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Cookie May 16, 2018 @ 4:24pm
Fishing Tips
How do I fish gud?
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Originally posted by 258789553873:
You'll notice that different things in the game give you a certain % of fishing power. You want to get this as high as possible. This decreases the chances of you getting junk, and higher chances of catching the stuff you want. Also, you will need both a rod and some kind of bait. Obviously, different kinds of rods and baits give different amounts of fishing power. There are also accessories that boost your fishing power, but those are rewards from the angler. He's an NPC you can find near the edge of your world (he can be at either edge), either laying on the beach or floating in the ocean.

You can also craft potions that will help you. There are three: crate potions, fishing potions, and sonar potions. Fishing potions just increase your fishing power temporarily. Crate potions increase the chances of you pulling out crates, which contain loot. Crates are very useful. They can offer you many items that only avaialble in chest. So say you've looted all the sky chests and didn't get everything you wanted. You can just fish in a sky lake and get many of the items through crates. Crates also give ores. Its a good idea to stockpile them to be opened after hardmode, because you can get all the hardmode ore you need without breaking a single alter that way. In fact, you can craft any of the early hardmode gear you want as soon as you start hard mode, which obviously makes the transition a lot eaiser. FInally, there's the sonar potion, which is probably the most useful. It'll tell you what's hooked on your line, so you can avoid wasting bait on junk (you have a chance to cosume bait every time you pull in your rod). You can craft all of these potions, though the angler also rewards them to you. The only fishing potions I've had to craft are crate potions.

The rods in the game come from various sources. You can craft a basic one, or get them as rewards from the angler. The best pre-hardmode one is bought from the travelling merchant.

Also, the fish you can catch varies on location. Different bodies of water will give different fish depending on what the local biome is. Every biome has its own fish, including sky lakes (though it should be noted that you need a special fishing rod to fish in lava, which is a reward randomly given by the angler). One thing that should be noted though, is that crimson and corruption lakes don't give equivalent fish. These fish are used in certain potions, which means that there's some potions that won't be available to you depending on which kind of world you're in. Though you can make aritificial biomes for the other fish if you need it, but you'll have to gather materials from a world with the opposite 'evil' biome to do that. Also, bodies of what affect your fishing power. Generally, the bigger the better. Though there's way's to optomize a lake. As much of the surface of the water would be exposed. The game only counts water tiles that go from the top of the water to the the first block it hits. Any water beneathe a block is not counted. You can do some digging most of the time to increase the fishing power of a lake.

Oh, and your fishing power does have a cap on it, so using every advantage is unessecary.

There is a glitch you can exploit to make fishing eaiser too btw. If you have the game set to pause when you open the menu, you can exploit this to throw out multiple fishing lines at once. Its simple, first, put a line into the water, then open your menu and throw an item from it. Nothing will happen until you close the menu, but the button for throwing an object and a fishing line are the same, so when you close the menu both the item will be thrown and another fishing line will be put out. You can do this infinitely. It makes the fishing game stupid easy though.

Another thing you can do is make what's called a 'biome box', though you can't do this until you get the clentaminator, which is an item you buy from a hardmode npc called the steam punker. Its simple. You go to a lake near your base and put a giant block of stone floating above it. You can use the clentaminator to change what kind of stone this is, allowing you convert the area instantly to most of the biomes by simply hitting that block of stone with the clentaminator. You can't make sky lakes or oceans using this though. Also, I think you can catch underworld fish in any lava, not just in the underworld. So if you have a lava tank near your base, you can just fish in that. I know I can catch honey fish in my honey tank by my base.
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nike276 May 16, 2018 @ 4:58pm 
use the online wiki fishing tips, and also check out the wiki main fishing page for the basics.
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Cookie May 16, 2018 @ 5:02pm 
thanks
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258789553873 May 16, 2018 @ 6:09pm 
You'll notice that different things in the game give you a certain % of fishing power. You want to get this as high as possible. This decreases the chances of you getting junk, and higher chances of catching the stuff you want. Also, you will need both a rod and some kind of bait. Obviously, different kinds of rods and baits give different amounts of fishing power. There are also accessories that boost your fishing power, but those are rewards from the angler. He's an NPC you can find near the edge of your world (he can be at either edge), either laying on the beach or floating in the ocean.

