Fish

**Fish** is a command in Dank Memer that allows you to catch fish. Within the fish command, fish and tools that you can obtain are not physical items, and can instead be found in the Fish Bucket or Fish Tank.

## Overview & Catching Fish

Using **/fish catch**, you can choose the equipment you'd like to use and the location you'd like to travel to before starting to fish. This will start a minigame where you can move your tool around with the buttons (see image). Shadows will appear in the water that show that there are fish to catch - it could be an underwater mine, though, so watch out! Triggering a mine will take away durability from your current tool.

When you find a boss, two mines will appear in the fish minigame (this can be changed through skills).

### Equipment

By default, everyone uses their bare hands to fish, but it cannot use bait or catch bosses or items unless you upgrade your fishing skills. You can unlock more tools and different baits by finding them in other places around the bot through methods like season pass rewards, the fish shop, and lootboxes.

**Tools**

**Baits**

### Locations

Different locations will have different fish to catch. You can travel to different locations, but travelling will take 60 minutes (without skills). You can skip travel with 10 gems.

You can find NPCs in different locations. Do note that NPCs will only be in one location per day, so if you’re looking for a specific one to trade with, make sure to choose where you fish wisely. When an NPC visits, they may offer you a gift, ask you to trade, assign you a task, give you advice, and more. More info in the NPCs section.

 Underwater Sanctuary |      | Zara GreyChet SterlingSamuel Booker
 Mystic Pond |      | Mysterious Figure

Some locations are temporary and seasonal, usually appearing during holidays.

 Snowy Mountains |      | Thrym

## Fish Buckets

Fish caught from **/fish catch** and **/fish idle** will be managed differently. What you catch is stored in a fishing bucket, and you have limited bucket space. With the **/fish buckets** command, you can sell any number of your fish, equip and organize your buckets, rename fish, and choose fish display in your fish tank. You can unlock more bucket slots and hold more buckets at once through the Storage Specialist skill tree.

### Buckets and Bucket Slots

Most users have two buckets by default: a Wooden Bucket and a Pink Bucket that they unlocked through the Bit of a Change Event. You can see how much your buckets can hold in **/fish catch** or by looking at the **/fish buckets** command. When your bucket is full, you can continue fishing for XP and to fill up your guide book, but you won’t be able to keep any of the creatures you catch until you make space in your bucket by either selling them or moving them into the fish tank.

Buckets have different amounts of space: for example, the default Wooden Bucket has 5 space, while the Pink Bucket has 10. Better buckets can be obtained through the Fish Shop, including the Metal, Pepe, and Golden Bucket, which have 10, 15, and 20 space respectively.

To use a bucket, you must equip it in a bucket slot. There are a maximum bucket slots, but you can only use one at a time and will be immediately occupied by the wooden bucket. To unlock more bucket slots, you have to earn skill points and level up the Storage Specialist skill tree. Upgrading this skill can also increase the space in your buckets.

If you want to use a different bucket, press "Manage Slots", select the slot you want to use, and select the bucket you want to equip.

### Managing Creatures

If you view a bucket, you can see the fish that are contained within. There are options to rename them, move them to the fish tank, and sell them. You can sell them for coins or tokens, which can be spent in the fish shop to buy equipment and items.

## Fish Guidebook

The **Fish Guidebook** (**/fish guide**) is a helpful guide about everything you've encountered while fishing. It contains valuable information about types of fish, when fish are available, locations, NPCs, skill challenges, and info about tools and baits. You can also feature a catch on the front page of your guidebook.

Additionally, you can also view a summary of your fishing statistics, including:

* Season Pass tier and rank
* Featured catch
* Bosses caught
* Fish variants caught
* Total catches
* Favorite creature
* Favorite bait
* Favorite location
* Challenges completed
* Variants discovered
* Creatures completed
* Locations 100%ed

## Fishing Skills

Using **skill points** obtained through **skill challenges**, one can upgrade **Skills** that allow them to progress further into fishing (**/fish skills**) Some skills will require badges to be unlocked. Skills fall into five categories: **Economy, Nature, Social,** and **Science**.

### Economy

**Haggler**
Haggle your way into more effective coin earning.

 **Haggler IV** | Sell creatures for 200% more coins and get 200% more coins from NPCs. | Collector Badge

**Economist**
If unlocked, happy hour is at 4pm UTC. Go control the fish economy!

 **Economist V** | During happy hours, you earn 2x tokens from selling creatures. | Gold Seasoned Angler Badge

**Shop Keeper**
A shopkeeper knows how to speak to other shopkeepers. Go get that deal, queen!

 **Shop Keeper V** | Have a 1% chance to pay nothing when buying something from the fishing shop. | N/A

**Cartographer**
You know your way around a map. Who needs gems? Not you!

 **Cartographer III** | Reduce the time to travel to 5 minutes. | Platinum Seasoned Angler Badge

### Nature

**Zoologist**
Zoology doesn't get you a date, but a sub-specialty in Ichthyology sure gets you some fish.

 **Zoologist V** | Increase the chance of catching chroma fish variants by 5%. | N/A

**Aquarium Keeper**
Owning and maintaining an aquarium is hard work. You're the right person for the job.

 **Aquarium Keeper II** | Hold a total of 5 fish and 4 decorations in your fish tank. | N/A

**Keen Angler**
Any angler knows how to fish effectively. Just ask Zara!

 **Keen Angler V** | Have a 50% chance to have 2 shadows in the fish minigame. | Platinum Seasoned Angler Badge

**Zen Hands**
Your hands are one with the universe.

 **Zen Hands IV** | Increase the chance to catch “unique” variants by 8% with your bare hands. | Gold Seasoned Angler Badge

