Let us reel Message Bottles in with an Sea Fishing Rod

[QuartzBeam]

Message Bottles have an unfortunate tendency to spawn in rivers and lakes if you base near those, which makes them go to waste, cause it's either too expensive to collect them or literally impossible if the river/lake is too narrow.

That and, even if they spawn in open coastal ocean, it's fairly tedious to get your boat there.

[AileTheAlien]

I think the original bottles from Shipwrecked let you fish them, in addition to the boats. Or I could be misremembering. Either way - totally fine idea!  : )

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I'd like all items can be fished out of the with the ocean fishing rod like the mod below.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1819208941&searchtext=ocean+fishing+rod (This mod really should be a part of the game)

[Ohan]

Sea fishing rods should definitely have this functionality for all drops in the ocean. you shouldnt need to go to the ruins and craft a forager to make gathering simple drops in the ocean bearable

[QuartzBeam]

1 hour ago, Ohan said:

Sea fishing rods should definitely have this functionality for all drops in the ocean. you shouldnt need to go to the ruins and craft a forager to make gathering simple drops in the ocean bearable

Yeah, it's just I bring up the message bottles specifically, cause I think that for other items (such as salt crystals and seaweed drops), we need something that's capable of collecting multiple items at once. Like a fishing net. (But possibly without the fishing part, since that would kinda devalue the actual fishing mechanics?)

[Blue Moth]

Yeah, this would be great not only for collecting bottles but also for collecting an item that lands in the water just barely out of reach from the player.

Another idea is to implement the "retrieve" mechanic from Shipwrecked to get those items that are just out of reach.