Fish traps?

[Scipio]

So I find rod fishing somewhat tedious, but a lot of food require various fish. Since I have found fish on the beach, I'm certain fish traps are an option. Sadly, my efforts (straw roof angled outwards in a V-shape, positioned so that large waves will cover them) yield nothing.

Anyone been able to make functional fish traps? How?

[Humpenstilzchen]

You have to build something like this at a fishspawn:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3393132438
During storms, when the waves are higher, some fish are cought in there though it is not very reliable. In the end I gave up on it because I felt like it was not worth it.

My advice would be don´t bother with fish at all. You don´t need it. There are enough other good recipes. Imho fishing is just a waste of time and resources since you´ll have to have high stamina for reeling in bigger fish so you literally waste stamina food to generate other food.

[Sotanaht]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

You have to build something like this at a fishspawn:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3393132438
During storms, when the waves are higher, sore fish are cought in there though it is not very reliable. In the end I gave up on it because I felt like it was not worth it.

My advice would be don´t bother with fish at all. You don´t need it. There are enough other good recipes. Imho fishing is just a waste of time and resources since you´ll have to have high stamina for reeling in bigger fish so you literally waste stamina food to generate other food.

It's worth fishing to make Sailor's bounty feasts and Mead of Troll endurance. 20 minutes of Meadows fishing should get you all the feasts you need for many hours, and trollfish are only 1-tier up so you don't need that much stamina/fishing skill to get them. Everything else with fish is a waste of time.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

It's worth fishing to make Sailor's bounty feasts and Mead of Troll endurance.

Hmm ok, haven´t tried this yet. I´ll give it a shot.

[Gal Kraft]

I'm not an expert on fish traps, but my understanding is that workbenches and not running back and forth will prevent spawns, just like other creatures. My efforts at fish traps found that in my attempts to run away and come back, I gained more fish running along the shore.

But yeah fishing with a rod for the same time spent trying to build and make a fish trap work, will yield enough fish for a single person.

[Sotanaht]

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

It's worth fishing to make Sailor's bounty feasts and Mead of Troll endurance.

Hmm ok, haven´t tried this yet. I´ll give it a shot.

Feasts are incredibly convenient. Given the choice between 100 total stats, and 90 total stats but it doesn't cost an inventory slot+weight and takes a third as much time to farm, personally I never use anything other than feasts from the moment it becomes an option to do so. The Sailor's Bounty feast has stats equivalent to mountain-tier, and doesn't become fully obsolete until you defeat Fader (redundant after The Queen). It's pretty good for most of the game, and all it really takes to make are 5 raw fish and some serpent meat. You can get 5 raw fish in about a minute and probably have serpent meat lying around somewhere. That makes over 4 hours worth of food assuming you refresh it ASAP.

The Troll Endurance mead is nice to have in certain circumstances. Personally I only ever really used it while mining Flametal off of Leviathans because that meant I could grab an extra 250 weight worth before the leviathan sinks and I don't have to get it out of the lava somehow instead. If I had it available, it might be worth to move silver off a mountain or just generally transport dark metal as well, but it's a convenience thing there where you have to consider if it's more effort to obtain the trollfish.

[Humpenstilzchen]

Originally posted by Sotanaht:

Originally posted by Humpenstilzchen:

Hmm ok, haven´t tried this yet. I´ll give it a shot.

Feasts are incredibly convenient. Given the choice between 100 total stats, and 90 total stats but it doesn't cost an inventory slot+weight and takes a third as much time to farm, personally I never use anything other than feasts from the moment it becomes an option to do so. The Sailor's Bounty feast has stats equivalent to mountain-tier, and doesn't become fully obsolete until you defeat Fader (redundant after The Queen). It's pretty good for most of the game, and all it really takes to make are 5 raw fish and some serpent meat. You can get 5 raw fish in about a minute and probably have serpent meat lying around somewhere. That makes over 4 hours worth of food assuming you refresh it ASAP.

The Troll Endurance mead is nice to have in certain circumstances. Personally I only ever really used it while mining Flametal off of Leviathans because that meant I could grab an extra 250 weight worth before the leviathan sinks and I don't have to get it out of the lava somehow instead. If I had it available, it might be worth to move silver off a mountain or just generally transport dark metal as well, but it's a convenience thing there where you have to consider if it's more effort to obtain the trollfish.

Thanks for the advice. I already use feasts, they are great though I haven´t tried the sailor one yet.

I´m currently in the mistlands and I´m using the feast from the plains.
I will try the troll mead. I wasn´t even aware it exists lol. Thanks for the heads up. Appreaciate it.

[jonnin]

fish are better and smarter at getting out of traps etc after 2.0 fishing.
but it does work.
step 1 is to find a likely spot. Find a shore where fish naturally are flopping after a storm and improve on it, is the best way. To do that, you hoe flatten the land on a long and 8m or so wide strip of shore so that it is just barely dry and you can pick up a fish laying on it (you can take some fish with you and drop one to test that until you are comfortable with the exact terrain edit needed). Then use a ~1 unit tall fence on the water side all around your trap as a guide to raise terrain as a wall just over 1 unit tall. You should not use construction as it can prevent fish spawning, but terrain edits will not so remove any visual guides once satisfied. you can pick at the terrain wall to make it thinner which prevents fish from failing to pass over it if you want.
then just check it after a storm, and you should have about 1-2 for every 5 or so meters of trap. Small islands with fish around them can be converted *entirely* into a crater lake type fish trap!

Honestly I just meadows fish. Traps work, but relying on storms and remembering to check them etc ... and its a lot of terrain editing and trial and error to get it right.

[knighttemplar1960]

I use this.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976178702
It works if you put it at a fish spawn point.

Caveat: when this first started working the fish were jumping out of the water and it was easy to use traps to catch fish. So easy the devs greatly reducing the fish jumping mechanic.

When the weather is nice you won't catch any fish because the waves aren't high enough but they work well when its raining and work even better during thunderstorms but you do have to be present to catch fish in the trap. Since you get the wet debuff when its raining or worse that a good time to fish instead of explore/fight.