Aquaculture 2 guide for All the Mods 10 2.13 to 4.5
Aquaculture 2 guide for All the Mods 10
Last verified for All the Mods 10 v4.5 on Oct 17, 2026 · text last changed Oct 15, 2026
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- Recipes shown
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- Items named
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- Quests covered
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6 sections are written for this pack; 1 is shared from another pack's guide.
Every recipe and number here was checked against All the Mods 10 4.5's own files.
What is Aquaculture 2?
1 part
Aquaculture 2 turns vanilla fishing into a real hobby. It adds over 30 new fish that you can catch with a rod or find swimming in the wild, and any rod works, modded or vanilla. Each biome type has its own fish, and that includes modded biomes, so rivers, ponds and oceans all feel a bit more alive.[1]
The mod also adds its own series of fishing rods. On these you can fit hooks and bait for extra functionality, plus custom fishing line and bobbers to make the rod your own. You apply all of these in the Tackle Box, which also stores your spare hooks, bait, line and bobbers.[1]
Your catches aren't just trophies. You can turn fish into fish fillets, and how many you get depends on the fish. Fishing can also pull up extra loot such as Driftwood, Tin Cans, Messages in a Bottle, Lockboxes, Treasure Chests and Neptune's Bounty. With luck you can even fish up the fabled Neptunium tools and armor, although the mod notes that this loot is configurable.[1]
If you like a relaxed side activity that still pays off with gear, this mod is for you. All the Mods 10 4.5 ships Aquaculture 2 version 2.7.14, and the mod has been in the pack since version 2.25 or earlier.[1][2]
Where it fits in the pack
The Food and Farming quest chapter walks you up the rod ladder, one quest per upgrade.[3]
- Start with the Iron Fishing Rod in a quest in "?".[3]
- Upgrade to the Golden Fishing Rod in a quest in "?".[3]
- Move on to the Diamond Fishing Rod in a quest in "?".[3]
- Finish with the Neptunium Fishing Rod in a quest in "?".[3]
Neptunium also appears in the gear chapters. In the Basic Tools chapter, the Neptunium Pickaxe is one of several pickaxes that complete a quest in "?", and the Neptunium Sword has its own quest, a quest in "?".[4]
In the Basic Armor chapter, a quest in "?" asks for the full Neptunium set: the Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots.[5]
How do you get started with Aquaculture 2?
5 parts
Aquaculture 2 turns fishing into a real progression path. It adds over 30 new fish that depend on the biome, including modded biomes. You can catch them with any rod, modded or vanilla, or find them swimming in the wild. The mod's own rods go further, because you can equip hooks and bait on them for extra effects.[1]
Step 1: Your first rod
Start with the Iron Fishing Rod. It's the first Aquaculture quest in the pack's food and farming chapter, a quest in "?", and it's the entry point to the whole rod line. It's also a rod that accepts hooks and bait, which a vanilla rod doesn't.[1][3]
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 2: Your first hook
Next, make an Iron Hook. It gives your rod a 20% chance to not use durability. More importantly, it's the base part for almost every other hook in this pack, from the Double Hook to the Note Hook and Redstone Hook.[6][7]
- The Double Hook gives you a chance to catch two things.[7]
- The Note Hook plays an alert when a fish is approaching, which helps a lot while you're AFK-watching the water.[7]
- The Redstone Hook increases how long you have to reel in a fish.[7]
Step 3: The Tackle Box
The Tackle Box is where you apply modifiers and customization items to your rod. It also stores spare hooks, bait, line and bobbers. Once you have it, you can personalize your rod with Fishing Line and a Bobber.[1]
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
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
Crafting Shaped
Recipe id: aquaculture:bobber
Step 4: Turning fish into food
Caught fish can be turned into fish fillets, and how many you get depends on the fish. The mod has a whole line of fillet knives, from the Wooden Fillet Knife up to the Neptunium Fillet Knife, which increases the amount of fillets you get.[1][6][7]
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
This pack also adds Sawmill woodcutting recipes that make the Wooden Fillet Knife directly from logs, including several modded wood types.[6]
Woodcutting (sawmill)
Recipe id: sawmill:aquaculture_wooden_fillet_knife_0
One of several log variants the pack adds.
