There could be more incentive to collect ocean fish, atleast for Wurt.

[marshyds]

Currently ocean fish are ALMOST completely only differentiated by hunger value and visuals, except for sun fish and ice bream, who change your temperature.

Right now, if you are truly a solo Wurt who doesn't want to go the wonkey route, your way of making gold renewable would be through trading ocean fish to merm king.

However this is rather boring and tedious. Wurt could have a skill that lets her have different abilities for fish she carries (Or maybe a designated item she could insert a fish into, similar to the garland Wendy can craft)?

I am well aware that Wurt is completely broken due to her skilltree, however this is more of just making a different, more niche, mechanic interesting.

There could also just generally be abilities for all survivors, Wurt would still benefit from slower fish spoilage.

Edited May 12, 2025 by marshyds

[Wawchik]

Fish giving abilities just doesn't make sense. Instead fishing should be more casual and rewarding, because the only ocean life I'd ever personally try to catch through fishing are wobsters. Fishing is just a mechanic that a lot of people would agree is cool and all but isn't really worth doing. 

Also with Wurt put a trawler at your base to get ocean fish 

Edited May 12, 2025 by Wawchik

[RainBO_OM]

It would make lots of sense actually! We can see Wurt taking big inspirations from fairy tales and other survivors, she tries to mimic them in some sort. Of course she would like to try out abilities of her fish fellas!

[Captain_Rage]

4 hours ago, Wawchik said:

Fish giving abilities just doesn't make sense. Instead fishing should be more casual and rewarding, because the only ocean life I'd ever personally try to catch through fishing are wobsters. Fishing is just a mechanic that a lot of people would agree is cool and all but isn't really worth doing. 

Also with Wurt put a trawler at your base to get ocean fish 

Agreed. Keep it casual instead of another "collect-a-thon" that will leave the player feeling as if they are missing out on something unless they actively pursue it.

4 hours ago, marshyds said:

Currently ocean fish are ALMOST completely only differentiated by hunger value and visuals

As silly as it sounds on paper, I believe the different visuals and the fact you don't encounter fish elsewhere in the game is a rather good and fun incentive to fish already.

[Cheggf]

I fish all the time, but if I felt like I had to fish because if I don't fish right now during this season I'll lose some really good thing and not be able to get it again for 9 hours I would stop liking it and start hating it. 

[Keller Max]

2 hours ago, Cheggf said:

I fish all the time, but if I felt like I had to fish because if I don't fish right now during this season I'll lose some really good thing and not be able to get it again for 9 hours I would stop liking it and start hating it. 

Being stressed to catch Fallounders in the first Autumn to get the lure advert is exhausting fr.

[WilsonHiggs]

7 hours ago, Cheggf said:

I fish all the time, but if I felt like I had to fish because if I don't fish right now during this season I'll lose some really good thing and not be able to get it again for 9 hours I would stop liking it and start hating it. 

Yes, keep seasons uninteresting because some people don't want to play throw them

[Cheggf]

4 hours ago, WilsonHiggs said:

Yes, keep seasons uninteresting because some people don't want to play throw them

Yes, doing literally the exact same thing you can do at any time with no changes whatsoever to it other than a random item is how you make seasons interesting. We should make the seasons even more interesting, let's do this in other ways. If you grow every single one of every single crop for every single season, you should get exclusive rewards! And if you kill the Ancient Fuelweaver, he drops a seasonal item! The seasons will be so interesting if you need to kill AFW four times in a row for no reason just because "seasons interesting"! Ponds should have a 0.5% chance to give you a really good item that changes with the season, so you need to spend the entire season fishing in the ponds! And then the next time the season rolls around you can spend the entire season sailing around trying to find the seasonal fish! This is all so interesting and fun! The same things that always exist at all times with no changes to them at all and just random time pressure for literally no reason at all is how you make the game fun!

You know what else would be fun? A battlepass! It's like the same thing! Time pressure makes things interesting without actually changing how things work, just adding time pressure to rewards for no reason! Klei should stop releasing new skins in the store, and start releasing battlepasses! They could set it up so that you need to accomplish certain things while having no mods enabled (Don't want you to cheat the battlepass rewards!) in order to do dailies, and if you do dailies every day you can get the skins you paid for! If you miss too many days, or just joined the game too late, you don't get the skins ever! It's interesting because it forces you to do things right now!

[WilsonHiggs]

1 hour ago, Cheggf said:

Yes, doing literally the exact same thing you can do at any time with no changes whatsoever to it other than a random item is how you make seasons interesting. We should make the seasons even more interesting, let's do this in other ways. If you grow every single one of every single crop for every single season, you should get exclusive rewards! And if you kill the Ancient Fuelweaver, he drops a seasonal item! The seasons will be so interesting if you need to kill AFW four times in a row for no reason just because "seasons interesting"! Ponds should have a 0.5% chance to give you a really good item that changes with the season, so you need to spend the entire season fishing in the ponds! And then the next time the season rolls around you can spend the entire season sailing around trying to find the seasonal fish! This is all so interesting and fun! The same things that always exist at all times with no changes to them at all and just random time pressure for literally no reason at all is how you make the game fun!

You know what else would be fun? A battlepass! It's like the same thing! Time pressure makes things interesting without actually changing how things work, just adding time pressure to rewards for no reason! Klei should stop releasing new skins in the store, and start releasing battlepasses! They could set it up so that you need to accomplish certain things while having no mods enabled (Don't want you to cheat the battlepass rewards!) in order to do dailies, and if you do dailies every day you can get the skins you paid for! If you miss too many days, or just joined the game too late, you don't get the skins ever! It's interesting because it forces you to do things right now!

Wow

By the time you ended up writing that you could  have experience 2 summers

[Wawchik]

2 hours ago, WilsonHiggs said:

Wow

By the time you ended up writing that you could  have experience 2 summers

He's kinda right though, depending on what powers fish would give a lot of people would feel forced to fish during the season the most overpowered fish spawns

[Keller Max]

4 hours ago, Cheggf said:

Yes, doing literally the exact same thing you can do at any time with no changes whatsoever to it other than a random item is how you make seasons interesting. We should make the seasons even more interesting, let's do this in other ways. If you grow every single one of every single crop for every single season, you should get exclusive rewards! And if you kill the Ancient Fuelweaver, he drops a seasonal item! The seasons will be so interesting if you need to kill AFW four times in a row for no reason just because "seasons interesting"! Ponds should have a 0.5% chance to give you a really good item that changes with the season, so you need to spend the entire season fishing in the ponds! And then the next time the season rolls around you can spend the entire season sailing around trying to find the seasonal fish! This is all so interesting and fun! The same things that always exist at all times with no changes to them at all and just random time pressure for literally no reason at all is how you make the game fun!

You know what else would be fun? A battlepass! It's like the same thing! Time pressure makes things interesting without actually changing how things work, just adding time pressure to rewards for no reason! Klei should stop releasing new skins in the store, and start releasing battlepasses! They could set it up so that you need to accomplish certain things while having no mods enabled (Don't want you to cheat the battlepass rewards!) in order to do dailies, and if you do dailies every day you can get the skins you paid for! If you miss too many days, or just joined the game too late, you don't get the skins ever! It's interesting because it forces you to do things right now!

I agree. It sucks because it's rng. You can't guarantee you get a seasonal fish because they are really rare for some reason.