Do you find fishing and fisheries useful?

[Dragonrubi]

In some videos of some mentors bragging about their villages, they show their fisheries as something super important.

ATM with traps and hunting, I have a lot of meat. Since I have only 4 inhabitants, including me, that’s enough; more meat + veggies = soups I have more than enough food.

So I find fish and fisheries unnecessary. (I still may make one just for RPG porpoises.)

More importantly, considering fishing nets and spears require LINEN is what puts me off. I consider linen an important and limited resource, while getting meat requires only the basic resources (bows require linen, but they last a lot for me, and you can make a lot of arrows and they are reusable).

[Oga]

In my experience the main use of a fishing hut is having a self sustaining big village without having the need for a second hunters lounge.
The hunters can then focus on leather and fur while meat is being taken care off by the fishers.

With 4 villagers I wouldn't bother with a fishing hut.
(I don't usually grab one with under 40 villagers)

[TheOriginalMark:-)]

Never really bothered with fishing in most of my playthroughs.

[Ookapia]

I really like the fishing animation. Also, one fisherman can produce so many salted fish, it's incredible and great for selling at the market or feeding a large population.
On the other hand, they need an enormous amount of fish spears, I think they just throw half of them into the river.

At the moment I have 2 hunter's salons, 1 fishery and two herb huts, mainly because the skills hunting and survival level up sooo slowly and I want to offer as many jobs as possible to learn so that my people will be masters in all skills by the time they are 30 at the latest.

[Kaffeefreund]

I use salted fish for trade and for quests in oxbow.

[larrysteele]

I've never found fishing huts to be necessary. Fish meat's use in the kitchen is quite limited compared to other meat. But, I do like to build a remote fishing village for role play, which I'll do well after my villages are pretty much self-sufficient. In my current build, I think I built the village when my building count was around 80 or 90.

[Foxglovez]

Fishing is good but only after you get the 2nd level fish hut. It makes the best food in the game after you get the tav. When you finally get to make the really good foods it makes bothering with hunter feel to me a waste of time so my hunter shed just sits empty but if I ever got a big village that lasted many years before my attention waned and I wanted to start over I might change my mind.

My question is why would you pick catching one fish over another? Or, does it matter if my river frontage shows pike logos but I catch perch? Does that make any difference or just eye candy? Guessing latter.

[gypsybme]

In my last play thru in the Valley, my main village had a max fishing hut. My second little mini village was at the river with all 3 fish icons on map. This second mini village also had a max fishing hut and was the theme of the village. Between the 2 locations, I had 120 villagers over 19 ingame years. We was the number one for producing and selling of "Fish Tart's". This is how I gained the $1 million achievement.
I'm now on Oxbow and have yet to achieve but only a medium testing village as location is important but immersion is everything!

Tip: Eating better food's (some with different buffs) is rather a bonus than caring 200 roasted meat and being hungry every 5 mins.

[sindar58]

Hi, I like finding a place to put down the fishing hut .. even if I only have (well, right now only 5 workers) Forget about the salted fish .. thats only at LV2 .. but the dried fish for the "player" is great .. experiment and stuff .. happy gaming :))

[Zoid]

Quests in the game are highly useful -- I try to do every single available quest in every single season, and that is very challenging in a season shortened to 1-day, but easily doable in seasons that are 3-days long or more.

To that end, a fishery IS useful in providing the sometimes vast amounts of fish meat that you're going to need to fulfill quests.

The linen requirements for the spears quickly become insignificant if you hunt only pike. The spears seem to deplete by the number of fish killed, so they deplete very rapidly on small fish, but with the largest fish (pike) you get seven meat for each kill, and they cannot kill as many as quickly, so the spears last a long time and the payout is quite worthwhile. The fish meat is far more valuable than hunted meat, and fishing for pike provides more meat faster than hunters hunting for meat. The bottom line is, the small cost required to purchase linen thread for the spears is going to be minuscule compared to the resulting payoff in meat gained/sold from pike.

But there is more reason, yet . When your village grows and begins to use tailors you're going to want those hunters producing leather rather than meat. Worse, hunters skill up so so SOOOOOOO slowly -- they're going to lag behind the needs and abilities of the rest of your village forever. It's really unfair, unbalanced how slowly the hunters progress in skill development. On the other hand, the fisheries use survival skill which skyrockets very fast; fisherman will outproduce hunters by miles at skill 10 while your hunters are still something like skill 4-5. Also, having a fishery gives your herb gatherers something to do when the products they can produce in any given season does not agree with your priorities. For one thing, in an early game my herb collectors tend to gather stuff just to make fertilizer, so in winter, or in months when I already have an abundance of fertilizer, I can have them busy using their skill in the fishery instead.

[Foxglovez]

Trots off to change fish killed to pike. Now that you mention it, I kind of remember that from a while back. Hunters are lackluster for sure. Before fish tarts my folks eat veggie soup and do well. Then they move to cheese/quark diet. They could use some roughage.

[Your mom]

Salted fish sells for 22 (basic price) which is higher than meat, but it also consumes fishing spears who consumes linen threads, if you have flax fields, and mines for salt, you should definitly go for it ! It is worth the trouble.

[Blutwurst]

becouse of the expensive (linen)spear i never bothered with fishing. its something for late game. but in the early game you should just go with the hunters and gatherers huts. thats totally fine.

its kinda sad becouse fishing was pretty important back than and spears could be easily crafted with straw or reed instead of that expensive linen thing. thats for sure a questionable decision from the dev.

[Foxglovez]

Best end game food combined with plum juice for da win. Closed down meat production as I have wisent spawn outside my back door if I need meat for some reason. As noted above, fish for pike. Seems like now the spears last forever compared with a yr ago.