Minecraft:Fishing Rod

Template:Infobox item A fishing rod is a Minecraft:tool that casts a bobber used to fish in Minecraft:water or to hook and pull Minecraft:mobs, itemsTemplate:Only, and some other Minecraft:entities toward the player.

Obtaining

Fishing

Template:Main Enchanted fishing rods are obtainable through fishing, with a 0.8% chance per attempt, while unenchanted ones are obtainable with a 0.2% chance per attempt. See Minecraft:fishing for more details.

Mob loot

Minecraft:Drowned have a 3.75% chance of spawning holding a fishing rod in their main hand, and Template:In, a converted drowned has a 1% chance to spawn with a fishing rod. 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.

Carrot/warped fungus on a stick

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

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 Minecraft:entity despawns, unless the fishing rod is moved to the off-hand or it has been swapped with another fishing rod.Template:Cn

Hooking mobs and other entities

The fishing rod can be used to hook Minecraft:mobs and some other Minecraft:entities, including itemsTemplate:Only and Minecraft:players. The fishing rod can then be reeled in, dragging the hooked object toward the player without dealing damage. Reeling in a Minecraft: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 Template:Frac the distance between the mob and the player. Hooking entities Template:In with a flaming bobber cast through fire or lava can ignite the entity.

The maximum distance the Minecraft:player can get between the bobber and themselves is 33 blocks. A hooked entity that exceeds this distance detaches from the bobber.

Calculators/Projectile motion

Multiple players can hook the same entity, and when multiple players reel in the entity at the same time, it flies a larger distance than normal.

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

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• Any Minecraft:falling block such as:
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Some entities can be hooked, but cannot be reeled in:

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

Any other entities cannot be hooked at all.

Dismounting entities

Template:Exclusive Template:IN, a mob or a player riding a Minecraft:minecart, a Minecraft:boat, or a mob can be dismounted by reeling it in.

Fuel

A fishing rod can be used as fuel in Minecraft:furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per fishing rod, regardless of its durability.

Redstone

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

Repairing

Anvil repair

Template:Main Template:Repairing A fishing rod can be combined with another fishing rod in an Minecraft:anvil, preserving the Minecraft:enchantments of both.

Enchantments

A fishing rod can receive the following enchantments:

Name	Description	Max level	Method	Weight
Minecraft:Lure	Decreases the wait time for hooking.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Luck of the Sea	Increases fishing luck.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Unbreaking	Grants a chance to negate durability consumption.	III	Template:BlockLink Template:BlockLink	5
Minecraft:Mending	Repairs the fishing rod when obtaining Minecraft:experience.	I	Template:BlockLink	2
Minecraft:Curse of Vanishing	The fishing rod vanishes on death, not dropping as an item.	I	Template:BlockLink	1

Fishing Bobber

Template:Infobox entity Template:See also Fishing bobbers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. Template:IN, they despawn after being on ground for more than 1200 ticks. When fishing bobber enters water (Template:Nbt becomes Template:Cd), despawn timer resets. Template:Info needed

Sounds

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Data values

ID

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Entity data

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

History

Trivia

• Minecraft:Skeletons can be pulled into their own Minecraft:arrows.
• When casting the rod into a Nether portal, the bobber may stick to it like a normal Minecraft:block, go through and travel in Minecraft:the Nether, or stop on the next block behind the portal.
• If the player stands directly in front of a Minecraft:bubble column and casts the line onto a block above the player, the line falls downward, if it is a downwards one.
• In a Minecraft:Minecraft Education map from 2020, the fishing rod was retextured as the "ender communicator", functioning as a "hub" to get from place to place.

Gallery

Renders

• An enchanted fishing rod.
  An enchanted fishing rod.

Screenshots

• Minecraft:13w36a snapshot banner
  Minecraft:13w36a snapshot banner
• Trail of bubbles indicating that a Minecraft:fish is about to bite
  Trail of bubbles indicating that a Minecraft:fish is about to bite
• Two-dimensional bobber Template:In
  Two-dimensional bobber Template:In
• Three-dimensional bobber Template:In
  Three-dimensional bobber Template:In
• Bobbers can be attached to Minecraft:mobs, like this Minecraft:enderman
  Bobbers can be attached to Minecraft:mobs, like this Minecraft:enderman
• A Minecraft:drowned holding a fishing rod.
  A Minecraft:drowned holding a fishing rod.
• A bobber cast in fire
  A bobber cast in fire
• Fishing in 2010
  Fishing in 2010

Mojang screenshots

• Image from Minecraft:dinnerbone teasing the addition of fishing rods hooking entities
  Image from Minecraft:dinnerbone teasing the addition of fishing rods hooking entities

In other media

• Minecraft:Sunny reeling back a fishing rod
  Minecraft:Sunny reeling back a fishing rod
• Minecraft:Noor catching a Minecraft:salmon<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>
  Minecraft:Noor catching a Minecraft:salmon<ref>Template:Ytl</ref>
• Fishing rod in the Minecraft:Super Duper Graphics Pack
  Fishing rod in the Minecraft:Super Duper Graphics Pack
• A Minecraft:warden holding a fishing rod, jokingly suggested by Minecraft:Chi Wong to be “scarier” as a reference to 1.8 PvP<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
  A Minecraft:warden holding a fishing rod, jokingly suggested by Minecraft:Chi Wong to be “scarier” as a reference to 1.8 PvP<ref>Template:Tweet</ref>
• Minecraft:Kissy Missy using a fishing rod
  Minecraft:Kissy Missy using a fishing rod
• A fishing rod as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode.
  A fishing rod as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode.
• A fishing rod as seen in Minecraft:Minecraft Dungeons.
  A fishing rod as seen in Minecraft:Minecraft Dungeons.