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

Basic Fishing Information

Minions

To gain fishing experience while being early-game is incredibly tedious. Therefore, a considerable amount of people decide to use minions for their first few fishing levels.
 Fishing Minions can potentially provide players more fishing experience than  Clay Minions. However, it is not until tier 9 that fishing minions outclass tier 11 clay minions in terms of fishing experience over the same time span.
Other than fishing experience, fishing minions also can help you progress faster in fishing related Collections, like  Sponge, which is a slow collection to do when manually fishing. That being said, fishing minions still cannot help with  Lily Pad,  Ink Sac, and  Magmafish collections.

Rain

Different types of rain grant divergent buffs for fishing. Rain in the ⏣ Spider's Den grants 50 ☂ Fishing Speed. Thunderstorms, which are exclusive to the Spider's Den, grant an extra 3 α Sea Creature Chance chance on top of the aforementioned Fishing Speed bonus.

Unlike the other two giving direct fishing stat buffs, rain in the ⏣ Birch Park increases the chance to catch Squids and allows the player to catch Night Squids without the use of  Dark Bait.

Sea Creature Chance

Sea Creature Chance means how likely a player will catch a Sea Creature. There is no cap for this stat, however, any number for this stat above 100% is ineffective (except for Marina's Double Trouble perk). There are many ways to gain Sea Creature Chance, most notably armor and rods. There are also some unique ways to increase Sea Creature Chance, like from a  Beacon and  Sea Creature Chance Enrichments. Although this stat is very important, it is recommended for starter fishers to stop at around 80 α Sea Creature Chance and start working on Fishing Speed.

Fishing Speed

Fishing Speed is a stat that can shorten the time before particles appear and move toward your rod. At 300 (350 on the ⏣ Crimson Isle) Fishing Speed, particles instantly appear. Compared to Sea Creature Chance, this stat is a lot harder to max out considering most methods are quite expensive. Gillsplash equipment, often being the last resort for people to gain Fishing Speed, require  2x Diamond Magmafish each to craft and only gives 12 ☂ Fishing Speed. Therefore, newer fishers should focus on Sea Creature Chance first then slowly upgrading their gear for more Fishing Speed.

Gear

Armor

Getting Bobbin' Time on your pieces is optional, and is generally not recommended before  Magma Lord Armor due to its price.

Fishing Level	Gear
Fishing 1-12:	Water Hydra Head + 2/4 Angler Armor +  Squid Boots (Raw Fish V)
Fishing 13-19:	Water Hydra Head + 3/4 Salmon Armor
Fishing 20-23:	Full  Diver's Armor or  Sponge Armor (Sponge IX)
Fishing 24-26:	Shark Scale Armor
Fishing 27:	3/4 Shark Scale Armor +  Slug Boots
Fishing 28~32:	2/4 Shark Scale Armor +  Moogma Leggings + Slug Boots
Fishing 33~34:	1/4 Shark Scale Armor +  Flaming Chestplate + Moogma Leggings + Slug Boots
Fishing 35:	Taurus Helmet + Flaming Chestplate + Moogma Leggings + Slug Boots (Lava Sea Creature Armor)
Fishing 36~44:	Thunder Armor
Fishing 45:	Magma Lord Armor

While on ⏣ Jerry's Workshop,  Nutcracker Armor may be a good choice for players who do not yet cap their stats with their regular fishing armor set, especially to compensate for the stat loss from using an  Auger Rod instead of a  Rod of the Sea.

For armor pieces with Attributes, Blazing Fortune and Fishing Experience is generally considered the best combination, factoring in the additional profit from pet leveling. Alternatively, Blazing Fortune and Magic Find is also a good choice. However, the Magic Find attribute requires a Kuudra Tier 5 (Infernal) completion to be able to roll or use. Players also commonly use a secondary Lava Sea Creature Armor set for the latter attribute combination, as getting it on Magma Lord Armor is much more expensive.

