1.6 introduced two amazing features to make mad money from fishing.

Pic related - it’s the first Summer, I didn’t ship all the fish (I couldn’t smoke all of them in time), and I’m making 20kg/day, even being bad at fishing.

The bait maker is unlocked by Fishing Lv6. It requires 3 iron bars, 3 coral, 1 sea urchin. You put a fish there, and get 5~10 pieces of bait targetting that fish.

But why would you waste fish to get more fish, instead of using bug meat for the bait? Because you can target the most lucrative fish - like I did with sturgeon there, if I used normal bait I’d be getting carps instead.

Then there’s the fish smoker. The recipe is from Willy’s and it costs 10kg. You need 10 hardwood, 1 river jelly, 1 sea jelly, 1 cave jelly.

The river and sea jellies are not a big deal to get. The hardwood will likely require luck in the mines or an upgraded axe. Cave jelly is a pain, you need to fish in the mines for a while. (Ideally at Lv100, but Lv20 does the trick.)

But oh wow. It’s worth. It doubles the price of the fish, but it keeps quality. Check the iridium quality sturgeon, it’s 1200g! Lucrative fish tend to be unruly, but if you fish at good spots you can reliably get gold quality fish; 1.5 from gold quality * 1.5 from angler profession * 2.0 from smoking = 4.5 times the original price.

It does require coal but once you got the cash rolling you can buy it from Clint, that’s what I’m doing.

  • Lvxferre@mander.xyzOP
    2·
    1 month ago

    Coal usage is a problem; a full fishing day can easily consume around 30 pieces. There are a few solutions for that:

    1. Farming dust sprites in the mines. Ideally with monster must, burglar ring, and an infested mine level.
    2. Farm wood and process it with a kiln. You’ll need to chop around 20 trees per day.
    3. Buy wood from Robin; 10 wood would cost 100g or 500g depending on the year. Total cost 3000g/day or 15000g/day.
    4. Buy coal from Clint. 150g in the first year, 250g in the 2nd+; total cost 4500g/day or 7500g/day.

    @Khanzarate@lemmy.world suggested #2, it seems viable if you got a good axe and lots of space. I’m doing #4 because it’s the simplest and I’m still in the first year, but as I progress through the game I’m planning to do #1. Just make sure to not smoke fish when it’s cheaper than your coal, otherwise you’re losing money.

    • RebekahWSD@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 month ago

      Since I play with my sibling we do a bit of wood farming for the kiln, but also a bit of buying the coal as we have a winery (modded) going so money is not that much of an issue.

      But it’s still like “oooh nooo wet gotta go get more”

      I also like killing the dust sprites. They go hop hop.

      • Lvxferre@mander.xyzOP
        4·
        1 month ago

        I also like killing the dust sprites. They go hop hop.

        I’m always like, “GET BACK HERE YOU JUMPING PIECE OF CHARCOAL!”, when I see them.