Common Issues

"Your line snapped!"

Tension hit 100% while reeling. Let go of Use before the tension bar fills. A snap costs 5 to 9 points of rod durability, so it's worth easing off early. See The Minigame.

"The fish got away..."

One of three things:

• You clicked outside the hit window during the timing phase.
• The ring closed past the target without a hit.
• Reeling progress dropped to 0% because you let go for too long.

An escape costs 1 point of durability.

The minigame vanished with no message

It was called off because you died, disconnected or reeled your line in. That's free: no durability lost, and no penalty.

My clicks don't do anything for a moment after fishing

For 2 seconds after a catch, snap or escape, clicks are held back while the result shows, so a late click doesn't recast by accident.

I used Lucky Bait but nothing happened

It works on your next landed catch, not straight away, and it waits through snaps and escapes. Using a second one before you land a fish wastes it. See Items.

My catch didn't show up in the journal

Only fish species are tracked. Junk and treasure (sticks, bows, books, rods and so on) never appear, and nothing from vanilla fishing in plain water does either.

Config changes don't do anything

dreamlight_fishing.json is only read at startup. Restart the game or server. On a server, edit the server's copy.

Data pack changes don't do anything

Check the folder names. Loot tables go in loot_table (singular); species go in ddv_fishing/species. Then run /reload. See Troubleshooting for more.