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Getting Started
Only Fishtastic rods open the minigame. A Copper Fishing Rod is the vanilla rod recipe with copper ingots in place of the top two sticks:
| Copper Ingot | ||
|---|---|---|
| Copper Ingot | String | |
| Stick | String |
Your first rod also gives you a Quest Book, Fishopedia and Leaderboards Book, and offers an optional lesson. Accept it to get 8 worms. To practise later, open the pause menu and choose Fishtastic help.
You can fish without bait, but you'll mostly catch trash and vanilla fish. With any bait loaded, vanilla fish stop biting.
- Get worms: craft a fish and dirt into Marine Compost and place it (details). The shop and the First Catch quest also give worms.
- Load bait: in your inventory, pick up the bait and click it onto the rod.
Cast into water. When the bobber dips, use the rod again (or press Space) to start the minigame.
- Hold right-click to raise the green bar. Let go and it falls.
- Keep the bar over a target and it grows as you reel it in. Centre it to reel faster.
- Off the bar, a target shrinks and turns red. If it shrinks too far, it gets away.
More in Fishing Minigame.
Every fish has a quality (Common to Legendary) and a size. Press K to open the Fish Encyclopedia. Catching more of a species unlocks more of its entry, including when it bites best.
Use the Quest Book item to open the Quest Log. Catches count automatically, so click Claim on anything finished to earn tokens. Spend them in the Shop on the Market tab.
- Craft a Fish Tank Assembly from a fish and a crafting table, then place and open it.
- Add blocks for the frame, glass and sand, pick a shape, and take the tank.
- Place the tank and right-click it with a fish to add the fish.
Right-click with an empty hand to see what's inside and take things out. Tanks placed side by side merge. More in Fish Tanks.