Fishing
Fishing is a gathering skill that allows players to catch raw fish. These fish can then be cooked using the cooking skill.
Contents
General
Fishing was reworked and released in the v0.10.0 update, it received a massive overhaul and was the first gathering skill in Idlescape that used the node system.
Gathering with a node system increases the amount of gathering areas without increasing the amount of zones, the player starts fishing in a zone and
Nodes are found by the player while fishing and are dependent on the effective fishing level and bait power stats, higher numbers in those stats gives increased node find chance and decreased find speed.
The caught fish can be cooked with the cooking skill to offer hitpoint replenishment while fighting and various buffs for out of combat actions. There are a lot of different recipes that can be used for different benefits, more information can be found on the cooking page
Players have a small chance of obtaining either Sunken Treasures or Ancient Treasures. These can be opened for gold and sometimes gems.
Ancient treasures have a rare chance of dropping fishing gear such as Ancient Harpoon, Ancient Fishing Net and Ancient Fishing Rod which are used to craft Idlescape's first legendary item Ocean's Embrace
Sunken treasures have a rare chance of dropping Modified Diving Gloves or a Forgotten Soul.
Equipment
After the rework, equipment were changed drastically, meaning you no longer need a special type of gear to fish in an area, but rather having enough stats to actually being able to find nodes. Fishing level requirements for zones still exist and are on about the same level as before.
Equipment | Level | Slot | Fishing Level | Bait Power | Reel Power | Bonus Rarity | ||
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Novice Tacklebox | - | Tacklebox | 1 | 3 (+0.5) | 15 (+1) | 5 (+1) | 5 (+0.5) |
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Basic Tacklebox | 10 | 2 | 6 (+1) | 20 (+1.5) | 10 (+2) | 10 (+1) | |
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Advanced Tacklebox | 30 | 3 | 9 (+1.5) | 25 (+2.5) | 15 (+3) | 15 (+1.5) | |
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Pro Tacklebox | 40 | 4 | 12 (+2) | 30 (+3.5) | 20 (+4) | 20 (+2) | |
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Supreme Tacklebox | 50 | 5 | 15 (+2.5) | 35 (+4.5) | 25 (+5) | 25 (+3.5) | |
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Ocean's Embrace | 80 | 8 | 40 (+5) | 100 (+7) | 100 (+7.5) | 60 (+6) | |
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Fisherman's Smock | Body | 3![]() |
0 (+1) | 0 (+1) | 0 (+1) | 0 (+1) | |
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Fisherman's Bucket Hat | Helm | 3![]() |
0 (+0.5) | 0 (+0.5) | 0 (+0.5) | 0 (+0.5) | |
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Fisherman's Waders | Legs | 3![]() |
0 (+1) | 0 (+1) | 0 (+1) | 0 (+1) |
Bait
Bait can be used by moving it into the tacklebox. A tacklebox equipment does not need to be equipped.
Bait | Source | Fishing Level | Bait Power | Reel Power | Bonus Rarity | |
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Earthworm Bait | Game Shop | - | - | 5 | 5 |
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Fat Nightcrawler Bait | Mining | 1 | 15 | 10 | 5 |
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Glowbug Bait | Foraging | 1 | 10 | 15 | 5 |
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Shrimp Tail Bait | Crafting (Raw Shrimp) | 1 | 20 | 5 | 5 |
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Fish Guts Bait | Crafting (Various Fish) | 2 | 25 | 5 | 10 |
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Smelly Meat Bait | Combat | 2 | 10 | 20 | 10 |
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Hardened Hook Bait | Crafting (Adamantite Bar) | 3 | - | 35 | 20 |
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Alluring Lure Bait | Crafting (Adamantite, Gold Bar) | 3 | 30 | - | 20 |
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Writhing Tentacle Bait | Crafting (Writhing Tentacle Bait) | 5 | -30 | -30 | 60 |
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Mysterious Bait | Bird's Nest, Mysterious Seed | ? | ? | ? | ? |
Areas
Bonus Rarity must be above the minimum rarity for zones to appear and a further 10~25 rarity for rare resources to drop.
Nodes without a minimum rarity can appear at any rarity threshold.
Level | Zone | Recommended Gear | Min. Rarity | Node | Encounter Rate at Max Rarity |
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1 | Shallow Pond | Novice Tacklebox | Drifting Around | ||
Oop, All Shrimp! | |||||
Small Schools of Fish | |||||
The Shallow Pond | |||||
20 | Lazy River | Basic Tacklebox | 25 | ANGY Bois | |
Migrating Schools | |||||
The Lazy River | |||||
50 | Still Lake | Advanced Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat or smock or waders |
30 | Big Catch! | |
Cage Match | |||||
The Still Lake | |||||
75 | Yedyod’s Cave | ||||
65 | Open Ocean | Pro Tacklebox/Supreme Tacklebox, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders |
50 | Almost Jurassic | |
Carefree Day | |||||
75 | Ghost Ship | ||||
100 | Is that a tentacle? | ||||
50 | Playtester’s Paradise | ||||
Sharks Ate All The Tuna | |||||
25 | Shipwreck Bay | ||||
The Open Ocean | |||||
85 | Stormy Seas | Supreme Tacklebox/Ocean's Embrace, Fisherman's hat, smock and waders |
75 | Endless Vortex | |
Eye of the Storm | |||||
100 | INFO’s Stand | ||||
The Stormy Seas | |||||
50 | World’s End | ||||
Rare Encounter | Ascended | ||||
Common Encounter | Swordfish |
Fishing Stats
There are various stats that can gained through levels and equipment that affect fishing.