You can cook a Raw Fish Fillet into a Cooked Fish Fillet in a furnace, smoker or on a campfire. You can also turn raw fillets into Sushi.[6]
Unverified The sources don't confirm exactly how filleting works, for example whether you need a fillet knife to turn fish into fillets. Check the in-game tooltips or JEI to be sure. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
Where to go next
The pack's quests walk you up the rod tiers in order. After the iron rod comes the Golden Fishing Rod in a quest in "?", then the Diamond Fishing Rod in a quest in "?", and finally the Neptunium Fishing Rod in a quest in "?".[3]
Fishing can also pull up special loot, including the fabled Neptunium tools and armor, and this drop is configurable. Neptunium gear also shows up in the pack's tool and armor quests: a quest in "?" for the Neptunium Sword, a quest in "?" accepts the Neptunium Pickaxe, and a quest in "?" asks for the full armor set.[1][4][5]
How does Aquaculture 2 work?
4 parts
Same as in the All the Mods 10 8.1 guide
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.[8]
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
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
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
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
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
Crafting Shaped
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][8]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | |
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_hook
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any iron nugget | Empty slot |
| any iron nugget | any iron nugget | |
| Empty slot | any iron nugget | Empty slot |
Recipe id: aquaculture:heavy_hook
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any feather | Empty slot |
| any feather | any feather | |
| Empty slot | any feather | Empty slot |
Recipe id: aquaculture:light_hook
The mod's tooltips describe what these hooks do:[7]
- Iron Hook: 20% chance to not use durability.[7]
- Diamond Hook: 50% chance to not use durability.[7]
- Quartz hook: 30% 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]
- Redstone hook and soul sand hook: more time to reel in a fish.[7]
- Note hook: plays an alert when a fish is approaching.[7]
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.[7]
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.[7][8]
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][8]
Crafting Shaped
9 × Neptunium Nugget
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_nuggets
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_neptunium_block
- Neptunium Fishing Rod: fish are more likely to bite.[7][8]
- Neptunium Helmet: improves your underwater vision.[7][8]
- Neptunium Chestplate: lets you breathe underwater.[7][8]
- Neptunium Leggings: makes you weightless underwater.[7][8]
- Neptunium Boots: increases your swim speed.[7][8]
- Neptunium Pickaxe and Neptunium Shovel: usable without a speed penalty underwater.[7][8]
- Neptunium Sword and Neptunium Axe: increase damage against enemies underwater.[7][8]
- Neptunium Bow: arrows go smoothly through water.[7][8]
- Neptunium Hoe: tilled farmland stays moist.[7][8]
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.
How do you progress through Aquaculture 2?
5 parts
Aquaculture 2's gear in this pack climbs a simple material ladder: iron, then gold, then diamond, and finally neptunium at the top. The quest book follows that exact order for the fishing rods, so if you're wondering what to craft next, the quests have you covered.[3]
Fishing rod tiers
The rod quests live in the food and farming chapter as a straight chain. Each quest unlocks after the previous one, so you work your way up one rod at a time.[3]
- Start with the Iron Fishing Rod for quest a quest in "?".[3]
- Next, craft the Golden Fishing Rod for quest a quest in "?".[3]
- Then step up to the Diamond Fishing Rod for quest a quest in "?".[3]
- Finish the chain with the Neptunium Fishing Rod for quest a quest in "?".[3]
Every rod is a regular shaped crafting-table recipe that comes straight from the mod. Between tiers, only the tier material changes, so once you've made one rod, the rest will feel familiar.[6]
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
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
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
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
Neptunium: the top tier
Neptunium Ingot is the material that caps off the ladder. Besides the rod, it goes into a full toolset, a full armor set, the Neptunium Bow, the Neptunium Fillet Knife and Neptune's Bounty.[3][6]
You can combine Neptunium Nugget into ingots. You can also store ingots as a Neptunium Block and break the block back down whenever you need them.[6]
Crafting Shaped
9 × Neptunium Nugget
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_nuggets
Crafting Shapeless
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_ingot_from_neptunium_block
If you're into bees, this pack also has a Productive Bees centrifuge recipe for neptunium honeycomb that gives you Neptunium Nuggets along with wax.[6]
Centrifuge (productivebees)
Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/aquaculture/honeycomb_neptunium
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
Unverified The pack files provided don't show where you first find neptunium in the world, for example as fishing loot, so that part of the path is unconfirmed here.