Rods

Water Rods
Fishing Level	Rod
Fishing 0-3:	Fishing Rod
Fishing 3-5:	Prismarine Rod
Fishing 5:	Sponge Rod	Chum Rod
Fishing 6-7:	Speedster Rod
Fishing 8-9:	Farmer's Rod
Fishing 10-14:	Challenging Rod Lily Pad V
Fishing 15-19:	Rod of Champions Lily Pad VII
Fishing 20-23:	Rod of Legends Lily Pad IX  Shredder
Fishing 24-50:	Rod of the Sea
Lava Rods
Fishing Level	Rod
Fishing 0-9:	None
Fishing 10-18:	Starter Lava Rod ⏣ Odger's Hut
Fishing 19-26:	Polished Topaz Rod ⏣ The Forge Heart of the Mountain V
Fishing 27-29:	Magma Rod Magmafish IV
Fishing 30-34:	Inferno Rod Magmafish VIII
Fishing 35-50:	Hellfire Rod Magmafish XII
Winter Fishing*
Fishing Level	Rod
Fishing 0-10	Normal Water Fishing Rod
Fishing 10-25	Winter Rod
Fishing 25-50	Yeti Rod  Auger Rod

* Normal water fishing rods always work, but the other rods have specific buffs for Winter fishing.

Equipment

Reforge with Terry's Snowglobe to get Snowy on the equipment.

Necklaces		Cloaks*	Belts*	Gloves*
Fishing Level	Necklaces
Fishing: 0-35	Rift Necklace, or the highest rarity necklace you can get	Ichthyic Cloak	Ichthyic Belt	Ichthyic Glove
Fishing 36-50	Thunderbolt Necklace	Finwave Cloak	Finwave Belt	Finwave Cloak
		Gillsplash Cloak	Gillsplash Belt	Gillsplash Cloak

* The Cloak, Belt and Gloves are the from the sharks and have no requirements to use.

Pets

Pet	Information
Ammonite Pet	Although the Ammonite Pet is obtained through  Mining means, it is one of the best fishing pets of all time with an amazing balance between ☂ Fishing Speed and α Sea Creature Chance. The Ammonite Pet is also the ideal pet players should use for Worm fishing, as it nullifies the effect that slows down fishing when the block the bobber is in isn’t exposed to the sky. It should also be mentioned that players are not recommended to swap from a Dolphin to this pet until they have a decent Heart of the Mountain and Mining level.
Dolphin Pet	The Dolphin Pet is the most suitable pet for early fishers as it grants similar Sea Creature Chance and Fishing Speed compared to the Ammonite without any requirements. The EPIC rarity of the pet is more recommended to be used since it is cheaper than the LEGENDARY dolphin for the same amount of sea creature chance. In addition, the third perk the Legendary Dolphin Pet provides can sometimes break mob hitboxes.
Squid Pet	The Squid Pet is the only pet that grants the player ☯ Fishing Wisdom directly, which increases fishing experience gain. This pet can also be used to pet swap for squid fishing, one of the best fishing money making methods.
Flying Fish Pet	The Flying Fish Pet often appears as a more late game fishing pet because of its high cost for the MYTHIC rarity and that the ability only buffs  Magma Lord Armor, the best fishing armor set in the game. The Flying Fish Pet focuses more on Fishing Speed than Sea Creature Chance. For this reason, it is only recommended to use this pet while being in the ⏣ Crimson Isle as the stats it makes the player to hit the Fishing Speed cap easier.
Reindeer Pet	The Reindeer Pet is designed for fishing in ⏣ Jerry's Workshop, granting 20 more Fishing Speed than the  MYTHIC Flying Fish Pet on the Winter Island at the cost of a little Sea Creature Chance. Although the Reindeer Pet may seem useful, most people don't actually lack Fishing Speed on the Winter Island, but Sea Creature Chance. This pet is most suitable for those who just fish on the Winter Island and don't want to spend a lot on fishing gear.
Megalodon Pet	Since update 0.19.12, the Megalodon Pet became an extremely useful pet to use during Mayor Marina's Fishing Festival. Its base stats during the festivals, during which at level 100 can give more Sea Creature Chance than any other pet, as well as tying the fishing speed with a Flying Fish pet (although excluding armor buff). Additionally, it has a legendary perk that increases the chance to catching sharks by up to 20%.

Water Fishing Techniques

Squid Fishing

Required items: LEGENDARY Squid Pet, Looting

Recommended bait:  Fish Bait

Ink fishing is a fishing method in which you kill a massive amount of Squids and Night Squids in order to obtain large amounts of  Ink Sacs. This fishing style often happens in The Park with Vanessa's rain on. After some testing, using a  Soul Whip to fish up Squids and then kill them with magic damage was the most efficient way to ink fish.

This is when Pet Rules come into play. Setting up a Pet Rule like the one under would maximize your ink sack gaining rates.

