I started a single player world in one of 1.18 pre-releases. I do a lot of fishing with a fully enchanted fishing rod (LotS/L3/Ub3/M). Before final update to 1.18 I could get ca. 3 books/play hour. After update, I get none or just one, as if LotS =0. Frequency of other loot (enchanted rods bows/fish/junk) seems not to be affected.
I wonder if it is a bug/work as intended/just bad luck.
Fishing in open water, warm ocean, no AFK.
Also, I wonder if enchantments are really random since some appear with much higher frequency than others.
What I expect: same frequency of fishing enchanted books as before update
What I experience: very low frequency of fishing enchanted books after update to 1.18.
I was unable to reproduce this issue in 1.19. After looking into the "fishing treasure" loot table, I saw no notable decreases in the chances of acquiring enchanted books between versions. To test this I used the following command and observed the number of enchanted books I received.
Could it be a possibility that you were just unlucky? If you're confident that you were not, please could you provide some screenshots/videos of your fishing setup whilst the F3 debug screen is enabled? Additionally, did you happen to have any data packs enabled that may modify the fishing loot table? Thanks in advance. 🙂