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Fish and breeding

Odd fish

Breeding

Fish Feeder Catch a male and a female and put them in a Fish Feeder with fish food. While they live they work through their lives making things, from water droplets up to lapis and dragon eggs. Build a tank of water around the feeder: each fish wants a tank of its own size, and the right salt and heat (Fishing).

When a female dies she leaves Fish Eggs Fish Eggs. Hatch them in a Hatchery Hatchery, or in an Incubator Incubator (runs on FE, nine stacks at a time). Eggs from two different species can hatch into a third: that is how every fish that isn't wild is first made.

Traits

Every fish carries genes for:

Trait What it does
Species what it is and what it makes
Fertility how many eggs a female leaves
Food usage how fast it eats fish food
Lifespan how long it lives in the feeder
Tank size how much water it needs around the feeder
Work ethic how fast it makes things
Area how far its effect reaches

DNA Extractor The DNA Extractor (10,000 mB of fish oil) copies one trait from a fish onto a DNA sample. The DNA Injector DNA Injector (5,000 mB of blood, plus power) writes it into another fish. Each sample lasts 32 uses.

Upgrades

Fish Feeders and most machines take upgrades, most in a basic and an advanced grade: speed, storage, RF, heating, cooling, salinator, filter, purity and impurity, plus the Ethereal, AquaScum, Eternal Male and Eternal Female upgrades. Each machine uses them in its own way, and the Compendium page for the machine says how. In a Fish Feeder, heating, cooling, salinator and filter change the water; Ethereal lets fish live in other dimensions; the Eternal upgrades keep that fish alive. In a Hatchery, Purity raises the chance of an egg hatching.

Species

The lowest rod that can catch it, and what it does. "RF" means the Flux Rod.

Picture Fish Wild Lowest rod Specialty
Goldfish Goldfish yes Fishing Rod gold nuggets when melted
Minnow Minnow yes Fishing Rod good bait
Silver-Stripe Blaasop Silver-Stripe Blaasop yes Fishing Rod withers and confuses
Cod Cod yes Fishing Rod leather when melted
Squid Squid yes Fishing Rod ink sacs
Sting Ray Sting Ray yes Fishing Rod poisons in its water
Neon Tetra Neon Tetra yes Fishing Rod neon lamps
Walleye Walleye yes Fishing Rod zoom when eaten raw
Nightfish Nightfish yes Reed strength at night
Netherfish Netherfish yes Reed burns as fuel
Anglerfish Anglerfish no Wooden light
Stickleback Stickleback no Wooden kelp
Man O' War Man O' War no Reed blinds and confuses
Tuna Tuna no Reed speed
Salmon Salmon no Fishing Rod leather
Lungfish Lungfish no Reed water breathing
Pufferfish Pufferfish no Fishing Rod nothing
Bowfin Bowfin no Wooden arrows
Northern Pike Northern Pike no Wooden flint
Manta Ray Manta Ray no Wooden heals
Piranha Piranha no Wooden attacks
Red Shroom Fish Red Shroom Fish no Fishing Rod mycelium and red mushrooms
Brown Shroom Fish Brown Shroom Fish no Fishing Rod mycelium and brown mushrooms
Chub Chub no Wooden restores hunger
Angelfish Angelfish no Wooden moves items
Butterflyfish Butterflyfish no Wooden feathers
Rainbow Trout Rainbow Trout no Reed +10 attack, dyes
Jellyfish Jellyfish no Reed slimeballs
Bass Bass no Reed thrown like dynamite
Whitemargin Stargazer Whitemargin Stargazer no Wooden stops mob spawns within 16 blocks (8 up and down)
Perch Perch no Reed bats
Spiderfish Spiderfish no Titanium spiders
Glowfish Glowfish no Titanium turns stone to glowstone
Undead Fish Undead Fish no Titanium zombies
Siamese Fightin' Fish Siamese Fightin' Fish no Titanium attacks anything but players
Pupfish Pupfish no Reed wolves
Catfish Catfish no Reed ocelots
Damselfish Damselfish no Reed animals breed
Blue Tang Blue Tang no RF lapis
Pickerel Pickerel no Reed harvests crops
Lamprey Lamprey no Titanium wither; makes wither skeletons
Red Herring Red Herring no RF redstone
Electric Ray Electric Ray no RF 200 RF/s from each side of the feeder
Clownfish Clownfish no Titanium cows, chickens, sheep and pigs
Blazefish Blazefish no RF blazes
Enderfish Enderfish no Titanium endermen
Boneless Fish Boneless Fish no RF skeletons
Dragonfish Dragonfish no RF dragon eggs
Koi Koi no RF dungeon and ocean loot
Minecraft Fish Minecraft Fish no Reed XP

The Stargazer's spawn block can be turned off with stargazer_prevents_spawns in the config.

Metal fish

Ironfish, Copperfish, Goldeneye, Aluminiumfish, Magnesiumfish, Rutilefish and the other metal fish make droplets of molten metal instead. They are never wild and can't be eaten. Some, such as Tinfish, Leadfish, Zincfish, Osmiumfish, Cobaltfish and Arditefish, belong to metals other mods add.

Fish as food and fuel

Sushi Fish can be eaten raw, cooked, made into sushi and calamari, or ground into Fish Meal. Melted in a Crucible Furnace they give fish oil, the fuel for most of the workshop (Workshop).