Fishing with nets and Fishing rods.

[Iiell]

One of the only things I really miss during early game is the ability to go fishing and have more options to prepare fish.

The fishing could be done with nets and different tiers of fishing rods. There could be more varieties of fish that yield different types of meat.

To prepare meals there could be the options to make stews out of fresh fish and to smoke fish to make it last longer (as an alternative to curing).

One could also keep live fish in barrels for a while.

The mod "Primitive Survival" is a good example of how some of that could look ingame.

[Roppongi]

Honestly aquaponic would be amazing 2 see as well added

 

a whole breeding fish system 4 a pescatarian diet run

 

would be great most games don't even do aquaponics

[Samnson]

As and alternative to hunting/foraging/farming this would be great. 

It would offer an alternative to possible places to live that arn't just flatlands near forests;
Imagine a multiplayer town that lives on a coast and makes its food needs through fishing and fish breeding.

Maybe expand beyond the early agrarian stage and into larger social structures,

[Roppongi]

it would be great  also 2 add crustacean as well u could catch and try 2 keep as food or pets besides fish and that the deeper u swim  in  water area u would find different  sea life but the aquaponics idea as a alt for  regular farming would be great for indoors farming where u have 2 maintain a ecosystem going between fish and  plant like algae or other veggies 2 keep the fish alive and vice versa  or maybe

 

where if u don't balance it just right u  don't get as bigger yields of fish and veggies

[C_Man]

Found a mod for fishing, but it's for v1.18.6.

[MonkeyDaisy]

There is a mod called Primitive Survival. It has fishing with a variety of methods (fish basket, hooked lines etc). It also has some other cool things. 

[vimasa]

Hard agree with the crustacean comment - crawdads, river crabs, mussels, there are all kinds of shelled snacks living in rivers. Obviously not going into how many exist in the ocean, lol. More life around water sources would be more immersive, and give players a reason to try and seek them out.

[Maelstrom]

All them animals running into the water are trying to solve that problem.  Hopefully they'll evolve into water based mammals sooner than later.  

[Zero_]

On 6/12/2024 at 7:00 AM, vimasa said:

crawdads, river crabs, mussels, there are all kinds of shelled snacks living in rivers

[Cromslide]

Im adding to the post just to show that this is a great idea and should be added

[Bruno Willis]

 A thought on net fishing:

With the new sailing boats, I feel like a net fishing 'mini-game' would be excellent for VS. Here's the vision: You craft and fill two slots in the body of your sailing boat with an empty net, then head out to sea (specifically salt water). As you move across the water, gulls fly down and perch on the mast and gunwales, or take off from the boat and fly away. Suddenly, all the gulls take off at once and start circling the boat, screeching and divebombing the water. Looking over the side you can see a spot where the water glimmers oddly, so you ease the sails, get as close as you can, and toss out the net. After some time the water glimmer might move elsewhere, so you pull the net up. The two net slots are now filled with a full net. You can butcher the fish now, or head back to shore.

What's actually happening is that boats with fishing nets would generate gull 'particles,' gaining more the closer the boat gets to a school of fish. A school of fish would work like a singe creature, with a twisting, fishy outer surface. When you got within sight range of the school, the gull particles would rise up and start a fishing animation, which would tell you that you're close. You would find the school of fish, get near it but not on top of it, and toss out the net (If you sailed right over the school, I think it would get spooked). The net would fill in a short amount of time, and could be pulled back in with a right-click. The full net would act like an animal carcass- you Alt right-click on it with a knife, and after a while it opens a storage slot, packed full of butchered fish. I would make the butchering time significantly longer than butchering a normal animal, and produce a semi random but large amount of fish. 

It'd be a different way to fish than in the other block game, and I think it would suit the size and type of boat we have better than fishing with a line. I think it would also add a lot to the feeling of sailing.