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Fishing Guide [ENG]

By Xeeran

This guide explains: How to fish? With what kind of bait to fish at which location? How are the odds?

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Category: Achievements, Crafting, Game Modes, Gameplay Basics, Loot, Maps or Levels, Secrets, Walkthroughs, Weapons

Languages: English

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20 Jan, 2021 @ 5:58pm

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Basics & Tips

How to fish?

Pond/Village

Waterfall

Swamp

River

Sea/Ocean

Closing Words

Comments

Introduction

Some things you might want to know about fishing at Graveyard Keeper can be found at this guide. So here are some spoilers inside!

I tried my best to keep the guide clear and so I decided to sort this guide after the locations and make sections for them. I`ve done three popular guides for "My Time at Portia" and I hope, this one will be helpful and popular too.

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Basics & Tips

First of all: There are five locations (see the sections on the right) where you can fish. You can get three different rods and use eigth different baits. Daytime is important too!

Rods

Simple Fishing Rod
(given to you by the fisherman at Lighthouse Keeper for bringing him five moths)
Good Fishing Rod
(can be bought from the fisherman)
Excellent Fishing Rod
(can be bought from the fisherman)

Baits

Butterfly
Can be found at flowers during day
Moth
Can be found at flowers during night
Maggot
A compost result
Lure with a gem
Can be bought from the fisherman (can not be used with Simple Fishing Rod)
Steel Lure
Can be bought from the fisherman
Anchovy
Caught by fishing
Gudgeon
Caught by fishing
Fishing without any bait

The natural baits are consumed after a successful fishing try and the two lures have a durability.

How to fish?

It looks like a major problem for some people to realize how the fishing mechanic at Graveyard Keeper works. So I am going to explain it.

1. If you are at an fishing spot and an rod is equipped, you can press E.
2. Now you can choose your bait at the bottom of the screen.
3. You can press and hold E again and choose one of three throwing sections (short, medium, long). If one section shows only 0% and you try to fish there, you`ll lose energy for nothing.
4. Now you have to wait until the float pops up and press E. There is also be a sound played. But you must have a good reaction!
5. A minigame starts and you have to keep the yellow bar at the height of the fish by using E.

If you have trouble with the fourth point, you can eat "Fish Nuggets" (can be bought from Horadric in the Dead Horse) before you try, because it buffs you and gives you some extra reaction time.

Pond/Village

There is a pond in the north of the village and normaly it`s the first fishing spot you find. I`ll list now, how the chance are at day/night, with one of the three fishing rods and what kind of bait work.

Day - Simple Fishing Rod

Night - Simple Fishing Rod

Day - Good Fishing Rod

Night - Good Fishing Rod

Day - Excellent Fishing Rod

Night - Excellent Fishing Rod

Waterfall

The Waterfall is in the north on the west side of the river and can be discovered after you finished the bridge, which makes it possible to visit the swamp too.

Day - Simple Fishing Rod

Night - Simple Fishing Rod

Day - Good Fishing Rod

Night - Good Fishing Rod

Day - Excellent Fishing Rod

Night - Excellent Fishing Rod

Swamp

If you finish the bridge accross the river in the west, you can get access to the fishing spot at the swamp. Normaly you`ll find the one at the waterfall before, but maybe not.

Day & Night - Simple Fishing Rod

Day & Night - Good Fishing Rod

Day & Night - Excellent Fishing Rod

River

Normaly the last spot you explore. The spot itself is in the north and you get access, if you destroy the barricades in the north of the church or the one in the west; north of the swamp. But I dont think finding the locations will make any trouble.

Day & Night - Simple Fishing Rod

Day - Good Fishing Rod

Night - Good Fishing Rod

Day - Excellent Fishing Rod

Night - Excellent Fishing Rod

Sea/Ocean

Sea/Ocean can be found in the east, north of the Lighthouse Keeper. Its the only fishing spot you can get the "Goldfish" for the achievement "Gold fish - Got a gold fish. Want to make a wish?".

Day - Simple Fishing Rod

Night - Simple Fishing Rod

Day - Good Fishing Rod

Night - Good Fishing Rod

Day - Excellent Fishing Rod

Night - Excellent Fishing Rod

Closing Words

If I made a mistake, please let me know. I`ll fix it immediately. And if you find this guide helpful, I`ll appreciate it if you upvote it and if you want to support my work, you can follow my curation and/or upvote my review. Thanks!

34 Comments

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Marbur 29 Dec, 2022 @ 4:56pm

Es gibt dazu auch min 2 Quests: Einmal werden vier bronze Fischfillet verlangt und der nächste will 4 silberne.

Marbur 29 Dec, 2022 @ 4:51pm

https://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2909192417

Xeeran [author] 29 Dec, 2022 @ 3:13pm

Höherwertige Fische? Das scheint neu! ^^

Marbur 29 Dec, 2022 @ 3:01pm

Hi Xeeran,
guter Guide!

Eine Kleinigkeit, die ich mir wünschen würde, zu wissen welcher Fisch welche Qualität hat. Am idealsten wäre natürlich direkt der passende Stern an dem Fisch. Eine gute Alternative wäre ein kurzes Kapitel, wo alle höherwertigen Fische aufgelistet wären.

Gortahk 21 Sep, 2022 @ 1:57am

Dude, that outline thing is really good. Good eye! I hate that reaction shit with the sound

jimmyzgreek 24 Nov, 2021 @ 7:52pm

theres an outline around the bobber, but it dissapears right before the sound plays, its much more reliable then the sound

CherryKiss 8 Sep, 2021 @ 9:03pm

Oh, and I'd add mention of fishing boost foods. The fish sticks and soup are SUPER helpful for fishing!

CherryKiss 8 Sep, 2021 @ 9:00pm

great guide! An easy add would be to list the fish names you can catch at each location, so you don't have to know what the fish pictures mean. A harder add would be to specify odds of catching each quality of fish, such as you can only catch silver salmon at the ocean with the medium rod. Are the odds of catching gold salmon in the ocean with the excellent rod 50%? I don't know this.

In the end though, the goldfish are the real prize fish to hunt for. Perhaps eels for lightning powder... maybe some silver and gold crucians for ore... perhaps some frogs for meat or a certain quest...

If there is some way to replace the very weak bauble sound with something more audible, that would be a major thing to discover and share!

Again, great guide though! very thorough on teaching what the odds are for catching all the fish!

Cock Goblin 5 Nov, 2020 @ 2:04pm

If you focus on the fishing bauble, it has a animation where the water around it moves (ie. ripples). When a fish is "caught", the animation stops/disappears (ie. ripples vanish). Pressing E will instantly bring up the fishing mini-game. This occurs before the sound. It works 100% of the time.

Seth 5 Jul, 2020 @ 2:22am

It can also help a lot focus on the hands while fishing rather than the bobber. At least for me that works way better than tryin gto concentrate on the bobber and sound.

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