Aquaculture 2 in All the Mons

Aquaculture 2 is the fishing overhaul of the pack. It adds over 30 new fish, and each biome type, modded biomes included, gets its own catches. You'll also see fish mobs swimming around in rivers, ponds and the ocean. The pack ships version 2.7.21.^[1][2]

It's for you if you like a relaxed side activity that still pays off. Any vanilla or modded rod can catch the new fish. The mod's own rods go further, because you can equip hooks and bait on them, and you can customize them with line and bobbers. You apply those modifiers in the Tackle Box, which also stores extra hooks, bait, line and bobbers.^[1]

Caught fish can be turned into fish fillets. The amount depends on the fish, or on its weight if that config option is enabled. Fishing can also give you other loot, including the Neptunium tools and armor. That drop is configurable.^[1]

Where it fits in the pack's progression

The quest book gives you a clear rod ladder in the Food and Farming chapter. It starts with "Iron Fishing Rod" quest for the Iron Fishing Rod and continues with "Golden Fishing Rod" quest for the Golden Fishing Rod. Next comes "Diamond Fishing Rod" quest for the Diamond Fishing Rod, and the chain ends at "Neptunium Fishing Rod" quest for the Neptunium Fishing Rod. The first quest unlocks after The Start of a Fisher.^[3]

Neptunium gear also shows up in the combat and tool chapters. In Basic Tools, the Neptunium Pickaxe is one of the items that can complete a quest in "Basic Tools", alongside pickaxes from other mods. The Neptunium Sword is the task of a quest in "Basic Tools", which is listed with 7.5 attack damage.^[4]

In Basic Armor, "Neptunium Armor" quest asks for the Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots. The quest says Neptunium is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing, and that it grants buffs underwater.^[5]

Aquaculture 2 expands fishing with new fish, new rods and customization items, so your first goal in this pack is simple: get a proper rod and start catching things. Here is the order I'd go in.^[1]

Step one: make a hook, then a rod

Start with the Iron Hook. It is the base for many of the other hooks in this pack, and it gives a 20% chance to not use durability.^[6][7]

Iron HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any iron nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:iron_hook

Next comes the Iron Fishing Rod. The mod's rods let you equip hooks and bait for extra functionality, though any modded or vanilla rod can still catch the new fish.^[1][6]

Iron Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
Empty slot	any iron ingot	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:iron_fishing_rod

The pack has a quest for this rod, "Iron Fishing Rod" quest, in the Food and Farming chapter. It unlocks after the quest called The Start of a Fisher.^[3]

Step two: line, bobber and a Tackle Box

Customized fishing line and bobbers make your rod your own. The Fishing Line and the Bobber both have their own in-pack recipes.^[1][6]

Fishing LineMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any string	Empty slot
any string	any iron ingot	any string
Empty slot	any string	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:fishing_line

BobberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Clay Ball

Nautilus Shell

Clay Ball

Recipe id: aquaculture:bobber

Modifiers and customization items are applied in the Tackle Box. It also stores extra hooks, bait, line and bobbers, so it's worth making early.^[1]

Tackle BoxMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any tackle box green	any iron ingot	any tackle box green
any iron ingot	any chest	any iron ingot
any iron ingot	any iron storage block	any iron ingot

Recipe id: aquaculture:tackle_box

Step three: turn fish into food

Fish you catch can be turned into fish fillets, and how many you get depends on the fish. The mod adds fillet knives in several materials, such as the Wooden Fillet Knife.^[1][6]

Wooden Fillet KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any plank
Empty slot	any plank	Empty slot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:wooden_fillet_knife

You can cook Raw Fish Fillet into Cooked Fish Fillet in a furnace, a smoker or over a campfire. Each of these has an in-pack recipe.^[6]

Cooked Fish FilletMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Fish Fillet

