Fishing nets

[Craftcoat]

With boats in 1.20 comes the option to sail out into the Ocean.

It would be awesome to be able to toss out a net or trawl one behind your boat for the full fisherman expierience.

[Deaderpan]

fish and fishing in general needs a lot of work, i wouldnt even be mad if there was just the "fish update" that only added fishing, new fish mechanics, more fish and more ways to cook fish.

[Kosti]

51 minutes ago, Deaderpan said:

fish and fishing in general needs a lot of work, i wouldnt even be mad if there was just the "fish update" that only added fishing, new fish mechanics, more fish and more ways to cook fish.

Yeah, honestly fishing really needs its own update, fishing rods, fishing nets, worms mechanic, ocean and river water fish, crabs, mussles, boat mechanics, honestly with all that it might be better for the VS team to eventually just make an aquatic update, could also introduce new underwater structures? Sunken castle? Sunken ships? Perhaps even a sort of cove full of sunken ships and drifters? Any realistically good upate for fishing would need an aquatic update, and I doubt we will be getting one soon.

[Thorfinn]

Pretty sure that's all covered in the fishing and rich ocean life elements in the roadmap.

Not a big deal to me. It's just a new food source, not like it opens up a huge vista. I'd rather see something like a combination of the herbalism and status effects update. That opens up a lot to mod upon. It's tough to do a mod that deals with effects and run-times without just making it up from scratch, hoping that whatever you do will be adaptable.

[Echo Weaver]

It's a rather big deal for me. As soon as I saw a fish in a pond, I thought about making my livelihood as a fisherman.  Each time I start a new save in a sandbox game, I give myself a different set of parameters to play in. I don't mind spear fishing, but the spawn rate for fish is incredibly low. They're something you happen upon by chance, not something you plan for.

I love the idea of fishing nets from sailboats. I know there have been a couple of mods handling fishing. Primitive Survival is one, and another one drifts by on my searches that warns that it "breaks everything," so I've never tried it. Maybe a modder will take on boat fishing. There are so many great things on the official roadmap that I couldn't choose between them even if the devs cared what I thought.