Introduction
From armor, to trash - and fish, to glass - This feature offers a lot of unique items in such a small and rather passive part of the game. Whether you’re fishing for food, for some extra loot, or perhaps you’re hunting a new title or that prestigious sunken sword, all of us have one thing in common. We fish.
This guide serves as not only an introduction into fishing, but a concise and complete guide for even the tiniest tid-bit of the feature.
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Starters
Fishing rods are obtainable at level 1 through sailors chests and town fishmongers, alongside fishing bait. You can also get bait and a wooden rod from the Redwake Fishing Quest!
| Type | Luring | Item Chance | Strength | Rarity | Found at… |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden Rod | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | Anywhere |
| Bronze Rod | 1.2 | 0.8 | 1 | 1 | Palo Town |
| Collectors Rod | 0.8 | 1.2 | 1 | 1 | Shell Island |
| Stat | What it does |
|---|---|
| Luring | Dictates the amount of time it takes to hook something |
| Rarity | Dictates the likelihood of hooking a rarer fish - does not apply to items |
| Strength | Dictates the chance to catch large fish, and dictates the amount of time you have to hook a fish, and dictates reeling speed. |
| Item Chance | Dictates the likelihood of hooking an item bag |
Rods have many different statistics on them - ranging from fish rarity chances, to item chance, and of course, their luring aspect.
Enchantment scrolls exist for rods too! They are obtainable the same way regular scrolls are - from sealed chests, killing rivals, or scroll chests!
However, those with the 50% or higher rates are from the Dark Sea and are obtainable through fishing in the Dark Sea! It is recommended to have a Brig for this, as your ship will take passive damage.
| Enchantment | Function |
|---|---|
| Luring | +25% lure speed |
| Lucky | +25% Rare fish chance |
| Magnetic | +25% Item chance |
| Sturdy | +25% large fish chance, +25% reeling speed +25% time fish spend hooked |
| Ensnaring | +50% lure speed |
| Toughened | +50% strength |
| Graced | +50% rare fish chance |
| Treasurer | +50% Item chance |
| Official Trello Card | Trello card where the dark sea exclusive enchants were added |
The Fishing Index
The fishing index is a unique aspect of the game found in the larger menu - which you can open up by clicking the squares icon on the bottom left of the screen.
Ranging from freshwater, cold, warm, and saltwater fish - this all can be quite confusing! So lets clean this up.
Lake and pond fish - otherwise known as freshwater fish - are found in bodies of water that are not the ocean. This can range from the ponds in side of the Blackwater Grotto to the Cernunno swamp.
Each region has its own temperature rating, which you can often read by looking at the temperate part of your GUI.
Warm Freshwater Areas
Shell Island, Palo Town, Ravenna, Sandfall Isle, Forest of Cernunno, Mango Isle, windrow isle
Cold Freshwater Areas
Whitesummit
Certain items are also exclusive to fishing, or are at least much easier to obtain from fishing. The most popular example would be sunken treasure and sunken elements. However, there are currently 2 exotic gemstones which you are most likely to obtain by fishing! These are Lapis Lazuli and Larimar.
All Fishing Quests
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Bronze Sea
| Quest | Where? | Level Cap |
|---|---|---|
| Catch 5 Fish | NorthWest Redwake | 5 |
| Catch 20 Fish | Elm Island | 15 |
| Catch 5 Fish | Frostmill | 20 |
| Catch 1 Anglerfish | Sailors Lodge | 82 |
| Catch 5 Freshwater Fish | Rubica - Ravenna | 93 |
| Catch a Large Fish | Tiberia - Ravenna | 93 |
| Catch 2 treasures | Tiberia - Ravenna | 93 |
| Disclaimer | This list incomplete! |
Nimbus Sea
| Quest | Where? | Level cap |
|---|
Dark Sea
The Dark Sea offers a lot of interesting additions to fishing and its mechanics. Its a great way to obtain Atlantean items, rare materials, and other knicknacks. The Dark Sea was added in update 1.14, and introduced a multitude of things such as dark sealed chests, high tier chests, exclusive items such as dark shards – and in our case, unique rod enchants and fish variants.
Fish in the dark sea have a low chance of being massive, but you must be within the section of the dark sea which inflicts a minimum of insanity 1 on the player! All other drops like gems, scrolls, and Atlantean clothing do not require you to be so far into the Dark Sea.
To navigate the Dark Sea when fishing, be sure to find a Dark Sea compass! A good way about this is to do treasure charts, as compasses have a low chance of appearing in chests.
Scrolls can be found from fishing at random, whether you reel in a fish, junk, or treasure, a scroll can randomly come alongside your items! However, gemstones and Atlantean clothing from fishing only come from treasure bags!
Sunken Items
Sunken items are rarely obtained during fishing - having a rarity of 1/2000 or 0.05%!
These items are extremely rare, but do have a pity rate. Having a pity rate of 3,000.
Each item were able to be caught at any level – but are now only obtainable at a minimum of level 50 and may be brought up to level 120+ so far.
Sunkens are upgradable up to the max level - no matter what its brought up to in future updates!
What is a pity rate?
Pity rates ensure a person gets something after long dedication to something - which is why it’s called a ‘pity’ rate. After fishing up 2,999 fish without finding a sunken, you are guaranteed to get one sunken item on the 3,000th catch!
This does not count fish caught in previous games [such as AA, or WoM]
What is the best rod for sunken items?
You can read the statistics about this question here.
Generally it is accepted that the Luring bronze rod was the best in until V1.14, which introduced a better variant of luring called “Ensnaring”, making an Ensnaring bronze rod the current best option. A good second would be a magnetic or treasurer bronze rod, as item chance DOES effect sunken chance.
The best set up if you are going for a sunken is either an ensnaring bronze rod, or treasurer bronze rod, with a Tier 3+ luck pot.
The reason why magnetic collectors, or collectors in general are bad choices, is because they take far too long to hook something, and its oddly only on occasion that they hook an item bag - defeating the purpose of its entire existence. It is worth noting that whilst you can put a luring on a collectors rod to make it better, it just makes the rod the same as a magnetic wooden rod
[The following statistics are based on their level 120+ variants]
| Type | Defense | Attack Size |
|---|---|---|
| Iron Helmet | # | # |
| Iron Chestpiece | # | # |
| Iron Boots | # | # |
| [Ill add them soon, I swear] |
| Base Damage | Attack size | Attack Speed | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sword | 25 | 1 | 0.3 |