Recipe id: aquaculture:cooked_fish_fillet

Step four: climb the rod ladder

The Food and Farming quests walk you through the rods in order: Iron, then Golden, then Diamond, then Neptunium. After the iron rod, the next quests are "Golden Fishing Rod" quest, "Diamond Fishing Rod" quest and "Neptunium Fishing Rod" quest.^[3]

Golden Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any gold ingot
Empty slot	any gold ingot	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:golden_fishing_rod

Diamond Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any diamond gem
Empty slot	any diamond gem	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_fishing_rod

Better hooks are built from the Iron Hook too. Two examples are the Redstone Hook, which increases how long you have to reel in a fish, and the Note Hook, which plays an alert when a fish is approaching.^[6][7]

Redstone HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any redstone dust	Empty slot
any redstone dust	Iron Hook	any redstone dust
Empty slot	any redstone dust	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:redstone_hook

Where Neptunium comes from

The last rung is the Neptunium Fishing Rod, which makes fish more likely to bite. Neptunium is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing, and the Neptunium armor grants buffs while you are underwater.^[5][6][7]

Neptunium Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any neptunium ingot
Empty slot	any neptunium ingot	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_fishing_rod

Aquaculture 2 is a fishing mod, so the core mechanics here are about rods, hooks, fish and fillets rather than machines or multiblocks. The sources I have don't describe any power, fluid or automation systems for it, so this section sticks to what they do explain.^[1]

Rods, tackle and the Tackle Box

The mod adds over 30 new fish. You can catch them with any vanilla or modded rod, or find them swimming in the wild. It also adds its own rods, which let you equip hooks and bait for extra functionality. Fishing line and bobbers can be customised too.^[1]

Modifiers and customisation items are applied in the Tackle Box. It also stores spare hooks, bait, line and bobbers, so it works as your fishing loadout hub.^[1]

The recipes for the Diamond Fishing Rod and the Bobber are shown below. The Neptunium Fishing Rod makes fish more likely to bite.^[6][7]

Diamond Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any diamond gem
Empty slot	any diamond gem	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_fishing_rod

BobberMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Clay Ball

Nautilus Shell

Clay Ball

Recipe id: aquaculture:bobber

Hooks

Hooks are where most of the fishing customisation happens. Most of the ones below are built on top of the Iron Hook, so that is the one to get first.^[6]

• Iron Hook: 20% chance to not use durability.^[7]
• Diamond Hook: 50% chance to not use durability.^[7]
• Nether Star Hook: 50% chance to not use durability and increased luck.^[7]
• Double Hook: a chance to catch two things.^[7]
• Note Hook: plays an alert when a fish is approaching.^[7]

The upgrade path is simple: the Diamond Hook, Double Hook, Note Hook and Gold Hook all start from an Iron Hook, and the Nether Star Hook starts from a Diamond Hook.^[6]

Diamond HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot
any diamond gem	Iron Hook	any diamond gem
Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_hook

Nether Star HookMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Diamond Hook
• any nether star

Recipe id: aquaculture:nether_star_hook

Double HookMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Iron Hook
• Iron Hook

Recipe id: aquaculture:double_hook

Note HookMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Iron Hook
• Note Block

Recipe id: aquaculture:note_hook

Gold HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot
any gold nugget	Iron Hook	any gold nugget
Empty slot	any gold nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:gold_hook

Fillets and food

Caught fish can be turned into fish fillets. How many you get depends on the fish, or on its weight if that config option is enabled. This pack has no Aquaculture config file, so I can't tell you which way it is set.^[1]

The Neptunium Fillet Knife increases the amount of fillets you get. The recipes for the Stone Fillet Knife and Diamond Fillet Knife are shown below.^[6][7]

Stone Fillet KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any stone tool material
Empty slot	any stone tool material	Empty slot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:stone_fillet_knife

Diamond Fillet KnifeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any diamond gem
Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot
any wooden rod	Empty slot	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_fillet_knife

Raw Fish Fillet can be cooked into Cooked Fish Fillet by smelting, smoking or campfire cooking. Raw fillets are also used to make Sushi. The recipes are shown below.^[6]

