Fishing

Fishing is a practice where crew members can use various baits and fishing rods to catch fish. There is a variety of fish available to catch and cook and various exciting items to accidentally pull out of pools of water.

Your average crew member, vying for a catch off a dock on the beach.

Equipment

Rods

Fishing rods are the meat of the fishing system: without them you could not do much! Fishing rods allow crew members to hunt for fish and items inside large bodies of water. Crafty crew members can even use them to bring items out of pickup range to their location.

Rod	Description
Fishing Rod	A classic fishing rod, with no special qualities.
Bone Rod	A humble rod, made with whatever happened to be on hand. (crafted using leather, sinew, and bone)
Master Rod	The mythical rod of a lost fisher king. Said to be imbued with un-paralleled fishing power. There's writing on the back of the pole. "中国航天制造." Reduces the difficult of catching fish
Tech Rod	An embedded universal constructor along with micro-fusion generator makes this marvel of technology never run out of bait. Interstellar treaties prevent using it outside of recreational fishing. And you can fish with this. This rod has an infinite supply of synthetic bait.

Rod Components

Rods are customizable! Crew members can switch out the lure/hook as well as the type of fishing line used. In order to switch out rod components on a rod, you will need to hold the component in-hand and left-click on the rod.

Rod	Description
Lines
Fishing Line Reel	Simple fishing line.
Fishing Line Sinew	An all-natural fishing line made of stretched out sinew. (crafted using sinew)
Reinforced Fishing Line Reel	Essential for fishing in extreme environments such as lavaland.
Cloaked Fishing Line Reel	even harder to notice than the common variety.
Flexible Fishing Line Reel	this specialized line is much harder to snap.
Hooks
Simple Hook	A generic fishing hook, nothing special.
Bone Hook	A simple hook carved from sharpened bone.
Magnetic Hook	won't make catching fish any easier but might help with looking for other things.
Shiny Lure Hook	Pretty!
Weighted Hook	Pretty!
Rescue Hook	A special fishing hook that can only be used in chasms (as that's currently the only place you can find people into), which can only be able to fish out duds, skeleton corpses, any mob that's fallen into a chasm and hasn't been rescued yet, or rarely, a hostile monster lurking below. It has a weight of 5 (50 without bait, lower with bait) for duds and a weight of 30 for chasm detritus, which themselves have a 50% chance to be a random skeleton corpse, or a lobstrosity, and the remaining 50% chance of fishing out a mob that's fallen into a chasm.

Bait

One requires bait in order to attract fish! Use a bait-can or bait in-hand and click on a fishing rod to put bait on it.

Bait	Quality	Description
Worm	Basic	It's a wriggling worm from a can of fishing bait. You're not going to eat it, are you?
Extra Slimy Worm	Good	This worm looks very sophisticated.
Doughball	Basic	Small piece of dough. Simple but effective fishing bait.
Bait Cans
Can o' worm	Basic	Contains generic worms. Can take bait out every 10 seconds.
Can o' worm deluxe	Basic	Contains extra slimy worms. Can take bait out every 10 seconds.

Other

Item	Description
Fish Encyclopedia	Indexes all fish known to mankind (and related species). Shows all types as well as the generic details of fish such as their weight, temperature, source, and average size.
Fishing Toolbox	Contains everything you need for a basic fishing trip: can of worms, fishing rod, fishing hook, and fishing line.
Fishing Hook Set	Contains magnetic, shiny, and weighted hooks.
Fishing Line Set	Contains bouncy, reinforced, and cloaked lines.
Fish-porter 3000 Set	Fishing anywhere, anytime. Allows for a mobile fishing spot on station.

Fish

Fish	Favorite Bait	Disliked Bait	Description
Fresh Water
Goldfish	Worms	None	Despite common belief, goldfish do not have three-second memories. They can actually remember things that happened up to three months ago.
Angelfish	None	None	Young Angelfish often live in groups, while adults prefer solitary life. They become territorial and aggressive toward other fish when they reach adulthood.
Guppy	None	None	Guppy is also known as rainbow fish because of the brightly colored body and fins.
Plasma Tetra	None	None	Due to their small size, tetras are prey to many predators in their watery world, including eels, crustaceans, and invertebrates.
Cory Catfish	Junkfood	None	A catfish has about 100,000 taste buds, and their bodies are covered with them to help detect chemicals present in the water and also to respond to touch.
Donk Fish	None	None	Donk co. company patent donkfish. A lab-grown donkfish. Its invention was an accident for the most part, as it was intended to be consumed in donk pockets. Unfortunately, it tastes horrible, so it has now become a pseudo-mascot. This fish is very rare
Rat Fish	Dairy	None	A rat exposed to the murky waters of maintenance too long. Any higher power, if it revealed itself, would state that the ratfish's continued existence is extremely unwelcome. This fish is very zippy.
Salt Water
Clownfish	None	None	Clownfish catch prey by swimming onto the reef, attracting larger fish, and luring them back to the anemone. The anemone will sting and eat the larger fish, leaving the remains for the clownfish. This fish is very picky and will ignore low quality bait.
Cradinalfish	None	None	Cardinalfish are often found near sea urchins, where the fish hide when threatened. This fish can only be baited with fresh produce.
Green Chromis	None	None	The Chromis can vary in color from blue to green depending on the lighting and distance from the lights. This fish is slightly harder to catch.
Firefish Goby	None	Basic Worms, Doughballs	To communicate in the wild, the firefish uses its dorsal fin to alert others of potential danger. This fish moves very quickly.
Pufferfish	None	None	One Pufferfish contains enough toxins in its liver to kill 30 people. This fish is heavy
Lanternfish	None	None	Typically found in areas below 6600 feet below the surface of the ocean, they live in complete darkness. This fish avoids bright lights, fishing in darkness recommended.
Dwarf Moonfish	None	None	Ordinarily in the wild, the Zagoskian moonfish is around the size of a tuna, however, through selective breeding a smaller breed suitable for being kept as an aquarium pet has been created.
Gunner Jellyfish	None	None	So-called due to their resemblance to an artillery shell, the gunner jellyfish is native to Tizira, where it is enjoyed as a delicacy. Produces a mild hallucinogen that is destroyed by cooking.
Needle Fish	None	None	A tiny, transparent fish that resides in large schools in the oceans of Tizira. Common food for other, larger fish. This fish can only be baited with meat.
Armor Fish	None	None	A small shellfish native to Tizira's oceans, known for its exceptionally hard shell. Consumed similarly to prawns. This fish moves slow
Toxic Emulsijack	None	None	Ah, the terrifying emulsijack. Created in a laboratory, this slimey, scaleless fish emits an invisible toxin that emulsifies other fish for it to feed on. Its only real use is for completely ruining a tank by kill all other fish in it. This fish is extraordinarily rare.

Fishing

Fishing Spots

• Moisture Traps
• Beach Away Mission
• Fishing Portals (Order-able from cargo)
• Chasms on Lavaland
• Lava itself

Difficulty

Not all fish are the same! Trying to catch fish has varying difficulty based on the rod and bait a crew member uses as well as the type of the fish.