Aquaculture 2 in All the Mods 10

Aquaculture 2 turns fishing into a proper side adventure. It adds over 30 new fish that you can catch with a rod or find swimming in the wild, and every biome type, modded biomes included, gets its own fish. Any vanilla or modded rod works for catching them.^[1]

The mod also adds its own rods, which can take hooks and bait for extra functionality. You can customize them further with fishing line and bobbers. You apply all of that in the Tackle Box, which also stores your spare hooks, bait, line and bobbers. Caught fish can be turned into fish fillets, and fishing can also give you loot such as a Message in a Bottle, a Lockbox, a Treasure Chest and Neptune's Bounty.^[1]

This pack ships Aquaculture 2 version 2.7.21 for Minecraft 1.21.1. It's a good fit if you enjoy a relaxed fishing loop, and also if you just want the Neptunium gear.^[2]

Where it fits in the pack's progression

In the quest book, the fishing rods form a chain in the Food and Farming chapter. It starts after the quest The Start of a Fisher and runs in this order:^[3]

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

Neptunium gear shows up in other chapters too. The Basic Tools chapter has a quest for the Neptunium Sword, listed with 7.5 Attack Damage (a quest in "Basic Tools"). It also has a Tier 4 pickaxe quest (a quest in "Basic Tools"), where the Neptunium Pickaxe is one of several accepted alternatives. The Basic Armor chapter has "Neptunium Armor" quest, which asks for the Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots.^[4][5]

The quest text says Neptunium is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing, and that the armor grants buffs while you're underwater. So if you want that gear, you'll be spending some time with a rod in your hand.^[5]

Unverified The mod page says the Neptunium loot is configurable, but the sources don't show this pack's settings for it. The sources also don't show any role for this mod on the ATM Star path.

Aquaculture 2 adds new fish to catch, rods that take swappable hooks, and Neptunium gear you can only get by fishing. Any rod, vanilla or modded, can catch the new fish, so you can start right away. Here is the order I'd craft things in this pack.^[1][5]

Step one: make an Iron Fishing Rod

The fishing quests in the Food and Farming chapter start after "The Start of a Fisher" and run as a ladder: "Iron Fishing Rod" quest, then "Golden Fishing Rod" quest, then "Diamond Fishing Rod" quest, and finally "Neptunium Fishing Rod" quest. The Iron Fishing Rod is the first rung, so it is the one to craft first.^[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

Step two: craft an Iron Hook

The Iron Hook gives you a 20% chance to not use durability. It is also the base for other hooks, such as the Redstone Hook and the Note Hook.^[6][7]

Iron HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any iron nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:iron_hook

The Redstone Hook increases how long you have to reel in a fish. The Note Hook plays an alert when a fish is approaching. The Diamond Hook raises the no-durability chance to 50%.^[6][7]

Step three: build a Tackle Box

Modifiers and customization items are applied in the Tackle Box, which also stores extra hooks, bait, line and bobbers. Make one early so your fishing gear stays in one place.^[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 four: turn your catch into food

Fish you catch can be turned into fish fillets, and how many you get depends on the fish. You can cook a Raw Fish Fillet into a Cooked Fish Fillet in a furnace, a smoker or on a campfire. You can also make Sushi from raw fillets.^[1][7]

Cooked Fish FilletMod recipe

Smelting

• Raw Fish Fillet

Recipe id: aquaculture:cooked_fish_fillet

SushiMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Raw Fish Fillet
• Seagrass

Recipe id: aquaculture:sushi

Step five: go after Neptunium

The pack's armor quest says Neptunium is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing, and that it grants buffs underwater.^[5]

The pack also changes a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe so that it outputs a Neptunium Nugget and wax. Nuggets can be crafted into an ingot.^[7]

Neptunium IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

9 × Neptunium Nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_nuggets

With ingots, the Neptunium Fishing Rod makes fish more likely to bite, and the Neptunium Chestplate lets you breathe underwater. The Basic Tools chapter also has quests that accept the Neptunium Pickaxe and the Neptunium Sword.^[4][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 doesn't have machines, power or pipes. Everything revolves around your fishing gear: the rod, the hook, the line and the bobber, plus what you do with the catch afterwards. Once you know how those pieces fit together, the whole mod clicks.^[1]

Rods, tackle and the Tackle Box

The mod adds over 30 new fish, and you can catch them with any rod, modded or vanilla. Its own rods are the better choice, though, because they let you equip hooks and bait for extra functionality. Fishing line and bobbers let you customize the rod further.^[1]

You apply modifiers and customization items in the Tackle Box. It also stores spare hooks, bait, line and bobbers, so it works as your fishing inventory.^[1]

The rods in this pack are the Iron Fishing Rod, the Golden Fishing Rod, the Diamond Fishing Rod and the Neptunium Fishing Rod.^[7]