Cooked Fish FilletMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Fish Fillet

Recipe id: aquaculture:cooked_fish_fillet

Cooked Fish FilletMod recipe

Smoking

• Raw Fish Fillet

Recipe id: aquaculture:cooked_fish_fillet_from_smoking

Cooked Fish FilletMod recipe

Campfire Cooking

• Raw Fish Fillet

Recipe id: aquaculture:cooked_fish_fillet_from_campfire

SushiMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Raw Fish Fillet
• Seagrass

Recipe id: aquaculture:sushi

The pack also adds the raw fillet to a few item tags: raw fish, raw meats, stock ingredients and penguin food. That is how it gets picked up by Pam's Harvestcraft recipes.^[8]

Neptunium

Neptunium tools and armor can turn up as fishing loot, and the mod page says this is configurable. Each piece has an underwater perk:^[1]

• Neptunium Helmet: improves your underwater vision.^[7]
• Neptunium Chestplate: lets you breathe underwater.^[7]
• Neptunium Leggings: makes you weightless underwater.^[7]
• Neptunium Boots: increases your swim speed.^[7]
• Neptunium Sword and Neptunium Axe: more damage against enemies underwater.^[7]
• Neptunium Pickaxe and Neptunium Shovel: usable without a speed penalty underwater.^[7]
• Neptunium Bow: arrows go smoothly through water.^[7]
• Neptunium Hoe: tilled farmland stays moist.^[7]

Neptunium material moves between forms through crafting. Nuggets make an Neptunium Ingot, ingots make a Neptunium Block, and a block breaks back into 9 ingots. Blasting any Neptunium tool or armor piece also gives you an ingot.^[6]

Neptunium IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Neptunium Nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_nuggets

Neptunium IngotMod recipe

Blasting

• Neptunium Axe
• Neptunium Boots
• Neptunium Bow
• Neptunium Chestplate
• Neptunium Fillet Knife
• Neptunium Fishing Rod
• Neptunium Helmet
• Neptunium Hoe
• Neptunium Leggings
• Neptunium Pickaxe
• Neptunium Shovel
• Neptunium Sword

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_blasting

Neptunium BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Neptunium Ingot

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_block

The pack also gives you a way to get Neptunium without fishing. Its Productive Bees centrifuge recipe for the neptunium honeycomb gives a Neptunium Nugget and wax. The dump marks this recipe as changed by the pack.^[6]

Neptunium Nugget, WaxChanged by the pack

Centrifuge (productivebees)

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/aquaculture/honeycomb_neptunium

Worm Farm and decorations

You can craft the Worm Farm in this pack.^[6]

Worm FarmMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any wooden fence	Empty slot	any wooden fence
any wooden fence	Dirt	any wooden fence
any plank	any plank	any plank

Recipe id: aquaculture:worm_farm

Fish mounts, like the Birch Fish Mount and Acacia Fish Mount, are crafted from an Iron Hook and a matching wooden button.^[6]

Birch Fish MountMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Birch Button	Iron Hook	Birch Button
Birch Button	Birch Button	Birch Button

Recipe id: aquaculture:birch_fish_mount

Acacia Fish MountMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Acacia Button	Iron Hook	Acacia Button
Acacia Button	Acacia Button	Acacia Button

Recipe id: aquaculture:acacia_fish_mount

Other fishing loot

Besides fish, you can pull up Driftwood, Tin Cans, Goldfish, Messages in a Bottle (right click to reveal the message), Algae from freshwater biomes, Boxes, Lockboxes, Treasure Chests and Neptune's Bounty.^[1]

Aquaculture 2 progression in this pack is a fishing-rod ladder: iron, gold, diamond, then Neptunium. The pack's quests follow that order, and each rod has its own in-pack recipe.^[3][6]