Condition 1

• When: You enter Combat; equip Squid Pet

Condition 2

• When: You throw a fishing hook; equip Flying Fish Pet

Rabbit Fishing

Required items: ✯ Magic Find setup

Recommended bait:  Carrot Bait

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

The  Rabbit Axe does not triple Lucky Clover Core drops.

Bestiary party

Required items:  Frozen Blaze Armor

Sea creature bestiaries are often annoying to grind. However, with the ability of the Frozen Blaze Armor set, player can lootshare bestiary from people's sea creatures relativly easily without needing to swap to low damage weapons. Though this set is ideal for sharing bestiary, it lacks Fishing Speed and Sea Creature Chance, it would be best if the armor pieces had Bobbin' Time on it.

Lava Fishing Techniques

Worm Fishing

Required items: Looting, Lava rod

Recommended bait:  Fish Bait

Recommended attributes: 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 find one, build a box around it and dig a two-block deep hole behind the place you will be fishing. After fishing up some Flaming Worms, you should kill the Worms with a high-level of Looting to get the most drops from them. You should be killing every 30 worms or when with a lootshare party, every time you hit the sea creature cap, 60 sea creatures.

In order to lootshare, try to corrupt them first, then everyone who loot-shares use an AOE weapon to damage them (eg. Dreadlord Sword). In the end, let the player with the highest Looting level kill the worms. Magic damage does not nullify looting effects.

Crimson Isle Barn Fishing

Required items: Lava rods, damage gear, weapon with Looting

Recommended bait:  Fish Bait

Recommended attributes: 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  Fire Veil Wand to kill the lava sea creatures if you're on a low budget, otherwise just use a Hyperion to kill 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. Kill the sea creatures every 5 minutes or whenever the sea creature cap has been reached. If you want more Magmafish, you should consider placing a Totem of Corruption before killing the sea creatures.

Magic Find also buffs the chances for fishing loot, so getting the Blazing Fortune attribute is recommended.

For the maximum loot gain, use these pet rules:

Condition 1

• When: You enter Combat; equip Hound Pet

Condition 2

• When: You throw a fishing hook; equip Flying Fish Pet

Crimson Isle XP Fishing

Required items: Lava rods, damage gear

Recommended bait:  Fish Bait

Recommended attributes: Fishing Speed, Double Hook

In order to get the most XP out of sea creatures, you would have to kill every mob you fish up instantly. By doing this you wouldn't have any time wasted just to kill 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 Flying Fish Pet

Trophy Fishing

The Crimson Isle introduces a new form of fishing in the form of Trophy Fishing. It mainly excludes catching any sea creatures, thus require its own specialized sets of gear, including specialized rods and the Trophy Hunter Armor sets to aid the player. It is recommended to do the faction story tasks first as it will introduce the player to Odger which will be a guide and important NPC for the activity.

Trophy fishing is considered a highly time-consuming task and some generally are put-off by the monotony, but the game requires you to reach Novice (Bronze) Hunter rank to unlock Thunder, and Adept (Silver) rank for Lord Jawbus. In order to be able to use the best Hunter Armor and have access to the highest tier Accessory, you need to fish up every level of every Trophy Fish. While it will still take potentially hundreds of hours of fishing, there are ways to make efficient use of the time spent on fishing to speed up the process as discussed below.

