Legendary fish

Straight answers

Original five

These five wear a crown on the fishing bar. Each can be hooked once per save, or once per player in multiplayer. Challenge Bait keeps all three only when the fish never leaves the bar. They were the legendary set before 1.5, and the same five are still the crowned fish in 1.6.x.

A Training Rod cannot hook them. That was a bug, fixed in 1.6.

Extended family

Mr. Qi's special-order board posts two orders each Monday. Extended Family is one of them. It lasts 3 days. Catch Ms. Angler, Glacierfish Jr., Son of Crimsonfish, Radioactive Carp, and Legend II. The reward is 20 qi gems.

They use the same spots as the older fish, with season and weather requirements removed, and the same hook chances. The bar is ordinary, not crowned. They can be caught more than once during the order, and not at all when the order is inactive. Originals will not bite while the order is active. They do not get the ×5 experience factor, and they are not part of Master Angler. Catching at least four of the five unlocks every bobber style.

Legend II still needs fishing level 10. The order cannot be cleared without that level or a buff that reaches it.

• Fishing
• Fishing rods
• Fish ponds

1.6 on these fish

The five crowned fish still use the same spot, season, weather, and level. 1.6 stopped the Training Rod from hooking them. Iridium quality on the Legend dates from 1.4, not from 1.6.

Challenge Bait shortens the wait for a bite by 62.5%, the same as Wild Bait. The line starts at three fish. Each time the fish leaves the bar, one is lost, and the third leave loses the catch. Three fish stay on the line only when it never leaves the bar. The extras give no fishing XP. They count for fishing totals and special orders, including another copy of the same legendary. The recipe is Fishing Mastery: 5 Bone Fragments and 2 Moss make 5 bait. Golden Fishing Treasure Chests hold it 7% of the time. A Fiberglass Rod, Iridium Rod, or Advanced Iridium Rod can use it. A Training Rod or Bamboo Pole cannot. In a crab pot it is no better than ordinary bait.

A Trap Bobber makes the progress bar fall 33% slower, or 50% slower with two of them on the Advanced Iridium Rod. The recipe is fishing level 6, one copper bar and 10 sap, and Willy sells one for 500g at that level. A Cork Bobber adds 24 pixels to the bar, or 48 pixels with two corks on that rod. The recipe is fishing level 7: 10 wood, 5 hardwood, and 10 slime. Willy sells one for 750g at that level. The two-tackle rates are from 1.6. Two Curiosity Lures do not stack, and two Sonar Bobbers do not stack. Tackle needs an Iridium Rod or the Advanced Iridium Rod.

Blessing of Waters comes from the Farming Mastery statue. It covers the first three fish you hook that day. Legendary difficulty drops 25%. Difficulty of other fish, except Carp, drops 50%. The progress bar falls 50% slower. With one Trap Bobber that is 67% slower, and with two it is 75%. A fish that escapes still uses one of the three. A Challenge Bait or Wild Bait multi-catch counts as one fish. Algae, jelly, seaweed, and trash do not count.

Jewels of the Sea is a fishing book from 1.6. After fishing level 5, treasure chests can hold it. The chance starts at 2% and rises by 0.1% for each chest opened until it appears, and it cannot appear before the third chest. The Bookseller sells it for 20,000g from year 3. The first reading makes a treasure chest 25% likely to hold 1-6 roe of the fish just caught. Later readings give 100 Fishing XP. That was the way to get legendary roe before ponds.

From 1.6.9 a fish pond can hold one legendary fish, original or extended family, and it cannot be expanded. The only output is roe. 1.6.13 made that roe less common. 1.6.15 made it show up more often, and the pond still holds one fish.

• Legend
• Glacierfish Jr.
• Mastery Cave
• Fishing rods