The fishing rod quest line

The "Food and Farming" quest chapter walks you up the ladder. It starts after the quest "The Start of a Fisher", and each quest wants the next rod in the chain.^[3]

1. "Iron Fishing Rod" quest: craft the Iron Fishing Rod.^[3]
2. "Golden Fishing Rod" quest: craft the Golden Fishing Rod.^[3]
3. "Diamond Fishing Rod" quest: craft the Diamond Fishing Rod.^[3]
4. "Neptunium Fishing Rod" quest: craft the Neptunium Fishing Rod.^[3]

Iron Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any iron ingot
Empty slot	any iron ingot	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:iron_fishing_rod

Golden Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any gold ingot
Empty slot	any gold ingot	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:golden_fishing_rod

Diamond Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any diamond gem
Empty slot	any diamond gem	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_fishing_rod

Neptunium Fishing RodMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	Empty slot	any neptunium ingot
Empty slot	any neptunium ingot	any string
any wooden rod	Empty slot	any string

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_fishing_rod

The last rod in the quest chain.

Getting Neptunium

The Neptunium Armor quest says Neptunium is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing.^[5]

The pack also changes a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe for Neptunium honeycomb so that it gives a Neptunium Nugget and Wax.^[6]

Nuggets and ingots convert back and forth, and ingots and blocks do too. That lets you store your Neptunium compactly.^[6]

Neptunium IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Neptunium Nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_nuggets

Neptunium BlockMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Neptunium Ingot

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_block

Neptunium gear

Once you have Neptunium ingots, the pack has recipes for a full tool set: Neptunium Pickaxe, Neptunium Axe, Neptunium Shovel, Neptunium Hoe and Neptunium Sword. There is also a Neptunium Bow and a Neptunium Fillet Knife.^[6]

The "Basic Tools" chapter ties into this. One quest labeled Tier 4 accepts the Neptunium Pickaxe as one of several pickaxe options from different mods. Another, labeled 7.5 Attack Damage, asks for the Neptunium Sword.^[4]

The "Basic Armor" chapter has the "Neptunium Armor" quest quest. It wants the helmet, chestplate, leggings and boots, and its text says the armor grants buffs while you are underwater.^[5]

Neptunium PickaxeMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

any neptunium ingot	any neptunium ingot	any neptunium ingot
Empty slot	any wooden rod	Empty slot
Empty slot	any wooden rod	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_pickaxe

Neptunium ChestplateMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

8 × any neptunium ingot

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_chestplate

Hooks and fillet knives

Hooks have their own recipe chain in the pack. It starts from the Iron Hook. From there you can make variants such as the Gold Hook, Diamond Hook, Heavy Hook, Light Hook, Redstone Hook and Note Hook. The Nether Star Hook is built on the Diamond Hook.^[6]

Iron HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any iron nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:iron_hook

Diamond HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot
any diamond gem	Iron Hook	any diamond gem
Empty slot	any diamond gem	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_hook

Nether Star HookMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Diamond Hook
• any nether star

Recipe id: aquaculture:nether_star_hook

Fillet knives have recipes for several materials: Wooden Fillet Knife, Stone Fillet Knife, Iron Fillet Knife, Gold Fillet Knife, Diamond Fillet Knife and the Neptunium Fillet Knife.^[6]

Two places in the pack tie Aquaculture 2 to other mods: a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe and a quest that accepts pickaxes from several mods.^[4][6]

Productive Bees: Neptunium from the centrifuge

The pack has a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe that gives you a Neptunium Nugget and Wax. The recipe dump marks it as changed by the pack, so don't assume it matches the Productive Bees defaults. The dump lists no item inputs for it.^[6]

Neptunium Nugget, WaxChanged by the pack

Centrifuge (productivebees)

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/aquaculture/honeycomb_neptunium

This centrifuge recipe is marked as changed by the pack.

