Exotic Fish

Exotic Fish
Mod	Aquaculture 2
Species	10

The Exotic Fish are the regional fish added by Aquaculture for dry, jungle, mushroom and ocean biomes. The group includes the Bayad, Boulti, Capitaine and Synodontis from desert and savanna rivers, the Arapaima, Piranha and Tambaqui from jungles, the Brown Shrooma and Red Shrooma from mushroom biomes, and the Jellyfish from oceans and beaches. Goldfish is also covered here, but it is an item only and has no entity. None of these fish are hostile. A player cares about them for their fillets, their food value, their buckets, and their use in a few crafting and brewing recipes.

Spawning

Exotic Fish spawn in surface water in the biomes listed in the spawn table on this page. Each species has its own biome list, spawn weight and group size, so one biome can host several species at once. The weight controls how often a species is chosen, and the group size sets how many spawn together.

• Dry biomes (desert, savanna, badlands and their variants): Bayad, Boulti, Capitaine and Synodontis, each listed in 36 biomes. Synodontis has the highest weight of the four and Capitaine the lowest.
• Jungle biomes (jungle, rainforest and their sparse, bamboo, rocky and mountain forms): Arapaima, Piranha and Tambaqui, each listed in 15 biomes. Piranha has the highest weight of the three and Arapaima the lowest.
• Mushroom biomes (mushroom fields, fungal jungle, fungal caves and similar): Brown Shrooma and Red Shrooma, each listed in 8 biomes with the same weight and group size. Their groups go up to 8 fish, the largest of any exotic species.
• Ocean and beach biomes: Jellyfish, listed in 19 biomes, including the warm, cold and deep ocean variants and several beach biomes.

Fish do not spawn in the Nether, the End or void biomes. Goldfish have no entity and never spawn in the world.

The pack's changelog records no change to these fish or their spawns.

Bayad

Boulti

Capitaine

Synodontis

Arapaima

Piranha

Tambaqui

Brown Shrooma

Red Shrooma

Jellyfish

Behavior

All Exotic Fish use the water ambient category. They are passive and do not attack players or other mobs. Each has a maximum health of 3 (1.5 hearts), a movement speed of 0.7 and a follow range of 16. Their class is a schooling fish, so they gather into groups with fish of the same species and move together.

Sizes differ by species. Boulti and Synodontis are 0.3 blocks in size, Bayad is 0.55 blocks long, Tambaqui is 0.6 and Arapaima is 0.8. Jellyfish has no attack of its own, so its interest lies in crafting and brewing, described under Related items below.

Drops

Every exotic species has a random chance of dropping Bone Meal, and each one also has its own loot table, shown below. Fish are also available from fishing. The global fishing table includes the Aquaculture fish, so a rod can catch them. See Fishing Rods and Fishing Junk and Treasure.

Bayad

Item	Amount	Conditions
Bayad
Bone Meal		random_chance

Boulti

Item	Amount	Conditions
Boulti
Bone Meal		random_chance

Capitaine

Item	Amount	Conditions
Capitaine
Bone Meal		random_chance

Synodontis

Item	Amount	Conditions
Synodontis
Bone Meal		random_chance

Arapaima

Item	Amount	Conditions
Arapaima
Bone Meal		random_chance

Piranha

Item	Amount	Conditions
Piranha
Bone Meal		random_chance

Tambaqui

Item	Amount	Conditions
Tambaqui
Bone Meal		random_chance

Brown Shrooma

Item	Amount	Conditions
Brown Shrooma
Bone Meal		random_chance

Red Shrooma

Item	Amount	Conditions
Red Shrooma
Bone Meal		random_chance

Jellyfish

Item	Amount	Conditions
Jellyfish

Variants

The exotic species share one stat block but differ in size, spawn settings and food value. The table below lists the full stats. Each species also has a bucket item, which holds the fish while it is carried.

• Bayad and Tambaqui have a food value of 2 hunger and 0.4 saturation.
• Boulti, Synodontis, Piranha, Brown Shrooma and Red Shrooma have a food value of 1 hunger and 0.2 saturation.
• Capitaine and Arapaima have the highest food value of the group, at 3 hunger and 1.2 saturation. Each yields 10 fillets when cut.
• Jellyfish is not an edible fish. It has no food value and is used for smelting and cooking.
• Goldfish is an item only. It has no entity and no food value.

Related items

• Raw fish and buckets. Each species has a raw item, stackable to 64, and a bucket item, which is not stackable.
• Fillets. A knife turns a raw fish into fillets. Capitaine and Arapaima yield 10 each. Brown Shrooma and Red Shrooma yield no fillets. Cutting a Shrooma on a cutting board gives 1 Raw Fish Fillet and 5 mushrooms of the matching kind. See Fillet Knives and Fish Fillets for the full rules.
• Fish Bones. Some fillet recipes, such as the Bayad cutting-board recipe, also produce Fish Bones at a 10% chance. Fish Bones can be turned into 3 Bone Meal.
• Cooking. Piranha in a cooking pot with rice and pumpkin makes an Unusual Fish Soup. A catfish-type fish, including Bayad, with tomato and bread makes a Halaszle. Jellyfish with wheat and sugar makes Jellyfish Jelly.
• Smelting. Jellyfish smelts into a Slimeball.
• Brewing. Jellyfish is a Poison start mix in the brewing stand.
• Goldfish. Crafting a Goldfish gives a Gold Nugget. Cutting one on a cutting board gives a Raw Fish Fillet and a Gold Nugget.
• Shrooma fish. Brown Shrooma crafts into 5 Brown Mushroom, and Red Shrooma crafts into 5 Red Mushroom.

Tips

• Carry a bucket of any species you want to keep. A bucketed fish can be placed in a pond or shallow water elsewhere.
• Use a Neptunium fillet knife for more fillets. It adds 25% to the fillet yield, which matters most for the 10-fillet species Capitaine and Arapaima.
• Cats and ocelots accept the Aquaculture raw fish as food, so they can be fed from the same stock.
• Mushroom biomes give the largest groups of the exotic species, so they are the best place to collect Shrooma fish.
• Fish spawn only in surface water. The spawn table lists which species can appear in each biome.