Fishing

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Fishing is a mechanic that allows you to obtain seafood and various valuables using a Fishing Rod.

How to Fish[]

To fish, first craft or purchase a Fishing Rod. To craft a Fishing Rod, you must combine two Sticks and one Fiber at a Crafting Station. You can purchase a Fishing Rod for 30 at the Etris Docks and the house at the base of the tall island between the Isle of Vigils and Etrea, or for 35 from a fishing pond room in a Guild Base.

The next step to fishing is to cast your line into either the sea or a fishing pond. After a while, you will get a bite, and your character will begin leaning in a certain direction. You must hold the key that is displayed on your screen. This will reel in the fish. You are also given a time limit, failing to reel in the fish in the correct time will result in you losing the fish. You can tell when the fish is almost caught/escaped when the circle is almost completely closed. you will catch the fish when the fish icon reaches the border.

Though bait is not required for fishing, it is highly recommended as you are able to get better loot and catch fish slightly faster. To equip bait, hold out your fishing rod and attempt to hold out any uncooked edible food, such as fruit, mushrooms and fish meat. Some baits have moderate changes in catch rarity and/or slight changes in catch speed, but it's not super significant.

Fishing can also level each physical attribute (except weapon) given enough time. Notably, it provides a large amount of willpower experience in comparison to other stats.

The frequency and quality of loot from fishing is also heavily based on the location you are fishing in. Even slight angle adjustments in the same spot can lead to significantly better results.

Loot From Fishing[]

Many varieties of fish can be obtained from fishing, as well as some loot. Fished up objects can very rarely be golden. Golden loot will not be deposited into your inventory as an item, instead granting you 1 Knowledge. The bigger the fish, the better the loot. The loot you can get from fishing is:

Sea Bass
Red Snapper
Tuna
Swordfish
Squid
Urchin
Pufferfish
Seaweed
1 Mudskipper (Will spawn a Mudskipper)
1 Lionfish (Will spawn a Lionfish)
Old Boots (Leather Boots)
Chests (Uncommon, not "very rare" you can probably fish up 1-5 chests in a 10-20 to minute time period if you are very good. Not all loot can be obtained from fishing (There are some exceptions). Example of Chests that can be fished up: Aratel Chests, Bandit Chests, Mudskipper Chests, Etris Siege Chests, Duke Chests, Depths Chests, And Primadon Chests.)
Golden/Enchanted Fish

Everything you can get from fishing has its own chat bubble pop-up, as a reaction of your character, with most of them being puns or word plays.

If you fish a Sea Bass: "It's a Sea Bass! Where's its instrument?"
If you fish a Red Snapper: "A Red Snapper! Quite the sailor's mouth on this one..."
If you fish a Tuna: "Holy moly! A Tuna! I wonder what at-tuna-ment it is?"
If you fish a Swordfish: "A Swordfish! Too bad I can't wield it..."
If you fish a Squid: "Cool Squid! No, I'm not squidding."
If you fish a Pufferfish: "A poisonous Pufferfish! Careful eating this one..."
If you fish an Urchin: "Barely edible..."
If you fish a Seaweed: "It was stuck on some seaweed..."
If you fish a Mudskipper: "What the...?!"
If you fish a Lionfish: "A LIONFISH?!"
If you fish a Treasure Chest: "Woah a treasure chest!"
If you fish a Golden Fish: "Huh?!"
If you fail to fish something: "It broke loose!", "I didn't reel it in fast enough..."

Fishing Spots[]

Fishing spots are static places around the map that has a significantly better loot pool for fishing compared to regular waters. Additionally you are able to summon a fishing spot using the relic Rain Spire

There are 12 known fishing locations in game:

Boatmans Watch[]

This spot is seen on the coast of Boatman's Watch to the right of the shipyard looking outward.

Mortus[]

This spot is accessed by slipping through a crack past the left side of Mortus' shack.

Starfield Grove[]

This spot can be seen behind the Startree located in the Starswept Valley.

Starfield Veldt[]

This spot can be seen behind the Startree located near Miner's Landing.

Shrine of Division[]

This spot is located to the right of the Shrine of Division island when facing outward.

Miner's Landing[]

This spot is located in a waterfall in a staircase on the path to the upper landing.

Eastern Interstitial Lighthouse[]

This spot is located in the inner walls of the Lighthouse

The Entropy Catalyst[]

This spot is located at the entrance of The Entropy Catalyst

Beloved Zofia[]

This spot is located around the rocks in front of the front of the Beloved Zofia

New Kyrsa, The Sleeping City[]

This spot is located in Kaide, The Drowned Light prison(Can be visited through one of the white clouds teleporter tower near Ethiron Chamber).

Minityrsa[]

This spot is located in open sea area behind Minityrsa.

Gallery[]

Talents[]

There are currently three Talents related to fishing, each automatically obtained after reaching certain milestones.

Name	Description	Requirements
Fisher's Lure	Fish are drawn to your line more quickly.	50 Bites
Hook, Line, and Sinker	Once something's caught your line, it's much harder for it to get loose. (+4 Carry Load)	30 Bites
Proficient Baiting	Casting your line excites ocean life, reducing the chances of fishing up trash.	10 Bites

Bait[]

A lot of raw food can be used as bait, obviously I didn't have them all while testing so this list is obviously incomplete as well as pretty poorly made. This was tested at the left of the Etris docks, at the beach where the Den Master is.

