Brown Trout
Rivers · Lakes and ponds
Golden-brown with black and red spots. Trout like clear, cool rivers and rise to feed at dawn and dusk.
Install
Install on iPad, phone, console or Windows (Bedrock)
- Download SeaLife.mcaddon on your Windows PC, Android phone or tablet, or iPhone or iPad.
- Open the file. Minecraft starts and imports both packs.
- Create or edit a world. Under Behavior Packs, turn on Sea Life. The resource pack is added automatically.
- Head for the water: rivers, lakes, oceans and snowy beaches, or use spawn eggs from the creative inventory.
Running a server? Use the separate behavior pack and resource pack. Xbox, PlayStation and Switch can’t import add-ons from files, but you can join a world or Realm that has the add-on. Bedrock needs version 1.21.120 or newer.
Install on Mac or PC (Java Edition)
- Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.3.
- Download SeaLife-fabric.jar, plus Fabric API and GeckoLib.
- Put all three files in your mods folder and start Minecraft with the Fabric profile.
- Go fishing, or find the animals and items in the Sea Life creative tab.
Upgrading to a new version
- Download the new version and open the file. A newer version replaces the one you have, and your worlds use it the next time you load them.
- Still running the old version? (or Minecraft says it is already installed): go to Settings → Storage, delete Sea Life under both Resource Packs and Behavior Packs, then open the new file again.
- Check the world: in the world’s Edit screen, under Behavior Packs and Resource Packs, make sure Sea Life is active. A world you imported or downloaded can carry its own old copy: deactivate it there, save, and activate the new one.
On a server, replace the add-on’s folders in behavior_packs and resource_packs with the new ones and restart it.
Java Edition: delete the old Sea Life jar from your mods folder and put the new one in its place. Keep only one version in the folder. If the new version needs a newer Fabric API or GeckoLib, update those too.
The animals
Every creature has its own model, animations and sounds. Fish swim in shoals and flop about on land, seals and penguins come ashore to sleep, and whales surface to breathe.
Carp
Lakes and ponds · Swamps · Rivers
A deep-bodied, bronze bottom feeder with whiskers on its lip. Big carp grow old and wise, and put up a long, stubborn fight.
European Eel
Rivers · Swamps · Lakes and ponds · Mangrove swamps
A long, slippery fish that comes out at night. European eels travel all the way to the Sargasso Sea to spawn.
Perch
Rivers · Lakes and ponds
A stripy little fish with red-orange fins, swimming in shoals in rivers and lakes. The first fish many anglers ever catch.
Pike
Rivers · Lakes and ponds · Swamps
The tiger of the lake: a long green ambush hunter with a duck-bill snout full of teeth. It waits in the reeds and strikes at dusk.
Wels Catfish
Rivers · Swamps · Lakes and ponds
Europe’s biggest freshwater fish: a huge, slimy giant with long whiskers that hunts in the dark. Catching one takes a Sea Rod and patience.
Zander
Rivers · Lakes and ponds
A pikeperch with big glassy eyes that let it hunt in murky water and at night. Prized for its white, tasty flesh.
Garfish
Ocean · Lukewarm ocean
Needle-thin, with a beak of a jaw and bones that are bright green. It leaps and twists when hooked.
Herring
Ocean · Cold ocean · Deep ocean
The silver darling of the North Sea. Herring swim in enormous shoals and are food for seals, porpoises, sharks and people alike. Smoke it for røget sild.
Lumpfish
Cold ocean · Frozen ocean · Stony shores
A round, knobbly little fish that clings to rocks with a sucker on its belly. Males guarding eggs turn orange underneath.
Mackerel
Ocean · Lukewarm ocean
A fast, striped schooling fish. Mackerel bite eagerly on summer days.
Ocean Sunfish
Warm ocean · Lukewarm ocean · Ocean
The heaviest bony fish in the world, a swimming head with a fin above and below. It drifts near the surface eating jellyfish.
Plaice
Ocean · Cold ocean
A flatfish that lies on the sea floor with both eyes on its brown, orange-spotted upper side. Fry it and put it on bread with an egg for a Danish stjerneskud.
Swordfish
Deep ocean · Warm ocean · Lukewarm ocean
One of the fastest fish in the sea, slashing through shoals with its long flat sword. A true test for the Sea Rod.
Atlantic Wolffish
Cold ocean · Frozen ocean · Deep ocean
A grumpy bottom-dweller with tusk-like teeth for crushing crabs and sea urchins. Leave it alone or it bites.
Blue Tang
Warm ocean
Royal blue with a black marking and a bright yellow tail. Tangs swim in small groups over warm reefs.
Clownfish
Warm ocean
Orange with white bands, living in pairs among the coral of warm seas. It fits in a bucket, so you can build it an aquarium.
Lionfish
Warm ocean · Lukewarm ocean
Beautiful but dangerous: its long spines are venomous, and anything that hits it gets poisoned.
Great White Shark
Cold ocean · Ocean · Lukewarm ocean
The great white hunts seals, penguins and big fish. It also goes for swimmers who are hurt, so get out of the water when you are low on health.
Hammerhead Shark
Warm ocean · Lukewarm ocean
A shark with a hammer-shaped head that spreads its eyes wide apart. It hunts fish in warm seas and fights back if attacked.
Manta Ray
Warm ocean · Lukewarm ocean
A giant ray that flies through warm seas on huge wings, filtering plankton. It is completely harmless.
Whale Shark
Warm ocean
The biggest fish of all, covered in white spots. It sieves plankton through its huge mouth and lets you swim right next to it.
Grey Seal
Stony shores · Beaches · Cold ocean
Bigger than the harbour seal, with a long nose and a blotchy coat. Grey seals haul out on rocky shores at night and can be tamed with fish.
