What determines how long fishing bubbles last for?

[KocLobster]

I've searched a number of guides and these discussion forums but haven't found a definitive answer. There are a couple external tools/mods online that predict where fishing bubbles will be based on your save file in the day, but I haven't found them to always be accurate. And that's a little irrelevant to my question anyways.

Those prediction tools do show a timeframe for each individual fishing bubble that is predicted for any given day though. So even if they aren't always accurate, I guess the take away is that every fishing bubble that ever appears has a predetermined length of time that it will be active for. I was hoping to confirm this was the case, and that it has nothing to do with how many fish you pull out of a fishing bubble/frenzy. I suppose that makes sense too, since I've seen fishing bubbles disappear without me even touching them before.

Maybe I managed to answer my own question lol. Is anyone able to comment on this?

[Omegatherion]

These predictors might not have been updated for 1.6 yet. And i don't know how accurate they were to begin with.

But, yes. Bubbles appear for a certain amount of time, then they disappear. How long they stay around differs. Can be a couple of seconds, can be multiple ingame hours.

[Maya-Neko]

That's just the nature of any RNG. If more things that use RNG get added, then the sequence changes as well and predictors need to adapt to these new changes.

Originally posted by Omegatherion:

And i don't know how accurate they were to begin with.

They were 100 % accurate, otherwise nobody would've used or recommended them in the first place. Clay farming for example also only exists, because the RNG is predictable in the first place.

[kingjames488]

predictors wont work since the RNG got changed to actual RNG and not just a convoluted equation based off your save file.. AFAIK

[KocLobster]

Originally posted by Omegatherion:

These predictors might not have been updated for 1.6 yet. And i don't know how accurate they were to begin with.

But, yes. Bubbles appear for a certain amount of time, then they disappear. How long they stay around differs. Can be a couple of seconds, can be multiple ingame hours.

Yeah I'm not surprised, but that helps a lot to know.

Thank you all!

[supersand]

my guess is that it is tied to your save seed like geodes and other pseduo RNG things (which is why it can be predicted), and how long they stick around might just be actual RNG.

generally if you can quit to title, reload the save and see the same thing happen then it is tied to the save file's seed (unless it is taking advantage of predictable RNG like old clay farming)

[BobMaster]

Fishing bubbles are a major waste of time, unless they spawn in your immediate vicinity.
Every single effing time I try to go to a bubble spot, it disappears the moment I get there.
It's completely ridiculous.
The timer to disappear should not start before it has been cast into imo.
Even if it will only be active for 2 milliseconds, it should wait until we can actually cast in it.

[red255]

yeah I wouldn't hunt bubbles, but I'd only use them if they appear near me, I did however get a bunch of sea cucumbers from a sea cucumber frenzy at the end of fall for willys gifts.

Only gold star because it was close to shore but should be fine.

[Maya-Neko]

Originally posted by BobMaster:

Fishing bubbles are a major waste of time, unless they spawn in your immediate vicinity.
Every single effing time I try to go to a bubble spot, it disappears the moment I get there.
It's completely ridiculous.
The timer to disappear should not start before it has been cast into imo.
Even if it will only be active for 2 milliseconds, it should wait until we can actually cast in it.

The problem is, that this would cause bubbles to never randomly start in your vicinity at all, but would always require you to search for them. I've had plenty of situations, where they just randomly started to show up next to me, because another spot across the map probably ran out.