Fishing

Fishing
Fishing is an activity and profession accomplished by using a Fishing Pole at a body of liquid (water or lava) while having Bait in the player's off-hand. While near the body of liquid, pressing right-click at a point over the liquid will cast a line into the liquid. Pressing the button again when the bobber moves up and down will reel in the line and often an item will come up with the line. Some NPC's provide fishing quests and rewards their completion with an assortment of items.

Fishing provides an assortment of resources: Crafting materials for potions and food, a variety of very useful items such as mobility improvements, and even Pet Consumables. Through crates, fishing also provides an alternative source for ores, coins, many lore items, and some specialty items such as the Wavewalker Spear.

For new and casual players, fishing can be a good way of getting money and equipment; by later levels, it is less competitive with other money-making options, enemy drops, and advancing equipment. However, intense Angler profession advancement may reach competitive levels of these.

Requirements
It is not possible to fish when the player is submerged in liquid, even within a completely disconnected body of water. Fishing can, however, be done while moving, flying, sitting or while floating on water with the Waterwalking spell.

Fishing is possible without Bait, however the Total Fishing Power of the player will be considerably smaller.

Fishing can be done in Lava, but will only work with a Lavaproof Fishing Tool (Fishing Pole, Fishing Trident, Fishing Net) and Lavaproof Bait. It can take much longer to get a bite in lava, but the rewards can be much higher.

Fishing Quests
Catching a quest fish for a NPC requires fishing within the correct requirements, which can be determined by seeing the NPC's demands. NPC's gives out special rewards when a proper quest fish is turned in. The player does not need to speak with them beforehand, nor have even encountered him, but the chances of finding the correct area to fish for a quest are much lower without speaking to them first.

Factors
Given the prerequisites for fishing are fulfilled, some factors influence the quality/rarity of the caught item. There is a variety of relevant elements:
 * Accessories.
 * Consumables that can be crafted by other professions or bought from NPC's.
 * Fishing Poles that can be crafted or bought from NPC's.
 * Bait that come from different sources:
 * - Dropped from mobs
 * - Fished up in specific locations
 * - Quest rewards
 * - Bought from NPC's
 * - Crafted

All the factors are combined into a total Fishing Power that determines the chances of higher-quality catches. Fishing Power is calculated by starting with adding these four basic factors:
 * The Rod Power of the Fishing Rod used.
 * The Bait Power of the Bait used.
 * The Fishing Level of the rod caster.
 * Equipped items and consumables.

Fishing Poles
Fishing Poles are used with or without Bait for fishing. Some are craftable, while others are either sold by NPCs, found in Crates, or are dropped by special mobs.

Fish
Crimson Ingot Fishing adds many fishes to the base Minecraft ones. Most can serve as crafting material for food and potions (including materials for other professions.) Note that some have special requirements other than Fishing Power.

Crates
Crates are rare grab-bag type items that each contain random loot, including potions, bait, useful items, Crimin, materials and even some raw metal. The more rare the crate, the more valuable it's loot.

Enemies
Fishing may very rarely summon creatures from the water. These are: