Gathering
Fishing
Fish from the shore with a fishing pole. Rarer catches need more skill.
- Group
- Gathering
- Title it gives
- Fisher
- Grows your stats
- Strength (50%), Dexterity (50%)
- Head start
- No people starts with it
How it grows
Like every skill it runs from 0 to 100 and rises a tenth of a point at a time as you use it: quickly while it is low, hardly at all on work far beneath you. Every try trains it, by how hard the finds you could make are. A full backpack stops the work.
All your skills together hold 600 points. Set Fishing to rise, fall or hold in the Skills window (K). A people that is good at it starts 10 points higher, 15 on its own path, and raises it a fifth more often for life.
Using it can also raise your stats a point at a time, leaning towards: Strength (50%), Dexterity (50%).
Titles
When Fishing is your best skill, it names you:
- 30 Neophyte Fisher
- 40 Novice Fisher
- 50 Apprentice Fisher
- 60 Journeyman Fisher
- 70 Expert Fisher
- 80 Adept Fisher
- 90 Master Fisher
- 100 Grandmaster Fisher
The Fishing tree
Every 10 points of Fishing gives a point to spend here. Some places need another first; some ask you to choose one or the other. Unlearn the whole tree for gold with F4.
Angler
Bites come sooner, and more fish on the line.
Quick Bite3 ranks
Fish bite 15% sooner per rank.
Full Net2 ranks
+10% chance per rank to land twice as many.
Needs Quick Bite
Patient Line1 rank
Fished-out water fills again in half the time.
Needs Full Net
Deep Fisher
Rarer catches from the deep.
Deep Water3 ranks
Rare fish turn up 20% more often per rank.
Sea's Gift1 rank
The rarest catches turn up twice as often again.
Needs Deep Water
What you can find
Your skill decides which finds can come up; better skill makes rare finds more likely. The tool in your hand must also be hard enough.
| Find | From skill | Where |
|---|---|---|
 carp | 0 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 cod | 0 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 perch | 0 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 soggy boot | 0 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 trout | 0 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 catfish | 10 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 salmon | 15 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 big fish | 20 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 pike | 20 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 black pearls | 25 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 ice char | 30 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 message in a bottle | 30 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 koi | 40 | Anywhere it can be worked |
 seam-eel | 65 | Anywhere it can be worked |
More in the guide: Gathering and materials · All skills