Nep-Nep's Guide to Fishing!

Hey guys! Neptune here's gonna show you how to do the best part of Terraria the Neptune way! That's right, fishing, the laziest way to get food! Well, I mean you could also order takeout from the traveling merchant, but Histy froze my bank account.

Step 0: Find a Reason to Fish

If you're anything like me, you need to get motivated in order to do anything in life. I'm already going to starve to death if I don't get food in my system soon, but why should you fish?

"The vitamins found in fish help support many of your body functions, including maintaining a healthy immune system and manufacturing new cells and proteins." Is that enough reason? (Nepgear thought I should put that in the guide. I personally think it's an odd reason to want to eat something, but I hear nutrients are good for people.)

(Preparation: It's gonna be a long night of fishing, so you better stock up on some energy drinks and coffee so you can stay energized and fresh. I sugest Nep Bull, the only Energy Drink that Nep-Neppers drink. Those fish can be a struggle, you need your stamina. But it's okay, because they removed the Stanima bars in Rebirth 1, so take all the time you need!)

As a famous man once said "only when your soul is as calm as the ocean's waves, only there you will catch the fish desired within your heart."

:"Neptune, serriously, where on earth do you get these quotes from?"

:"I don't really remember Histy, why don't you look for me?"

:"Very well. Processing........"

:"There, that'll take her a few days, so in the mean time, let's get ourselves some bait!"

Step 0.5: Finding Bait

See, this is where having friends in other dimensions is freaking awesome! Normally, it would take weeks of grinding to find the amount of bugs that you'd have needed to fish up as much stuff as we did! But luckily, old Neptune over here has friends in odd places to do all of that hard work for me! And spending a day with Nepgear catching them helped to get the rest of the bait we needed.


A perfect example of bait right here.

For some strange reason, better quality bait has a lower chance of getting eaten. For example, your common worm (Estimated by a Planeptunian expert on bugs to be 20% quality of bait.) has a 1/4 chance of getting eaten normally. While a Tree Nymph Butterfly (Estimated to be 50% by the same expert) has only a 1/10 chance to be eaten.

Step 1: Find a Perfect Place to Fish

Now, I say that the easiest place to fish is the Ocean!
You can get all sorts of things there!
Including:
Old Chests
Shiny coins
Nutritious Fish
Sharks
Tools
Jellyfish
Zombies
Slimes
Sea Water
Palm Wood
Sand
Snails
Shoes
Cans
Crabs

Dungons: Since dungons are next to oceans, (Which I never got, I mean, it's like they're asking for thier place to be flooded.I guess it's not that much of an issue, I mean the only things that live there are skeletons. But those slimes are screwed.)they are the next likely place to be filled with water, if only for the fact that they're right next to the ocean.

Forest: Easiest Place to fish, but also has the worst drops.

Underworld: The worst place to fish, water automatically evaporates, it's too hot, and you always get fireballs in your butt. You can fish in lava with something called the Hotline Fishing Pole, but you can only get it from that stupid angler!

Just fish at the ocean. It's easier.

Step 2: Fish until crabs try to murder your butt.

So, you've just gotten to the beach, barely started relaxing, and you've caught a few tuna fish. Suddenly, you feel a pinch!
"What could it be?" you ask like the Neptastic Person that you are.

A vile Crab!
Yes, if you fish in the ocean, you will have to deal with these annoying critters. They can sap almost a fifth of your hp at once! (I don't have any heart crystals, ok?)
Naturally they must be dealt with at once!
"But what to do about future attacks?" you might think.
While it is against the Neptune way to think ahead, I did (accidentally) find a way to spot crabs early.
But you need some glow sticks, and there's only 1 way to get those easily. Jellyfish.

Step 2.5: Fish until snails try to murder your butt.

Snails are evil creatures who deserve to die for thier sins.
But their dye that they drop is used to make Planeptune's signature Purple colors, so tradition dictates that we slay as many of them as we can. They aren't tough, or fast, so go out and beat all of 'em up!

Step 3: Fish until Jellyfish try to murder your butt, but fail because you are not a fish.

While Jellyfish are all of these things (Which makes them very relatable.) they also store glowsticks.

Those things, yeah. They store 2-3 of them inside wherever a jellyfish stores things. Like a seashell necklace.

Now your first instinct will be to loot them for later use. DON'T DO THIS YET! Just leave them where they lie for right now. Now you may be wondering why, and for that I direct you to the Planeptunian Director for looting,aka:me. As glowsticks (when thrown) only last for 5 hours (5 minutes irl time.) a large number of them will be used over time, but since dropped glowsticks emit light underwater anyways, and stay as long as the universe isn't reloaded, it is economical (and lazier) to leave glowsticks as a dropped item untill you are done fishing.

Of course, you could always use the green torches nepgear invented that are designed to glow anywhere, but those are hard to make.(Anyone else notice it's getting hard to go outdoors lately? And what's with these unicorns!?!)


Best Detection System Evar.

Step 3.5: Laugh at Zombies who fell into the pit that was already there.

I'm calling it "The Zombie Pit"

Step 3.75: Laugh at Nepgear when she fell into the Zombie Pit and couldn't get out.

