Fishing
Thirty to sixty seconds a cast, an outcome table with four results, and fish that do not bite in every zone.
In short
Fishing is the shortest activity in the game: a cast plays out in under a minute, and starts again at once. Its cadence, not its payout per cast, is what makes it a serious source.
The cooldown is drawn between 30 and 60 seconds. A pet can shorten it, but never below the 30 second floor: the speed-up is subtracted from the draw, it does not replace it.
Every cast rolls a table with four results: 70 % a fish, 20 % nothing, 5 % endercoins, 5 % card essence. A fish is always worth 10 experience, whatever its species.
Nine species share the 12 zones you can fish in. Three are common and bite everywhere, the other six are regional and ask for a trip.
Two pets carry the fishing bonuses. The crab and the shark share the speed-up, the empty hook reduction and the haul; the shark adds its double bite, which replays a full cast in the same trip, up to 22 % of the time.
The outcome table
Four results, rolled on every cast. An empty hook is not a punishment: it is exactly what a pet's reduction reclaims.
The empty hook reduction does not delete the empty result: it redistributes the weight it removes onto the zone's species. A freed cast becomes a fish again, not a coin.
Who bites where
Three common species bite in all 12 zones, six are regional. The narrower a species, the further you travel to reach it.
| SPECIES | WHERE IT BITES | NOTE | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carp | Everywhere | The reference catch, and the base of most early recipes. | |
| Salmon | Everywhere | Common, but wanted by the mid-progression dishes. | |
| Sardine | Everywhere | The third common one, never anything but a skewer. | |
| Demonfish | Capital, Tower | 2 zones, including the capital, the least connected on the network. | |
| Fairyfish | Forest, Lake | 2 neighbouring green zones, the forest and the lake. | |
| Junglefish | Beach, Forest | 2 zones, the beach and the forest. | |
| Desertfish | Desert | A single zone. You have to go there on purpose. | |
| Icefish | Tundra | Exclusive, and the raw material of the cold recipes. | |
| Lavafish | Volcano | No zone sits further from the village. |
What a pet changes
Four bonuses touch fishing. Three are shared by the crab and the shark, the fourth belongs to the shark and does not transfer.
| BONUS | CAP | ABSOLUTE CAP | WHAT IT DOES EXACTLY |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing hasteThe only bonus in the game written in seconds. | 5 s | 7,5 s | Subtracted from the drawn time. Prestige can never lift the absolute cap, and the draw's floor always holds. |
| Empty hook reductionRedistributes, does not delete. | 25 % | 50 % | The weight taken off the empty result goes back to the zone's species, never to coins or essence. |
| Fishing haulOn the quantity returned. | 20 % | · | Increases the catch, but never doubles endercoins, card essence or event loot. |
| Double biteInnate on the shark, outside the slots. | 22 % | 33 % | Replays a full second bite on the same trip. The empty result is removed from that second roll, so it can never come up hollow. |
Both catches of a double bite feed the same achievement counters and land in the same transaction. The shark pays for that edge with needs that drain 3 times faster than normal.
Neither is required: fishing works without a pet, simply more slowly.
Where the fish goes
A fish is not eaten as it comes: it goes to the kitchen. The nine species spread across ten dishes, and the common ones feed several.
| SPECIES | WHAT IT FEEDS | PER BATCH | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fairyfish | Magic Smoothie | 6 for a single dish. The passive mana smoothie is its only outlet. | |
| Carp | Distilled Skewer, Express Skewer | 6 per recipe, across 2 dishes. It is the species the kitchen asks for most often. | |
| Sardine | Express Skewer, Faceted Skewer | 6 per recipe, across 2 dishes. Common, and never anything but a skewer. | |
| Icefish | Crystal Tartare | 6 for a single dish, the one that pushes craft quality. | |
| Desertfish | Caravan Bread | 6 for a single dish. You must go to the desert on purpose, a zone that gives the kitchen nothing else. | |
| Junglefish | Sushi of Fate | 4 for a single dish, and it is one of the kitchen's highest tiers. | |
| Salmon | Braised Skewer, Simmered Skewer, Sushi of Fate | 4 per recipe, across 3 dishes. It runs the whole progression, from skewer to sushi. | |
| Demonfish | Abyss Feast | 4, alongside as much lavafish. The two hardest zones to reach, in the same dish. | |
| Lavafish | Abyss Feast | 4, alongside the demonfish. No zone sits further from the village than the volcano. |
Fish also drops outside fishing: a tier 2 comet or above can release some, the species drawn at random among the nine. And it sells at the farm merchant, the only one of the three permanent shops buying back the fishing category.
Call of the sea
Ten achievements for a single activity, nine per species plus one general. The tiers are deliberately long: this is a volume activity.