Comment by TheSteelPhantom on 14/01/2024 at 22:43 UTC

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View submission: Stardew Valley MC vs Terraria MC

I've only lightly dabbled in Terraria, and it was usually with others in "Calamity" who were super far advanced or knew what they were doing... Been thinking about doing a clean play just by myself to really learn it. What's this fishing thing you're alluding to, and what does it accomplish?

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Comment by Sgt_Meowmers at 14/01/2024 at 23:33 UTC*

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Fishing is a sort of optional way to advance in the game. Instead of exploring dungeons and caves looking for chests you can fish instead and get equvilant creates which have items and ores to let you advance that way. Of course you still have to explore normally to find the biomes you need to fish in but if your tired of looking for chests or have run out of certain types of them in your world you can fish instead forever.

Comment by CarJones95 at 14/01/2024 at 22:57 UTC

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You can fish. Different biomes (e.g., Jungle, Desert) give different fish. Different fish can be used to make different potions.

There is a boy npc: the angler. He wants a specific fish once per day. This is biome specific and he will tell you where to find it. When presented with the specific fish he provides rewards. After a set number of rewards you get achievements and special items.

Comment by EndureThePANG at 15/01/2024 at 04:54 UTC

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to summarize:

quest fish get you angler exclusive items; they're mostly just to further increase your fishing power, but sometimes you get decorative stuff, weapons or accessories
some biome-specific fish can be used to make potions ranging from niche stuff like taking 30% less damage from "cold sources" [the deerclops counts as one of these by the way] to just straight up buffing your damage by 10%
crates can give you an alternative means of obtaining ores, potions, money and bait
some crates contain the chest loot of the biome they correspond to, while others can contain exclusive items such as the enchanted sundial * if you pair high fishing power with a crate potion, this makes obtaining hard-to-get items such as the lava charm or ice skates much easier * at the moment, the surface is represented by the wooden crate, while underground [golden chest] loot *cannot* be obtained from fishing

and now,

*Blood moon fishing [the reason you'll want to fish]:**

every time you reel in a fish during a blood moon there's a 1/6 chance it'll be an exclusive enemy. this chance is not affected by *anything* except for 1 fishing rod that i'll get to later.
a town slime and an item that makes your npcs stronger[1] can be fished up occasionally
in pre-hardmode you can fish up 1 of 2 enemies, both of which have a 12.5% chance of dropping the blood rain bow,[2] the vampire frog staff,[3] or the chum caster[4], which increases the chance of fishing up an enemy to 1 in 3
in hardmode you can fish up the previously mentioned enemies alongside the hemogoblin shark [which drops the haemorrhaxe[5] and the blood thorn[6]], the blood eel [which drops the aforementioned hamaxe and a ridiculously good flail[7]], or the dreadnautilus [which has an exclusive achievement and drops objectively the best summoning item in the game[8] in terms of sheer utility] * keep in mind that all of these are pre-boss; if you're skilled enough you can get these items and absolutely fly through early hardmode
all fished up enemies have a chance to drop chum buckets[9], and all blood moon enemies have a chance to drop both the summoning item for the blood moon and a summonable piggy bank, so you'll likely have those too by the time you get the item you want
you'll be fucking swimming in cash by the end of it too

Comment by Mario-OrganHarvester at 15/01/2024 at 10:34 UTC

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Fishing in terraria is the same as other fishing minigames. But this one gives different fish corresponding to different biomes. These can ve a food source (which you dont need but eating is a strong buff), potion materials or can be turned in at the angler npc for rewards.

Doing angler quests is just fishing for a specific fish. Its horrible. Dont do it.

Fishing during a blood moon is what you want to do. Certain enemies can spawn from fishing in this scenario and they can drop awesome weapons and shit.