General Tips

• Before the player gets started, they should get a new lava rod separate to that used for standard lava fishing, with the attributes Trophy Hunter and Fishing Speed. This rod will be necessary to efficiently catch all of the Trophy Fish with a few exceptions. Having the Luck of the Sea and Blessing enchantments can also help in making more money from the potential treasures.
  • A rod with Fisherman instead of Fishing Speed should be used for Obfuscated Fishes. If the player can consistently gain high fishing speed already, then they can skip the former rod and just use the Fisherman rod.
• The game prioritizes the Trophy Fish with the lowest chance first. For example, if you're eligible for the Karate Fish, Lava Horse, and Blobfish - first roll a 2% chance for Karate Fish, then roll a 4% chance for Lava Horse, and then a 25% chance for Blobfish. If all rolls fail, regular Fishing Loot will roll afterwards.
  • Players reported however, that the Steaming-Hot Flounder specifically does not follow this rule properly, and rolled last regardless of any higher-chance Trophy Fish, which are the Obfuscated 1 and Sulphur Skitter.
• Midas Lure and Radiant Fisher are essence shops upgrades that should be upgraded to the max as they improve the chance of getting Gold and Diamond trophy fishes. The shops can be found under the Royal Bridge of the Dwarven Mines and inside the Crystal Nucleus.
• An epic/legendary Kuudra Pet has a perk that increases the chance of catching a Trophy Fish by up to 20%.
• Some players will not be so lucky in catching Gold or Diamond fish within the expected range of 1/50 and 1/500 chance respectively, thus a pity system is available which guarantees to give the player a Gold-rank fish on the 100th catch, and Diamond on the 600th provided that they have never caught one.
• For most cases, use the Flying Fish Pet. The Ammonite Pet can also be used if the former is unavailable. The Slug Pet must also be ready specifically for the Slugfish.
• If possible, try fishing before hitting Fishing level 27 as that is when the first lava sea creature can spawn. Without a Trophy Hunter armor set, the lava sea creatures can prove to be dangerous for a beginner, as well as slowing down progress. Once getting the Bronze Trophy Hunter set, the task can be set aside for later.
• The aforementioned rod made for trophy fishing could be resold later after the player has had enough of trophy fishing, usually at a higher price compared to the craft cost.
• Each trophy fishing rank will award you with 20 of the respective magmafish tier. For example, Diamond tier will award you with 20 Diamond Magmafish.
  • Previously, a common trick was to apply all 10 stars onto all the trophy armor pieces, and the Bronze Trophy Hunter could be cheaply upgraded to 10 stars with just standard Magmafish instead of the universal cost now. The fact that the stars remained when upgrading means that it can be salvaged to grant higher tier magmafish. Salvaging any Trophy Hunter set is now disabled.
  • If the player has already claimed the Diamond Trophy Hunter before the addition of the 20x Diamond Magmafish reward, they can simply claim it again from Odger, although only the highest reward is available.
• Hotspots provide buffs to trophy fishing. These can be found easily with the Hotspot Radar. They are circular area marked with particles and a hologram providing the player who cast a bobber within it with the buff. For the purpose of trophy fishing, the ♔ Trophy Fish Chance buff is useful, but so is ⛃ Treasure Chance.
• A variety selection of baits can be used, these include:
  • Hot Bait - Best for ♔ Trophy Fish Chance, and gives modest ☂ Fishing Speed
  • Fish Bait - Highest ☂ Fishing Speed of any bait (except Worm Bait, which is useless here)
  • Minnow Bait - Gives ☂ Fishing Speed halfway between Fish Bait and Hot Bait, not recommended.
  • Golden Bait - Gives +4 ⛃ Treasure Chance if the player wishes to diversify the drops.
  • Treasure Bait - Similar to golden bait, but gives half the Treasure Chance in exchange for some Fishing Speed.
• Multiple Rod Parts can be attached onto the rod the player is using for positive effects. These are:
  • Speedy Line - Provides +10 ☂ Fishing Speed.
  • Hotspot Sinker - Increases Hotspot buffs by 100%
  • Stingy Sinker - Provides +10% chance of not consuming bait, specifically useful for Obfuscated fishing (read further).
• The Umberella is a deployable item that applies +5 ♔ Trophy Fish Chance for 5 minutes to players within 30 blocks. However, it requires Umber Collection IX to craft or deploying yourself. It also cannot be directly deployed within the Dojo area.

Universal

'Universal' trophy fishes include the Blobfish and Lavahorse. These have no special requirements and will be available all the time. It is certain that the player would have caught at least one Diamond fish for both of them if going for all the other ones.

The Mana Ray can also be lumped together as a Universal fish as the only requirement is for the player to have at least 1,200 mana, meaning like the previous two, can be caught anywhere and anytime on the Crimson Isles. If the Diamond fish has been caught already, it is recommended to turn down one's intelligence to make way for other fish.

Golden Fish

A Golden Fish can potentially spawn starting from 8 minutes of lava fishing and its chance to spawn will reach 100% once it hits the 12 minute mark. This timer will keep going as long as the player has casted the bobber at least once into lava for no more than 3 minutes apart. These will also spawn any time the player is lava fishing in the Crimson Isle, not just while fishing for other trophy fishes.

Thus, if the player wants to do trophy fishing in any capacity, they should keep doing so for 8 to 12 minute intervals as to not let the timer go to waste. Avoid fishing in lobbies that are approaching or is over 30 days old (visible in the debug screen/F3), as a lobby shutdown will reset the timer. If one were to disconnect while fishing, the timer will also reset unless they reconnected into the same lobby, in which the timer will keep going.

