Tutorial:Fishing Guide

This is an overall guide for the skill including ironman/stranded gamemodes.

=Fishing Progression=

Minions
If you don't want to level up early game fishing by hand, minions are a great option. Use T11 Clay minions if you are on a budget, and T9-11 Fishing minions if you're slightly richer.

Pets
You should use a if you're early game and swap to Ammonite once you have a decent fishing/mining/heart of the mountain level.

The pet item you should have equipped on your pet should always be a Washed Up Souvenir unless the level is low.

In addition, if you want and can afford to spend money on a Legendary Squid pet for more xp, you should definitely do so.

How to get your first levels
There are many events that involve fishing such as the Jerry event, Fishing Festivals, and Spooky Festivals. All these give more xp than normal fishing except for the jerry event. Ideally, you should start your fishing journey during fishing events when Marina gets elected (preferably 3 perk).

Early game fishers should fish in the Sven Pond in the hub or the in the lake at the Spider's Den. You could also fish in the park for some squids to start out.

Armor to use
Getting legion on your pieces is optional.

Fishing 1-12: + 2/4 Angler armor +.

Fishing 13-19: Water Hydra Head + 3/4 Salmon armor.

Fishing 20-23: Full, or you could craft (It is not as good but you can reforge it to submerged and craft to shark scale later on)

Fishing 24-26:

Fishing 27: 3/4 Shark Scale Armor +

Fishing 28~32: 2/4 Shark Scale Armor + + Slug Boots

Fishing 33~34: 1/4 Shark Scale Armor + + Moogma Leggings + Slug Boots

Fishing 35: + Flaming Chestplate + Moogma Leggings + Slug Boots

Fishing 36~44: Note: You should buy the off the auction house instead of crafting it with  dropped on your own to save them for armor pieces.

Fishing 45:

For armor pieces with Attributes, Blazing fortune and Fishing Experience would be the best combo.

Water Rods
Fishing 0-9: use if you want to speed up the process a bit

Fishing 10-14:

Fishing 15-19:

Fishing 20-23: or

Fishing 24-50:

Lava Rods
Fishing 0-9: None

Fishing 10~26:

Fishing 27~29:

Fishing 30~34:

Fishing 35~50:

Expertise Leveling
is a pain for to level up, but what people don't know is that killing other's sea creatures also increase your rod's expertise counter too. Therefore you can go lobby hopping and ask people if you can kill them.

Fishing 27 is the level where you level you expertise counter the fastest since s count as 4 sea creatures.

In addition, if you don't want to level your current rod since it is already maxed, you can put another rod with expertise in one of the hotbar slots before the rod you fish with. This will allow you to level your secondary rod without sacrificing sea creature chance and fishing speed.

As of right now, there is a bug where kill with weapons that have and the Fire Veil Wand might not count toward the expertise counter.

Water Fishing
First, you should unlock the fishing minion recipe and craft some fishing minions with fish you can buy from the Fish Merchant. The first set of fishing your armor you get should be 3/4 angler with squid boots. Then, keep collecting fishing loot until you are able to unlock the salmon armor. While unlocking the salmon armorr, remember to regularly buy sponge from the Builder in order to prepare for sponge armor which can then be upgraded to shark scale whenever you get enough Enchanted Shark Fin from marina.

The Winter Rod is a rod early game ironman players should aim toward, since its cheaper than the Challenging Rod and provides the same stats on the Jerry Island. Which could be useful to get gifts from sea creatures in order to obtain your first snow minions.

Since Lily Pads can be hard to grind on ironman, some decide to just use shredder after obtaining the Challenging Rod.

However, things would be different if you decide to go for the Rod of the Sea line rods. Even though upgrading will take longer but it's worth it and if you're lucky you should hit it by level 25 without minions.

Worms
In some point of ironman progression, you would need to start worm fishing for chambers to put on your Divan Armor. Although doing this may seem inappropriate, but lootshareing worms with a good fisher is the most efficient way for you to obtain Worm Membrane. They fish up more worms than you could and they might even own a weapon with V which can also boost membrane drop rates of your worms.

