At level 10, a Trapper can choose to have their pots permanently baited (Luremaster) or never catching trash (Mariner) - trash can be recycled into good stuff but it may no longer be worth your time to feed it into a recycling machine. At level 5 you get to choose between the Fisher profession and the Trapper profession, so take Trapper if you’re using crab pots, or Fisher if you aren’t. If you catch every fish in the game, Willy will send you a stardrop.Īs you level up in the fishing skill, your fishing bar gets longer, you can cast further, and catch higher quality fish. If you like the fishing game, there are many more fish to catch than are needed for the Community Centre, including five Legendary fish which may only be caught once. You can just visit Cindersap Forest on Fridays and Sundays until it turns up in the gypsy’s inventory. Fortunately, of all the fish in the game, the Pufferfish is most likely to be sold at the Travelling Cart, and that in any season. It’s a difficult fish that dodges up and down the bar quite quickly. The hardest fish to catch from the Community Centre bundles is the Pufferfish, which is *only* available from the Ocean during Summer on a sunny day between 12noon and 4pm. Past the early game, cheap fish probably aren’t even worth selling - craft them (with some sap) into fertiliser! After that, keep one of each rare or valuable fish. Keep one of each fish as you catch them, at least until your Community Centre bundles are done.

Rarer fish are more likely to bite your hook on lucky days.

To catch all the fish for the Community Centre (or all the fish for the achievement!) you need to plan … once you’ve got a variety, look up the fish on the Stardew Valley Wiki and take note of which fish you want, which of those fish are available in the current season, where they are to be found, whether it should be raining, and what time of day to find them. In-game, Living on the Land will comment on some fish and other information can be found in Library books once you’ve found the right lost books. There are other kinds of water that you can uncover as you progress through the game - a pond in the Secret Woods, another in the Desert, in the Sewers, in the Witch’s Swamp, and three in the Mines.ĭifferent fish are available at different times of day, in different seasons, and in rain or sun conditions. Ocean fish are naturally caught from near the Beach. Fishing in the Mountains will yield you Lake fish. So will fishing in Pelican Town, but it’s a slightly different population. Fishing in Cindersap Forest will yield you River fish. (Or by using tackle when you've leveled up - the lead bobber - but other tackle is considered better.)ĭifferent types of fish appear in different places. You can prevent a bounce off the bottom by clicking to slow the fall just before the bar hits. If the green bar falls to the bottom, it will bounce (it will also bounce off the top of the range). If the progress bar hits 0, the fish gets away. Every time the fish 'escapes' the green bar, its progress bar falls (very rapidly in the early game). Your fish is caught when you’ve filled this bar right up to the top. It rises when the fish is within the green bar, and falls when the fish is outside that range. On the right of the mini-game is a vertical progress bar. So you control the green bar, by left-clicking to impart an upward acceleration to the bar - release the mouse and the bar will start to fall - half-second clicks will usually let you keep the bar hovering. The fish will fight you - it will go up and down - and you can only reel it in if you keep your green bar on it. Junk will reel in immediately, but for a fish you have to go into a mini game.

Wait until something tugs on your line (you’ll see a yellow exclamation mark over your character’s head, and hear a melodic burr) and then click once to reel it in. Fish star quality depends on the distance the cast lands from walkable areas. You should find that your character casts the line into the water and waits. To catch a fish, find a source of water, walk to the edge and face the water wield your rod then left-click-and-hold with your mouse over the water. If you’re struggling with it, see the strategies below for coping with poor fishing skills. If you develop the Community Centre, you will need to develop this skill at least a bit by mid First Summer, but you can leave it alone after you have completed the Fish Tank Bundles. If you choose to side with Joja Corporation, you can still develop your farm without ever going fishing. Fishing is the one skill with least impact on your game.

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