Neptunium gear quests
The basic tools chapter has a quest just for the Neptunium Sword, a quest in "?". Quest a quest in "?" accepts the Neptunium Pickaxe, but a pickaxe from one of several other mods also completes it, so neptunium is one option there, not a requirement.[4]
Crafting Shaped
| any neptunium ingot |
| any neptunium ingot |
| any wooden rod |
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_sword
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
Over in the basic armor chapter, quest a quest in "?" asks for the whole set: Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots.[5]
Crafting Shaped
5 × any neptunium ingot
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_helmet
Crafting Shaped
8 × any neptunium ingot
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_chestplate
Crafting Shaped
7 × any neptunium ingot
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_leggings
Crafting Shaped
4 × any neptunium ingot
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_boots
Fillet knife tiers
Fillet knives have a longer ladder than the rods: Wooden Fillet Knife, Stone Fillet Knife, Iron Fillet Knife, Gold Fillet Knife, Diamond Fillet Knife and finally the Neptunium Fillet Knife. None of the quest chapters provided here ask for a fillet knife, so you can upgrade at your own pace.[3][4][5][6]
This pack adds woodcutting recipes that cut the Wooden Fillet Knife straight from logs and wood blocks. These recipes cover lots of wood types, including modded trees, so you can make your first knife from whatever logs you have on hand.[6]
Woodcutting (sawmill)
Recipe id: sawmill:aquaculture_wooden_fillet_knife_0
One of many wood-type variants the pack adds
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
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | Empty slot | any neptunium ingot |
| Empty slot | any neptunium ingot | Empty slot |
| any wooden rod | Empty slot | Empty slot |
Recipe id: aquaculture:neptunium_fillet_knife
Hook upgrades
Hooks have their own little progression. The Iron Hook is the starting point, and the other hooks are crafted from it. The Diamond Hook then upgrades one step further into the Nether Star Hook.[6]
Crafting Shaped
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
| any diamond gem | any diamond gem | |
| Empty slot | any diamond gem | Empty slot |
Recipe id: aquaculture:diamond_hook
Crafting Shapeless
Diamond Hook
- any nether star
Recipe id: aquaculture:nether_star_hook
How does Aquaculture 2 work with other mods?
3 parts
Aquaculture 2 connects to the rest of the pack in two main ways: recipes from other mods that produce Aquaculture items, and quests that ask you to make Aquaculture gear. Most of the recipe links are extra ways to get a Wooden Fillet Knife. There's also a bee product that gives you Neptunium.[3][4][5][6]
Neptunium from the centrifuge
There's a centrifuge recipe for a Neptunium honeycomb that outputs a Neptunium Nugget along with Wax. This recipe ships with the mod itself rather than being added by the pack. It's a nice alternative source of Neptunium if fishing isn't giving you any.[6]
Centrifuge (productivebees)
Recipe id: productivebees:centrifuge/aquaculture/honeycomb_neptunium
Unverified Which bee produces the Neptunium honeycomb, and how much it yields, can't be confirmed from the available sources. Check the bee's entry in JEI in-game. This site does hold All the Mods 10's own recipes, read from the pack itself: look the item up in the item browser.
Fillet knives from modded wood
The pack adds a large set of sawmill woodcutting recipes that turn modded wood into a Wooden Fillet Knife. Each recipe accepts the log, wood and stripped variants of one tree type. So whatever wood you've got piling up, there's a good chance it can become a knife.[6]
- Productive Trees woods such as Key Lime Log, Cork Oak Log, Soul Tree Log and many more fruit and hardwood trees.[6]
- Twilight Forest woods such as Twilight Oak Log, Canopy Tree Log, Mangrove Log and Timewood Log.[6]
- Overworld biome woods such as Palm Log, Baobab Log, Sakura Log and Rainbow Eucalyptus Log, plus bioshroom stems like Green Bioshroom Stem.[6]
- Dimension woods such as Grongle Log, Wigglewood Log and Scarlet Log.[6]
Woodcutting (sawmill)
Recipe id: sawmill:aquaculture_wooden_fillet_knife_166
One example: the Twilight Oak version.