Below is a list of bait that can be used. Don't see a valid bait? Feel free to test and add data!

DISCLAIMER: This section lacks proper documentation and the effects of bait are not well known.

No Bait: Baseline for fishing. Results from 100 catches with No Bait: 25 Sea bass, 5 Squid, 21 Red Snapper, 11 Tuna, 5 Lionfish, 4 Sword Fish, 2 Golden Sea bass, 1 Golden Red Snapper, 13 Chest and 13 Fails (which are mostly Lionfish, Chest or Sword Fish since those are the most difficult)
Plumfruit: May take a longer time to fish up a fish. Regardless fish also seem to be harder to catch. Results from ~18 Plumfruits: 6 sea bass, 1 puffer fish, 2 squid, 2 urchins, 1 red snapper (Though a lot of misses).
Pomar: Slow bait, good for catching urchins.
Gobletto: Getting bites was quite fast. Results from 7 Goblettos: 2 Misses, 1 Squid, 1 Red Snapper, 1 Sea Bass, 2 Urchins
Squid: Seemed to get a lot of squid using squid. Results from 3 Squids: 2 Squids, 1 Miss, 1 Sea Bass, 1 Pufferfish
Dentifilo: Unfortunately tested it in a laggy server. Effects: Received bites quick seemingly. Results from 8 Dentiflos: 2 Seaweed, 6 Misses
Seaweed Bundle: Average bait speed. Can be used for catching mudskippers.
Urchin: Fast bait speed. Can be used for catching pufferfish.
Browncap: Average bite times. Results from 10 Browncaps: 2 Seaweed Bundles, 3 Red Snappers, 2 Sea Bass, 1 Squid, 1 Miss, 1 Urchin
Chum: Intended bait. Results from 100 Chum gave: 20 Sea bass, 10 Squid, 17 Red Snapper, 11 Tuna, 11 Lionfish, 17 Chest and 14 Fails. (All fishing Talents used)
Calabash: Not Properly Documented.
Fish Meat: Slow bait speed. Can be used for tunas.
Redd: Slightly lower than average bites. Results from ?? Redd: 2 miss, 2 sea bass, 1 squid, 1 red snapper.
Pufferfish: Not Properly Documented. (Possibly better chance of catching Mudskippers?)
Sap: Not Properly Documented.

Bait & Amount	Common Fish	Uncommon Fish	Rare Fish	Chests	Monsters	Other
100 Pomars	76	0	1	12	0	11
100 Chum No lucky spot	69	7	0	9	15	0
100 Chum Lucky Spot	55	17	2	16	10	0
100 Urchin	56	10	1	17	16	0
100 Fish Meat	60	19	0	9	12	0
100 Seaweed	62	10	0	11	17	0

Chest Lootpool[]

100 Chests with and without a lucky spot. (This was done in Hallowtide 25)

Items	With Lucky spot	Without Lucky spot
Curse of Ysleys Ember	5	5
Enchanted Items	2	1
Legendary Weapons
Imperial Staff	0	4
Stormseye	2	2
Imperators Edge	0	4
Ysley's Pyre Keeper	4	0
Wyrmtooth	2	2
Relics
Armorer's Needle	2	5
Tiran Pendant	2	1
Moonseye Tome	1	0
Idol of Yunshul	0	3
Smiths Alloy	4	4
Void/Rain Spire	2/1	2/4
Goodie Bag	1	0

Trivia[]

The general format and delivery of the lines that your character speaks is a possible reference to the Animal Crossing series.
Some spots won't let you fish.
There is no height limit, you can fish from the top of cliff faces.(although you have a range limit on the line of the rod)
Some locations are better for fishing than others, for example the Vigils Docks.
Fish meat can be used as bait or as food. Cooked Fish Meat is a solid food item, giving you 15 Stomach Fill and 5 Water Fill. Making it a good choice for Carnivores that need food.
It's always good to have a fishing rod on you. If you're ever in a pinch, you can fish for food and items that can be useful on your journey.
With the patch 2.1.5 02/17/2025 you no longer have to press click in order to fish.
The harder the difficulty of the "Catch" (Aka. The fishing minigame, which the difficulty of is measured in Reel Speed, Direction Change Speed, and Fishing Time Limit.) the higher rarity of the item you may receive upon completing the fishing minigame.
You can get Enchants, Deep Gems, and Legendary/Mythic Equipment from fishing chests, but it is VERY rare. Specific locations seem to have higher chances of getting these.
Fishing will level your Strength, Fortitude, Intelligence, Willpower and Charisma by default.
Fishing used to contain every single item inside of it's lootpool as long as it was in any chest pool, this lead to infamous incidents such as the Verse 1 Enchant Shard incident. After this happened, a quick patch was rolled out to allow blacklists to items and chest pools, such as the blacklisting of Enchant Stone chests.
- Ever since this patch was rolled out, fishing activity declined.
During the Warring States Era fishing would give points to the aspect you had.
Fishing up a golden swordfish allows you to use it as a weapon.
Fishing without a lucky spot is not recommended. You cant fish lionfish and swordfishes are very rare (more than the weapon Dormant Splinter). Lucky spots cant gives you Seaweed/Leather boot if you have all the fishing talents.
Lionfish caught in the New Kyrsa fishing spot will be capable of using their beam attack, as you're in the Depths.