Fishing Rod

A fishing rod is a tool that casts a bobber used to fish in water or to hook and pull mobs, items and some entities towards the user.

Obtaining[]

Crafting[]

Fishing[]

Enchanted fishing rods can be obtained as "treasure" items from fishing, and unenchanted ones as "junk" items.

Trading[]

Journeyman-level fisherman villagers sell enchanted fishing rods for 6 emeralds. The enchantments are the same as the ones obtained from an enchantment table at levels 5–19.

Chest loot[]

Carrot/warped fungus on a stick[]

If a carrot on a stick or a warped fungus on a stick is used to the point of zero durability, it becomes a fishing rod again.

Mob loot[]

In Java Edition, the drowned mob has a 3.75% chance of spawning with a fishing rod equipped. In Bedrock Edition, naturally-spawned drowned has 0.85% chance to spawn with fishing rod, while converted drowned has 1% chance to spawn with it. If killed, they have an 8.5% chance of dropping this fishing rod. That chance increases by 1% for each level of Looting applied to a weapon (up to 11.5% chance). The dropped item is damaged and never enchanted.

Usage[]

Fishing[]

Fishing rods can be cast into water. After a short period of time, a stream of bubble particles approaches the fishing rod. If the rod is reeled in once the particles "bite" the bobber, the player obtains a fish, junk, or possibly a treasure item. If the fishing rod was in the player's hand and is no longer, the fishing bobber entity despawns, unless the fishing rod to the off-hand or it's been swapped with another fishing rod^{[citation needed]}.

Crafting ingredient[]

Hooking mobs and other entities[]

The fishing rod can be used to hook mobs, items‌^{[Java Edition only]} and some entities, and even players. The fishing rod can then be reeled in, dragging the hooked object toward the player without dealing damage. Reeling in a mob or entity costs 5 points of durability, and reeling in an item costs 3 points. Reeling a mob pulls it toward the player with a speed of ¹⁄₁₀ the distance between mob and player.

Besides mobs and items, entities that can be reeled in include:

• Boats
• Boat with Chests
• Minecarts of any type
• Armor Stands
• Shulker Bullets
• Fireballs
• Small fireballs
• Primed TNT
• Any falling block such as Sand, Gravel, Dragon Eggs, Concrete Powders, Scaffolding, Snow on Bedrock Edition or Anvils

Some entities can be hooked, but cannot be reeled in:

• Mobs riding/being ridden by other mobs (in Bedrock Edition, the hooked mob dismounts)
• Paintings
• Item Frames
• Lead knots
• End Crystals
• Shulkers

Attempting to reel in said entities still costs durability to the rod.

The rest of the entities cannot be hooked at all:

• Thrown eggs
• Thrown snowballs
• Thrown ender pearls
• Thrown eyes of ender
• Thrown potions
• Thrown bottles o' enchanting
• Dragon fireballs
• Wither skulls
• Firework rockets in flight
• Arrows in flight
• Area effect cloud
• XP orbs

Using it on a villager lowers the player's popularity and causes any naturally-spawned iron golems nearby to attack.

Fuel[]

A fishing rod can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per fishing rod.

Other usage[]

The hook can also be used to activate wooden pressure plates or weighted pressure plates.

Enchantments[]

A fishing rod can receive the following enchantments:

A fishing rod with the Mending enchantment has infinite durability if used for fishing only. The rod incrementally repairs itself using the experience gained each time a player reels in a fish, even if starting from nearly 0% durability. Players wearing damaged Mending armor have a lower average rate of repair, because the mending mechanic can ignore damage to the rod while repairing armor instead. Unbreaking III can nearly guarantee that the rod does not break, unless it's already at low durability.

Fishing Bobber[]

Fishing bobbers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. They also appear to despawn after a while.

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Entity data[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:
Fishing bobbers use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.^{[sound 1]}

Bedrock Edition:

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Achievements[]

Advancements[]

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Resource location
	Fishy Business	Catch a fish	Husbandry	Use a fishing rod to catch any of these fishes: Cod Salmon Tropical Fish Pufferfish	husbandry/fishy_business

History[]

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The specific instructions are: Old throwing sound (pre-Sound Update), which was used for fishing rods

