Networth

Networth

Minecraft has plenty of fish swimming around, but if you want to catch them your options are basically a fishing rod or a sword. Fishing rods don’t really interact with the fish in the water either. You just cast into a body of water and wait for something to appear.

Networth adds another option: a cast net.

Casting the net

Hold right-click to wind up your throw, then release to cast.

The net leaves your hand attached to a visible rope, flies in the direction you threw it, then spreads open and slowly sinks through the water.

Anything the net passes through is caught immediately. If you spot a school of fish, you can aim directly at them and catch several at once instead of chasing them around individually.

Underwater, the mesh bends into a dome shape, with the middle sitting higher and the corners hanging lower. As soon as the net catches something, it closes into a bag, making it easy to tell from the surface that your cast worked.

Reading the water

Sometimes your net ends up far below the surface where you can’t see it.

Whenever something is caught, a burst of bubbles rises to the surface directly above the net. If you’re fishing from a boat, you can use those bubbles to keep track of where your net is and whether it caught something.

Bringing it back

Right-click again to haul the net in.

An empty net comes back stretched out through the water and can still catch fish on the return trip.

If the net has already caught something, it comes back as a closed bag with the fish visibly caught inside the mesh. You might see cod, salmon, or even a squid poking through it.

Once the net is most of the way back, it opens and sends the catch toward you.

What you can catch

Caught mobs drop the same items they normally would if you killed them.

Cod drop raw cod, squid drop ink sacs, and so on. Networth uses the mob’s normal loot table instead of creating a separate set of fishing rewards.

Modded fish that extend Minecraft’s vanilla fish classes are supported automatically.

Nine squares, nine fish

A normal net can hold nine mobs, one for each square of its 3×3 mesh.

Catch all nine in a single cast and you’ll hear a sting, see a splash, and unlock the Networth advancement.

Leave it out as a trap

If a net loses all of its momentum, it settles on the bottom instead of disappearing.

It will continue catching fish that swim through it, so you can also leave a net underwater and use it as a simple trap.

If you move more than 48 blocks away, the line snaps and the net stays where it is with everything it caught. Sneak-click it to pick everything back up.

You won’t permanently lose your net. When a normal cast finishes, the net and its catch return to your inventory instead of being dropped on the seabed.

Crafting

The net is made with five string and three iron nuggets. The nuggets act as the weights around the bottom of the net.

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A net has 64 durability and loses one durability per haul.

Enchantments

Wide Net also changes the net visually. The mesh, trailing net, and closed bag all render at their actual enchanted size, so a larger net really looks larger underwater.

Lure and Luck of the Sea don’t apply to nets. There is no bite timer to reduce and no fishing loot table to improve, so they wouldn’t have anything to affect.

Wide Net and Bottomless fill those roles instead.

No treasure fishing

Networth does not replace the fishing rod.

You won’t pull up enchanted books, name tags, nautilus shells, or other fishing treasure with a net. The net is meant for catching actual creatures in larger numbers, while the fishing rod keeps its normal treasure fishing role.

Two tools, two different uses.

Configuration

You can change the main net settings in:

config/networth-common.toml

Options include net size, capacity, cast distance, haul speed, catch release distance, line snap range, and whether squid can be caught.

Availability

No dependencies.

License: MIT
Author: BulletPies