Should the player be unlucky, reaching the Diamond pity qualification requires anywhere from 80 to 120 hours of fishing.

Note: Some areas are bugged and causes the Golden Fish to never spawn. If it's over 12 minutes and not one has spawned, move to a new fishing spot and the fish should immediately spawn. In that case, avoid fishing in the initial spot.

Gusher

Gushers can be caught within 7 to 16 minutes after the volcano has erupted. This can be difficult to take advantage of as the eruption can be between 120 to 150 minutes apart. Should the player attempt to catch them, try looking for signs of a recent eruption such as Matcho spawning, Sulphur ores scattered around, the volcano lava on the top receding, and the entrance into the volcano at the front closed. Gushers have a 20% chance to be caught when rolled for trophy fish, so if not even one appeared in a minute or two or fishing, it may not be available. Lobbies less than 7 days old would not have an eruption happen.

There appears to be a bug where if at least one eruption has happened, some players report that they are still able to catch Gushers beyond the usual timer. This primarily happens in the volcano area, as well as overlapping zones of the Blazing Volcano with the Burning Desert or Mystic Marsh. Some even report being able to catch Gushers anywhere with this bug active.

Sulphur Skitter

They can be caught while being within 4 blocks of a Sulphur Ore, which will be available after a volcano eruption. They have the highest chance of being caught at 30% and goes hand-in-hand with the Gusher. Do note that sulphur ores are there to be mined so if someone approaches you while while fishing, ask them to leave the ore alone.

Being the trophy fish with the highest chance, it will (almost) always roll last when trophy fishing for other fish. This makes it a good source of added income as despite its common chance, the Bronze variant alone gives 40 Magmafish when fileted.

Obfuscated Fish

There are 3 types of Obfuscated Fish to be caught, each in stages by using the current one as bait to catch the higher one (for example using Obfuscated 1 as bait to catch Obfuscated 2). This makes it potentially time-consuming. However, it is considered the most profitable one to catch as the Obfuscated 3 fish yield the same filet drops as a Golden Fish, meaning the player may end up getting hundreds of thousands of magmafish after they're done.

For Obfuscated 1, the game suggests that the Corrupted Bait to be used to catch them. However, this is highly inefficient as it cuts your fishing speed by half, and generally not a good use of time. The better way to farm them is to get a Totem of Corruption and barn fish any other sea creatures (including water), although fishing for Lava Sea Creatures (aside from Flaming Worms in Crystal Hollows) can prove deadly to an ill-equipped player due to the increased damage. Obfuscated 1 fish dropped by the corrupted mobs will count towards progress. and the player will accumulate the trophy fish rapidly and gain a diamond fish in no time. Additionally, Obfuscated 1 can be farmed outside of trophy fishing to increase one's fishing rates.

For Obfuscated 2 and 3, it is highly recommended that the player obtains another lava rod with Fisherman attribute instead of Fishing Speed. While the player will lose out on the speed increase, it is much more worthwhile as the player will spend far less time going back and forth getting the lower tier baits, as combining Fisherman X with the Caster VI enchantment and Spiked Atrocity accessory means that the player reduces the chance of using these precious baits by 90%. Additionally, rods with the Fisherman attribute (sometimes in combination with Trophy Hunter) can typically be bought for far cheaper in the Auction House than it is to craft a high-tier one yourself.

Additionally, use the Stingy Sinker rod part as mentioned before to further decrease the chance of the baits being consumed.

When the Golden Fish surfaces, it is recommended to disable the Fishing Bag's bait use option as hooking onto the Golden Fish can still consume the precious baits. Remember to enable it back afterwards.

Vanille

Requires the player to use a Starter Lava Rod with no enchantments. If the player's Starter rod has been enchanted, they can buy another one from Odger's lost rewards shop. Due to the lack of enchantments or attributes, this may be a difficult trophy fish to catch despite its relatively high chance of 8%. Also, do stash up on fishing baits (preferably Fish Bait or Hot Bait) as it will be used up quickly with no Caster enchantment.

The community previously used many forms of rod-swapping techniques which lets the player use a more powerful rod, and tricking the game to use the stats of said rod onto the Starter Lava Rod. The majority of these known exploits have been patched. Those that remain have limited but still substantial effects, mainly in boosting the fishing speed.

