Void Fish

Void Fish
Mod	Tide
Species	26

Void Fish are a family of 26 aquatic mobs added by Tide that live in the void, the region below a configurable height in each dimension. They belong to the water ambient mob category. None of them attacks players. Void fishing requires a rod with the Void Hook, and each species can be kept as a living mob with its bucket. Most void fish have no natural spawn, and the largest, such as the Dragon Fish with 60 health, can only be obtained through fishing or special rules.

Spawning

Mantyvern

Flying Dutchman's Sock

Endergazer

Amber Rockfish

Ender Glider

Pale Clubfish

Enderfin

Elytrout

Red 40

Violet Carp

Snatcher Squid

Chorus Cod

Natural spawns are limited to the eight End biomes: End Barrens, End Corruption, End Highlands, End Midlands, End Reef, End Wilds, Small End Islands and The End. Only 12 of the 26 void fish have natural spawn entries. The other 14 appear only through fishing, bucket placement or special sources, such as the Dragon Fish, Pentapus, Shadow Shark and Darkness Eater.

A natural void fish spawn requires an air block at or below the void surface of its dimension. With the pack's default configuration (see Void Fish), that surface is at y=50 in the End. In the Overworld and the Nether it lies below the build limit of those dimensions, so void fish do not spawn naturally there.

The End spawn entries use weights from 1 to 10. The highest weight (10) belongs to the Pale Clubfish, Enderfin and Amber Rockfish, each in groups of 3 to 5. Mantyvern and Snatcher Squid have the lowest weight (1), each in a group of 1.

Void height

The void surface for each dimension is set in the Tide server config (fishableVoidHeights). The defaults are:

The pack keeps these defaults. The config entry is marked as requiring a server restart to change.

Behavior

Void fish are built on Tide's fish base class, with a custom move control and a navigation that stays in water and void. The base void fish class has three goals:

The Smooth Swimming variants (Dragon Fish, Shadow Shark, Darkness Eater, Mantyvern and Snatcher Squid) use a smoother move control and turning model. They keep the panic and wander goals but drop the flock goal, so they swim alone. Pentapus registers its own random-drift goal, which sets small random velocities and stops after more than 100 ticks without movement.

Inside the void, a void fish counts as being in water, so it uses water movement and its fall distance is reset each tick. None of the void fish classes has an attack goal, so they never target a player.

Drops

Deep Blue

Item	Amount	Conditions
Deep Blue	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Alpha Fish

Item	Amount	Conditions
Alpha Fish	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Mantyvern

Item	Amount	Conditions
Mantyvern	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Bedrock Bug

Item	Amount	Conditions
Bedrock Bug	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Vengeance

Item	Amount	Conditions
Vengeance	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Flying Dutchman's Sock

Item	Amount	Conditions
Flying Dutchman's Sock	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Endergazer

Item	Amount	Conditions
Endergazer	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Blue Neonfish

Item	Amount	Conditions
Blue Neonfish	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Amber Rockfish

Item	Amount	Conditions
Amber Rockfish	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Ender Glider

Item	Amount	Conditions
Ender Glider	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Pale Clubfish

Item	Amount	Conditions
Pale Clubfish	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Enderfin

Item	Amount	Conditions
Enderfin	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Voidseeker

Item	Amount	Conditions
Voidseeker	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Dragon Fish

Item	Amount	Conditions
Dragon Fish	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Shadow Shark

Item	Amount	Conditions
Shadow Shark	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Elytrout

Item	Amount	Conditions
Elytrout	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Sleepy Carp

Item	Amount	Conditions
Sleepy Carp	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Pentapus

Item	Amount	Conditions
Pentapus	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Red 40

Item	Amount	Conditions
Red 40	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Violet Carp

Item	Amount	Conditions
Violet Carp	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Nephrosilu

Item	Amount	Conditions
Nephrosilu	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Snatcher Squid

Item	Amount	Conditions
Snatcher Squid	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Chorus Cod

Item	Amount	Conditions
Chorus Cod	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Judgment Fish

Item	Amount	Conditions
Judgment Fish	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Darkness Eater

Item	Amount	Conditions
Darkness Eater	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Incandescent Larva

Item	Amount	Conditions
Incandescent Larva	cooked if on fire	killed_by_player

Each void fish drops its own fish item. The drop is the cooked version when the fish is killed while on fire, and the raw version otherwise. A caught void fish arrives as its fish item. Bucket the fish if you want to keep the living mob.

Variants

The 26 void fish are grouped below by size and health. The health values are the base values from the mob definitions.

Large fish

• Dragon Fish: 60 health (30 hearts) and 4 by 1 blocks, the largest void fish.
• Shadow Shark: 28 health (14 hearts) and 1.8 by 0.6 blocks.
• Darkness Eater: 25 health (12.5 hearts) and 1.7 by 0.65 blocks.
• Mantyvern: 20 health (10 hearts) and 1.8 by 0.5 blocks. It has natural End spawns with weight 1.
• Snatcher Squid: 16 health (8 hearts) and 1 by 0.2 blocks. It has natural End spawns with weight 1.

Medium fish

Fish with 5 to 8 health, including Voidseeker, Deep Blue, Vengeance, Nephrosilu, Sleepy Carp, Chorus Cod, Violet Carp, Amber Rockfish, Ender Glider, Judgment Fish and Bedrock Bug.

Small fish

Fish with 1 to 4 health. Pentapus, Pale Clubfish, Blue Neonfish and Red 40 have 4 or fewer. The Endergazer, Enderfin, Alpha Fish and Elytrout have 3 health each, and Flying Dutchman's Sock and Incandescent Larva have 1 health each.

Related items

Each void fish has a spawn egg and a bucket. The bucket keeps the fish's caught length in its item data. The Void Hook is required for void fishing; it is one of the hooks in Fishing Gadgets. The cooked fish items are standard food. Fish caught in the void are tracked by the Fishing Journal and Fishy Notes.

Tips

• To catch a void fish, use a rod with the Void Hook and keep the hook below the void surface. Without the hook, the rod cannot fish in the void.
• The void bite timer is 1.8 times the open-water timer, so expect longer waits than in water or lava.
• Void fish do not attack, so there is no combat strategy. Use a bucket to keep a fish you want, and keep the bucket spawn egg for later placement.
• For the other Tide fish families, see Freshwater Fish, Saltwater Fish, Lava Fish and Underground Fish.
• For the fishing process itself, see Tide Fishing.