Flounder

Flounder
It lives on the bottom, so both eyes are on top of its head.
Information
Location	Ocean • Ginger Island
Time	6am – 8pm
Season	Spring •  Summer
Weather	Any
Difficulty	50
Behavior	Sinker
Size (inches)	4–17
Fishing XP	19    22    25    31
Energy / Health	38 17 53 23 68 30 98 44
Sell Prices Base Fisher (+25%) Angler (+50%) 100g 125g 150g 200g 125g 156g 187g 250g 150g 187g 225g 300g
Artisan Sell Prices Roe Aged Roe Aged Roe (+40%) 80g 160g 224g

The Flounder is a fish that can be caught in the ocean at The Beach or on the Beach Farm during Spring and Summer. It can also be caught during any season on Ginger Island West (ocean), South, Southeast, and in the Pirate Cove. It may also randomly appear at the Traveling Cart for data-sort-value="100"300–1,000g.

Flounder can be caught regardless of time of day or season using Magic Bait.

Map

Flounder can be found in the ocean and on Ginger Island.

Bundles

Flounder is not used in any bundles.

Recipes

Image	Name	Description	Ingredients	Energy / Health	Buff(s)	Buff Duration	Recipe Source(s)	Sell Price
	Maki Roll	Fish and rice wrapped in seaweed.	Any Fish (1) Seaweed (1) Rice (1)	100 45	N/A	N/A	The Queen of Sauce 21 Summer, Year 1 Stardrop Saloon for data-sort-value="300">300g	data-sort-value="220">220g
	Quality Fertilizer	Improves soil quality, increasing your chance to grow quality crops. Mix into tilled soil.	Sap (4) Any Fish (1)	N/A	N/A	N/A	Farming Level 9	data-sort-value="10">10g
	Sashimi	Raw fish sliced into thin pieces.	Any Fish (1)	75 33	N/A	N/A	Linus (Mail - 3+ )	data-sort-value="75">75g
	Seafoam Pudding	This briny pudding will really get you into the maritime mindset!	Flounder (1) Midnight Carp (1) Squid Ink (1)	175 78	Fishing (+4)	3m 30s	Fishing (Level 9)	data-sort-value="300">300g

Fish Pond

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Flounder can be placed in a Fish Pond, where they will reproduce every 2 days. The initial pond capacity is 3 fish, but the capacity can be increased to 10 by completing two quests. The primary output is dark brown Flounder Roe. However, Sea Jelly is also possible starting at population 7.

Quests

Pond Capacity		Quest Item	Fishing XP Granted
Before Quest	After Quest
3	5	3 Coral	30
5	10	1 Sea Jelly	30

Produce

Item(s) Produced	Fishing XP Granted	Population	% of Items	Overall Daily Chance
Roe (1)	13	1-6	100%	23-63%
		7-8	95%	67-75%
		9-10	92%	80-87%
Sea Jelly (1)	18	7-8	5%	3.6-4%
		9-10	7.8%	6.8-7.4%
Nothing		1-10	0%	77-5%

Tailoring

Flounder can be used in the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the dyeable Sailor Shirt. It can be used in dyeing, serving as an orange dye at the dye pots located in Emily's and Haley's house, 2 Willow Lane. It can also be used as a brown dye when used in the spool of the Sewing Machine with a dyeable clothing item in the feed.

Quests

• Item Delivery: One Flounder may be randomly requested in Spring or Summer at the "Help Wanted" board outside Pierre's General Store for a reward of data-sort-value="300">300g and 150 Friendship points.
• Aquatic Overpopulation: Demetrius may request 10 Flounder to be caught in Spring at the Special Orders board outside the Mayor's Manor for a reward of gold equivalent to selling the fish and the Farm Computer recipe.

History

• 1.4: Introduced.
• 1.5: Special Order quest added. Can now be caught on Ginger Island during any season on Island West (ocean), South, Southeast, and in the Pirate Cove.
• 1.6: Completely revamped the Flounder Fish Pond mechanics by changing Fish Pond quests, reducing spawn time from 3 days to 2 days, and adding Sea Jelly to possible outputs.