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

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

Hooks

Hooks give your rod extra functionality. The Iron Hook is the base for several other hooks in this pack, such as the Gold Hook, Diamond Hook, Heavy Hook, Light Hook and Double Hook.^[1][7]

Iron HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any iron nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:iron_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

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

Heavy HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot
any iron nugget	Iron Hook	any iron nugget
Empty slot	any iron nugget	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:heavy_hook

Light HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

Crafting Shaped

Empty slot	any feather	Empty slot
any feather	Iron Hook	any feather
Empty slot	any feather	Empty slot

Recipe id: aquaculture:light_hook

Double HookMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Iron Hook
• Iron Hook

Recipe id: aquaculture:double_hook

The mod's tooltips describe what these hooks do:^[6]

• Iron Hook: 20% chance to not use durability.^[6]
• Diamond Hook: 50% chance to not use durability.^[6]
• Quartz hook: 30% chance to not use durability.^[6]
• Nether star hook: 50% chance to not use durability and increased luck.^[6]
• Double Hook: a chance to catch two things.^[6]
• Redstone hook and soul sand hook: more time to reel in a fish.^[6]
• Note hook: plays an alert when a fish is approaching.^[6]

The tooltips also list a double obsidian hook and an obsidian note hook. They carry the same descriptions as the Double Hook and the note hook.^[6]

Fish, fillets and loot

You can catch fish with a rod or find them swimming in the wild. Each biome type, modded biomes included, has its own fish. You can turn a caught fish into fillets, and the number of fillets depends on the fish, or on its weight if that config option is enabled. Fishing also turns up other loot, such as a Tin Can, a Message in a Bottle you right-click to read, and Neptune's Bounty.^[1]

Cutting fish needs a fillet knife. The pack has the Iron Fillet Knife, Gold Fillet Knife, Diamond Fillet Knife and Neptunium Fillet Knife. The Neptunium version increases the amount of fillets you get.^[6][7]

Neptunium gear

You can find Neptunium tools and armor as fishing loot, and this is configurable. The Neptunium Nugget, Neptunium Ingot and Neptunium Block convert into one another in the crafting grid.^[1][7]

9× Neptunium NuggetMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Neptunium Ingot

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_nugget

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

9× Neptunium IngotMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Neptunium Block

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_neptunium_block

• Neptunium Fishing Rod: fish are more likely to bite.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Helmet: improves your underwater vision.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Chestplate: lets you breathe underwater.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Leggings: makes you weightless underwater.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Boots: increases your swim speed.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Pickaxe and Neptunium Shovel: usable without a speed penalty underwater.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Sword and Neptunium Axe: increase damage against enemies underwater.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Bow: arrows go smoothly through water.^[6][7]
• Neptunium Hoe: tilled farmland stays moist.^[6][7]

Unverified Whether this pack enables the weight-based fillet option, and how often Neptunium gear drops as fishing loot, are config settings. No config files for this mod were available, so the sources here do not show those values.

In this pack, Aquaculture 2 progression is guided by a short fishing rod quest chain, plus a handful of neptunium quests for armor, a pickaxe and a sword. Everything else in the mod, like hooks and fillet knives, has recipes but no quests, so you set your own pace there.^[3][4][5]

The fishing rod ladder

The Food and Farming chapter has a row of rod quests. The first unlocks after the quest called The Start of a Fisher, and each one then unlocks after the previous one. You complete each by obtaining the matching rod.^[3]

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

The recipe dump labels all of these rods as the mod's own recipes, so the pack hasn't changed them. Here they are in order.^[7]

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 neptunium tier

Neptunium is the top tier of the mod. The pack's armor quest says it is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing, and that the armor grants buffs while underwater.^[5]

The pack also has a crafting recipe for Neptune's Bounty that uses neptunium ingots.^[7]

Neptune's BountyMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

8 × any neptunium ingot

Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunes_bounty

Once you have neptunium, you can convert it between forms: an ingot splits into a Neptunium Nugget, nuggets pack back into an Neptunium Ingot, and ingots compress into a Neptunium Block that can be turned back into ingots.^[7]

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

The pack has quests for these neptunium goals:^[4][5]

• "Neptunium Armor" quest asks for the full set: Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots.^[5]
• a quest in "Basic Tools" is a tier 4 pickaxe quest in Basic Tools. The Neptunium Pickaxe is one of several accepted pickaxes, so you can finish it with a different mod's pickaxe instead.^[4]
• a quest in "Basic Tools" asks for the Neptunium Sword, listed with 7.5 attack damage.^[4]

Neptunium also gets an Neptunium Axe, Neptunium Shovel, Neptunium Hoe, Neptunium Bow and Neptunium Fillet Knife, though none have quests. If you want an ingot back from any neptunium gear, the blasting recipe below does it.^[7]

