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Clean a catch at the Fish Cleaning Table for its material. Bigger fish give more: a Trophy-size fish gives four times what a Small one does. The table (hammer, near a workbench: 10 wood, 4 flint, 4 resin) cleans the common fish; its three add-ons, built beside it, let it handle the rarer ones:
| Level | Add-on | Cleans for | Prepares | Cost |
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| 1 | Fish Cleaning Table | Fish Scales, Fish Oil | 10 wood, 4 flint, 4 resin | |
| 2 | Filleting Knife Rack | Spiny Fins, Fish Roe | Fish Fillets (from any fish) | 4 fine wood, 2 bronze, 10 Fish Scales |
| 3 | Brining Barrel | Abyssal Ink, Legendary Scales | Brined Roe (3 roe, 1 oil) | 6 fine wood, 2 iron, 10 Fish Oil |
| 4 | Drying Line | Cinder Scales, Rime Scales | Dried Fish (3 fillets) | 6 fine wood, 3 red jute, 10 Abyssal Ink |
Cleaning fish raises your Fishing skill.
The materials go into rod upgrades, every lure (the boss lures take three of their biome's material), the crafted baits, the meads, chum, the Rune of Njord and the totems.
Made from the cleaning table's prepared ingredients at Valheim's own food stations:
| Dish | Where | Ingredients | Health / Stamina / Eitr |
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| Grilled Fish Fillet | Cooking station | A Fish Fillet | 25 / 22 |
| Fisherman's Stew | Cauldron 1 | Fish Fillets, Fish Oil, 2 carrots | 35 / 40 |
| Spiny Fin Soup | Cauldron 2 | Fish Fillets, 2 Spiny Fins, 2 onions | 50 / 45 |
| Roe Flatbread | Cauldron 3 | Bread, 2 Brined Roe, 2 cloudberries | 40 / 75 |
| Ink-Black Noodles | Cauldron 4 | Fish Fillets, Abyssal Ink, 2 jotun puffs | 45 / 30 / 75 |
| Ember-Grilled Fillet | Cauldron 5 | 2 Fish Fillets, Cinder Scales, 2 vineberries | 85 / 50 |
| Rime-Cured Salmon | Food preparation table | 2 Fish Fillets, Rime Scales, 2 lingonberries | 80 / 70 / 30 |
| Fisherman's Rations | Food preparation table | 2 Dried Fish, 2 cloudberries, honey | 35 / 35, lasts an hour |
| Material | From |
|---|---|
| Fish Scales | Perch, Bluegill, Trout, Largemouth Bass, Greydwarf Goby, Pike |
| Fish Oil | Trollfish, Channel Catfish, Mackerel, Sea Bass, Giant Herring, Surtling Sardine |
| Spiny Fins | Tetra, Frost Char, Coral Cod, Pufferfish, Serpentfin |
| Fish Roe | Tuna, Grouper, Halibut, Lingcod |
| Abyssal Ink | Anglerfish, Mistfin, Bonemaw, Jotunn Perch |
| Cinder Scales | Magmafish |
| Rime Scales | Northern Salmon, Rimejaw Cod, Glacier Grayling, Frost Sculpin |
| Legendary Scale | Any legendary or boss fish |
Landing a Trophy-size fish of any kind also gives a Trophy Fin.
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Size class: each fish is Small, Medium, Large or Trophy, with its weight and catcher in the tooltip.
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Rare variants: any ordinary species can come up golden (about 1 in 300) or albino (about 1 in 150), its icon and model tinted to match. They never stack with ordinary fish, earn rank points (+10 golden, +5 albino), sell for more (Haldor 5x / 3x, Hildir 6x / 4x) and each species' card in the catch log marks which you've caught.
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Trophy Mount (hammer: fine wood, resin): hang a fish on the wall.
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Cook and sell: cook fish on a cooking station, and sell your catch to the traders. Each buys their own kind:
Trader Buys Haldor Raw and cooked fish, at their value Hildir Trophy-size fish (2.5x) and legendary fish (1.5x) for her collection, and spare relics (400) Bog Witch Roe, fish oil, abyssal ink, brined roe, leeches, and swamp, Mistlands and eel-like fish (1.4x) Your catch sells from the Sell your catch panel beside the store window (it works alongside trader UI mods); click a row to pick what to sell, or Sell all. The store's own sell button sells vanilla valuables, as in vanilla.
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Catch log (
J): records every species you catch, with your angler rank, the reward ladder and biome sets in a sidebar and each species as a card (its bait, mastery and record). The mouse is free while it's open: click a biome to filter, the arrows or the wheel to turn pages, Close (or J / Escape) to shut it.- Rewards every 5 species (hooks, meads, chum, a Lantern Float, a Trophy Fin, coins) and the Pearl of Njord for all of them.
- Biome sets: catch every non-legendary fish of a biome in that biome for 10 of its bait, some coins and 25 rank points. A fish that lives in two biomes (pike: Black Forest and Swamp) has to be caught in each to count for both.
- Finds: now and then a catch has a valuable inside (amber, amber pearls, rubies, silver necklaces, by where you fish): rarely in small, common fish, more often in big or rare ones.
- Personal best: +5 rank points. Each angler rank comes with a small gift.
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Species mastery: catch enough of one species and it gets easier for you. Each tier also gives angler rank points (10 / 20 / 40), and the catch log shows a bronze, silver or gold mark and the count to the next tier.
Tier Catches (legendary / boss) For that species Bronze 10 (1) It comes to your bait more often and takes it more readily Silver 25 (3) It pulls and lasts 10% less Gold 50 (5) It runs bigger, and you can build its Gold Trophy Plaque with the hammer (fine wood, bronze, resin) Baitfish only go to Bronze. A plaque is a wall piece with a gold-plated fish of that species mounted on it and its name on a gold nameplate (a boss fish is mounted at 80% of its true size on a board grown to fit it, for 10 fine wood, 3 bronze and 5 resin); turn it to face out from the wall.
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Angler ranks: ten ranks, shown at the top of the catch log with a bar to the next rank and what it unlocks. Points: 10 per new species (40 for a legendary), 1 per fish landed, 5 per Trophy-size catch, 1 per 10 kg landed and 10 / 20 / 40 for each species' mastery tiers. The top rods, lures and Fish Cleaning Table recipes stay hidden from the crafting list until you reach their rank. (The Bog Witch still sells boss lures to anyone.)
Rank Points Unlocks Thrall of the Shallows 0 - Minnow-Karl 40 Antler Lure Net-Weaver 100 Root Lure, Silver Swimbait Riverwarden 200 Silver Fishing Rod, Ooze Lure, Brined Roe Fjord-Farer 350 Wyrm Lure, Linen Popper, Ice Spoon, cleaning for Legendary Scales Skerry-Reaver 550 Black Metal Fishing Rod, Dried Fish Wave-Jarl 800 Yggdrasil Fishing Rod, Ember Lure Serpent-Slayer 1,100 Ashwood Fishing Rod, Chitin Lure, Frostcore Jig, cleaning for Cinder Scales Ægir's Hand 1,500 Frostwood Fishing Rod, cleaning for Rime Scales Chosen of Njord 2,000 Crown Lure -
Fishing skill: Valheim's Fishing skill rises as you reel and land fish. It makes reeling cheaper and faster and setting the hook easier.