I have this plugin running on MC 1.21.4. It does what it's supposed to do, no more or no less, as clearly described on the plugin page. It automatically throws your rod back when you catch something, that's it. I haven't had any problems so far.

An added value for this plugin might be some kind of anti-AFK option. Fishing is recognized as an activity, which prevents players from going into AFK-mode. An extra permission such as 'autofish.afk.kickexempt' would be useful to allow certain groups to fish endlessly.

I left an initial negative review after having several problems over several updates, but I'm updating this to include the response from the author.

I've tried this plugin a couple times over the last year or so, spanning a few different versions of the game. The server was always Paper, but version numbers changed over time (usually latest version or close to). Several times I ran into issues with autofish not working for lengthy AFK periods, permissions not working properly for different roles, being able to get the rod into loot tables (or acquirable other than commands), mislabeled version numbers, and a few other things that escape my mind at the current moment.

I'll try and keep the "he said, she said" part pretty brief, but after my initial review the author responded with a fair amount of hostility, accusing me of being a bot account posting fake reviews. I was taken aback, but understood that a negative review doesn't feel great either. I gave that message a day while I gave the plugin a last shot and worked through some of the problems with my server host support team. I figured I'd work through some issues, then update the review with better info and more details about what I was having frustrations with. In that day, the author doubled down and responded again with even more hostility. I didn't get a screenshot of some of the initial negativity, but the secondary response after less than a day was "Since all you did was say the plugin doesn't work and then go off on random stuff that doesn't make any sense-and you've ignored me for almost 24 hours-I'm starting to think you're a fake account posting false reviews."

I wasn't even sure how to respond to that. Less than 24 hours seems like a reasonable response time for a review on a minor spigot plugin to me, but I guess that is unreasonable to some. Since I was still working with my server support, I gave it another day and actually ended up getting a good chunk of what I needed fixed. In that day the author reached out to me personally with "Because you haven’t replied for almost 24 hours, I am assume you are using this fake account to posting a false review." basically restating the same thing. I responded a bit jokingly, but the most polite way I knew how given the hostility with "You know what they say about people that assume" and then started to explain some of the problems, and how I was working through them with my server's support.

I don't know if it was my assumption joke, or just the fact that the author is an angry person, but they continually escalated the conversation, becoming more hostile as I tried to explain more. Multiple times, I stated that I was "happy to update the review" with more info as I learned and fixed more. At the time, I was genuinely trying to decide if I wanted to change my review to a 3 or 4 star (some issues but I got most fixed, some hostility but I wasn't too pressed about it). They kept telling me I was giving them no information, but insulted me and dismissed anything I brought up before I even had a chance to explain further. This quickly devolved into the author resorting to juvenile name calling, saying I was an "idiot" both in personal messages to me, and in their public response to my initial review. This was both unprompted, and unreturned, as I don't think name calling does anything to prove your point or change minds.

If I knew how, I'd include logs of some of the initial errors I encountered, and screenshots of the entire conversation with the author. I am happy to send this info to anyone who is curious. Apologies in advance if I don't see your message right away, I don't check Spigot dm's super often. Please don't get angry if I don't respond in "almost 24 hours" XD.

I tried the 1.11 (it shows 1.12 but is w/e) version, and it works flawlessly. There is no need to change the config or anything. The developer seems nice, too, and willing to help where needed.

Keep it up!

Does not work. Tried many times over many updates and at best it's iffy. Most times it just doesn't reel in at all. Something is off in the way this is coded, and there's only like 4 possible things I can change on my end, and I've messed with all of them to no success. Needs some major reworks to be useful on servers.

this plugin is good but can you add a worldguard/region support in the config, so does only in the specific region they can use the autofish rod?

I gave everyone the autofishing.use permission and it still doesn't work for some reason?

How to download 1.3 version? I cant figure it out how to download it, i even went into updates and clicked 1.3 but nothing

Really good plugin as well as support, the developer always responds fast and is very kind.

This is an awesome plugin for SMP! Thank you. I love utilities like this that allow players to speed up the boring parts they are going to do anyway.

Good plugin! :3

Very happy with this. Most of my server use autofish mods anyway, we're big on fishing, but this provides access to those who don't want to or cannot install mods. It's also way more reliable than any autofish mod I've tried, since the server always knows when a hook has been bitten.

perfect for the ideal SMP server. Applied to Solo's SMP and the community loved it. There are no issues for v1.19.2!

Simple but useful plugni! Does what it says, and open source! thanks for the great work

i love this plugin
but how to give all player auto fishing,
my friend also love to fishing