Fishing Overhauled | Custom Loot Crates, Relics & Meteor Events

Custom Crates, Relics & Falling Meteors

A lightweight survival expansion for Minecraft 1.21+ that completely reworks fishing into an active mini-game, introduces 55 themed loot crates, adds custom relic gear with actual abilities, and drops naturally falling copper meteorites with live chat coordinates.

Zero mods required on the client. Runs purely on vanilla datapack mechanics and is 100% compatible with Paper and Geyser/Bedrock cross-play.

What This Pack Actually Does

Fast-Paced Fishing Mini-Game

Vanilla fishing is slow and boring. This pack speeds up the bite rate by roughly 2.5x and turns reeling into a timing-based catch mechanic:

55 Custom Crates & 10 Specialty Rods

Forget pulling up just leather boots and raw cod. You can reel in custom sealed barrel crates across 7 themes:

• Mining Crates: Raw ores, copper dynamos, and mineral caches.
• Nether Crates: Ancient debris nuggets, blaze rods, and magma supplies.
• Deep Dark Crates: Echo shards, sculk sensors, and recovery compass parts.
• Biomes Crates: Rare flora, sniffer eggs, packed ice, bamboo, and armor trims.
• Combat Crates: Pre-enchanted gear, heavy weapons, totems, and golden apples.
• Builders Crates: Deepslate variants, copper grates, bricks, and lanterns.
• Mythic Crates: Top-tier drops with netherite upgrades and unique relic chances.

Pair your trips with 10 rods crafted for rapid bites, extra crate luck, or specific dimension loot pools.

Unique Relic Weapons & Custom Abilities

Rare crate rolls can yield one-of-a-kind relics with actual custom on-hit and passive perks:

• Molten Pickaxe: Passively auto-smelts raw iron, copper, gold, and ancient debris straight into ingots while you mine.
• World Ender: Releases an area-of-effect wither cloud to all nearby hostile mobs on melee hit.
• Dawnblade: Ignites enemies and triggers a localized fire explosion on hit.
• Titan Mace: Unleashes a kinetic shockwave that damages surrounding targets.

Naturally Falling Copper Meteors

Every 15 minutes or so (accelerating during thunderstorms), an orbital disturbance triggers in the sky:

• A meteor streaks down from 25 blocks up with fire trails, distant thunder, and a ground explosion.
• A 5×5 copper impact crater forms on the surface without suffocating players.
• The game prints the exact XYZ coordinates of the crash in chat so anyone on the server can race to find it.
• Inside each crater is a core chest containing copper building blocks, tech parts, and the corresponding Geode Bundle.

There are 7 distinct 5×5 copper structure variants matching every bundle theme.

Commands & Admin Tools

Regular survival players are strictly locked out from admin functions and cannot trigger free items.

• Test natural meteor event with coordinates: /function crates:structure/test_natural_meteor
• Fast-forward the meteor timer by 5 seconds: /function crates:structure/fast_forward_meteor
• Give all 7 Geode Bundles: /function crates:bundles/give_all_bundles

and many more!

Installation

1. Download the .zip file.
2. Place it into your world’s datapacks folder:
   • Singleplayer: .minecraft/saves/<your_world>/datapacks/
   • Dedicated Server: <server_root>/world/datapacks/

3. Run /reload or restart your server.

Bug Reports & Discord

Found an issue, have a suggestion, or need help setting it up?

• Join the Discord!
• Or drop a comment right below on this page.