The Panda DLC

[Victoria Raverna]

Is it worth the cost? What do you get with the DLC?

[Normal Paradox]

I didn't took it but it seems it add fishing + the panda pet + one location.
I might be wrong but in my eyes it wasn't worth the spend, also it was a free DLC at the launch.

[Victoria Raverna]

I don't care about panda, but fishing seem to be a good feature. Without the DLC, no fishing at all?

[Normal Paradox]

yeah no fishing at all.

[Normal Paradox]

If you take it feel free to share your experience about fishing, i have yet to see someone talk about it in the forum and have no idea if it's good or not.

[Central]

I never did fishing so i cannot say an anything about that, maybe its useful on the wetlands map
Do people without dlc have access to the great bamboo Forrest on the map"?
adventuring there gives you bamboo as construction material and bamboo shoots that you can eat.
I believe the panda dlc also adds bamboo floors, roofs and walls to the game, as well as a big bamboo bed and bamboo folding screens, at least i think you need the panda dlc to get access to it.

[Krescentwolf]

Central is correct, the Panda DLC gives you:
1 New Spirit Pet: The Panda Brothers
1 New Location: The Bamboo grove
1 New growable tree: Bamboo
a bunch of bamboo themed furniture and flooring
And fishing through the use of rods.

It feels more like a flavor pack than anything, though i haven't tested the panda brothers full grown. Fishing feels more like a collect-a-thon trying to find all the different rod types+fishing spot combos for rare fish.

[Subak]

The fish can be "reel" good for pet core. If you care about achievements there's like 5+ just related to fishing.

Fishing itself isn't a new groundbreaking mechanic. Get bite, click pole. Can only really be effective with 2-3 fishing at once because of how it works. There is no "auto-fishing", always the manual click the pole process, and you need to have that person selected to see their pole-click button when they get hits.

Pandas seem pretty awesome as you get 2x the hauling/mood boosting/pooping/casting/artifacts fighting, although if one goes down, they both do. Maybe that changes if you get the little one above child. Maybe it always stays child, not far enough with them. You also can't get them until later than you get the dog.

[Central]

Originally posted by Jo Daddy:

Pandas seem pretty awesome as you get 2x the hauling/mood boosting/pooping/casting/artifacts fighting, although if one goes down, they both do. Maybe that changes if you get the little one above child. Maybe it always stays child, not far enough with them. You also can't get them until later than you get the dog.

true you get 2x fighting and stuff, just dont expect to much from the fighting, the doggo is the warrior from all the spirit pets.
The Panda is more focussed on diplomacy
and they grow up eventually

[Cheet4h]

Fishing is really underwhelming. Considering you have to babysit everyone who you send fishing I can't see myself using this mechanic much

[Arctic]

If the fishing was automated a bit, it would deem to be more useful. Now it's just a hassle to have to click whenever your disciples get a bite. It does provide nice food for pets, other than that you get the occasional primordial spirit tier creature coming out of the pond or 1 spirit stone.

[Hello There]

I got the expansion primarily to support the dev's after about 80 play hours. Honestly I wish I could disable it. I have not touched fishing so maybe that's fun but I can't speak to it. The new pet/s don't feel good to use. They aren't as useful as the existing pets and (personal opinion) the models and animations are jarring.

[Cheet4h]

Originally posted by oldark1:

I got the expansion primarily to support the dev's after about 80 play hours. Honestly I wish I could disable it. I have not touched fishing so maybe that's fun but I can't speak to it. The new pet/s don't feel good to use. They aren't as useful as the existing pets and (personal opinion) the models and animations are jarring.

Open the game's page in Steam's library. If you scroll down a little, you should see a "DLC" section with button called "manage my DLC" or something similar.
If you click that, you'll get a list of all currently installed DLCs. You can them remove the checkmark in front of this DLC to uninstall it.

[Central]

You can disable the dlc, For me it doesnt show the dlc if i scroll down like Cheet4h said but this works aswell
Right click the game in your steam library -> Properties -> Dlc
you can uncheck it there, it should than disable the dlc.

As for the Panda pet, it is mostly used for diplomacy, its no warrior like the dog, thats for sure.

[dimm_ddr]

I heard that fishing becomes semi automated with sentient fishing pole but I did not try it myself so I have no idea how it works. And while fishing your inners have higher chance for eureka event that will raise their random ability by 1. As far as I know it can be any ability, even qi sense. Combine that with the fact that when you are camping on a map time is not passes - theoretically you can raise all abilities of any inner up to their limit. It will take forever in real life time though, so just get a cheat mod instead if you want to cheese the game.
And another thing: it is possible to fish out beasts up to Primordial level. It is rare enough (I fish 100+ times and never even get GC one) to not be reliable way to farm them but if you want to fish for eureka event you will want to have a guardian who can deal with that.

[Subak]

I may have fished 1000? I've caught maybe 2-3 GCs. It's way different sitting in your base though. Dunno about the odds changing if you're camping, but odds of winning the fight sure do.