"Neptune this isn't funny! How were you even able to get out of here?"
"A little technique I like to call wall jumping sis!"

Weapon: Swordfish

It's a sword combined with a fish, so it's gotta be the best weapon to use against crabs.
It does 20 damage, which is definitely more than the Wooden Greatsword I was using before, plus it's a living sword! The only issue I've found is when I try to enter HDD Mode. The short answer is don't. Because you turn into a fish and suffocate.

Reaver Shark

This thing will last you until hard mode! It has 100% pickaxe power (How does that even work, doesn't that mean it's only as powerful as a single pickaxe? But it can mine cobalt somehow.) making it the equivalent of a molten pickaxe. My point here is to keep your shark as close to you as you can. And you're bound to get a few of them, so don't stress it if you loose one or two.

Frog Legs

"I'm a Kangaroo! Boing!"

I like Jumping. The Frog Legs let you jump higher, and you can even jump automatically with them, and the best part is, your mounts can also use it!!!!
They also increase the amount of height you can fall from. I fall from the sky all the time, so I can definitely say, anything that prevents me from having amnesia again is a good item in my book!
Now you can show those dogoos (Or whatever slimy creatures you may fight) who's boss!

Optional: Sharks

While not a necessary part to fishing the Nep-Nep way, killing sharks that find their way close to the surface can yield some sweet, sweet loot! After all, you can use thier discarded fins, a blood sacrifice from a giant mechanical worm (Wouldn't that be an oil sacrifice?),a machine gun, and some random assorted parts the gunner seems to find late at night. That's the best kinda weapon in Nep's book! Also, you can make potions to breathe underwater with them!

Step 4: What to do with the Useless Crates

So sometimes, when you are trying to find fish for your grumbling belly, you'll find these odd boxes. I find that they make great chairs to sit on while your looking for more fish! For some odd reason, Nep jr. and Histy were interested in them, but I don't get it. I opened one of the shiny ones, and all I found were some Iron bars and a few coins. While I was able to buy a new game with the money in them, I got scolded at for some reason....Anyways, this is a few of the ways I've been able to use some of them.

1. Open them for some shiny loot: Most of the time you'll just find something useless like gold or scrap metal. Just get rid of that junk as soon as you can, your gonna loose it all if you die anyways. But, the junk inside can be sold for a nice amount of credits, and that means more loot=more pudding!
So go out and earn that pudding Nep Neppers! Also, I hear you can find something called the Falcon blade that has a fast swing and high damage.

An artist's depiction of the Falcon Blade

2. What to do with the wooden ones: The awesome loot is in all of the crates besides the wooden ones. So, the question you might be thinking is: "Neptune, have you ever actually OPENED a wooden crate?" Well dear reader, I can safely say that the answer is no. Because as soon as I opened that iron one, Histy got mad and took the rest away. I only knew about the falcon blade from Falcom. It's what she uses to go dungeon delving!

Falcom

3. Sit on the Wooden Ones: I wasn't lying before. They really make comfy chairs, beds, sofas, tables..... Look, anything's better than sitting on the ground, right?

4. Just sell the crates anyways: Every crate can be sold for a price when it's sealed so, in theory, if you sell all of your closed crates, you can't loose!

5.They kinda remind me of MTG cards: "I'll trade you 5 wooden crates for a dungon crate!"

Step 6.66: Pet a dog underground.

"Neptune, How did we even get here?!?"
"I don't know, but pet like your life depends on it!!!!!!!!!"

Step Whatever this was again: Victory!!!!

And that's all that you need to know about fishing like Neptuna!

What Happened to Nepgear?

You might be wondering what happened to Nepgear after she got bitten by the Zombie.
Compa said that since she's a goddess she SHOULDN'T become a zombie. Although the way Iffy is holding her Qutars kinda scares me.

Edit: We Finally Opened Them!

On the day after christmas, we slayed that giant flesh monster thing, and Histy told us the good news. It was so exciting, almost like a second christmas!!! Nepgear got the wooden ones, and I got the iron ones! I'd tell you what we got out of them, because I lost count..... See, what happened is that one of the adventurers we hired (Sir Nukesalot the Archmage) actually gave us a whole buttload of crates! We were even having crate fights! Then Compa got mad because I accidently bruised Nepgear.

Merry Christmas! (A little late, but let's just say it's for 3000 visits, ok?)

[Slaye teh Headpat Princess 💜]

A Slam with that Jam,. indeed.

[Erwin Edelweiss]

This is indeed, a certfifed nep classic

[Captain Cheese]

That is a certified nep classic

[Slaye teh Headpat Princess 💜]

You make a good point sir/madam. *nod*

[eomyers]

tru very tru but also murder

[Slaye teh Headpat Princess 💜]

It's a saw. Literally the only thing they're good for is chopping wood. (And some light auto-damage.)

[eomyers]

the saw shark along with the reaper shark are great when early on

[Slaye teh Headpat Princess 💜]

Go for it friend!

[♚♏ønsteṟ-♏asteṟ♚®]

You gave me an idea how to do BeruSama in Terraria

[Slaye teh Headpat Princess 💜]

:shrug: Fair's Fair.