Crimson Isle
Magma fishing is just the same as standard but takes longer to upgrade, upgrade your rod's attributes to at least 8/8. (double hook and fishing speed)

Go for trophy fishing before fishing level 27 to unlock bronze tier so it's easier to get later tiers in the future unless you have a good mage weapon by then

Going for a trophy fishing rod isn't really suggested unless you really don't mind grinding 20% more magma fish

Going for the mixed armour set is very good for lava fishing, try doing lootshare parties if you can't deal with the lava mobs

Submerged shark scale is slightly better for sea creature chance but the mixed set also gives bonus damage to crimson sea creatures.

Stranded Water Fishing
Fishing is extremely rewarding and is fundamental for stranded progression, from the start of your profile it has a huge impact on your gear: The first thing stranded players should do is getting

1. Water bucket trade, every weapon for sea creatures works fine, just set your spawn near them and kill them. Create a bigger pool and fish until you unlock the minion, going further isn't worth it for now. I would suggest to wait for the minion to unlock the

2. Prismarine Blade, This weapon does 200% more damage while in water, making tanky sea creatures more approachable until you can get a high-damage tactician sword. Before starting to fish seriously be sure to have at least

3. Mercenary Armor (170k) and a good weapon but most importantly a weather stick:

4. Weather Stick gives you 5 SCC and a lot of fishing speed during rain and it s basically free, The rain doesn't work exactly like the park but still gives a lot of stats.

5. As your first rod after the basic one, you can get a Winter Rod for 5 enchanted emeralds from a trade and use it

until you unlock the 6. Challenging Rod.

From now on always use baits and progress until 7. Rod of Legends, most likely fishing during events;

Salmon armor is the best armor before diver and since shark scale armor is very unrealistic without the builder npc. You will be missing some sea creature chance but having free rain at all time is so overpowered that fishing is unironically easier than mining and combat.

There are still a lot of missing sea creature chance items like enrichments from recombed talismans, washed up souvenirs, reforge stones and beacon perks that I(ZeroZH) would not go over fishing 30-32 until a new update is released and those missing items are added.

Stranded Lava Fishing
After the Crimson Isle update, Lava Fishing on Stranded is only possible by abusing a bug. To do so, you need to have water and lava next to each other in such a way that the water will push the bobber into the lava when something is caught. Once the setup has been built, cast the fishing rod into the flowing water. The water will try to push the bobber into the lava, but it will be rubber-banded back into the water. When the bobber gets pulled down, the water will push the bobber into the lava without it being teleported back. At this point, you can reel in the fishing rod at any point; it's not time-sensitive like regular fishing. This method is not particularly consistent, but it is the only way to increase the Netherrack and Magmafish collections.

Upon reaching and  (1000 Magmafish), you can craft a Magma Rod, which can be used in lava like normal without abusing bugs. Reaching the collection milestone is made easier by Silver Magmafish, which has a 0.2813% chance to be caught from Lava Fishing and increases the Magmafish collection by 80.

Also, it's interesting to note that if you remove the lava from this setup, reeling in the fishing rod outside of the water will cause only Raw Fish to be caught.

Stranded Fishing Pets
Fishing Pets - Bought from  during Traveling Zoo  - Achieving Fishing Milestones  - Rare drop from Sea Emperor Squid - ??? Baby Yeti - Killing yetis

Stranded Fishing Tips
1.Deep ocean biome gives +5 sea creature chance 2. Voiding sea creatures doesn't give fishing xp or loot 3. Suffocating sea creatures only gives xp if you give an hit to it 4. s, s and many sea creatures can't hit you if you're 2 block above them 5. For other creatures like Phantom Fisher, Yetis, Great White Sharks and Grim Reapers, trap them in a 1x1 (use InfiniDirt™ Wand to stay away from them) and suffocate them with gravel/sand, remember to give them a hit or you won't receive fishing xp (you will still get drops) 6. Always use baits, they always pay off, during events (jerry/spooky/marina) but also while squid fishing, it's so easy to craft them and you can make more while fishing, this doesn't even slow your progression for items like bait ring. 7. You can craft about 12 stacks of carrot bait and spam use it with shredder to max out the strength on it pretty quickly 8. I would always recommend fish bait outside of any event and you can just use the respective bait dependent on event, shark for shark, spooky for spooky, ice for jerry fishing, but then comes whale bait, you’re bound to get a ton of it off treasure drops and I would suggest that whale bait only be used in certain events you want to prioritize 9. If you do suffocate mobs, definitely make sure you at least hit it once cause those drops are dumb and can easily clip through blocks and probably void themselves 10. Frosty(mob) and Frozen Steves have a small chance to drop green as well as rarely red Gifts 11. Night Saver makes grinding for Bait Ring much easier because of the night squids. 12. A simple way to kill Sea Emperor on stranded is to make a 2 block high roof and make it suffocate. =Water Fishing Techniques=

Note: It is recommended to have at least Shark Scale Armor and a fishing pet with a decent level for most of the techniques.