You can also craft potions that will help you. There are three: crate potions, fishing potions, and sonar potions. Fishing potions just increase your fishing power temporarily. Crate potions increase the chances of you pulling out crates, which contain loot. Crates are very useful. They can offer you many items that only avaialble in chest. So say you've looted all the sky chests and didn't get everything you wanted. You can just fish in a sky lake and get many of the items through crates. Crates also give ores. Its a good idea to stockpile them to be opened after hardmode, because you can get all the hardmode ore you need without breaking a single alter that way. In fact, you can craft any of the early hardmode gear you want as soon as you start hard mode, which obviously makes the transition a lot eaiser. FInally, there's the sonar potion, which is probably the most useful. It'll tell you what's hooked on your line, so you can avoid wasting bait on junk (you have a chance to cosume bait every time you pull in your rod). You can craft all of these potions, though the angler also rewards them to you. The only fishing potions I've had to craft are crate potions.

The rods in the game come from various sources. You can craft a basic one, or get them as rewards from the angler. The best pre-hardmode one is bought from the travelling merchant.

Also, the fish you can catch varies on location. Different bodies of water will give different fish depending on what the local biome is. Every biome has its own fish, including sky lakes (though it should be noted that you need a special fishing rod to fish in lava, which is a reward randomly given by the angler). One thing that should be noted though, is that crimson and corruption lakes don't give equivalent fish. These fish are used in certain potions, which means that there's some potions that won't be available to you depending on which kind of world you're in. Though you can make aritificial biomes for the other fish if you need it, but you'll have to gather materials from a world with the opposite 'evil' biome to do that. Also, bodies of what affect your fishing power. Generally, the bigger the better. Though there's way's to optomize a lake. As much of the surface of the water would be exposed. The game only counts water tiles that go from the top of the water to the the first block it hits. Any water beneathe a block is not counted. You can do some digging most of the time to increase the fishing power of a lake.

Oh, and your fishing power does have a cap on it, so using every advantage is unessecary.

There is a glitch you can exploit to make fishing eaiser too btw. If you have the game set to pause when you open the menu, you can exploit this to throw out multiple fishing lines at once. Its simple, first, put a line into the water, then open your menu and throw an item from it. Nothing will happen until you close the menu, but the button for throwing an object and a fishing line are the same, so when you close the menu both the item will be thrown and another fishing line will be put out. You can do this infinitely. It makes the fishing game stupid easy though.

Another thing you can do is make what's called a 'biome box', though you can't do this until you get the clentaminator, which is an item you buy from a hardmode npc called the steam punker. Its simple. You go to a lake near your base and put a giant block of stone floating above it. You can use the clentaminator to change what kind of stone this is, allowing you convert the area instantly to most of the biomes by simply hitting that block of stone with the clentaminator. You can't make sky lakes or oceans using this though. Also, I think you can catch underworld fish in any lava, not just in the underworld. So if you have a lava tank near your base, you can just fish in that. I know I can catch honey fish in my honey tank by my base.
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Mideilós May 16, 2018 @ 7:07pm 
Originally posted by IXBlackWolfXI:
*a lot of words*
...please, can you be my personal tutor and maybe even father? ,;,,,,;,
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TheRapter500 May 16, 2018 @ 7:15pm 
Originally posted by Mitchell Snaw:
Originally posted by IXBlackWolfXI:
*a lot of words*
...please, can you be my personal tutor and maybe even father? ,;,,,,;,
i love how it says "a lot of words" for the re-quote
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Kwagar May 16, 2018 @ 7:48pm 
Originally posted by IXBlackWolfXI:
The rods in the game come from various sources. You can craft a basic one, or get them as rewards from the angler. The best pre-hardmode one is bought from the travelling merchant.
Incorrect. The best pre-hardmode fishing rod is the golden fishing rod. The one sold by the travelling merchant (Sitting Duck's Fishing Pole) has a fishing power of 40%, while the golden fishing rod has 50%. Unless you mean availability as you can get the sitting duck's pretty early.
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258789553873 May 16, 2018 @ 8:17pm 
My mistake, I thought the one the travelling merchant gave was the best pre-hard-mode. Oops. Funny enough, its the one I'm still using, and I've defeated the golem already, multiple times. Also attempted a pumpkin moon, twice.
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stonerhino44 May 16, 2018 @ 11:01pm 
blah .. still trying to catch my turtle mount .. some day I will have that damn Turtle !!! ( or I\ll just throw my golden fishing pole into a pool of lava :)
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258789553873 May 17, 2018 @ 12:39am 
I got multiple turtle mounts, most of which I sold because they were taking up so much inventory space. I think I got them from opening all those crates at the beginning of hardmode (I had multiple stacks of crates I had saved up).
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Cookie May 17, 2018 @ 4:10pm 
Thanks for all your help
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