Two video examples how you can farm crazy amounts of fish with new Wickerbooks

[milko7002]

Plase don't nerf this (edit: might be worth building on lunar island to avoid sanity problems)

[Spino43]

Nuts.

Though the book seems to only spawn small fish? Would be broken if big fish can be spawned.

[milko7002]

5 minutes ago, Spino43 said:

Nuts.

Though the book seems to only spawn small fish? Would be broken if big fish can be spawned.

I tried few different setups, and sometimes was able to get some big fishes. Usually with three slots like this one in close proximity. I have no inside to how it works tho, might thave something to do with ammount of water tiles. 

[HeatAndRun]

This.. is just beautiful.

[Cheggf]

The fish have done nothing to you. Why must you slaughter them so? 

[milko7002]

25 minutes ago, Cheggf said:

The fish have done nothing to you. Why must you slaughter them so? 

To feed that Kittykit ofcourse. That thing is bottomless!

[Parusoid]

5 hours ago, Spino43 said:

Nuts.

Though the book seems to only spawn small fish? Would be broken if big fish can be spawned.

depends on what part of ocean you are

hell yeah i love these books

its akin to bird book where you can farm crazy amount of morsels

[GelatinousCube]

3 hours ago, milko7002 said:

(edit: might be worth building on lunar island to avoid sanity problems)

Oh my Lord..... why didn't I build my blowdart/bird farm on lunar for this same reason....

How have I never thought of this! 

Might have to move it now. Definitely setting up this fish farm too.

[Parusoid]

With this many fish surf and turf is no issue

[lakhnish]

Well since the cats out of the bag, they're gonna nerf it now. That's how that works.

At the very least, if there's too many fish in the water specifically, the game starts to lag a lot, but it goes back to normal once you kill them or force them out of the water.

[ShadowDuelist]

Hopefully they won’t nerf it, and thematically they shouldn’t , the book is expensive enough and as it was said above this is the same as birds of the world which also lets you create extreme amounts of food.

Also both of these things either require a boss items that is not easy to craft, or visiting monkey island which is also a laborious task itself.

I think this is what Wickerbottom does. It’s just perfect.

[Faintly Macabre]

7 minutes ago, ShadowDuelist said:

I think this is what Wickerbottom does. It’s just perfect.

Pretty much this. Insane resource output is Wicker's thing. This is cool but not really a big deal, especially since you can't get most of the rare fish this way.

[Parusoid]

1 hour ago, Parusoid said:

its akin to bird book where you can farm crazy amount of morsels

bird video for the reference
and btw @lakhnish if they haven't nerfed bird books, why would they nerf fish book 

[lakhnish]

2 hours ago, Parusoid said:

if they haven't nerfed bird books, why would they nerf fish book 

For some reason we got this book but Horti was nerfed to what it is, that's why lmao

[Fill-Lips]

3 hours ago, Parusoid said:

bird video for the reference
and btw @lakhnish if they haven't nerfed bird books, why would they nerf fish book 

 

God, I want to build a scarecrow there so bad.

[ShadowDuelist]

55 minutes ago, lakhnish said:

For some reason we got this book but Horti was nerfed to what it is, that's why lmao

A single book of applied horticulture (the regular one) can give you 50 dragonpies and (at least) 50 dragonpie seeds in any season, in half a day of work. Or 150 stonefruits (you don't need to read twice to get stonefruits, you read once and the second phase happens on its own in 10 seconds). 
it's still a very powerful book, and mass producing food fast with magic is a wicker trademark thing.

Also the more I test the fish book, the more I realize for a normal playthrough its very expensive compared to the other food producing books. As a matter of fact I'd even buff it a bit and make it somewhat cheaper (maybe costing one bobbler instead of 2, or just remove the bobblers). 
Given how expensive it is, it is not something I'd rush. It seems more of a late game luxury.

[Primalflower]

this is what wickerbottom is all about, makes me really happy to see!!

[Electroely]

2 hours ago, lakhnish said:

For some reason we got this book but Horti was nerfed to what it is, that's why lmao

Well, Applied Horticulture just needs plants around it. To take advantage of The Angler's Survival Guide you need a way to actually get the fish, just like you need a way to get the birds for Birds of the World. The two options in the original post here are harder to get than a bunch of crops or bushes, and the other options (like trawlers or just fishing) aren't as effective. I think the book's completely fine. You can take advantage of it for some crazy results with the right setup, but that's the fun of it isn't it?

I think it'd be cool if Horticulture, Expanded could grow crops into giants (right now any sort of magic growth is hard-coded to prevent giant crops). But it's not really a major complaint for me. The book produces easy food at the cost of sanity, and you can just leave it in a bookcase to let it repair over time. If you really want, you can have 4 banana bushes nearby whenever you read the book to cook a banana shake to restore the lost sanity.

 

But anyway, me and a friend have been having a lot of fun with this book. We have a bunch of Trawlers placed in deep water, and every once in a while we would gather (Wickerbottom and Wortox) and start reading a bunch of those books from a bookcase. Lots of fish would spawn and we would frantically run around to take them out of the trawlers before they break. I'd kill excess fish for souls, and my friend would use the meat for Surf 'n' Turf.

[GetNerfedOn]

Wickerbottom: "Fish can only be summoned in close proximity to a body of water."

Also Wickerbottom: *steps away from the pond* 

[cybers2001]

3 hours ago, Fill-Lips said:

God, I want to build a scarecrow there so bad.

If you want yellow feathers, just duplicate frog skin over and over. I have a chest full of yellow feathers with minimal use for.

[milko7002]

11 hours ago, Spino43 said:

Nuts.

Though the book seems to only spawn small fish? Would be broken if big fish can be spawned.

With setup like this I was able to spawn some mud-fishes, You can still use just one cannon but it is less consistent.

[Mysterious box]

With abilities like these I still wonder why people are fill with fury when someone brings up slingshot buffs...

[cybers2001]

1 minute ago, Mysterious box said:

With abilities like these I still wonder why people are fill with fury when someone brings up slingshot buffs...

People cry too much about balance in their PvE survival game.

[skile]

1 hour ago, Mysterious box said:

With abilities like these I still wonder why people are fill with fury when someone brings up slingshot buffs...

especially when Alarming clock exists. 

like, how "op" would a small buff to a slingshot be? currently it has both smaller damage and slower atack speed when compared to melee weapons, and while it's totally fine for ranged weapon to be weaker than a melee weapon, marble rounds having less dps than an axe(at least last time i checked) kinda sucks.

i really love Walter's character, and i like using slingshot, but really, who enjoys spending 5 days to kill a spider. 

[Spino43]

5 hours ago, milko7002 said:

With setup like this I was able to spawn some mud-fishes, You can still use just one cannon but it is less consistent.

I just remember that if you have any lunar new year event, koi fishes will spawn on the coast which give big fish. Can you test if they can be spawned via books?