Can't Find Bladderfish

[par]

I'm in the early game, not even a seamoth yet, and I'm having trouble finding bladderfish to make water with. I used to find them everywhere in the shallows like a normal fish but now I can't find them anywhere!

[Meewec]

they should be all over the place, but grab any salt you happen to stumble across while you're searching so you can make bleach for better water if all else fails

[Scy]

Not "EVEN" a seamoth ? I buit in after idk 8-9 hours into the game. I guess I am slow af.

[Muffey]

This happened to me on my first playthrough, like years back...

I didn't know about bleach, and I was slow... scared... and hung around the safe shallows for ages and ages.. catching bladderfish for water and peepers for food. Little did I know - fish don't respawn. I farmed the safe shallows to extinction.

Now I know about salt and coral, and make sure not to overfish the starting area at the beginning...

I *believe* there's some kind of 'hack' - to do with respawning stuff by deleting come cache files in your savegame, that might bring them back. But if you're not too far in? You might just wanna start over and get yourself some salt/bleach which produces a much better source of water than bladderfish do.

Also? If I may stray a little - don't pick up all the scrap metal remains that are lying around. You can find tons of titanium either by duplicate scanning blueprints, or from the breakable outcroppings. Scrap metal bits distract the stalkers and also cause them to drop teeth - both very useful things in/around your starting area.

[Jeff Kaos]

Originally posted by DigiPar:

I'm in the early game, not even a seamoth yet, and I'm having trouble finding bladderfish to make water with. I used to find them everywhere in the shallows like a normal fish but now I can't find them anywhere!

I think bladderfish have a wierd spawn rate in the game. What works for me is to swim to the creepvine forrest near Life Pod 5 and just swim around for a minute or two. Eventually you'll se one and once you see one then a whole school will spawn all the way back to the pod.

[Yeah_Phantom]

also in a pinch, u can cut creep vines and eat them for +4 food and +1 water

[Emmagination]

Originally posted by Muffey:

This happened to me on my first playthrough, like years back...

I didn't know about bleach, and I was slow... scared... and hung around the safe shallows for ages and ages.. catching bladderfish for water and peepers for food. Little did I know - fish don't respawn. I farmed the safe shallows to extinction.

Now I know about salt and coral, and make sure not to overfish the starting area at the beginning...

I *believe* there's some kind of 'hack' - to do with respawning stuff by deleting come cache files in your savegame, that might bring them back. But if you're not too far in? You might just wanna start over and get yourself some salt/bleach which produces a much better source of water than bladderfish do.

Also? If I may stray a little - don't pick up all the scrap metal remains that are lying around. You can find tons of titanium either by duplicate scanning blueprints, or from the breakable outcroppings. Scrap metal bits distract the stalkers and also cause them to drop teeth - both very useful things in/around your starting area.

Deleting cache will respawn/reset EVERYTHING though...fish, resources, PDA's, locked doors, etc.

[Muffey]

Good to know. :)
Ain't done it myself... just read about it...

[Emmagination]

Originally posted by Muffey:

Good to know. :)
Ain't done it myself... just read about it...

I had to because somehow one of those boomerang schools with no hitbox got stuck inside my cyclops and blocked the whole bridge so I couldn't move the cyclops at all and it was blocking my base as well. Clearing the cache solved the problem but brought all the resources back.