Season Passes & Fishing Skills

Seasons

• Added Season 12
  • Added Darklands, a temporary saltwater fishing location.
  • Added 6 new unique seasonal creatures, including 1 boss
    • All 6 creatures have a chroma variant
  • Temporarily reusing season 1 pass art, because someone (cough, me) forgot to schedule s12 pass art. Will be replaced soon.
• Added a legacy-pass purchase flow targeting passes at least three seasons old, priced at 110% of their original base price.
• Changed season XP distribution so the current season and one activated owned past season receive XP, instead of every owned premium pass.
  • To set an old pass as "active", hit the "activate" button on the pass view for that season.
• Removed the season end-date line from the pass display, as it was confusing people who didn't realize it was an estimated time/day

Season Pass Tasks

• Made season-task generation aware of accessible locations, unlocked locations, current time windows, owned tools, and owned bait.
  • Prevented season tasks from requiring idle fishing or magnets.
  • Prevented NPC and mythical tasks from being generated when those targets are unavailable.
  • Added task hints showing required locations, times, inventory availability, and shop availability.
  • Prevented rerolls from immediately selecting the same target again.
• Added up to three season-task rerolls per day

New Skills

• FishMonger
  • Fishmonger I: a daily featured non-temporary, currently catchable, non-mythical creature selected; the first 25 sold receive 50% extra coins.
  • Fishmonger II: a second daily featured creature; the first 25 sold receive double tokens.
  • Fishmonger III: one daily featured-creature reroll before either quota is completed.
  • Fishmonger IV: completing both daily quotas grants 100 tokens and 250 fishing season XP.
• Conservationist
  • Conservationist I: freshly caught creatures can be released into the wild for 50% of their original catch XP.
  • Conservationist II: the first 25 qualifying releases per day grant five tokens each.
  • Conservationist III: the first released boss each day also grants its full coin and token value.

New Skill Tiers

• Mythical Hunter II: each successful minigame while a mythical is available adds a 1.01 mythical fish catch multiplier, up to 2x.
  • You reset the multiplier after a failed minigame (water tap, or mine hit) or successful mythical catch or when fishing skills are reset.
  • Moved old mythical 2, to mythical 4
• Zen Hands III: bosses weighing no more than 50lbs can be caught bare-handed at half the normal boss spawn chance
  • Moved the previous Zen Hands unique-creature benefit from tier III to IV.
  • Moved the previous Zen Hands chroma-creature benefit from tier IV to V.
• Zen Hands VI: Increases the boss spawn chance from half to 66% of the normal chance
• Empath V: negative NPC reputation changes are reduced by 50%.
• Empath VI: ignoring or declining NPC tasks and requests causes no reputation loss.
• Theory Crafter V: when bait activates, it loses one durability instead of two.
• Storage Specialist VIII: 90% storage bonus

Skill Changes

• Increased Theory Crafter’s bare-hand creature XP bonus from +1 to +3.
• Increased Theory Crafter’s Rod rare-creature chance bonus from +1 to +2.
• Increased Theory Crafter’s Dynamite token bonus from +1 to +2.
• Increased Theory Crafter’s Magnet and Rope item XP bonus from +3 to +5.
• Added a Streak Specialist grace-save follow-up showing remaining saves and the next available save."
• Changed the badge requirements for storage specialist
• Reset all allocated skill points, you must re-assign them again

New Challenges

• Rarity Ladder: catch six consecutive creatures in strictly increasing rarity order.
• Curator: place five creatures with five distinct rarities, locations, and tools into one tank.
• Variant Jackpot: catch both a chroma and unique version of the same species in one Dynamite cast 3 times
• Bait Eater: break seven bait items within seven minutes.
• Turtle Savior: collect 250 plastic bags.
• Billionaire: earn one billion coins from fishing.
• Varied Hunter: sell the same species caught with Hand, Rod, Harpoon, Net, Dynamite, Idle, and Bow in one sale.
• Casual Friday: Catch 1000 work items (from work bait) on a single Friday.
• False Advertising: Sell 1000 fish whose names are the names of other existing fish. For instance, Cod named Kraken, or Goldfish named Clownfish
• Clean Cut: Catch 1000 things in a row with no mines or water hit
• Handsy: Catch 25 bosses with your hands
• Greg's Apprentice: While idle is running, harvest 1000 plants on your farm.
  • Pro tip: Buy 3 farm plots and this is just 37 full harvests of all 3.

Challenge QoL

• Added a fishing challenge view within the /fish skills command
  • Added All, Complete, and Incomplete challenge filters.
  • Contains live challenge progress, rewards, completion totals, and support for viewing another user’s challenges.

• Added /fish sell for selling creatures across all unlocked buckets.
  • Added Sell Some with filters for variants, creature types, and per-creature values above or below a chosen amount.
• Stopped canceled bucket moves and sales from clearing the current selection.
• Added relative expiration times to bonus bucket slots.
• Added a Remove All button to fish tanks.
  • Will transfer tank creatures back to buckets and clear tank decorations.
• Made idle fishing automatically restart after collection.

