ReelDeal
Build your own fishing rod out of a line and a hook. The hook decides what kind of loot comes up, and the line decides which fish it can hold. /reeldeal opens a menu with the guide, every recipe and the Rod Workbench.
How It Works
Building a rod
The recipe is the normal fishing rod recipe: three sticks on the diagonal, with a line where the top string goes and a hook where the bottom string goes. Any line works with any hook. A plain fishing rod still catches the usual vanilla loot.
Lines
| Line | Catches | How to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Woven Line | Cod and salmon | Craft: String, Stick, String (in a row or a column) |
| Reinforced Line | Cod, salmon, pufferfish and tropical fish | Craft: 8 Iron Nuggets around a Woven Line |
| Fiber Line | Same as Reinforced, plus rare biome fish | Craft: Fiber, Reinforced Line, Fiber (in a row or a column) |
Fiber comes up as treasure on any ReelDeal rod.
The Fiber Line's rare fish depend on where you fish. Deepfish live at Y 0 or lower and Cobblefish at Y 48 or lower. Higher up you get Bullfish in swamps, Fishroom in dark forests, pale gardens and mushroom fields, and Icehorn in snowy, taiga and mountain biomes. All five can be eaten, though Bullfish can make you nauseous and Icehorn can slow you down.
Hooks
| Hook | What it does | How to get it |
|---|---|---|
| Wooden Hook | Only catches junk | Craft: planks over a stick. Also fished up as junk |
| Iron Hook | Mostly fish, with some junk and treasure | Craft: Iron Ingot over an Iron Nugget |
| Golden Hook | Twice the treasure, half the junk, and twice the barrels | Craft: Gold Ingot over a Gold Nugget. Also rare treasure |
| Cluster Hook | Ores instead of fish at Y 48 or lower | Rare treasure at Y 48 or lower |
| Anchor Hook | Can pull up live sea mobs | Rare treasure in an ocean |
| Sky Hook | Every catch is feathers, phantom membrane or wind charges | Rare treasure at Y 128 or higher, under open sky |
| XP Hook | Bonus XP on every catch | Very rare barrel loot |
The Cluster Hook's ores depend on the line. A Woven Line brings up coal and raw copper. Reinforced adds raw iron and raw gold. Fiber adds redstone and diamonds at Y 16 or lower, lapis at Y 30 or lower, and emeralds in mountain biomes. Above Y 48 the Cluster Hook fishes like an Iron Hook.
The Anchor Hook works on any line. Squid bite in rivers, dolphins in oceans and frogs in swamps, and glow squid show up anywhere at Y 32 or lower. Pyrofishing fish caught on it also come out one size bigger (see 3D fish below).
The XP Hook gives 3 extra XP on a normal catch. Pyrofishing fish give much more, from 5 XP for Bronze up to 1,000 for Mythical.
Treasure and junk
Treasure is mostly enchanted books, with some nautilus shells, Fiber and the odd hook. Which hook you find depends on where you are: a Cluster Hook underground, a Sky Hook up high, an Anchor Hook in the ocean and a Golden Hook anywhere else. Treasure only bites in open water, away from walls and the shore.
Luck of the Sea works on ReelDeal rods. Each level takes some of the junk and fish odds and moves them onto treasure.
Junk is leather, bones, sticks, clay and now and then a Wooden Hook, plus something from the biome you're in: berries and ferns in taigas, flowers in a flower forest, coral in warm oceans, gold nuggets in the badlands. At Y 48 or lower you pull up flint, string, gunpowder, dripstone, glow ink sacs and sometimes a worn iron pickaxe.
Rod Workbench
The Rod Workbench swaps the hook or line on a rod you already have. Put the rod in, add a hook or a line, and click the green button. The old part comes back to you, and the rod keeps its enchantments and durability. You can also take a part off without putting a new one on. Shift-clicking drops items straight into the right slot, and closing the menu gives everything back.
Barrels
Any fishing rod, ReelDeal or not, sometimes pulls up a barrel instead of the normal catch. It's about 1 catch in 100, or 1 in 50 with a Golden Hook. Hit the barrel 5 times to break it open. Inside is one of: string, cooked cod, coal, iron, gold, prismarine shards, lapis, a nautilus shell, an emerald, a Heart of the Sea, a diamond, or very rarely an XP Hook. One barrel in 10 also lets out a drowned that comes after you.
Only you can hit your barrel, and it disappears after 45 seconds if you leave it. Any Pyrofishing fish you caught on the same cast is still yours.
3D fish
Pyrofishing fish fly out of the water and land next to you as 3D fish, whatever rod you use. Kill the fish to drop it, or shift-right-click it with an empty hand to pick it up. Nobody else can touch your catch. If you leave it for 60 seconds it flops back into the water and it's gone.
Every 3D fish gets a random length:
| Size | Length |
|---|---|
| Tiny | 3 to 8 cm |
| Small | 10 to 25 cm |
| Medium | 28 to 61 cm |
| Large | 64 to 102 cm |
| Trophy | 104 to 150 cm |
Trophy fish are the rarest. An Anchor Hook bumps every catch up one size.
/reeldeal stats shows how many 3D fish you've caught, your biggest one and your rarest size. /reeldeal top ranks the server's biggest fish and the players who've caught the most.
Weather Events
Weather events affect the whole server and last about five minutes by default. Their ambient sounds and particles are most noticeable under open sky. Each event also has its own fishing effect.
Acid Rain
Ordinary rain falls with occasional hissing sounds and splashes. Fishing bobbers exposed to the rain get vanilla's faster-bite benefit.
Pollen Drift
Pollen-like spores drift through the air. There's a 30% chance per catch to receive 2–4 wheat seeds.
Ashfall
Ash settles through the air. There's a 30% chance per catch to receive 1–2 charcoal.
Cold Snap
Snowflakes and muffled sounds mark the chill. ReelDeal rods have a better chance of treasure and a lower chance of junk while it lasts.
Frostwake
Snow and distant Illusioner sounds signal the event. When several anglers gather to fish in one cold spot, something may stir beneath the water.
Dust Haze
Pale dust drifts around you. There's a 30% chance per catch to receive 1–2 clay balls.
Firefly Night
Glowing particles and soft chimes accompany the event. Every catch grants 4 bonus XP.
Meteor Dust
Faint sparks cross the sky. Each catch has a 12% chance to yield an amethyst shard.
Spore Bloom
Spore-like particles fill the air. There's a 25% chance per catch to receive 1–2 brown mushrooms.
Magnetic Disturbance
Electric sparks and a low resonance mark the disturbance. There's a 30% chance per catch to find 1–3 iron nuggets, with a smaller chance of gold instead.
A Weather Radio is crafted from a Compass in the middle, Redstone on the four sides and Copper Ingots in the corners. Right-click it to see the current weather, and click again to see what's coming next. While it's in your hotbar it warns you 5 minutes before an event starts and counts down to it.
Commands
/reeldealor/reel- open the ReelDeal menu/reeldeal guide- a short guide, one topic at a time/reeldeal recipes- recipes for every line, hook and rod/reeldeal workbench- open the Rod Workbench/reeldeal stats- your fishing record/reeldeal top- the biggest fish and most catches on the server