Upgraded Fishing Spear

[Goldie]

I have the stone recipe for the fishing spear, but my villager that does the fishing goes through them very quickly. Is there an upgraded fishing spear that I haven't unlocked yet?

[Kwalyz]

No

[zemzero]

Nope. They really made fishing a pain in the ass for some reason.

[UglyBird]

They are still waiting for someone to invent the nylon fishing line, would be a while i guess.

[Dutchgamer1982]

nope.

there should be iron fishing spears
(they exvisted in antiquity and certainly in middle ages)

and fishing spears should not need linen tread (or if it does ALL tools should need linen tread)

[Eternie]

Fishing spears certainly need to get upgraded but also Fishing nets which are way worse than spears for cost of materials, to the three uses before they are destroyed.

Or perhaps both need to have a repair function to fix spears and nets for half the materials?

[kyew]

They really just need a wooden fishing spear that doesn't use linen thread, and push the stone one up a tier and maybe give it a higher durability. Linen thread is a huge expense when you're first starting out, and wooden fishing spears are an actual real life survival tool that are easy to make.

[Saddin]

Need to make fishing simple fishing poles and allow players and workers the use of them.and add simple horse drawn carts and hand carts :)

[Foxglovez]

Since fish can be stabbed with a stick, making the only option in the game for fishing use linen thread makes little sense. Early one should just be that pointy stick and this one be iron level. They probably had their reasons but logically makes little sense. To me anyway.

[kyew]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Since fish can be stabbed with a stick, making the only option in the game for fishing use linen thread makes little sense. Early one should just be that pointy stick and this one be iron level. They probably had their reasons but logically makes little sense. To me anyway.

Well, technically you can't just stab a fish with a stick and expect much success. It does have to be barbed in some way or they'd slide right off the end when you tried to pull them to shore. But even so, it takes as little as a couple of notches around the tip to add a barb that would be more than sufficient. And it would have about the same durability as the stone fish spear in the game.

[Foxglovez]

The three pronged end, even if not barbed but just roughened up will hold them, at least when I used to use one. It had a giga rubberband. Not as good on big stuff as a speargun but the mechanics holds them on. This method in game would only work if you were standing above the water and aiming down, too much resistance if in the water. Oh well...

[Eternie]

Originally posted by Foxglovez:

The three pronged end, even if not barbed but just roughened up will hold them, at least when I used to use one. It had a giga rubberband. Not as good on big stuff as a speargun but the mechanics holds them on. This method in game would only work if you were standing above the water and aiming down, too much resistance if in the water. Oh well...

If you watch the fisher people that is exactly how they use the fishing spear ... thrusting it into the sandy bottom of lake or river to get the fish. Which explains why fishing spears wear out so quickly, with them being thrust into ground regularly.

That may be how medieval people started fishing .. but normal fishermen would see that is bad for their tools and find a better solution. Especially one that doesn't require a yearly harvest of Flax ... or they would have spent their evenings repairing their tools and nets.

[Foxglovez]

I think this game's mechanics having no ability to repair keeps obtaining materials of all kinds relevant. The spears are annoying. But I have my blacksmith make enough to keep up and just ignore it. I don't use linen for much other than as parts of wool products. There would be significantly more issues if we had to clothe our villagers or even our family.

[MedJet]

yes! i can't believe how ridiculous the entry to fishing is. I am wracking myself even keeping it operational when the doggone net catches so little for the rate it deteriorates and resources demanded!

[Eternie]

I only made one Net to test it out and for 9 fish the amount of linen required was a total waste seemed like a years harvest of a flax field to make one net with 3 uses. Just silly.

[kyew]

Originally posted by Eternie:

I only made one Net to test it out and for 9 fish the amount of linen required was a total waste seemed like a years harvest of a flax field to make one net with 3 uses. Just silly.

I've never even made one. I took one look at the linen thread needed and noped it out of hand.