Neptunium is normally a fishing reward. The Neptunium Armor quest says it comes from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing, and that the armor grants buffs while you are underwater. The centrifuge recipe gives you another way to get the nuggets.^[5][6]

Basic Tools: a shared pickaxe quest

In the Basic Tools chapter, one Tier 4 quest, a quest in "Basic Tools", accepts any one of four pickaxes: the Neptunium Pickaxe, the Swamp Silver pickaxe from Eternal Starlight, the Resonarium pickaxe from Deeper and Darker, or the Utherium pickaxe from Undergarden. Any one of them completes the quest, so you can use whichever of these mods you reach first.^[4]

Aquaculture's own quests

The other Aquaculture quests only ask for this mod's items. The Food and Farming chapter has a rod chain: "Iron Fishing Rod" quest for the Iron Fishing Rod, then "Golden Fishing Rod" quest, "Diamond Fishing Rod" quest and finally "Neptunium Fishing Rod" quest for the Neptunium Fishing Rod. The Neptunium Sword has its own Basic Tools quest, a quest in "Basic Tools", and the armor set has "Neptunium Armor" quest.^[3][4][5]

Aquaculture 2 shows up in three quest chapters in this pack: Food and Farming, Basic Tools and Basic Armor. The fishing rod line is the main storyline for the mod, and the other two chapters just ask for Neptunium gear.^[3][4][5]

Food and Farming: the fishing rod line

This is a straight chain of four quests. Each one asks you to get a single rod, and each unlocks after the previous one. The first quest in the chain comes after a quest called The Start of a Fisher.^[3]

1. "Iron Fishing Rod" quest: get an Iron Fishing Rod. It follows The Start of a Fisher.^[3]
2. "Golden Fishing Rod" quest: get a Golden Fishing Rod.^[3]
3. "Diamond Fishing Rod" quest: get a Diamond Fishing Rod.^[3]
4. "Neptunium Fishing Rod" quest: get a Neptunium Fishing Rod, the end of the line.^[3]

Basic Tools: Neptunium pickaxe and sword

Two quests in this chapter involve the mod, and both unlock after the Basic Tools! quest. One is a quest in "Basic Tools", which has no title. It accepts any one of several pickaxes, and the Neptunium Pickaxe is one of them. The others are the Swamp Silver, Resonarium and Utherium pickaxes from other mods. The second is a quest in "Basic Tools", also untitled, which asks for the Neptunium Sword.^[4]

Basic Armor: Neptunium Armor

"Neptunium Armor" quest asks for the full set: Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots.^[5]

Same as in the All the Mods 10 0.60 guide

I can't show you the exact config values this pack uses for Aquaculture 2, because the pack's config files for this mod weren't available to me. So I can't tell you which options the pack changed from the mod defaults, and I won't guess.^[1]

The mod's project page does point to two things that can be configured. The number of fish fillets you get from a fish normally depends on the fish type, but it can depend on the fish's weight if that config option is enabled.^[1]

The second is the fabled Neptunium tools and armor, which you can get as fishing loot. The project page says this loot is configurable.^[1]

Unverified Whether this pack enables weight-based fillet amounts, and whether it changes the Neptunium loot settings, is unconfirmed. The option names and values are also unconfirmed. Check the mod's config file in your own instance before you rely on either behavior.

All the Mons 1.3.0 ships Aquaculture 2 version 2.7.21. The mod has been in the pack since All the Mons 0.3.0-beta or earlier. I don't have any pack changelog entries about this mod, so what follows comes from the mod's own changelogs for its most recent releases.^[2]

Recent mod releases

• 2.7.21 (the version in this pack): fixed a NoSuchElementException that happened when you hooked an entity with a fishing rod. The minnow was also removed from the fishes tag and the raw_fishes tag, for better compatibility with other mods.^[2][9]
• 2.7.19: minor changes so that the Aquaculture 2: Lava Fishing Addon can fully work.^[10]
• 2.7.18: fixed Neptunium armor values not being applied.^[11]
• 2.7.17: a couple of fixes and an updated PT_BR localization.^[12]