Harbour Seal
Beaches · Stony shores
The common seal of Danish waters, with a spotted coat and big dark eyes. Feed it herring and it may become your companion; tame seals follow you and sometimes bring you a fish.
Walrus
Snowy beaches · Frozen ocean
A huge, wrinkled, whiskered seal with ivory tusks, lounging in herds on Arctic ice. Peaceful until one of them is attacked.
Beluga
Frozen ocean · Cold ocean
The white whale of the Arctic, with a bulging forehead and no dorsal fin. Chatty and curious, it likes swimming alongside people.
Blue Whale
Deep ocean
The largest animal that has ever lived, mottled blue-grey and as gentle as it is enormous. Riding one is something you won’t forget.
Harbour Porpoise
Ocean · Cold ocean
Denmark’s own small whale: shy and round-headed. You mostly see its back roll over the surface as it breathes.
Humpback Whale
Ocean · Deep ocean · Cold ocean
Famous for its song and its spectacular leaps. Its flippers are a third of its body length. Hold on to its fin for a ride.
Narwhal
Frozen ocean
The unicorn of the sea: its spiralling tusk is a tooth up to three metres long. It lives among the Arctic sea ice.
Orca
Cold ocean · Frozen ocean · Ocean
The killer whale hunts seals, penguins and big fish in pods, but leaves people alone. Grab its tall fin and ride along.
Sperm Whale
Deep ocean
A box-shaped head on a wrinkled body. It dives deeper than any other whale to hunt squid in the dark.
Emperor Penguin
Snowy beaches · Ice spikes · Frozen ocean
The biggest penguin, with golden ear patches. Colonies huddle together through the night; on ice they toboggan along on their bellies.
Gentoo Penguin
Snowy beaches · Frozen ocean · Stony shores
The fastest swimming penguin, with a white band over its head and a bright orange beak and feet.
King Penguin
Snowy beaches · Stony shores
A little smaller than the emperor, with bright orange ear patches. Lives on cold shores in noisy colonies.
Gone fishing
Craft an Angler’s Rod (sticks, string and an iron nugget) and cast it into a river, a lake or the sea. When the bobber dips, use the rod again to strike. Then the fight begins: hold sneak to reel in, and let go when the line gets too tight, or it snaps. Every fish has its own weight, and the Fish Guide remembers your biggest.
The strongest fish (wels catfish, wolffish and swordfish) need the Sea Rod: iron, string and a copper reel. The ordinary fishing rod catches herring, mackerel, perch and friends too.
| Fish | Where | Bites best | Weight | Rod |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Perch |
Rivers, Lakes and ponds | by day | 0.1–1.2 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Pike |
Rivers, Lakes and ponds, Swamps | at dawn and dusk | 1–16 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Zander |
Rivers, Lakes and ponds | at night | 1–9 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Brown Trout |
Rivers, Lakes and ponds | at dawn and dusk | 0.3–4 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Carp |
Lakes and ponds, Swamps, Rivers | any time | 2–20 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Wels Catfish |
Rivers, Swamps, Lakes and ponds | at night | 10–80 kg | Sea Rod |
 European Eel |
Rivers, Swamps, Lakes and ponds, Mangrove swamps | at night | 0.3–2 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Herring |
Ocean, Cold ocean, Beaches, Stony shores | any time | 0.1–0.4 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Mackerel |
Ocean, Lukewarm ocean, Beaches | by day | 0.3–1.5 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Plaice |
Ocean, Cold ocean, Beaches | any time | 0.5–2.5 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Garfish |
Ocean, Lukewarm ocean, Beaches, Stony shores | by day | 0.3–1.2 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Lumpfish |
Cold ocean, Frozen ocean, Stony shores | any time | 0.5–4 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Atlantic Wolffish |
Cold ocean, Frozen ocean, Deep ocean | at night | 3–15 kg | Sea Rod |
 Clownfish |
Warm ocean | by day | 0.02–0.25 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Blue Tang |
Warm ocean | by day | 0.2–0.6 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Lionfish |
Warm ocean, Lukewarm ocean | any time | 0.3–1.3 kg | Angler’s Rod |
 Swordfish |
Deep ocean, Warm ocean, Lukewarm ocean | by day | 50–400 kg | Sea Rod |
Life in the water
Two fishing rods
Cast, wait for the bite, strike, and fight the fish with the tension bar. Which fish bites depends on the water, the depth and the time of day.
Tame a seal
Feed a harbour seal or grey seal herring until it trusts you. It follows you on land and in the water, sits when you tell it to, and sometimes brings you a fish.
Ride a whale
Swim up to an orca, beluga, humpback, sperm whale or blue whale and grab its fin. Look where you want to go and it swims that way; you can breathe while you hold on.
Penguins
Emperor, king and gentoo penguins waddle about on snowy beaches, toboggan on their bellies across the ice, and huddle together at night.
Fish in a bucket
Scoop up small fish with a water bucket and let them go in your own pond or aquarium.
A food web
Pike chase perch, seals hunt herring, orcas and great whites hunt seals and penguins. A tame seal is safe.
Fish Guide
Every player gets a Fish Guide that fills in as you spot and catch new species, with your heaviest catch of each.
Spearfishing
Install Realistic Hunting as well and every fish and shark is game for the harpoon and speargun. Seals, whales and penguins are protected.
Food and gear
Cook your catch, smoke herring in a smoker for røget sild, fry plaice and put it on bread with an egg for a Danish stjerneskud.
Raw Fish Steak
Cooked Fish Steak
Cooked White Fish
Cooked Oily Fish
Smoked Herring
Fried Plaice
Fish and Chips
Fish Soup
Sushi Roll
Stjerneskud
Shark Tooth
Fish Guide
Angler’s Rod
Sea Rod