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Fishing
Fishing is a profession in the gathering artisan class.[3][4][5]
- There may be fishing style tournaments.[13]
- Fishing will be lucrative if done well.[14]
- Treasures may be obtained through fishing and by exploring naval content.[15][16]
- Cooldown: 1s
- Base skill
- Attempt to cast your fishing line, fails if the casts would not land in valid water.
Fishing is a buff in Ashes of Creation.
- Duration: ∞
- Dispellable: No
- Stacks: 1
Types of fishing
Our goal with fishing is twofold. We want to have one side of fishing be location-based freshwater fishing. That is a bit more AFK related, having the necessary bait, being able to pick locations and resource nodes that exist around the world for different types of fish. And then we want to have a more sports fishing interactive gameplay layer that's a part of the fishing; and we might extend some of that gameplay layer to the freshwater fishing, but this is really something that's intended to be out in the open seas- out in the open water. These are massive fish that will relate to our crate system and how we move crates in caravans and in merchant ships. We intend to have certain type of fishing ship designs that are better at finding those spots throughout the open seas and where players will have limited resources to engage with those. They'll have chum mechanics that they need to leverage. They'll have different types of components that can be equipped on the ship that benefit that type of fish finding.[6] – Steven Sharif
There are different types of fishing in Ashes of Creation.[6][7][8]
- Freshwater/small-game fishing
- This is location-based fishing in inland waterways.[6][7] This is present in Alpha-2 phase-1. It was also present in Alpha-1 but with the addition of "sparkles" to identify fishing resource locations.[7][8]
- This is more AFK-oriented fishing, but may incorporate interactive elements in future.[6] The previous design intention was that there would not be AFK fishing.[5]
- Deep-sea fishing
- This is a sports-oriented interactive style of fishing intended for open sea locations. This will require equipment, such as fishing boats, chum, and expensive lures, but will yield higher rewards. It may feature a mini-game.[6][9][7][8][10][11][12]
- Specialized fishing boat designs will enable better fish finding capabilities.[6]
- Deep sea fish are large and may need crates to transport.[6]
 | Some of the following information has not been recently confirmed by the developers and may not be on the current development roadmap. |
- Coastal/lake fishing
Benefits of fishing
Other benefits include:
Fishing boats
Fishing boats in Ashes of Creation are utilized in deep sea fishing.[6][9][7][8][10][11][12][20]
- Specialized fishing boat designs will enable better fish finding capabilities.[6]
Fish
Here you're seeing different types of fish. Obviously these all exist probably within the same tier of the fishing profession; and then as - as the profession levels up you're going to have access to larger fish; to even perhaps more dangerous fish- we'll see. These are things that players get access to as they level up that progression.[22] – Steven Sharif
- Fish are gatherable resources obtained with the Fishing profession.[5]
- There are different tiers of fish available to artisans as they level up their fishing profession.[22]
- Fish exist in community resource nodes until depleted, then they will respawn elsewhere.[23]
- There will be unique species of fish in the Underrealm.[24][25][26]
- They are not the most friendly.[25] – Steven Sharif
List of fish resources
| This section contains potentially outdated information from Alpha-1 testing. |
Fishery
You actually see there a small pond, which is actually another type of farmable area that we're going to have available on the freehold system, which is essentially a fishery so to speak. So fish play an important role from a raw gatherables a standpoint, but also again because a lot of the components of the freehold system are intended to be processing of raw materials, the fishery allows for a focus on specific type of fish gatherables that may only be gathered through the fishery blueprint.[28] – Steven Sharif
A fishery is a farmable workstation that can be placed on a freehold plot. A fishery allows gathering of fish that are unique to the fishery blueprint.[28]
Fishing skills
| Skill | Icon | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing |
|
Fishing | Attempt to cast your fishing line, fails if the casts would not land in valid water. |
| Fishing Survey Pylon | 
|
Fishing | undefined |
List of recipes
Related equipment
Related items
Visuals
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See also
References
- ↑ Ashes of Creation Twitter - National go fishing day.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1
- ↑ Livestream, October 14, 2022 (32:38).
- ↑ Livestream, March 28, 2020 (1:23:18).
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 Livestream, May 10, 2017 (24:22).
- ↑ 6.00 6.01 6.02 6.03 6.04 6.05 6.06 6.07 6.08 6.09 6.10 6.11 Interview, November 10, 2024 (1:47:26).
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 7.8 Livestream, July 30, 2021 (1:11:58).
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 Interview, October 20, 2018 (3:17).
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3
- ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 11.3
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2
- ↑ Livestream, 2018-04-8 (PM) (1:10:45).
- ↑
- ↑ Podcast, April 11, 2021 (36:43).
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3 16.4
- ↑
- ↑ Livestream, December 13, 2018 (20:00).
- ↑ Livestream, October 29, 2021 (43:44).
- ↑ Livestream, May 24, 2017 (30:09).
- ↑ Livestream, May 31, 2023 (50:39).
- ↑ 22.0 22.1 22.2 Livestream, April 30, 2020 (54:28).
- ↑
- ↑ Livestream, April 7, 2023 (27:30).
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 Transcript, November 5, 2022 (10:46:47).
- ↑ Livestream, June 1, 2017 (24:30).
- ↑ Livestream, May 29, 2020 (35:36).
- ↑ 28.0 28.1 Livestream, May 29, 2020 (39:47).