### Social

**Charming**
You're so charming, the NPCs can't help but want to hang out with you.

 **Charming IV** | Increase the chance of task NPC encounter by 10%

**Delegator**
You've got things to do. AFK fishing can do your work for you.

 **Delegator IV** | While idle fishing is running and its storage isn’t full, you have a 2x XP multi for regular levelling. | Platinum XPlosion Expert Badge

**Empath**
You know what makes NPCs tick, and how to make them happy.

 **Empath III** | See the exact changes in reputation you might get on any given interaction. | N/A

**Magnetic Personality**
Your personality is magnetic. You should NOT be swallowed.

 **Magnetic Personality V** | When you get any gift from an NPC, you get double the rewards. | Gold Seasoned Angler Badge

'***Friends with the Trash Man I'***
The trash man helps a homie out. Be nice to him.

 **Friends with the Trash Man IV** | Automatically sell trash for a token instead of collecting it to your inventory. | N/A

### Science

**Horologist**
Bend time and space in your favor.

 **Horologist IV** | Have Mystic Pond available an extra day each week (from 2 days to 3 days). | Platinum Seasoned Angler Badge

**Storage Specialist**
You know how to shove things in places, better than anyone else.

 **Storage Specialist IV** | Increase all buckets' space by 80% | Platinum Seasoned Angler Badge

**Time-Keeper**
While others cool down, you just get hotter.

 **Time-Keeper V** | You will not have a cooldown the attempt after a tool or bait loses all its durability. | N/A

**Tool Baiter**
Tools are but play things to you.

 **Tool Baiter V** | Have a 5% chance when a BAIT breaks, for it to be regenerated back to 75% durability. | N/A

**AFK**
Why would you go fishing when this can do it for you?

 **AFK VI** | Have the chance to catch bosses in idle fishing. | N/A

You can reset skills every three days or reset them early with 25 gems.

## Skill Challenges

In order to earn skill points, you must complete challenges. You can view them in **/fish guide**.

## Idle Fishing

**Idle Fishing** is a major part of fishing that allows you to catch fish automatically at a base interval of every 30 minutes. It can be upgraded through the AFK and Delegator skill trees.

The idle fishing machine can catch fish from all locations, allowing you to make decent profit with minimal effort. Do note that it can catch fish from Mystic Pond on days other than Tuesday and Saturday, allowing you to obtain Mystic Pond-exclusive fish on any day. When the idle fishing machine is full, it will stop running and send you a dm informing you that it can no longer catch fish. By default, it can only hold 5 fish, but you can increase it through the AFK skill tree.

Once you upgrade the AFK Skill Tree enough, you can equip specific baits (AFK III) and target specific locations (AFK IV) to fish from. With AFK VI, it will be able to catch bosses. However, any upgrades after AFK III requires the Seasoned Angler Badge, making AFK VI insufficient to get bosses into the guidebook.

The icon for idle fishingThe fishing interface (at AFK III)
## NPC encounters

While fishing, you may encounter NPCs. At launch, there are 6 NPCs: Zara Grey, Chad Erningway, Chet Sterling, Samuel Booker, Margaux Handler, and the Mysterious Figure. NPCs can send you on tasks, give you items, ask for a fish the player just caught, request a trade, or strike up a conversation.

### All NPCs

#### Zara "Fisherwoman" Grey

**Zara Grey** is the first NPC you encounter and she serves as a guide, being the person who shows you the ropes in the fishing tutorial and gives you fishing tips throughout your journey. She has a warm, helpful personality.

**Description**

"*For Zara, fishing is more than just a hobby. It's a way of life. Whether she's running her bait and tackle shop, spending the day on the water reeling them in, or teaching teens the joy of fishing every summer at camp, there is nothing she'd rather be doing. She's a proud part of her community, and always willing to give a helping hand to those in need.*"

#### Chad "The Giga" Erningway

Chad Erningway is an athletic person who cares about his fitness and loves working out, often asking you to turn in a fish to "prove that you're strong enough to do so" as your task.

**Description**

"*Chad wasn't always so perfect, but puberty blessed him, and here we are. He had a rough time as a kid, getting bullied and picked on, so he got fit. Now he uses his charisma and good looks to do good, even if he unintentionally steals your romantic interests and your mom's love.*"

#### Chet "Crypto Bro" Sterling

Chet Sterling is an NFT seller who is all about efficiency. He likes it when he profits, and isn't afraid to share his techniques with other people. Additionally, he loves mentioning NFTs and uses plenty of smart words like "validating data", "deal", "insider info", and "easy money".

