Fishing in Lava with the Combustive Fishing Mod for Minecraft

What Combustive Fishing Adds

Vanilla Minecraft offers plenty of ways to stack resources, from deep mining to looting villages. Fishing sits somewhere in the middle, useful for food, enchanted books, and the occasional bit of junk pretending to be treasure. The catch is that the loot table runs dry quickly once you have a steady supply. That is exactly the gap the Combustive Fishing mod fills. It adds a Forge-based fishing system that works on lava, introduces new mobs that only spawn in molten pools, and gives you a couple of new craftable items including a sword that hits harder than most vanilla options. Setting it up takes a few minutes, and this guide walks through the whole process for both your client and your Minecraft server.

Downloading the Mod

The mod lives on CurseForge, which is the only place we recommend pulling it from.

1. Open the Combustive Fishing page on CurseForge and click Files near the top.

1. Filter by the Minecraft version you plan to run.
2. Click the three vertical dots next to the matching file and choose Download File.

1. Save the `.jar` somewhere you will remember. The desktop works fine for now.

Installing on the Client

The mod will not load without Forge installed on your launcher. Make sure that step is done before continuing, then follow along below.

1. Open the Minecraft launcher and click Installations at the top.

1. Find the Forge profile you set up earlier and click the small folder icon on its right side.

1. In the window that opens, go into the `mods` folder. If it does not exist yet, create it manually before moving on.
2. Drag the Combustive Fishing `.jar` file into that folder.

1. Back in the launcher, hit Play on your modded profile to load everything up.

Installing on the Server

The server side mirrors the client process. Forge has to be running on the server first. Select Forge with the matching game version from the version selector in your panel and restart once to generate its files. Then continue with the steps below.

1. From your control panel, open the file manager or your FTP client from the panel sidebar.

1. Enter your password and click Login.

1. Move into the `mods` directory and click Upload.
2. Drop the Combustive Fishing file into the upload area.

1. Wait until the upload finishes at 100%, then go back to the main panel and restart the server.

If you prefer keeping mod loadouts separate from your vanilla saves, create a new server profile before installing. It is easier than chasing conflicts later.

First Steps After Joining

The new rod is not handed to you on a silver plate. You will need to gather a few materials from the Nether, plus some string from spiders before heading down there. Treat the first session like a normal survival run: build up tools, find diamonds, stockpile food. Once you have a Diamond Pickaxe and some string, you are ready for the next stage.

It is also worth installing JEI (Just Enough Items) on your launcher. It shows the new modded recipes right inside the inventory screen, which saves a lot of time later.

Getting to the Nether

Mine enough obsidian to build a Nether portal frame, craft Flint & Steel, and light the thing up. Once you cross over, the next objective is a Nether Fortress. They are not exactly common, so be ready to walk. If you would rather skip the trek, enabling cheats and using `/locate` is a fair shortcut on private servers.

Inside the fortress, hunt for Blaze Spawners. Approaching one triggers the blazes to start spawning, and you will need their Blaze Rods to build the new fishing rod. A weapon with the Looting enchantment speeds this up. Magma Cubes are worth killing on sight too, since they drop Magma Cream which is also part of the recipe.

Crafting the Blazing Fishing Rod

The new rod uses 3 Blaze Rods, 2 String, and 1 Magma Cream. Lay them out in a crafting table and you will get a Blazing Fishing Rod. It behaves like the vanilla rod but pulls from a completely different loot table, and yes, it still loses durability. Crafting a few spares is a good idea before heading out to fish.

To use it, walk up to any lava pool in the Overworld or stay in the Nether and right-click to cast. When the bobber dips, right-click again to reel in your catch. The animation is the same as vanilla fishing, just over lava instead of water.

What You Can Pull Out

The loot table is a mix of cooked food and Nether oddities:

• Cooked Cod and Cooked Salmon, mostly from Overworld lava.
• Coal and the occasional Bone Fish.
• Ghast Tears, useful for potion brewing.
• Searing Swordfish Bills, which feed into the new sword recipe.
• Combustive Cods, dropped by a new lava-dwelling mob.

All of these can also appear when fishing inside the Nether, so neither dimension is strictly required for any single item.

Searing Sword

Once you have a Searing Swordfish Bill, the Searing Sword is one Blaze Rod away. The recipe is simple, and the result is worth it: 9 attack damage with a 2.6 swing speed. That combination of damage and recovery rate makes it stronger in practice than any vanilla sword. If your server has PvP active, expect this thing to become the meta within a week.

Combustive Cod

A Combustive Cod is not edible on its own. Right-click with one in hand and your character throws it at whatever you are aiming at, where it detonates in a small fiery explosion. Damage is modest and it breaks soft blocks like leaves and grass. If you would rather eat it, press Q while looking at a water source to cool the fish down first.

Troubleshooting

If the server refuses to let you in after installing the mod, the cause is usually one of two things. First, double check the IP address and port (or your subdomain) in the connect screen against the values shown in your control panel. Typos here are the most common reason for failed joins. Second, confirm that your launcher is using the correct Forge profile for the matching game version, that the `Combustive-Fishing.jar` actually sits in the `mods` folder, and that the modded profile is the one you are pressing Play on.

Server-side issues usually trace back to Forge. The version selector in your panel must point to the Forge build that matches the version you used on the client. After that is confirmed, re-upload the mod into the server's `mods` directory and restart. Starting from a fresh server profile makes the process cleaner, since you avoid clashes with any leftover files from earlier modpacks or worlds.

Related Reading

• Combustive Fishing on CurseForge
• How to install Forge on the Minecraft launcher
• Adding mods to a Minecraft server
• Optimizing a modded Minecraft server