Stardew Valley is a top-down life simulator game that includes a wide range of genre’s within it, such as farming simulator, Role Playing Game (RPG), the game has many features, relationship-building mechanics, proper weather, and well built seasonal system, this game really has it all. Part of the various mechanics within it, the game also has a fishing mechanic, but many players tend to get confused about how exactly you can catch fish in the game, in this article we will guide you on how to start fishing and then also catch the fish.
The plot of the game stands like this, you have inherited your grandfather’s old farmland, armed with basic tools and a few coins you can now set out to begin your new life, however, due to a large corporation that entered the town, the town has been in shambles, the once attractive and vibrant community now lives in disarray, but the town has an opportunity, the opportunity for a bright future still exists and you can build it, work alongside the NPC’s, each of which has a unique personality and build good relations with them, to help make your inherited land a lush farmland with animals and crops all over!
Fishing Mechanics
Fishing in Stardew Valley is quite in-depth, the fish you can or want to catch depends on the basis of the time of day, there are different fish that you can catch during the day and the night, some will only spawn during the night or day, the area you’re fishing in also have certain unique fishes, and the season it is will also have an impact on which fishes you find, as you can tell, there are a lot of factors for which fish you will be catching and to sum it all up, you can catch trash instead of fish if your fishing rod is low quality or you don’t have bait.
There are also skill points for fishing, in the sense that when you master how to fish, you will be tasked to hunt down and capture the 5 legendary fish.
How do you fish in Stardew Valley mobile?
Stardew valley fishing includes a mini-game to help catch the fish, however, this mini-game gets more difficult on the basis of the rarity of the fish. Once you begin fishing you will have a small window pop up which will have a fish icon going up and down, to catch the fish you will need to tap the screen to keep a highlighted bar in line with the fish icon, you will have to keep doing this until you are prompted that you have caught the fish or the fish escapes, added to that there is an adjacent bar, which will go green if you are tapping at the right time and amount, the more this green bar fills up to the top, the higher your chances will be to catch the fish.
The speed of the fish icon going up and down will depend on the rarity of the fish, if it’s quite common then the chances of catching it will also be quite high as compared to a fish that is very rare and can only be sighted in a particular area, during a particular season.