**Description**

"*Time is money, and money is life. If you aren't here to talk about profit potential, then what are you even doing?*"

#### Margaux "Robbie" Handler

Margaux Handler is a very friendly NPC who enjoys the company of people and friends, often complimenting your achievements and requesting to be best friends and trade. She was unlocked during the Bit of a Change Event.

**Description**

"*Margaux has been called stereotypical all her life, often compared to a plastic doll. She's ready to prove people wrong by breaking out of social norms and making fishing culture her life.*"

#### Samuel "Tired Dad" Booker

Samuel Booker is a tired and overworked father with at least one child. He cares a lot about his children and his wife, and seems to be friends with the user - in question, you. He will often go out of his way and collect cool souvenirs like candies for you.

**Description**

"*Samuel is a family man. Formerly a woodworker, as soon as he looked into the eyes of his first child, he knew all he wanted to do was stay at home and be with them. Luckily, his kid loves fishing and demands he takes them out to look at the 'pwetty fishes'.*"

#### “Mysterious Figure”

An ominous cloaked individual who resides at Mystic Pond. During an encounter, they often tell you that “someone is watching”.

**Description:**

"*They observe everything, patiently waiting... but for what? Their origins are unclear, but the ominous glow emanating from beneath their cloak seems familiar.*"

#### Meridian "Mermaid"

Meridian is a mermaid with luscious, flowing green hair and a blue bra of shells that seems to be adorned with rubies. She has blue earrings and a pink coral crown. Fiercely fighting for the ocean and against humans violating the realm, she also spends her free time learning about humans.

**Description**

"*She may look like a delicate princess, but the water is her realm, and she has spent her life fiercely defending anything wihin it. When she's not going to war against oil companies and commercial fisheries, she's busy studying humans and learning all she can. Don't end up on her bad side, or you'll end up at the bottom of the ocean somewhere.*"

#### Thrym, the "Golden Leash"

A winter hound with heterochromia (one eye is blue and the other red). They keep themselves covered in their iconic red coat. Rather rude to the player, and often orders them to catch fish for the “pack”.

**Description:**

"*He doesn't steal things, he rehomes them, and anyone who says differently can discuss it with the pack. The woods are no playground and are as dangerous as they come, but he can arrange some protection for you for the right price.*"

### Reputation

**Disclaimer:** Interactions are based on luck; meaning that it is not assured that a bad reputation with always get you bad items, nor with a good one get you better items. The reputation increases only the likelihood of it.
Reputation is a big part in NPCs. It affects how often they visit, the gifts they offer you, and more. Reputation is divided into 7 different levels, from negative to positive:

* *Despises:* This is the worst reputation you can get with an NPC. They will rarely offer any high-value items after a task that the player had done for them, nor will even any sort of encounter be a common sight. If the player gets their reputation with every single NPC to the very bottom of the reputation bar, they will get 2 fish skill points from the skill challenge “NPC Hater”.
* *Abhors: (confirmation needed)* is the second worst reputation you can achieve.
* *Dislikes:* A low-neutral reputation with an NPC, and is the third worst reputation you can get.
* *Doesn’t Mind:* The default reputation without any interactions prior at all; this is the utter neutral relationship with an NPC, and is the start where NPCs will visit you more often.
* *Likes:* A high-neutral relationship with NPCs, and the third best. The player should *overall* get more interactions with them. Items will also get better, but it is not for sure.
* *Loves:* The second best reputation attainable with an NPC. Interactions should now be significantly more frequent than it is being despised by any NPC.
* *Adores:* The very best reputation that can be obtained, and is the complete opposite to being despised, where good items and encounters are very likely to be more often. When getting to the very top of the reputation bar with any NPC, the player will receive the “NPC Stan” title.

## Fishing Season Pass

Every three months or so, a new season pass is implemented. Users can decide which season pass they want to level up and when they want to receive their rewards - however, once a season ends, they can no longer use that pass without Premium. The current season pass is "Season of the Frozen Heart", themed around winter.

You can upgrade your Season Pass to Premium or Premium+.

**Premium Season Pass**

* 999
* Season's Premium Track Rewards
* Permanent Season Access

**Premium+ Season Pass**

* 1,999
* Season's Premium Track Rewards
* Permanent Season Access
* +25 Tiers instantly

To advance tiers, one must catch fish and gain XP. When enough XP is gained, one can advance in the ranking.

## Random Timed Events

Fishing has random events that modify specific elements of gameplay. They do not have a schedule and can literally show up whenever.

 **Crazy Chromas** | During this event, chromas are 2x likely to be found.

You can see which event is currently active in the main interface of **/fish catch**.

## Differences between Fishing 1.0

* During legacy fishing, items you obtained would be added to your inventory. Since creatures, tools, and baits **all** have their own individual data to store, storing each variant as an item wouldn't be possible due to the sheer variety of creatures. This is why they aren't visible in the inventory or currency log, and can't be traded (on the market or with friends) or put in the showcase. Any creatures or items you’ve collected will be trackable in your /fish log. You can view, sell, and manage the creatures you’ve caught using the /fish buckets command and even choose to display a creature in your /fish tank.