Slugfish

The Slugfish requires the bobber to be casted for 20 seconds or more, and it's not necessarily required for the bobber to be in lava. It is essential to get a level 100 Slug Pet of any rarity as it will cut the time required by half (down to 10 seconds), making it more bearable.

Typically, players will have too much ☂ Fishing Speed even be close to required 10 seconds. Thus, some workaround need to be taken. The following tips are not exclusive to one another, and the player should decide which combination works best

• General Fishing Speed tuning:
  • Stop using any bait that increases fishing speed (may conflict with the use of Hot Bait)
  • Substitute the bait with Corrupted Bait for halved fishing speed
  • Remove accessories that give fishing speed out of the Accessory Bag/Inventory
  • Remove equipment that give fishing speed (specifically the Ichthyic equipment and its upgrades)
  • Remove reforges that give fishing speed
  • Turn off the Glowing Mush Tonic effect (which gives +30 ☂ Fishing Speed) with Booster Cookie
  • Remove the Lure enchantment from the rod (through the Enchantment Table or The Hex)
  • Remove Aquamarine gemstones from fishing gear slots
  • Remove the Speedy Line rod part
• Delay the the bobber from hitting the lava by fishing further away/higher up, and/or throwing the bobber at an upward angle
• Use the aforementioned Obfuscated fishing rod for no Fishing Speed attribute
• Plan ahead and try getting the Slugfish before applying stars onto your Trophy Hunter armor (which gives fishing speed per star, per piece)

A known, albeit mostly obsolete technique adopted was to use the Ember Armor (older version), and use its ability to turn lava into obsidian. This suspends the bobber when casted and once it's closing in on 10 seconds, switch back to your main armor to turn the obsidian back to lava to start catching a fish. This requires a disproportionately high amount of effort, though, and is far less practical now than it is on older versions where it required 30 seconds, then 20 seconds with no slug pet available at the time.

The player can also simply let the bobber get a bite once without reeling and only doing so on the the second bite. This however may prove inconsistent as the speed varies.

Alternatively, the player can simply forgo most of the above by adopting a reverse variant of the aforementioned rod-swapping technique. Instead of swapping a powerful rod to the Starter Rod, for the purposes of catching a Slugfish, one can swap from a non-fishing rod item to the desired high-tier fishing rod of choice, which will retain all the rod's stats except the fishing speed, which will be +0, ideal for this purpose. While it is added effort, allows the use for more lenient use of Hot or Golden Bait.

Location-Specific

These locations include:

• Mystic Marsh (and other Mycelium areas) for Moldfin
• Dojo for Karate Fish
• Burning Desert (and other Red Sand areas) for Skeleton Fish
• Stronghold for Soul Fish
• Blazing Volcano for Volcanic Stonefish, Steaming-Hot Flounder, and Flyfish

There are many location specific trophy fish that exist, and some of them are notably hard to catch (at 2% chance). To make good use of the time, the player should for example try fishing for all the other fishes that aren't bound to location on these specific areas (also known as 'stacking')

The Volcanic Stonefish, Steaming-Hot Flounder, and Flyfish can all be caught together inside the volcano. While inside the volcano's base lava fishing for the flounder, standing on y126 and above will qualify for Flyfish. Outside the volcano's base lava, the height for Flyfish will vary as long as the player is 8+ blocks above the lava.

The Mystic Marsh (Moldfin) or Burning Desert (Skeleton Fish) can overlap with the volcano area to catch the volcano-specific trophy fish (except the flounder). As long as it shows the Marsh or Desert area in the sidebar while also being close to the volcano itself, the player can catch two areas worth of trophy fish together.

• For Volcano-Desert overlap, fishing while standing precisely on -444 106 -728 allows for both area worth of fishes to be caught except for the Flounder
• For Volcano-Marsh overlap, it is generally more lenient, but fishing at -301 153 -782 allows for the Flyfish to be caught. The player may fish below the spot if Flyfish isn't needed.

The Dojo (Karate Fish) area overlaps slightly with the Mystic Marsh at the northmost lava pool/closest to the Mage Outpost, a 5-block wide overlap which stretches from z=-637 to z=-641 where both fishes can be caught together.

