Fish Pond
| Fish Pond | |
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| Raise fish and harvest their produce. Fish multiply over time. | |
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| Build cost: |  5,000g
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| Build materials: |  Stone (200) Seaweed (5) Green Algae (5)
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| Size: | 5x5 |
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The Fish Pond is a type of farm building purchasable from Robin at the Carpenter's Shop. It takes three days to build and occupies a 5x5 tile space.
A fish pond can hold and raise most types of fish, including Night Market fish, Crab Pot fish and beach forageables such as Sea Urchins and Coral. The fish produce Roe and random items. The only fish which cannot live in the fish pond are the five legendary fish: Legend, Mutant Carp, Crimsonfish, Glacierfish, and Angler. Fish thrown in the pond also reproduce up to the limit of their pond, except for Tiger Trout, which cannot reproduce. You can harvest one fish by casting your fishing line into the pond. The fish will be caught automatically without the minigame. A harvested fish is always of regular quality.
Each pond holds only one type of fish at a time. You populate a pond by throwing in a fish. Attempting to throw in a fish that cannot live in a pond (because it is a legendary fish or because it is of a different type than the fish already living in the pond) yields a prompt that states the fish would not be happy there.
The initial capacity of a pond is three fish, except for the following fish for which the initial capacity is only one:
After populating the pond, when the fish reproduce themselves to the pond's capacity, an exclamation point appears in the center of the pond, indicating you have a fish quest waiting. Fulfilling a quest raises the capacity of the pond, which can continue up to a maximum capacity of 10 fish. The quests vary in difficulty depending on the rarity and type of fish.
Fishing all the fish from a pond does not "empty the pond". The pond retains its capacity and still can accommodate only the type of fish that were harvested from it. Selecting the “empty pond” option in the fish pond menu empties the pond but any fish inside are lost. Emptying a pond also resets it so that it may be repopulated with any allowed type of fish and returns it to its initial capacity.
Fishing Experience
Harvesting a fish pond (i.e., collecting an item from the chum bucket) grants Fishing XP according to the following equation:
10 + (0.4 × the sell price of the item)
Quests
Note that Coral and Sea Urchin will not make requests, their population will automatically increase at the rate indicated in the "Spawn Frequency" column.
| Fish | Population Change | Item(s) Required | Spawn Frequency |
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| Squid | 3 to 4 | 3 Coral or 1 Sea Urchin | Every 3 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Sardine | ||
| Midnight Squid | 3 to 4 | 3 Coral or 2 Sea Urchin | Every 3 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Sardine | ||
| 8 to 9 | 1 Ocean Stone | ||
| Carp | 3 to 4 | 2 Green Algae | Every day |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Cave Carrot | ||
| Herring | 3 to 4 | 3 Driftwood | Every day |
| 5 to 6 | 1 Coral | ||
| Sunfish | 3 to 4 | 2 Acorn or 2 Geode | Every day |
| 5 to 6 | 1 Amethyst or 3 Mixed Seeds | ||
| Blobfish | 1 to 2 | 3 Coral, 2 Frozen Tear, or 2 Sea Urchin | Every 4 days |