Java Edition Alpha
v1.1.1					Added fishing rods.
					Fishing rods currently have no function.
					Fishing rods are stackable.
v1.2.0		?			Fishing rods have been updated to be able to catch fish from any body of water.
					Cast fishing rods use the stick texture in first and third person, and do not appear cast in the hotbar.
v1.2.2					Fishing rods now work in multiplayer. Previously, fishing rods could be used in multiplayer, but would produce fake client-side fish that could not be picked up.
					Fishing rods in multiplayer repeat the cast sound when reeling in, do not render the line, and do not switch textures when cast.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		Test Build 3			Fishing rods are now no longer stackable, stacking rods would allow the player to change the damage values of any rods stacked to the first rod. This could be exploited to have fishing rods that lasted forever.
					In first person, cast fishing rods now use a texture without the line to show that it is no longer on the rod. The stick texture is still used in third person, however.
Sound Update					The fishing rod cast sound has been changed.
Java Edition
1.3.1		12w17a			Fishing rods now have infinite durability in Creative mode.
		12w18a			Fishing rods in multiplayer no longer repeat the cast sound when reeling in, now properly render the line, and now switch textures when cast.
1.4.2		12w36a			Added carrot on a stick, which can be crafted using a fishing rod and a carrot.
		12w37a			Fishing now give the player experience with each fish caught.
1.4.6		12w49a			Fishing rods can now be enchanted with Unbreaking using enchanted books.
1.7.2		13w36a			Fishing rods now have 2 new enchantments: Lure and Luck of the Sea.
					Fishing rods can now be enchanted in an enchantment table.
					Enchanted fishing rods can now be obtained as a "treasure" item from fishing, and unenchanted ones as a "junk" item.
1.8		14w02a			Fisherman villagers now sell enchanted fishing rods for 7–8 emeralds.
		14w33b			Cast fishing rods now use the cast texture in third person, rather than the stick texture.
1.9		15w31a			Cast fishing rods now look cast in the hotbar and inventory.
		15w32a			Fishing rods no longer damage the ender dragon.
		15w36a			Fishing rods now properly hook entities.
					Reeling in while hooked to a non-item entity now costs 5 durability (was 3) to the fishing rod.
1.10		16w21a			Fishing rods now hook items, which costs 3 durability.
1.11		16w33a			Fishing rods can now be used to fuel furnaces.
1.12		17w13a			The sound of the bobbers of fishing rods being thrown has been changed.
		17w16a			Added sounds for reeling in fishing bobbers.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 346.
		17w50a			Crafting a carrot on a stick no longer requires the fishing rod to be at full durability.[1]
		18w02a			The bobber of fishing rods now has its own entity ID: fishing_bobber, although summoning the bobber alone is still not possible.
		18w09a			Enchanted fishing rods now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
		18w11a			Added drowned, which have a chance to spawn drop fishing rods upon death.
		18w14a			Catching a fish with the fishing rod now grants the "Fishy Business" advancement.
		?			Fishing rods no longer display as unknown when called by a target selector.
1.14		18w43a			The textures of fishing rods have been changed.
1.16		20w13a			Fishing rod is now used to craft warped fungus on a stick.
		20w14a			The bobber of fishing rods is now considered a projectile and can ignite (if on fire) TNT, activate targets and ring bells.
Upcoming Java Edition
Villager Trade Rebalance (Experimental)		23w31a			Enchantments exclusive to fishing rods are no longer obtainable from villager trading.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.11.0		build 1			Added fishing rods.
		build 8			If an entity is mounted on another entity, reeling it in with a fishing rod now pulls it off its ride.
		build 11			Fishing rods are now functional in third person view.
v0.12.1		build 12			Fishing rods now make a less repetitive sound.
					Fishing rods now grant experience when successful.
					Fishing rods can now be enchanted.
					Enchanted fishing rods can now be found as "treasure" from fishing.
v0.15.0		build 1			Fishing rods are now used to craft carrot on a stick.
Pocket Edition
1.0.4		alpha 1.0.4.0			Fisherman villagers now sell enchanted fishing rods.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			The entity ID of fishing rods has been changed from fishinghook to fishing_hook.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.13.8			Added drowned, which can spawn with and drop fishing rods.
		beta 1.2.20.1			Fishing rods and enchanted fishing rods can now be found in underwater ruins.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The textures of fishing rods have been changed.
1.11.0		beta 1.11.0.4			Fisherman villagers now sell enchanted fishing rods for 6 emeralds as part of their third tier trade.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added fishing rods.
					As a result of Legacy Console Edition using an internal server, fishing rods repeat the cast sound when reeling in, do not render the line, and do not switch textures when cast.
TU7					Fishing rods no longer repeat the cast sound when reeling in, now properly render the line, and now switch textures when cast.
					The cast fishing rod texture appears in first person, while the stick texture is used instead in third person.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Cast fishing rods now use the cast texture in third person, rather than the stick texture.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		Fishing rods now hook items, which costs 3 durability.
TU53	CU43	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	The sound of the bobbers of fishing rods being thrown has been changed.
					Added sounds for reeling in fishing bobbers.
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Enchanted fishing rods now generate in the chests of underwater ruins.
					Added drowned, which have a chance to spawn drop fishing rods upon death.
		1.90			The textures of fishing rods have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added fishing rods.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Fishing Rod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia[]

• The maximum distance the player can get between the bobber and themselves is 33 blocks.
• Skeletons can be pulled into their own arrows.
• When casting the rod into a portal, the bobber may stick to it like a normal block, go through and travel in the Nether, or stop on the next block behind the portal.
• If the player stands directly in front of a column and casts the line onto a block above the player, the line falls downward.
• If the bobber hits a painting, the painting breaks.
• The player can get into bed after casting a line, and the line remains in the water until the player wakes up and reels it in.

Gallery[]

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  13w36a snapshot banner.

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  Trail of bubbles indicating that a fish is about to bite.

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  Two-dimensional bobber in Java Edition.

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  Three-dimensional bobber in Bedrock Edition.

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  Bobbers can be attached to mobs, like this enderman.

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  A drowned holding a fishing rod.

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  A bobber cast in fire.

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  Fishing in 2010.

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  Image from dinnerbone teasing the addition of fishing rods hooking entities.

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  Sunny reeling back a fishing rod.

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  Noor catching a salmon.^[2]

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  An enchanted fishing rod.

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  Fishing rod in the Super Duper Graphics Pack.

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