Fishing Rod

Fishing Rod

Rarity	Common
Durability	64
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	No

This article is about the fishing rod. For the gameplay mechanic, see Fishing.

A fishing rod is a tool used primarily for fishing.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Stick + String
Damaged Fishing Rod		The durability of the two fishing rods is added together, plus an extra 5% durability.

Fishing

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

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.

Natural generation

Enchanted fishing rods can be found in 21.7% of big underwater ruins chests and 41.7% of small underwater ruins chests in groups of 1.

Notes

Carrot or 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.

Mob drops

The drowned mob has a 3.75% chance‌^{[Java Edition only]} or 0.85%‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} of spawning with a fishing rod equipped. 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

Main article: Fishing

The fishing rod's main use is for fishing. Catching an item costs 1 durability, reeling in while the hook is on the ground costs 2 durability points, and reeling in while in water does not reduce durability. Successful catches award 1-6 experience.

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe	Description
Carrot on a Stick	Fishing Rod or Damaged Fishing Rod + Carrot		The fishing rod must not be damaged to craft the carrot on a stick.‌[Bedrock Edition only]
Carrot on a Stick	Fishing Rod or Damaged Fishing Rod + Carrot		The fishing rod must be diagonally above the carrot to craft the carrot on a stick.‌[Java Edition only]
Warped Fungus on a Stick	Fishing Rod + Warped Fungus		‌[upcoming: JE 1.16]

Hooking mobs and other entities

The fishing rod can be used to hook mobs, items and some entities, and even players. The fishing rod can then be reeled in, which drags them toward the player and deals no 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
• Minecarts of any type
• Armor Stands
• Shulker Bullets
• Ghast fireballs
• Shot fire charges
• Primed TNT
• Any falling block
  • Such as Sand, Gravel, Dragon Eggs or Anvils.

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

• Mobs riding/being ridden by other mobs
• 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 cause any naturally-spawned iron golems nearby to attack.

Hooking an entity mounted on another entity breaks the connection between the rider and its ride.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Fuel

A fishing rod can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per fishing rod.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

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:

Name	Max Level
Lure	III
Luck of the Sea	III
Unbreaking	III
Mending	I
Curse of Vanishing‌[Java Edition only]	I

Fishing Bobber

Fishing Bobber

Internal ID*	BE: 77
Network ID*	JE: 90

See also: Chunk format

Fishing hooks 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:

Entity	Namespaced ID
Fishing Bobber	fishing_bobber

Bedrock Edition:

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Fishing Bobber	fishing_hook	77

Entity data

• Entity data
  • Tags common to all entities see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template

Sounds

Sound	Subtitle	Namespaced ID	Subtitle ID	Source	Pitch	Volume	Attenuation distance
	Bobber thrown	entity.fishing_bobber.throw	subtitles.entity.fishing_bobber.throw	?	?	?	16
	No subtitle	entity.fishing_bobber.retrieve	(When reeling rod in)	?	2.4	?	16
	Fishing hook splashes	entity.fishing_bobber.splash	subtitles.entity.fishing_bobber.splash	?	?	?	16

Achievements

Main article: Achievements

Icon	Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Xbox points earned	Trophy type (PS)
	Cow Tipper	Harvest some leather.	Pick up leather from the ground.	15G	Bronze

Advancements

Main article: Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Parent	Actual requirements (if different)	Namespaced ID
	Fishy Business	Catch a fish	Husbandry	Use a fishing rod to catch a fish.	husbandry/fishy_business

Video

Note: This video is outdated and does not mention changes added since its implementation.

History

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 now been updated to be able to catch fish from any body of water.
Java Edition Beta
1.6		?			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.
					There is now a sprite for the fishing rod without the line in items.png, it is currently unused.
1.7					The sprite is now used when the bobber has been cast to show that it is no longer on the rod. Before this update, the stick texture was used for this purpose.
Sound Update					The fishing rod cast sound has now been changed.
Java Edition
1.0.0		?			Added sounds for fishing rods.[more information needed]
1.3.1		12w17a			Fishing rods now have infinite durability in creative mode.
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.
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			Changed the sound of bobbers being thrown.
		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.
		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 now been changed.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.11.0		build 1			Added fishing rods.
		build 8			If an entity is mounted on another entity, hooking it with a fishing rod now breaks the connection with its ride.
		build 11			Fishing rods are now functional in third person view.
0.12.1		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.
0.15.0		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 now 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 now 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		Added fishing rods.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The textures of fishing rods have now 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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  An enchanted fishing rod.

References

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