Fishing

Fishing allows the catching of fish either actively by playing a mini-game or passively by idling your character, and by using a fish trap. Fish are necessary ingredients for cooking and oil making. Fishing requires bait and finding a good place to fish.

Fish

The following fish may be caught:

• Carp
• Herring
• Zander
• Salmon
• Cod

Which fish is caught and how quickly you get a bite depends on these factors:

• Fishery quality
• Tier and quality of the fishing rod
• Quality of bait
• Whether or not a lure is active

Fisheries and Quality

Fish can be caught in any water deep enough to swim in. "Fisheries" are an area of water divided up into rough squares a few meters across, similar to the image below. This image is to understand the concept of fisheries generally, not an exact indicator of where fishery lines are or their exact shape or size.

All fish are available in all areas, but how quickly you catch a fish and which fish you are more likely to catch depends on the quality of the fishery.

There are 4 qualities of fishery:

• Rich
• Average
• Poor
• Exploited

A better quality fishery results in faster catches of fish and a greater likelihood of catching rarer fish like salmon and cod.

To find the quality of the fishery, equip your fishing rod, and use the bait. When the bait touches the water, it will begin fishing and alert you to the quality. It is a good idea to throw out bait many times, running along the shore. You will see various water qualities as you explore. It may take some time before you find an average or rich fishery.

A quick way to do this without wasting bait is cast, immediately jump, and move. Because the fishing animation is several seconds long and the bait will be used if you let the animation complete, so jumping to interrupt it allows you to see the fishery quality information without using a bait.

Fisheries near capital and in safe zones are much more likely to be Poor or Exploited than fisheries further away.

Bait and Lures

There are 3 types of bait. Using a better bait increases your chance for a better fish. Although fish themselves are not organized into tiers like other items are, salmon and cod are used in higher tier recipes and are generally harder to catch.

Breadballs: Lowest quality bait. Made by disassembling bread.
Grubs: Medium quality bait. Found when weeding crops or digging in the dig pit.
Worms: High quality bait. Found when weeding crops or digging in the dig pit.

A lure can be bought at the Glory vendor for 800 Contribution points, or in the Supporter Shop for 150 ambers. A lure improves the speed at which you catch fish, decreases the rate of exploitation of the fishery by 50%, and increases your chance to catch salmon or cod. The lure itself shows up on the map as an icon that any player can see. This means players looking for PvP might come find you! A lure is NOT the same thing as bait.