Effective Fishing Level
Effective fishing level is the combination of the players fishing and mastery level and the fishing stats on equipment. It affects various secondary stats:
- Chance of finding and gathering from a node
- Rarity of resources
- Quantity of resources in a node
- Chance to preserve bait
Bait Preservation
Bait preservation comes from both effective fishing level and the enchantment of the same name which comes enchanted by default on the Fisherman's Bucket Hat. It determines the chance that a bait is used on an action and is capped at 50%.
Bait preservation is reduced by Deadliest Catch but cannot go lower than 0%.
Bait Power
Increases the chance and speed of finding nodes. Chance is capped at 100% and speed is capped at 1ms (should be 1 second).
Reel Power
Increases the chance and speed of gathering resources. Chance is capped at 100% and speed is capped at 1ms (should be 1 second). At higher levels, due to larger nodes, reel power is more effective than bait power in increasing overall fishing speed..
Bonus Rarity
Some nodes require a certain bonus rarity to start appearing. Rare resources require a rarity higher than the node. Nodes and resources have a cap where bonus rarity above will not provide additional drop frequency.
Enchantments
List of useful Enchantments.
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Slot | Level | Silver Amount | Rune Amount | Runes | Effect per scroll |
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Ring, Necklace, Weapon, Shield, Helm, Body, Legs, Gloves, Boots, Cape, Arrows, Pickaxe, Hatchet, Hoe, Tacklebox, Tongs, Tome, Ladle, Combat-Amulet, Chisel | 48 | 600 | 60 | Chaos, Mind, Cosmic | ONLY APPLIES TO THE ITEM THIS ENCHANTMENT IS ON. Increases soulbound item XP gain by 6%. |
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Gloves, Boots | 49 | 600 | 60 | Air, Water, Nature, Cosmic | Increase your chance to gain chests as well as convert standard chests to their greater variants while gathering by 20%. |
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Gloves, Boots | 55 | 700 | 60 | Earth, Water, Mind | Increases fish catch chance by 2.5%. |
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Gloves, Boots | 58 | 700 | 60 | Nature, Mind | Gain a 20% chance to not consume a buff stack (resulting in 25% more uses from a buff on average). |
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Gloves, Boots | 73 | 900 | 70 | Air, Water, Chaos, Mind | Gain 1 more essence per action where essence is acquired. |
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Ring, Necklace | 64 | 800 | 70 | Earth, Fire, Water, Mind, Cosmic | Gain a 10% chance to find an extra resource while gathering. There is a 15% chance that a nature rune is consumed when it procs. Attempts to pull the rune from your stockpile then ammo pouch if none found. |
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Ring, Necklace | 37 | 500 | 50 | Nature, Mind, Cosmic | Automatically sells gathering and production items for 20% of their vendor price. Does not affect Crafting or stack with Scholar. |
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Ring, Necklace | 88 | 1300 | 110 | Chaos, Mind, Cosmic | Increases experience gained from gathering and production by 20% but destroys the item in process. Does not affect Crafting or stack with Wealth. Only active for mastery experience, when a skill is at level 99. |
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Ring, Necklace | 94 | 2000 | 200 | Air, Chaos, Mind, Cosmic | Increases non-combat action speed by 4%. Caps at halving action time. Stacks with Empowered Haste. |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set, Pickaxe, Hatchet, Mining Set, Foraging Set | 41 | 500 | 50 | Earth, Water, Nature | Gives access to a secondary drop table while gathering with rewards and chances heavily scaling on enchantment strength. The best finds are only found in the hardest to reach zones! |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set | 14 | 200 | 30 | Water, Nature | Increases bait power by 3. |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set | 23 | 300 | 40 | Earth, Water | Increases reel power by 3. |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set | 33 | 400 | 40 | Earth, Water, Cosmic | Increases bonus rarity by 2 and decreases both bait and reel power by the same amount. Increases chance to find known rare nodes. |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set | 47 | 600 | 60 | Earth, Water, Chaos | Increases chance to preserve bait by 4%. |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set | 50 | 600 | 60 | Earth, Water, Mind | Increases chance to find aquatic fibers by 25%. |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set | 69 | 800 | 70 | Earth, Water, Death | Gives a 8% chance to try and extract fish oil from a fish based on the fish's size. There is a chance that fish oil may not be created if the fish is too small. |
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Tacklebox, Fishing Set | 71 | 900 | 70 | Earth, Water, Blood | Increases bonuses from using bait by 5% but decreases bait preservation chance by 5%. Increases chance to find known rare resources. |
Change Log
Date | History |
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12 September 2019 | The fishing skill was released |
11 November 2021 | Major rework, node system, new gear, etc |
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Gathering | |
Production | |
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