Ironman Fishing

Water Fishing

First, you should unlock the Fishing Minion recipe and craft some with fish you can buy from the Fish Merchant. The first set of fishing your armor you get should be 3/4 Angler Armor with  Squid Boots. Then, keep collecting fishing loot until you are able to unlock the Salmon Armor. While unlocking the salmon armor, 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's fishing festival.

The  Winter Rod is a rod early game ♲ Ironman players should aim toward, since it's 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, it is recommended to loot share Nutcrackers to help with upgrading your rod.

Lava Fishing

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 lootsharing 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 Looting V which can also boost membrane drop rates of your worms.

Crimson Isle

Lava fishing is just the same as standard but takes longer to upgrade. To get a desirable rod, upgrade your rod's attributes to at least 8/8. The desired attribute combination is Double Hook and Fishing Speed.

Aim for trophy fishing before  Fishing 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. However, if you do go for one, it is advised to get at least 6/6 since trophy fishing is better for Magmafish collection.

Going for the Lava Sea Creature Armor is recommended; try doing lootshare parties if you can't deal with the Sea Creatures yourself.

Submerged  Shark Scale Armor is slightly better for α Sea Creature Chance but the mixed set also gives bonus damage to ⏣ Crimson Isle sea creatures.

Stranded Fishing

Fishing is extremely rewarding and is fundamental for ☀ Stranded progression, and from the start of your profile it has a huge impact on your gear.

Stranded Water Fishing

The first thing Stranded players should do is get:

1. Water Bucket Trade (Clownfish II)
   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 Fishing Minion, going further isn't worth it for now.
2. Prismarine Blade (Prismarine Shard II)
   This weapon does 200% more damage while in water, making tanky sea creatures more approachable until you can get a high-damage Tactician Sword.
3. Mercenary Armor ( Rosetta)
   Before starting to fish seriously be sure to have at least this armor set and a good weapon.
4. Weather Stick (Redstone V)
   This gives you 5 α Sea Creature Chance and a lot of fishing speed during rain, and is incredibly cheap material-wise.
5. Winter Rod ( Villager)
   As your first rod after the basic one, you can get a Winter Rod for  5x Enchanted Emeralds from a trade and use it until you unlock the Challenging Rod.

From now on always use Baits and progress until obtaining a Rod of Legends, most likely fishing during events. Salmon Armor is the best armor before Diver and Shark Scale Armor is very unrealistic without the Builder. 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 a lot of items that boost α Sea Creature Chance that are unavailable on Stranded, so going over  Fishing 30-32 isn't recommended until a new update is released and those missing items are added.

Stranded Lava Fishing

To lava fish in Stranded, summon Odger from the Island NPCs Menu to get a Starter Lava Rod. Upon reaching  Fishing 27 and Magmafish IV, you can craft a Magma Rod. 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.

Stranded Fishing Pets

Fishing Pets

•  Blue Whale Pet: Bought from Oringo during Traveling Zoo
•  Dolphin Pet: Reaching Sea Creature Milestones
•  Flying Fish Pet: Rare drop from Sea Emperors
•  Squid Pet: Unknown
•  Baby Yeti Pet: Rare drop from Yetis

Stranded Fishing Tips

• The Deep Ocean biome (unlocked at Ink Sac IV) gives +5 α Sea Creature Chance.
• Voiding Sea Creatures doesn't yield Fishing XP or loot.
• Suffocating Sea Creatures only gives items and XP if you hit them.
• Deep Sea Protectors, Water Hydras and many sea creatures can't hit you if you're 2 blocks above them.
• For other creatures like Phantom Fishers, Yetis, Great White Sharks and Grim Reapers, trap them in a 1x1 using an InfiniDirt™ Wand to suffocate them. Remember to give them a hit or you won't receive drops or fishing XP.
• Always use baits. They always pay off, during events (Winter, Fishing Festival, etc.) but also while squid fishing. It's easy to craft them and you can make more while fishing, and doesn't even slow your progression for items like the Bait Ring.
• You can craft about 12 stacks of Carrot Bait and spam use it with a Shredder to max out the ❁ Strength on it pretty quickly.
• Try to use Fish Bait outside of any event as you can use the respective bait depending on the event, as described above.
• You're bound to get a lot of Whale Bait from treasure drops, but it should only be used in certain events you want to prioritize.
• Frosty and Frozen Steves have a small chance to drop  Green Gifts, and even more rarely, Red Gifts.
• Using a Night Saver makes grinding for the Bait Ring much easier because of the increased chance to fish up Night Squids.

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