This guide is meant to teach you how fish in Nightingale.
How to begin
Fishing in Nightingale is a relatively straightforward activity.
Começar, você vai precisar:
- A fishing rod
- A body of water
In Early Access there is no bait requirement, but neither will you be receiving a free fishing rod from your Faerie Godfather. To get a fishing rod, you will first need to visit the Essence Trader in an Abeyance realm (in case you forgot, this means your “home realm”) and give them a handful of essence dust in exchange for the crafting patter. If you get there and don’t have enough essence dust, there’s plenty of shrubs and weeds nearby that can be picked and extracted into essence dust so get to picking. No excuses.
Why fishing?
You may be wondering why one would fish in Nightingale without already being obsessed with fishing itself. A resposta é simples: More buffs!
Nightingale is a survival jogo, and in this case fishing can facilitate you not merely surviving but actually thriving because the buffs you get from eating meals can stack up to (apparently) three times. The only limitation is that they be different buffs, which means you can readily have a cooked meat buff, a vegetable/fruits buff, e a fish-meal buff and together these three can more than double your stamina as well as significantly raise your health regen.
Crafting the rod
Now that you have the motivation and the diagrams showing you how to make a fishing rod, encontrar (or build) a simple workbench and have ready the following materials:
- One wood bundle.
- Two animal fibers
- One bone
As with most things Nightingale using fancier materials makes for a more effective tool, but for your first fishing rod just use whatever stuff you have handy. Wood bundles come from cutting trees or rotten logs with an axe (or leaving your hireling unsupervised with an axe for like, ten seconds), bones somewhat predictably you get from animals, but for animal fibers you will need meat and a tanning station.
Now with your new fishing rod in hand, go find a body of water. Just about any body of water will do.
Before you go fishing
As with most activities in Nightingale, your tool’s stats can definitely impact the activity. No entanto, the most common mistake players make doesn’t involve their tools–it involves their diet.
I will explain. In each body of water (in the present time of Early Access) there are generally dois types of fish. One which has a rank of 10, and one which has a rank of 30. Both can be caught, and easily, but not if you are morrendo de fome ou sleep-deprived. Either of these conditions being present will reduce your stamina to that of a newborn kitten and you will catch não peixe. Na verdade, if those two bars on your screen aren’t at least a third full, don’t even both trying to fish–just go fix those conditions by eating something or taking a quick nap.
Beyond that I fortemente recommend having one or two food buffs active when you fish, simply because that can more than double your stamina which is what makes catching fish fácil.
Catching some fish
Now that you’ve obtained a fishing rod, have found a body of water (I trust you will not need a guide to finding open water), and are neither starving nor sleep-deprived fishing itself is relatively easy.
Primeiro, equip your fishing rod. While there are no game wardens to write you a citation, a shotgun is simply not something a proper Victorian would use for fishing.
Próximo, stand near your selected body of water while facing the water. You are trying to catch fish, not topiary. While it is true that you could stand no the water while fishing, be aware that many an adventurer have had their travails brought short by trenchfoot. For the sake of simplicity, just cast from the shoreline.
Now that you’ve positioned yourself appropriately, hold your back straight with your arm extended and cast your line by clicking and holding the cast button for a brief moment. The longer you hold the button the farther out you will cast the line, but ultimately this affects nothing. When you release the button your bobber will land in the water and a secret battle of wills will begin.
In a few seconds you will see that a fish is nibbling on the line. This is when you click to “set” the hook which gets the fish stuck on the line, and then you aguarde that same button to begin reeling in the fish. You will see the fish’s status bar appear, uma “tension” bar appear, and you will see your stamina begin draining. Your goal is to wear down the fish in order to catch it before the fish wears you down by exhausting your stamina.
During the catching phase, you will mostly want your rod pointed no the fish as it swims back and forth trying to escape. This keeps the tension on the line to a minimum, but you don’t necessarily want that. What you really want to do to maximize the speed of catching is to either lead or drag the fish (by pointing the rod ahead or behind the fish) enough so that the tension bar is in the center. If the tension is higher, the line won’t break but your stamina will drain faster and when your stamina is gone, so is the fish. If the tension is too little, the fish’s stamina won’t drain and you may also fail, albeit more slowly.
Once the fish’s bar is completely empty, it will pop out of the water for you to pick it up and it may or may not include a bit of essence.
Agora, just keep doing that.
