Fishing Rod

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A fishing rod is a tool that casts a bobber used to fish in water or to hook and pull mobs, items‌^{[JE only]}, and some other entities toward the player.

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 fishing for more details.

Drowned have a 3.75% chance of spawning holding a fishing rod in their main hand, and in Bedrock Edition, 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.

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{ "item": "Enchanted Fishing Rod", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.21739130434782605, "structure": "Ocean Ruins", "container": "Big ruins chest" }

{ "item": "Fishing Rod", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.2747977375984192, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Common chest" }

{ "item": "Fishing Rod", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.3358200203334857, "structure": "Abandoned Camp", "container": "Barrel" }

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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.

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 is moved to the off-hand or it has been swapped with another fishing rod.^{[citation needed]}

The fishing rod can be used to hook mobs and some other entities, including items‌^{[Java Edition only]} and 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 the mob and the player. Hooking entities in Bedrock Edition with a flaming bobber cast through fire or lava can ignite the entity.

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

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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  Boats
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  Boat with Chests
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  Minecarts of any type
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  Armor Stands
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  Shulker Bullets
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  Fireballs
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  Wind Charges
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  Primed TNT
• Any falling block such as:
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    Sand
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    Gravel
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    Dragon Eggs
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    Concrete Powder
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    Scaffolding
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    Snow ‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
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    Anvils

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

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  Players or mobs riding vehicles or other mobs ‌^{[Java Edition only]}
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  Paintings
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  Item Frames ‌^{[Java Edition only]}
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  Lead knots
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  End Crystals
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  Shulkers

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

Any other entities cannot be hooked at all.

In Bedrock Edition, a mob or a player riding a minecart, a boat, or a mob can be dismounted by reeling it in.

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

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

A fishing rod can be combined with another fishing rod in an anvil, preserving the enchantments of both.

A fishing rod can receive the following enchantments:

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Fishing bobbers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the entity. In Java Edition, they despawn after being on ground for more than 1200 ticks. When fishing bobber enters water ([Boolean] OnGround becomes false), despawn timer resets. ​^{[more information needed]}

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

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Issues relating to "Fishing Rod" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Skeletons can be pulled into their own arrows.
• When casting the rod into a Nether 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 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 Education map from 2020, the fishing rod was retextured as the "ender communicator", functioning as a "hub" to get from place to place.

• 👁 An enchanted fishing rod.
  
  An enchanted fishing rod.

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

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

• 👁 Sunny reeling back a fishing rod
  
  Sunny reeling back a fishing rod
• 👁 Noor catching a salmon[3]
  
  Noor catching a salmon^[3]
• 👁 Fishing rod in the Super Duper Graphics Pack
  
  Fishing rod in the Super Duper Graphics Pack
• 👁 A warden holding a fishing rod, jokingly suggested by Chi Wong to be “scarier” as a reference to 1.8 PvP[4]
  
  A warden holding a fishing rod, jokingly suggested by Chi Wong to be “scarier” as a reference to 1.8 PvP^[4]
• 👁 Kissy Missy using a fishing rod
  
  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 Dungeons.
  
  A fishing rod as seen in Minecraft Dungeons.