Fishing

**Fishing** is an activity that was added during the Anniversary Update on the 30th April 2019. It adds a diverse range of catchable fish that can be cooked and eaten or sold to a member of the Hunter's Call Trading Company, formed by Merrick.

## Gameplay

In order to catch fish, a Fishing Rod must be used. While some fish can be hooked without bait, other types of fish need to be lured through the use of specific Baits in certain areas of the map. Bait can be found in Barrels throughout the in game world. Reading the Hunter Call's fish descriptions in your Inventory Screen or referring to the bait's tooltip, will show what kind of Bait attracts what type of fish and where that fish can be found. Fish can be found in any body of water (except the flooded parts of your ship). To use the rod, press right trigger or left mouse. you can also hold it down, the longer you hold, the further the hook will go.

### Controls

 Reel
 Move Rod
 Retract Line

Bait can be attached to the rod by equipping the rod and pressing Y or R in the inventory radial menu and selecting the bait you have on you.

Retracting your line will quickly bring in your hook (and bait attached). If done while a fish is hooked, you lose both the fish and your bait (if you used any). Retracting your line is helpful for when you need to move or to avoid catching a particular fish.

### Catching Fish

Once you have cast your line, a fish will eventually spawn and bite your line. The fish will swim away and start the fishing process. The fish can swim left, right, or away and will continue to swim until it gets tired (as shown by a line with slack and no splashing). To tire the fish pull your rod in the direction opposite of the fish's movement, once they are tired you hold Reel until it starts to fight again or you've caught it. Trophy fish will take several rounds of this to be caught, unlike others that take around two to three rounds.

### Cooking Fish

You can cook your fish by using the cooking pots on ships or at campfires. There is no indicator or HUD element to show when items are cooked, apart from its look. First the fish will begin to turn white in the eyes and the body turns a light grey/white. Then the fish's eyes turn completely milky white and the body will an orange/brown colour, this is fully cooked. after this there will be a short time before the fish burns. This will be value the fish to less than the uncooked value but it is still sellable. The fully cooked stage is the most valuable satage.

### Selling Fish

fish can only be sold at Seaposts to the Hunter's Call Trading Company. Make sure for the best reward you sell your fish at stage two of cooking!

## Trivia

* The line will break if the fish swims into something or the line is obstructed by something, So stand close to the edge.
* Friendly players cannot break a line with a sword.
* A new fishing rod can only be bought by finding all of one type of fish (except the killer whale rod).
* The hunters call company run by Merrick from the hungering deep event and all memebers of the faction are merricks relatives like Derrick, his son.
* The sign on every outpost that points to each companies location of that outpost, has one for the hunters call but it always points towards the docks.