered as missing-texture squares, and the journal's Guides tab ignored clicks. Both fixed.
• The 13 rod icons left over from 0.1.0 are gone.

Known limitations, stated plainly

• Hook link, balance and blade size do nothing yet. They are written to the tackle and shown on its tooltip, and nothing else reads them. Groundwork for a later pass — treat them as cosmetic. Weight and dye are the two bench choices that actually change how fish behave.
• The dynamic fish market is missing on 26.1.2 and 26.2. Prices are static there; on 1.20.1 and 1.21.1 they move with supply.
• JEI and Jade integration is missing on 26.1.2 and 26.2. Both work on 1.20.1 and 1.21.1.
• There is no config file yet. Difficulty is fixed at the realism preset in code, so a modpack cannot retune it without patching.

These are the next release's job.