• The fish shop is now it's own text-based menu, no longer image based or shared with /shop.
  • Fish Boosts are now in the shop directly
• Added projected inventory amounts to fishing purchase confirmations.
• Suppressed the generic purchase-success message for fishing-shop purchases.
• Increased Money Bait’s shop cost from 25 to 35.
• Increased Prismatic Delight’s shop cost from 999 to 1,500.
• Increased Prismatic Delight’s available weekly stock from 0 to 100 per person.

• Added a daily mythical leaderboard featuring three randomly selected mythical creatures.
  • First-place mythical leaderboard rewards: a title, 1.25x token earnings for one day, and 2x fishing XP for seven days.
• Changed location leaderboard to no longer factor in creature weight.
• Updated leaderboard descriptions to give more insight into importance.
• Removed temporary-creature prioritization from regular daily leaderboard selection.
• Added leaderboard position and score fields when running the leaderboard command.

• Experimenting with a new form of automated fishing event scheduling.
• Two of the following events should randomly spawn at random times each week.
  • Instant Travel
  • Five-Second Cooldown
  • Double Fishing XP
  • Double Idle Speed
  • No Bait Breaks
  • No Tool Breaks
  • (used generic names since not everyone knows what they do by name)
• Changed Quality Time so regular variants have a 50% chance to convert to High Quality instead of ALWAYS converting.
• Changed Lucky Caster to generate mines normally and then turn every remaining cell into a catch. (So not 100% creatures, there are mines too)

Baits

• Changed Money Bait to double both coin and token values when it is the only equipped bait.
  • Disabled Money Bait’s new multiplier when multiple bait items are equipped.
• Increased Weighted Bait durability from 10 to 12.
• Increased Weighted Bait’s weight boost
• Increased Golden Bait’s High Quality multiplier from 3x to 4x.
• Increased Lucky Bait durability from 10 to 12.
• Increased Lucky Bait’s luck bonus from 12 to 13.
• Reduced Ghastly Bait durability from 3 to 2.
• Reduced Turkey Bait durability from 5 to 3.
• Reduced Gift Bait durability from 5 to 2.
• Increased XP Bait’s fishing and season XP multiplier from 3x to 4x.
• Updated XP Bait’s description to advertise 1–4 regular XP;
• Reduced Jerky Bait durability from 12 to 8.
• Reduced Jerky Bait’s cooldown multiplier from 2.5x to 2x.
• Reduced Farmer Bait durability from 3 to 2.
• Increased Heart Bait durability from 2 to 3.

Tools

• Increased bare-hand unique-creature chance from 5 to 6.
• Increased Rod High Quality chance from 5 to 8.
• Updated the Rod’s Theory Crafter rare-creature bonus from +1 to +2.
• Reduced Harpoon durability from 12 to 10.
• Reduced the Harpoon’s chroma/unique penalty from 20 to 15.
• Reduced Net durability from 5 to 4.
• Updated Dynamite’s Theory Crafter token bonus from +1 to +2.
• Reduced Bow durability from 30 to 25.
• Increased Magnet and Rope durability from 5 to 8.
• Updated Magnet and Rope’s Theory Crafter item XP bonus from +3 to +5.

Misc Balance

• Increased the High Quality variant’s base token bonus from +2 to +3.
• Reduced the Inflated fishing multiplier runtime from 15 minutes to 10 minutes.
• Reduced the Prismatic fishing multiplier runtime from 10 minutes to 8 minutes.

• Increased Ahuitzotl’s minimum weight from 10 to 35.
• Changed Pliosaur length from 1–69 to 120–240.
• Changed Pliosaur weight from 1–420 to 250–550.
• Changed Wahoo’s UTC availability start from 02:00 to 01:00.
• Increased Anglerfish’s minimum weight from 5 to 25.
• Replaced Cod with Roundnose Grenadier at Vertigo Beach.
• Added Oscar to Camp Guillermo.
• Replaced Starfish with Stingray at Scurvy Waters.

• Added Erin Mourn, a seasonal NPC
  • Added Erin's Orb, a trinket item
• Greatly increased both coin and token payouts from most NPC interactions
• Made the NPC interface remember the user’s last selected view.
• Added a refresh to the summoning page

• Increased the Omega Bucket’s capacity from 100 to 125.
• Added the Laughing Bucket with 69 capacity. (Future store offer)
• Added the Spiked Bucket with 75 capacity. (Premium season pass)

• Added fishing and freemium streaks to the streaks module in profile editing
• Added the current location to fishing result displays.
• Distinguished missed catches from casts that produced no catch.
• Added mythical-event expiration information to fishing results.
• Added a new-variant notification to fishing results.
• Changed the mobile fishing helper default from disabled to enabled.
• Updated a few fishing tips
• Renamed the Corn Knife to include "Greg's"