Crab pots

Setup

The recipe is fishing level 3: 40 wood and 3 iron bars. The Trapper profession changes that cost to 25 wood and 2 copper bars. Willy sells pots for 1,500g once you reach fishing level 3. The Crab Pot bundle rewards three pots, and the Trout Derby can award one.

A pot has to sit in water and needs bait every day, unless you have Luremaster. The next morning it holds a catch. Emptying it gives 5 fishing XP even when the catch is trash. Pot fish count toward the fishing achievements.

Mariner stops pots from producing junk. Luremaster removes the bait requirement. The Art O' Crabbing book gives a 25% chance that a pot yields double.

Bait in the pot

Ordinary bait, magnet, magic bait, and challenge bait do not change which animal you get. Without Mariner, trash is 38% in most water, and 57% in the beach-farm pond.

Deluxe bait makes pot fish silver and, without Mariner, drops trash to 30% in most water (40% in the beach-farm pond). Wild bait can double the haul at 25% and uses that same trash cut. Targeted bait for a crab-pot animal raises that animal's chance: lobster ×4, clam, crab, and oyster ×3, and the other pot animals ×2. It also cuts trash further, down to somewhere between 10% and 27% in most water.

Targeted bait does nothing extra if you already have Mariner. Magnet, magic bait, and challenge bait are no better than ordinary bait in a pot.

Catch

Pot animals are usually normal quality and are worth 5 fishing XP. Deluxe bait raises them to silver. Foraged copies and monster drops do not fill the fish collection. The animal has to come from a pot. On the beach farm, cockles, mussels, and oysters caught with a rod also count.

Crabs also drop from rock crabs (15%) and lava crabs (25%). Clams, cockles, mussels, and oysters can be foraged on the beach, so the Crab Pot bundle can be finished without a pot. Baiting the reward pots still needs bait from fishing level 2, Linus's 4-heart scene, or a fishing chest.

• Bait and tackle
• Fishing