XP/Barn Fishing(Legacy)

 * Required item(s):
 * Recommended bait(s):

In order to start XP fishing, you would have to travel to the Spider's Den since it is the only place with natural rain that covers every island. You will then have to teleport over to The Barn with an Aspect of the End to start fishing. The reason for this is because there is water at a pretty high place and a platform under to keep the Sea Creatures there. After going to The Barn, fish for around 5 minutes then equip the Squid Pet and go down to kill all the Sea Creatures.

For the best XP gaining rate, an paired with  is recommended.

As of the 0.13 update, you cannot travel to other islands without being sent back when not using the portal or travel scrolls. Therefore this fishing method is not viable anymore.

Squid/Ink Fishing

 * Required item(s):, , Weapon with
 * Recommended bait(s): for day time,  for night time

Ink fishing is a fishing method in which you kill a massive amount of s and s in order to obtain large amounts of s. This fishing style often happens in The Park with 's rain on. After some testing, using a to fish up Squids and then kill them with melee damage was the most efficient way to Ink fish. (Since the 0.13 update, you cannot throw a hook then swap from a normal rod to soul whip. Therefore any weapon with looting can replace soul whip now.)

If you have about 90, a fishing armor helmet would be better than a Squid Hat for ink fishing, since the Squid Hat only affects normal squid spawn rates instead of night squid spawn rates.

Since the bobber is a different entity from the player, killing Sea Creatures directly with a hook would nullify the looting enchant from working. This is when Pet Rules come into play. Setting up a Pet Rule like the one under would maximize your ink sack gaining rates.(Ty tyleriffic for this idea)


 * Condition 1:
 * When: You enter Combat; equip Squid Pet
 * Condition 2:
 * When: You throw a fishing hook; equip Ammonite Pet

Yeti Fishing

 * Required item(s):, setup
 * Recommended bait(s): or

Yeti fishing is a kind of fishing that takes place on the Winter Island. On the Winter Island, you will fish up a lot of Sea Creatures that are very different from the ones you normally see while fishing on the main islands. For example,, , etc. One of these creatures stands out from all of them, which is the. A Yeti is a Sea Creature that has a pretty low chance to be fished up. On killing Yetis, they have a slight chance of dropping a, and using a setup can increase the chance of it dropping.

Spooky Fishing

 * Required item(s): setup
 * Recommended bait(s): or

Spooky fishing can be done whenever the Fear Mongerer appears in the Hub Island, which is one hour before the Spooky Festival to one hour after. During this period you can fish up some Spooky Sea Creatures such as and. Unlike normal Sea Creatures, they drop Candy when killed. However, this isn't the main source of money while spooky fishing. There are three Sea Creatures, the, the ,and the which have a chance to drop a. The Grim Reaper can also drop and  which are pretty high in price. The best location for spooky fishing is the Spider's Den, for the rain that occurs every hour for 20 minutes.

Shark Fishing

 * Required item(s): setup
 * Recommended bait(s): or

Shark fishing occurs at every Fishing Festival, which is on the first few days of the month when is elected with the fishing festival perk, sometimes even  and  can have this perk. This kind of fishing is very similar to spooky fishing except that you don't fish up Grim Reapers but. This sea creature drops and s. Even though they are lower in price, shark fishing is still a good way to make money because of how often you fish up s.

Rabbit Fishing

 * Required item(s):, setup
 * Recommended bait(s):

Rabbit fishing is currently the only way to obtain s which are used to craft the, that gives a huge boost in. It has a pretty high value on the Auction House. Nonetheless, the drop rate of Lucky Clover Cores is very low. The is the Sea Creature you want to fish up to get money.


 * The is often used to get more drops with its ability to triple the items dropped when killing a rabbit.

Fishing

 * Required item(s): None
 * Recommended bait(s):

For unknown reasons, the pond on the Hub Island behind Guy makes it impossible for players to fish up Sea Creatures. This method is a good way for Ironman players who are in need of. You could also use the hunter armor introduced in the 0.13 update to avoid any sea creatures.

