Fish (creature)

Fish
Fish is a perpetual, convenient source of food. Make a fishing rod and find the nearest freshwater pond for fishing.
Statistics
Swimming speed	50 (horizontal) 40 (vertical)
Drops
Fish (requires a fishing rod)

This article is about the living creature. For the raw food item, see: Fish.

Fish is a non-hostile creature found in water ponds with at least four blocks completely filled with water in any worlds or biomes.

When caught with a fishing rod it becomes a raw food item used in some cooked dishes.

Behavior

Fishes spawn in water ponds, be it natural, or made by dwarfs.

A fish normally only moves in a horizontal line. Only when been atracted by a fishing rod, it will move vertically or in diagonal.

If caught, new fishes spwan every thirty seconds to reestablish the cap poputalion number of the pond.

Appearance

A fish in a Desert World surface pond.

Fishes populating water ponds on the surface of the world can be

• red,
• blue and
• with a pufferfish appearance;

while fishes populating underground ponds can only have

• the appearance of an anglerfish.

Trivia

A red fish is the fish appearing in the aquarium when this furniture is placed somewhere.

History

Game version	Release	Changes
0.9.022	03 Apr 2014	Redrawn fish pictures and animation.
1.2.001	19 Dec 2015	Limited maximum number of fish in a single pond.
1.4.013	25 Dec 2017	Fixed: fishes did not allow to fill up pond with blocks.