A guaranteed way to spawn the seasonal fish?

[nimzowitsch10]

The seasonal fish imo should have a guaranteed way to be acquired without waiting for days in the ocean looking for one.

Maybe the seasonal fish should be guaranteed to spawn in the waterlogged biome?

Of course I'm asking for this change because early pearl is easier with the seasonal fish quest

[SilverSpoon]

Although the seasonal fish are not guaranteed, Fish Food and The Angler's Survival Guide will spawn fish.

I agree that ocean fishing is low reward for the effort and Peal's fish RNG needs some improve.

Edited August 22, 2025 by SilverSpoon

[Hungry French]

1 hour ago, SilverSpoon said:

Хотя сезонная рыба не гарантирована, корм для рыб и руководство по выживанию для рыболовов помогут вам поймать рыбу.

Я согласен с тем, что рыбалка в океане не оправдывает затраченных усилий, а генератору случайных чисел в Peal's Fish нужно кое-что улучшить.

It would be better to have a special prefix BIG for big fish, so that you don't just swim to Pearl and Shark Boi.

[Sephirona]

This is less feasible if you don't like swapping characters, but for the sunfish and ice bream in particular, if you find a section of the coast that allows you to build docks until you are bordering the swell ocean it is possible to mass farm the seasonal fish by putting down trawlers and spamming the fish book with Wicker. I used to go sailing for the seasonal fish too and it was fun, but eventually I needed to place a lot more fish around the world and it just took too much time sailing to get them so I worked with someone else who swapped to Wicker to speed things up. If you are lucky enough to have sea stacks spawn near the coast in the swell ocean then that's an even better way to draw the fish in to the trawlers, and in my main world I somehow ended up with two sections of the coast like this that still counted as part of the lunar island so it was possible to spawn fish at any time without worrying about sanity. You can get one and a half tin fishing bins full of seasonal fish per season this way, and it's also useful keeping pocket scales on the docks so surplus fish can be weighed for Frostjaw's gifts.

I do agree that I'd like to see more variety and rewards if players want to actively sail for fish though since it really was pretty rare to see the seasonal fish outside of specialized setups.

[Edible Coal]

6 hours ago, Hungry French said:

It would be better to have a special prefix BIG for big fish, so that you don't just swim to Pearl and Shark Boi.

you know.....you can weight them right?

[Hungry French]

6 minutes ago, Edible Coal said:

знаешь... их можно взвесить, верно?

Will it give any clues other than the weight?

[Edible Coal]

1 minute ago, Hungry French said:

Will it give any clues other than the weight?

Pocket Scale will say something extra when the fish is heavy

[Jakepeng99]

18 hours ago, nimzowitsch10 said:

The seasonal fish imo should have a guaranteed way to be acquired without waiting for days in the ocean looking for one.

Maybe the seasonal fish should be guaranteed to spawn in the waterlogged biome?

Of course I'm asking for this change because early pearl is easier with the seasonal fish quest

Bloomfin tuna and Fallounders can spawn in the waterlogged.

as for the other two, you will just find them naturally if you explore the ocean.

[Valase]

13 hours ago, Edible Coal said:

Pocket Scale will say something extra when the fish is heavy

The heavy lure is also great for that (I almost always use either it, the spiny one or the spork) since they all are neutral ones.

[Swiyss]

It's so easy to get seasonal fish actually, if you know which biome they spawn it's just a matter of 0 to 2 days to get a shoal.

[loopuleasa]

just volume

make many fish farms in a boat port, I have like 20 in an area with figgy trees