Overview
Fast way to earn money and get started. Plus a bonus infinite money glitch.
Step 1
The game wants you to think that it is a cute mining sandbox game. But really this is just a fishing sim with extra steps.
Step 1 is to purchase the fishing rod for 52 coin.
As of 1.6, the fishing rod will not work until purchased in the store. So dig around till you can find 52 coin worth of metal lumps.
Step 2: Profit
Now that you have the power of the gods at your fingertips, take your rod on a roadtrip.
Head over to the market table in Bridgepour (Blue marker on the map)
By standing on the market stall and fishing over the roof, you can fish by sound alone and don’t even have to move your catch before selling it!
By mindlessly fishing for awhile, you can jump-start your mining operation.
What can you get? (As of 1.4)
Fish pricing actually varies depending on the color and size of fish caught. It seems like each color of fish has 3 or 4 sizes to them which changes the selling price.
If you really want the most money for your fish you can sell them on the stock market in Burnscroft. Depending on the day you could double your earnings, but I find that it is more effort to transport them and check prices compared to fishing directly on a selling table.
The Fishing Pot
Some may ask if there is a way to do even less work and still earn coins. The answer is yes and no… A fishing pot is an item for purchase in the Housing Supplies shop found in Bridgepour for 41 coin.
From my experiments, a fishing pot will spawn a small fish into it after about 3 minutes if you place it correctly. For it to work, it must be placed in water, in an area you own. This is quite limiting as you can imagine. To place this item left click to activate build mode, and then left click again to place it.
After a fish is caught, you can press ‘E’ on the pot to grab it out of the water, dropping the dead fish in the bottom of the river.
From my experience, the slow catch rate, low value of fish, the pain of reseting fish pots and picking up fish, only to then have to still transport you pile of small fish to market, all make for much more work than I am willing to do to create my fishing mining empire.
Updates and Duplication Bugs
As of 1.6 Balances:
– Fishing Pole catch time set to a larger range.
This makes auto-clicker fish farming less effective
1.6 Fishing Duplication Bug:
Found by YouTuber Let’s Game It Out
In the video, Josh discovers that when fish are blown up by the new explosive barrel item, they leave behind a tiny scrap metal cube. These cubes sell for 0.01 of a coin, but there is a bug with the cubes created from blown up Red and Blue fish. These cubes do not disappear when sold and can then be resold.
So save up for an explosive barrel and a button, place them on a pile of Red and Blue fish, then collect all that tiny scrap and profit.
To watch as he goes from a fresh game to 26,218 coins watch below for 7 minutes.