| 3 to 4 | 5 Coffee Bean, 1 Mayonnaise, or 1 Pizza | ||
| 5 to 6 | 1 Cookie, 1 Green Tea, or 1 Wine | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Rainbow Shell or 1 Rice Pudding | ||
| Lava Eel | 1 to 2 | 3 Fire Quartz | Every 5 days |
| 3 to 4 | 1 Basalt, 2 Diamond, or 1 Dwarf Scroll III | ||
| 5 to 6 | 2 Mega Bomb | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Iridium Bar | ||
| Woodskip | 1 to 2 | 10 Hardwood | Every 2 days |
| 3 to 4 | 2 Common Mushroom or 2 Red Mushroom | ||
| 5 to 6 | 1 Oak Resin or 1 Pine Tar | ||
| 7 to 8 | 2 Jade or 1 Tea Leaves | ||
| Sandfish Scorpion Carp |
3 to 4 | 3 Cactus Fruit or 3 Coconut | Every 4 days |
| 5 to 6 | 1 Golden Relic | ||
| Void Salmon | 1 to 2 | 5 Void Essence | Every 4 days |
| 3 to 4 | 10 Bat Wing | ||
| 5 to 6 | 1 Diamond or 1 Void Egg | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Iridium Ore | ||
| Slimejack | 1 to 2 | 20 Slime | Every 3 days |
| 3 to 4 | 10 Bug Meat | ||
| 5 to 6 | 1 Algae Soup or 5 Wild Bait | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Petrified Slime | ||
| Stonefish | 1 to 2 | 10 Copper Ore | Every 5 days |
| 3 to 4 | 5 Earth Crystal | ||
| 5 to 6 | 10 Coal or 5 Geode | ||
| 7 to 8 | 4 Copper Bar or 5 Refined Quartz | ||
| Ice Pip | 1 to 2 | 10 Iron Ore | Every 5 days |
| 3 to 4 | 5 Frozen Tear | ||
| 5 to 6 | 10 Coal, 1 Crystal Fruit, or 5 Frozen Geode | ||
| 7 to 8 | 4 Iron Bar or 10 Refined Quartz | ||
| Ghostfish | 1 to 2 | 5 Quartz | Every 2 days |
| 3 to 4 | 5 Cave Carrot | ||
| 5 to 6 | 5 White Algae | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Dwarf Scroll I, 1 Dwarf Scroll II, or 2 Refined Quartz | ||
| Sturgeon | 1 to 2 | 1 Diamond | Every 4 days |
| 3 to 4 | 1 Jelly, 2 Maple Syrup, or 1 Pickles | ||
| 5 to 6 | 3 Omni Geode | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Nautilus Shell | ||
| Super Cucumber | 3 to 4 | 3 Coral, 1 Honey, 1 Oyster, or 3 Refined Quartz | Every 4 days |
| 5 to 6 | 1 Dried Starfish, 2 Emerald, 2 Omni Geode, or 2 Purple Mushroom | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Diamond, 3 Gold Bar, 1 Iridium Ore, 1 Jelly, or 1 Pickles | ||
| Octopus | 3 to 4 | 3 Coral, 1 Honey, 1 Oyster, or 3 Refined Quartz | Every 4 days |
| 5 to 6 | 1 Dried Starfish, 2 Emerald, 2 Omni Geode, or 2 Purple Mushroom | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Green Tea | ||
| Rainbow Trout | 3 to 4 | 3 Coral, 1 Honey, 1 Oyster, or 3 Refined Quartz | Every 2 days |
| 5 to 6 | 1 Dried Starfish, 2 Emerald, 2 Omni Geode, or 2 Purple Mushroom | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Diamond, 3 Gold Bar, 1 Iridium Ore, 1 Jelly, or 1 Pickles | ||
| Spook Fish | 3 to 4 | 3 Amethyst, 3 Coral, 3 Iron Bar, 1 Oyster, 3 Red Mushroom, or 3 Refined Quartz | Every 4 days |
| 5 to 6 | 1 Dried Starfish, 2 Emerald, 1 Granite, 2 Omni Geode, or 2 Purple Mushroom | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Diamond, 3 Gold Bar, 1 Iridium Ore, 1 Mayonnaise, or 1 Pickles | ||
| Catfish | 3 to 4 | 2 Amethyst, 3 Copper Bar, 3 Red Mushroom, or 2 Topaz | Every 4 days |
| 5 to 6 | 10 Bat Wing, 2 Earth Crystal, 5 Mixed Seeds, or 2 Purple Mushroom | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Diamond, 3 Iron Bar, 1 Mayonnaise, or 1 Pickles | ||
| Dorado Lingcod Pike |
3 to 4 | 2 Bream, 2 Carp, or 2 Chub | Every 3 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Bullhead or 2 Largemouth Bass | ||
| 7 to 8 | 2 Ghostfish, 2 Sandfish, or 2 Woodskip | ||
| Coral | N/A | N/A | Every 2 days |
| Sea Urchin | N/A | N/A | Every 4 days |
| Crayfish Snail |
