Fishing

Guild Leader

Einar

Currency

Fishing Medals

Fishing is a skill in Palia which allows The Player to catch Fish for cooking in recipes, collecting, and selling for a profit.

The Fishing Guild representative in Kilima Valley is Einar.

Palia is filled with rivers, lakes, and beaches stocked to the brim with fish! Fish can be caught with or without bait, and can be sold for cash, used in meals, or offered as gifts. Einar at the Fishing Dock can help upgrade your rod, or provide bait and sage advice.
–Almanac of Palia

Introduction

Mechanics

Fishing requires use of a fishing rod.

Cast a hook out into select bodies of water and wait for a fish to bite! After a fish bites, it can be reeled in to shore.

Different Baits attract different fish; Players can swap which type of bait they are using by holding the rod and right-clicking ( on Switch).

Multiplayer

Fishing near other players will reward all players nearby with a fishing buff.

Catching a fish within a 10m radius of other players will provide them with a 10% reduction in hook time per stack, stacking up to 5 times.

Bonus: When fishing near party members, each player gets a chance at earning double their own catch.

Types of Fish

The types of fish that can be found are determined by:

• The body of water
• The time (day, evening, night, or morning)
• The bait used

Fishing Hotspots

Sometimes, rings of bubbles appear in fishable bodies of water, with a small fish jumping over them. Fishing from a hotspot will yield either a Star Quality fish or a Waterlogged Chest. Junk items do not appear from hotspots. Fishing from hotspots is the only way to obtain Star Quality fish.

Each environment has a limited number of fishing hotspots at any given time. Fishing hotspots do not spawn in every fishable body of water.

Multiple players can fish from the same hotspot, but each player can fish from the same hotspot only once. Fishing hotspots despawn for all players 5 minutes after the first player has fished from the hotspot.

Fishing Hotspots can be tracked with a Tuning Fork.

Perfect Catches

The game displays a "Perfect Catch!" if the rod health is full when the fish is caught. Perfect catches increase the amount of experience awarded for catching the fish by 20%.

How to Fish

Players can fish in bodies of water that are deep enough for the Fishing Rod, like ponds, cave pools, lakes, oceans, and deep sections of rivers.

Hooking a Fish

When the fishing rod is equipped, hold down the Primary Action button ( on PC, on Switch) to begin casting. A marker is projected over the surface of where the bobber will land. A light blue marker indicates a valid fishing spot, and a red marker indicates an invalid fishing spot. Release the Primary Action button to cast. It is possible to alter the bobber's placement while casting with the movement keys, allowing for better control over aiming the cast.

When a fish is about to bite, the bobber will bob and make a "splash" sound three times. After the three bobs, a fish briefly jumps out of the water. It is possible to recognize which fish is biting during the jumping animation. When the fish jumps out of the water, click the / Primary Action button to start the fishing minigame.

Clicking the Primary Action button before the fish jumps out of the water, or after the fish has fallen back into the water and swam away, will not start the fishing minigame and the fish will escape. Any bait equipped on the rod will be preserved. If the bobber is left in the water after the fish escapes, the same fish will bite again. The line must be re-cast to catch a new fish. Tip: If hunting for a specific fish and running low on bait, wait to see which fish you caught before reeling in.

Fishing Minigame

The minigame display consists of a health bar at the bottom of the screen (the fishing rod health) and a pair of brackets over the water (the safe zone). The safe zone can be moved left and right with the mouse on PC or with the Right Analog Stick on Switch, and the fish can be reeled in by holding the / Primary Action button. The goal of the minigame is to reel in the fish without allowing the fishing rod's health to fully deplete. The fish escapes if the health bar becomes empty.

Hooked fish can attempt to damage fishing rod health by dragging the bobber out of the safe zone and by jumping out of the water. The safe zone is green when the bobber is within the safe zone and the fish is not jumping - reeling will not damage the rod and rod health regenerates slowly. The safe zone is yellow when the bobber is within the safe zone but the fish is jumping - health recovery pauses and reeling will damage the rod. The safe zone is red when the bobber is outside of the safe zone - rod health will deplete quickly when reeling and slowly when not reeling. If the bobber is outside of the safe zone while the fish is jumping, the safe zone appears red, but fishing rod health does not deplete so long as the player is not reeling.