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

Knives and hooks

No quests cover fillet knives, but the recipes follow the same material ladder: Wooden Fillet Knife, Stone Fillet Knife, Iron Fillet Knife, Gold Fillet Knife, Diamond Fillet Knife and finally the neptunium knife.^[7]

Hooks have no quests either. The Iron Hook is the basic one, and the line runs up to the Nether Star Hook.^[7]

Iron HookMod recipe

Crafting Shaped

4 × any iron nugget

Recipe id: aquaculture:iron_hook

Nether Star HookMod recipe

Crafting Shapeless

• Diamond Hook
• any nether star

Recipe id: aquaculture:nether_star_hook

Aquaculture 2 connects to the rest of the pack in two main ways: a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe that produces Neptunium, and several quest chapters that fold its tools and armor into the pack's progression.^[3][4][5][7]

Productive Bees: Neptunium from honeycomb

The pack has a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe that gives you Neptunium Nugget along with Wax. The pack changed this recipe, so don't assume it matches the mod's default. The recipe dump lists no item inputs for it, so check the recipe below for what it takes.^[7]

Neptunium Nugget, WaxChanged by the pack

Centrifuge (productivebees)

Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/aquaculture/honeycomb_neptunium

This centrifuge recipe was changed by the pack and yields a Neptunium Nugget and Wax.

Fishing is the other source of Neptunium. The Aquaculture 2 project page lists Neptune's Bounty as loot and says the Neptunium tools and armor can drop while fishing, which is configurable. The pack's armor quest also says Neptunium is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing.^[1][5]

Quest connections

The Food and Farming chapter has a fishing rod progression. You go from Iron Fishing Rod ("Iron Fishing Rod" quest) to Golden Fishing Rod ("Golden Fishing Rod" quest), then Diamond Fishing Rod ("Diamond Fishing Rod" quest), and finally Neptunium Fishing Rod ("Neptunium Fishing Rod" quest). The first of these comes after a quest called The Start of a Fisher.^[3]

Aquaculture also appears in the Basic Tools chapter. One Tier 4 quest, a quest in "Basic Tools", accepts any one of several pickaxes from different mods, and Neptunium Pickaxe is one of them. The others are the deepsilver, resonarium, utherium and sky pickaxes. A separate quest, a quest in "Basic Tools", asks for the Neptunium Sword and lists 7.5 Attack Damage.^[4]

In the Basic Armor chapter, "Neptunium Armor" quest asks for the full Neptunium set: Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots. The quest text says the armor grants buffs while underwater.^[5]

Aquaculture 2 shows up in three quest chapters in this pack: Food and Farming, Basic Tools and Basic Armor. The fishing rods have their own chain, while the Neptunium tools and armor sit in the general gear chapters.^[3][4][5]

Food and Farming: the fishing rod chain

This is the main Aquaculture questline. It is a straight line of quests, and each one asks you to have a single rod in your inventory. The first one unlocks after the quest called The Start of a Fisher.^[3]

1. "Iron Fishing Rod" quest: get an Iron Fishing Rod. This comes after 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 last rod in the chain.^[3]

Basic Tools: Neptunium gear

The Basic Tools quests that involve Aquaculture both unlock after the chapter's opening quest, Basic Tools!. The sword quest, a quest in "Basic Tools", asks for the Neptunium Sword. It is listed with 7.5 Attack Damage.^[4]

The other, a quest in "Basic Tools", is a Tier: 4 pickaxe quest. It accepts any one of several pickaxes from different mods, and the Neptunium Pickaxe is one of them. If you already have one of the other listed pickaxes, you don't need to make the Neptunium one for this quest.^[4]

Basic Armor: Neptunium Armor

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

The quest text says Neptunium is a reward from Neptune's Bounty, which you get through fishing, and that the armor grants buffs while you are underwater.^[5]

Here's how Aquaculture 2 has moved through the pack's releases. All the Mods 10 8.1 ships Aquaculture 2 version 2.7.21, and the mod has been in the pack since 2.25 or earlier.^[2]

Version bumps by pack release

• All the Mods 10 2.42: updated from 2.7.13 to 2.7.14.^[8]
• All the Mods 10 5.5: updated from 2.7.14 to 2.7.18.^[9]
• All the Mods 10 6.2: updated from 2.7.18 to 2.7.19.^[10]
• All the Mods 10 7.0: updated from 2.7.19 to 2.7.21.^[11]

Version 2.7.21 is still what you get in 8.1, so there have been no further updates to the mod since 7.0.^[2][11]

Unverified What actually changed inside each Aquaculture 2 version (new fish, fixes, balance tweaks) is unconfirmed. The pack changelogs only list the version numbers, and no changelogs for the shipped jars are available.