Corrupted Fishing

 * Required item(s):
 * Recommended bait(s):

People have been struggling with getting obfuscated 1 trophy fish for their trophy fishing quest because they thought using corrupted bait was the only way to obtain them. However, with the help of a Totem of Corruption, any sea creature can drop obfuscated 1 trophy fish, even the ones from water. All you have to do is just place the Totem of Corruption and start fishing. I would recommend doing this in the park with rain since it provides the maximum sea creatures in the same amount of time.

=Lava Fishing Techniques=

Lava Fishing

 * Required item(s): Lava rods
 * Recommended bait(s):
 * Recommended attribute(s): Fishing Speed, Double Hook

Lava fishing is the least known fishing method because of how popular its variant, worm fishing, is compared to it. It is also considered the fishing method that makes the least money. You can do lava fishing by fishing in lava sources anywhere except for those you can fish up Flaming Worms in. Now you'll fish up and. For maximum efficiency, building a box like the worm fishing one would work too.

If you don't want to gain heat while lava fishing and you like to stand in the for no reason at all, you could use a  with a  equipped. It may not be the best for or  but the  immunity it provides is very useful.

Pet rules like ones mentioned in squid fishing work fine for lava fishing too.(Ty GandalfStirbt for this idea)


 * Condition 1:
 * When: You enter Combat; equip Squid Pet
 * Condition 2:
 * When: You throw a fishing hook; equip Ammonite Pet

Worm Fishing

 * Required item(s): Weapon with, Lava rods
 * Recommended bait(s):
 * Recommended attribute(s): Fishing Speed, Double Hook

And now we will get into the most known fishing money-making method, worm fishing. In order to worm fish, you would need to find a lava source in the Crystal Hollows above y=64 in the Precursor Remnants. After you found one, build a box around it and dig a two-block deep hole behind the place you will be fishing. After fishing up some s, you should kill the Worms with a weapon enchanted with a high-level of to get the most drops from them. You should be killing every 30 worms(around 5 minutes) or when with a lootshare party, every time you hit the sea creature cap, 60 sea creatures.

In order to lootshare, I would advise corrupting them first, then everyone who loot-shares use an aoe weapon to damage them (e.g. dreadlord sword). In the end, let the player with the highest looting level weapon kill the worms.

Magic damage does not nullify looting effects.

There is currently a bug in the crystal hollows where you can occur golden fish while fishing. One solution to this problem is to make two separate pools so it gets stuck in one. You can also just aim a bit upward or downward so you can throw the hook.

XP/Barn Fishing (Nether)

 * Required item(s): Lava rods, Damage gear/Thunder Armor/Magma Lord Armor
 * Recommended bait(s):
 * Recommended attribute(s): Fishing Speed, Double Hook

The Crimson Isle sea creatures have the highest hp of all. Before you have Magma Lord armor or Thunder armor, it is recommended to fish with a damage set. It is advised to use a legendary baby yeti pet paired with a Yeti Sword to kill the lava sea creatures if you're on a low budget, otherwise just use a Hyperion to skill the sea creatures.

Just like the original barn fishing, you need to find a cliff where you can store your sea creatures, then start fishing. I would recommend killing the sea creatures every 5 minutes or whenever the sea creature cap has reached. If you want more magma fish, you should consider placing a Totem of Corruption before killing the sea creatures.

For the maximum xp gain, use these pet rules:
 * Condition 1:
 * When: You enter Combat; equip Squid Pet
 * Condition 2:
 * When: You throw a fishing hook; equip Ammonite Pet/Flying Fish Pet(if you have a mythic one)

Trophy Fishing

 * Required item(s): Lava rods, Hunter armor
 * Recommended bait(s): ,
 * Recommended attribute(s): Fishing Speed, Trophy Hunter, Fisherman

The 0.13 update introduced us a new fishing aspect, Fisher Ranks. In order to be able to use the best hunter armor, you would need to get every level of every trophy fish fished up. There is no particular way to fish up trophies efficiently, the most you could do it just be patient.

In order to avoid the ridiculous stage where you need to deal with sea creatures without hunter armor, you should be trophy fishing under fishing level 27 since, Magma Slug, the first crimson isle sea creature is available after hitting fishing 27.

It is also recommended to be in a lobby where the volcano hasn't erupted yet so gushers can't be fished up, making other trophy fish chances higher.

Tips for every trophy fish
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