Upon catching a fish, its name is displayed and it is placed in the player's Inventory. If the health bar is full when a player catches a fish, a message saying "Perfect Catch!" is displayed. If the player catches a new fish, a message saying "New Fish!" is displayed. Players can keep track of which unique types of fish they have caught in their Accomplishments menu. Each fishing minigame attempt, whether successful or unsuccessful, uses one equipped piece of Bait.

Fish Behavior

There are different styles of behavior that each type of fish can exhibit in the minigame.

Some types of fish move in predictable patterns, but most types of fish move more randomly with differences in the timing and frequency of changing direction, changing speed, stopping movement, and jumping.

Generally, types of fish found with higher tiers of bait move faster, and higher rarity fish have more difficult movement styles.

Fishing Rod Health and Recovery Rate

Maximum fishing rod health increases with fishing rod upgrades. Health can be further increased by using a Minor Rod Health Booster and/or by eating Sushi.

Upgrading the fishing rod does not affect the recovery rate. Recovery rate can be increased by using a Major Rod Recovery Booster and/or by eating Sashimi.

Fishing with Einar used to disable the fishing rod health bar, but that is not the case anymore.

Safe Zone Speed and Size

The safe zone (brackets) speed increases with fishing rod upgrades. Safe zone speed can be further increased by using a Major Safe Zone Speed Booster, or by eating Fish Stew.

Upgrading the fishing rod does not affect the safe zone size. Safe zone size can be increased by using a Major Safe Zone Size Booster, or by drinking Fisherman's Brew.

Hook Time

The hook time measures the amount of time that passes before a fish bites once the fishing line is in the water.

Using a Major Hook Time Booster or eating Trout Dinner decreases the amount of time it takes for a fish to bite.

Fish-Free Finds

When fishing, other items will occasionally be hooked instead of a fish. These items need to be reeled in like any other fish during the fishing minigame and will consume bait.

Waterlogged Chests

Waterlogged Chests are consumable items that can be fished from any body of water using no bait, Worms, or Glow Worms. Each Waterlogged Chest contains one random Makeshift furniture item piece.

Junk

Cooking Recipes

Quest Items (Found Item Quests)

Tips and Tricks

Consumables

Certain consumables, such as cooked dishes, will temporarily grant boosts that make fishing easier. Different types of boosts can be active at the same time, but the same type of boosts do not stack.

Weekly Challenges

Weekly Challenges are skill-related Accomplishments that a player can complete once weekly upon reaching Fishing Level 10. A player can complete up to 3 Weekly Challenges for Fishing each week, awarding a total of 100 Fishing Medals.

Weekly Challenges are currently the same every week, and reset every Monday at 4:00 AM UTC. Progress from uncompleted Challenges will carry over and count towards the following week.

Accomplishments

Associated Equipment

Rods

Makeshift Rod Makeshift Rod Standard Rod Standard Rod Fine Rod Fine Rod Exquisite Rod Exquisite Rod

Attachments

Minor Rod Health Booster Minor Rod Health Booster Major Hook Time Booster Major Hook Time Booster Major Rod Recovery Booster Major Rod Recovery Booster Major Safe Zone Size Booster Major Safe Zone Size Booster Major Safe Zone Speed Booster Major Safe Zone Speed Booster

Bobbers

Standard Bobber Standard Bobber Fine Bobber Fine Bobber Exquisite Bobber Exquisite Bobber Lantern Bobber Lantern Bobber Pyroflow Bobber Pyroflow Bobber

Update History

Build 0.172:

• Fishing hotspots in Bahari Bay have been improved.
  
  • All hotspots will now respawn faster.
    
  • Several new hotspots have been added across a few locations.
    
  • We also fixed some hotspots specifically in the Flooded Fortress (Bahari Bay) area.

Build 0.170:

• Added the option to adjust the fishing rod cast speed in the Guide:Settings menu.

Build 0.168:

• Added Pyroflow Bobber as a bundle reward from the Temple of the Flames.

Build 0.167:

• Added new "Found Item" Fishing quest.

Build 0.166:

• Increased the experience gained from Fishing.
  
• Increased the number of Fishing hotspots in the Mirror Pond Ruins.
  
• Increased the number of Fishing hotspots in the Pavel Mines.