3 to 4 | 5 Clay or 15 Fiber | Every 2 days |
| 5 to 6 | 10 Bug Meat, 1 Cave Carrot, or 5 Hardwood | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Field Snack, 5 Solar Essence, or 1 Wild Bait | ||
| Periwinkle | 3 to 4 | 5 Clay or 15 Fiber | Every day |
| 5 to 6 | 10 Bug Meat, 1 Cave Carrot, or 5 Hardwood | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Field Snack, 5 Solar Essence, or 1 Wild Bait | ||
| Mussel | 3 to 4 | 5 Clay | Every day |
| 5 to 6 | 10 Bug Meat or 5 Quartz | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Sea Urchin, 5 Solar Essence, or 1 Wild Bait | ||
| Cockle Oyster Shrimp |
3 to 4 | 5 Clay | Every 2 days |
| 5 to 6 | 10 Bug Meat or 5 Quartz | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Sea Urchin, 5 Solar Essence, or 1 Wild Bait | ||
| Crab Lobster |
3 to 4 | 5 Clay | Every 3 days |
| 5 to 6 | 10 Bug Meat or 5 Quartz | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Sea Urchin, 5 Solar Essence, or 1 Wild Bait | ||
| Anchovy | 3 to 4 | 3 Driftwood, 1 Frozen Geode, or 1 Seaweed | Every day |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Clam or 2 coral | ||
| 7 to 8 | 2 Aquamarine, 1 Mussel, or 2 Sea Urchin | ||
| Albacore Halibut Red Mullet Red Snapper Sardine Sea Cucumber Tilapia |
3 to 4 | 3 Driftwood, 1 Frozen Geode, or 1 Seaweed | Every 2 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Clam or 2 coral | ||
| 7 to 8 | 2 Aquamarine, 1 Mussel, or 2 Sea Urchin | ||
| Eel Flounder Tuna |
3 to 4 | 3 Driftwood, 1 Frozen Geode, or 1 Seaweed | Every 3 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Clam or 2 coral | ||
| 7 to 8 | 2 Aquamarine, 1 Mussel, or 2 Sea Urchin | ||
| Pufferfish | 3 to 4 | 3 Driftwood, 1 Frozen Geode, or 1 Seaweed | Every 4 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Clam or 2 Coral | ||
| 7 to 8 | 2 Aquamarine, 1 Mussel, or 2 Sea Urchin | ||
| Bream Chub Perch Salmon Shad Smallmouth Bass |
3 to 4 | 3 Acorn, 10 Bug Meat, 3 Maple Seed, or 3 Pine Cone | Every 2 days |
| 5 to 6 | 3 Gold Ore, 1 Maple Syrup, or 5 Mixed Seeds | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Crayfish, 1 Honey, 2 Jade, or 1 Periwinkle | ||
| Walleye | 3 to 4 | 3 Acorn, 10 Bug Meat, 3 Maple Seed, or 3 Pine Cone | Every 3 days |
| 5 to 6 | 3 Gold Ore, 1 Maple Syrup, or 5 Mixed Seeds | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Crayfish, 1 Honey, 2 Jade, or 1 Periwinkle | ||
| Bullhead | 3 to 4 | 10 Bug Meat, 2 Clay, 2 Green Algae, or 5 Slime | Every 2 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Common Mushroom, 1 Earth Crystal, or 1 Limestone | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Mudstone, 1 Snail, or 5 Wild Bait | ||
| Largemouth Bass | 3 to 4 | 10 Bug Meat, 2 Clay, 2 Green Algae, or 5 Slime | Every 3 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Common Mushroom, 1 Earth Crystal, or 1 Limestone | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Mudstone, 1 Snail, or 5 Wild Bait | ||
| Midnight Carp | 3 to 4 | 10 Bug Meat, 2 Clay, 2 Green Algae, or 5 Slime | Every 4 days |
| 5 to 6 | 2 Common Mushroom, 1 Earth Crystal, or 1 Limestone | ||
| 7 to 8 | 1 Mudstone, 1 Snail, or 5 Wild Bait |
Notes
- The Lava Eel, Super Cucumber, Slimejack, and Void Salmon change the color of the water upon completing the first quest.
- Placing a sign (stone or wood) on the pond will turn it into a counter of how many fish are inside, with a sprite of the fish visible on the sign, and a number in the lower right corner.
History
- 1.4: Introduced.
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