Aquaculture in the quest book
The food and farming chapter has a fishing rod progression. You start with a quest in "?" for the Iron Fishing Rod. Next is a quest in "?" for the Golden Fishing Rod, then a quest in "?" for the Diamond Fishing Rod. The chain ends with a quest in "?" for the Neptunium Fishing Rod, and each quest unlocks after the previous one.[3]
Neptunium gear also shows up alongside other mods' gear. In the basic tools chapter, a quest in "?" accepts a Neptunium Pickaxe or one of several pickaxes from other mods. a quest in "?" asks for a Neptunium Sword. Over in the basic armor chapter, a quest in "?" wants the full set: Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots.[4][5]
Unverified Neptunium fishing loot is configurable in the mod. This pack's setting for it couldn't be confirmed from the available sources.
Which All the Mods 10 quests use Aquaculture 2?
3 parts
Aquaculture 2 shows up in three quest chapters in this pack. The biggest one is a fishing rod progression in the food and farming chapter. The basic tools and basic armor chapters also have quests for its Neptunium gear.[3][4][5]
Food and farming: the fishing rod ladder
This chapter has four quests in a straight chain. Each one asks for the next tier of fishing rod and unlocks only after you finish the one before it. The first rod quest opens after an earlier quest in the same chapter.[3]
- a quest in "?": get an Iron Fishing Rod.[3]
- a quest in "?": step up to a Golden Fishing Rod.[3]
- a quest in "?": next comes a Diamond Fishing Rod.[3]
- a quest in "?": finish the line with a Neptunium Fishing Rod.[3]
Basic tools: Neptunium pickaxe and sword
Two quests in the basic tools chapter use Neptunium gear, and both unlock after the same earlier quest in that chapter. You can do them in either order.[4]
- a quest in "?" is flexible: it accepts a Neptunium Pickaxe or one of several pickaxes from other mods. Any one of them completes it, so you don't need Aquaculture for this one.[4]
- a quest in "?" specifically asks for a Neptunium Sword.[4]
Basic armor: the full Neptunium set
In the basic armor chapter, a quest in "?" wants the whole set: Neptunium Helmet, Neptunium Chestplate, Neptunium Leggings and Neptunium Boots. Each piece is its own task, so you need all four to complete the quest.[5]
What changed in Aquaculture 2 between versions?
The version history for Aquaculture 2 in this pack is short, and that's because the sources only cover a couple of points in time. Here's what I can confirm.[2][9]
- Aquaculture 2 was already in the pack as of All the Mods 10 2.2 or earlier, so it's been a part of the pack from very early on.[2]
- All the Mods 10 2.42 updated Aquaculture 2 from 2.7.13 to 2.7.14.[9]
- All the Mods 10 4.5 ships Aquaculture 2 2.7.14, using the file Aquaculture-1.21.1-2.7.14.jar. That means the 2.42 update is still the version you get in this release.[2][9]
Unverified What actually changed between Aquaculture 2 2.7.13 and 2.7.14 is not confirmed. No changelogs for the shipped jars were available, so I can't say whether that update brought fixes, new features or balance changes. Any other pack releases that touched this mod between 2.2 and 4.5 are also unconfirmed.
Sources
- Aquaculture 2 project page (modrinth) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 4.5 mod list · pack file
- All the Mods 10 4.5 quests: "food_and_farming" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 4.5 quests: "basic_tools" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 4.5 quests: "basic_armor" · pack file
- All the Mods 10 4.5 recipe dump: recipes making Aquaculture 2 items · pack recipe dump
- aquaculture tooltips and descriptions (English lang file) · official mod data
- All the Mods 10 8.1 recipe dump: recipes making Aquaculture 2 items · pack recipe dump
- All the Mods 10 changelog (All the Mods 10 2.42) · changelog
Where this guide comes from
Written from what All the Mods 10 itself ships: its files and recipes, the in-game guidebooks and the mods' own pages. Every statement links to the source it came from, and the numbers are checked against the pack before publishing.
Guide last verified Oct 17, 2026.
Guides for other versions: 4.6 to 8.3 · 0.61 to 2.12 · 0.32 to 0.60