Fishing

The quiet food economy: a rod for sport fishing, traps for hands-off volume, and one map that actually rewards specialising in it.

Gear

• Basic Fishing Bench (Wood x25, Copper Nail x12, Rope x10, Iron Ingot x5) makes the whole kit — rods, lures, traps, tackle box — and fillets the catch once it's landed.
• Rods scale with tier: the Basic Fishing Rod (T1) through the Wooden/Refined Wood Fishing Rod and the biome-specific Scorpion Fishing Rod (T2).
• Lures are the real variety — over two dozen named types (Bone, Gold Ore, Scorpion Tail, Sandwyrm Queen, Rotten Meat, White Jelly and more), each pulling toward different species; matching lure to target beats using one generic lure for everything.
• Basic Fishing Traps/Advanced Fishing Traps left in moving water and checked daily out-fish active rod time for very little attention.

Where to fish

• Every map has generic freshwater Fish Chunks in its rivers and lakes (Elysium's glacial melt rivers, Olympus's rivers/lakes, Prometheus's grassland rivers, Styx's rift rivers) — reliable, but undifferentiated.
• Styx is the real fishing map: its saltwater fishing zones carry four named species — Crimson, Sunset, Titan and Void Triggerfish — that don't spawn anywhere else. If your crew wants variety, plan a Styx trip.

The Fishing tree (18 nodes) — build toward all of it

• Big Game Fisher / Medium Game Fisher shift the odds toward Rare/Unique and Uncommon catches respectively — stack both if one crew member is doing all the fishing runs.
• The Golden Zone / Natural Angler both widen the capture area — the single biggest quality-of-life pair in the tree for anyone who's missed a bite too many times.
• Calmer Waters slows the fish during the catch itself; Fish Fu cuts incoming damage while you're distracted fishing near hostile water.
• Saltiest Catch / Freshest Catch push quality specifically for saltwater vs. freshwater catches — pick the one matching your usual water; Deadliest Catch adds a further quality bump specifically while fishing during a storm.
• Efficient Fisher and Angler's Technique cut lure durability loss and rod crafting cost respectively — take both if you're burning through gear on a dedicated fishing session.
• Fisher's Haul cuts fish carry weight by a quarter; Hefty Catch and That's A Big One increase caught fish weight and length outright — stack the trio for a crew running fish as a primary food source.
• Steady Breathing / One With The Water cut oxygen and water consumption while fishing, and Pescatarian boosts the buffs from any meal containing fish — useful long after the fishing session itself is over.

Payoff

• Fillets → Fish Pie is a top-tier stamina buff for mission days — worth stockpiling before a long session, not just cooking to order.
• An Icebox (later a powered Fridge/Deep Freeze) stops the spoilage clock on a catch you're not using immediately.

Crew doctrine

• Set traps on arrival at a river camp and forget them; check on the way out rather than standing over the water.
• Bank a Styx trip specifically for the saltwater species rather than hoping to stumble into one incidentally.