With 2.3, fishing and fish became tedious and unnecessary. Bait the traps, wait around for the fish, and remove them before they die off. Seriously, this is like real fishing, except without the fun of a boat, sunshine, and beer.
When you have the fish, no more ichor. You can get oil, but the amounts are so small, it doesn’t pay. I get better results from chopping trees for bark and resin, and throwing that on the alchemy bench.
We used to put fish strips on the wheel, because of the long spoil rate. But now, it’s down from 24 to 1 hour. It’s worse than gruel, so there’s no point anymore.
“But wait!” you say. “What about the special fish and their bonuses?”
Are those bonuses really worth the effort that you ‘might’ get the fish you want? Lotus plants, anyone? Those are guaranteed, and what those people who were inclined to make the potions did before the fish.
real basket fishing is place basket, go drink beer, come back and grab fish.
How me and my Family do it. (how my uncle on farm did it)
Need place it in nice spot… so fish use it as safe spot, and you get free nom noms. Bait can be used lure them in. Depending on river, stream they’ll do work for ya. XD
Like older topics on it… they really just need a placement limit, or have older ones not turn on if you place to many.
Or make proper fishing mini game. Something like Zelda 64 or Read Dead 2’s
I’m happy they changed it, but it shouldn’t be like it being useless as is right now.
Why am I happy? Players no longer foundation spam to water to get the same decay timer and place a big oil platform…
The mounted rides were horrible that time… like… dismount > jump over foundations > mount > move > dismount > jump over foundations > mount > move… you get it.
I think fish inside a trap should stay alive. Fish don’t die trapped within a few minutes…
I just modded in the old version of fish traps personally. I dont have time to farm bark and ichor for oil… got enough other housekeeping chores to take care of.
With the mod I use, I just get the old passive system; no pick wear, just put fish in press and voila.
I dont dispute that the official method isn’t easy (with a T3 or better alchemist) but its just one more thing I’d rather not be doing. Pick a tree and pick a lizard/spider… no thanks.
Public server, so head on a swivel, Badnews Bearer with 12k HP on short leash. Mats on bearer, all systems go. First we scout a waterfall. Build foundations and a tray for allll the sweet little fish traps. Then find out the traps don’t place. Heh. Enact minesweeper mode. Begin to despair. Sense of adventure kicks in. Badnews and I make nasty meats from the Boss Croc at the hot desert oasis. After messing with the tricky pond bottom for longer than my timer would allow, we relented, still healing, resigning instead to the shore.
Long story short, I built the perfect “drown box” so leveled and well executed I almost drowned in it. Put in my insects and let it cook. Went back to base, thralled, returned to fishbox on my hoss and got all of 169 fish. Woo hoo I’m an oil baron.
Right after pressing this fish, a T3 Smith came out of the wheel. Reinforce? Holy snap! Maybe I try our T3 Alchemist in the Improved Bench? Oil from bark and ichor. Oil for days. It felt like a discovery, and if you go in blind (no pun intended) Conan Exiles really has a lot of it.
So now for every fish trap add a compost box, right, that fixed “server performance”. The fact is they listen to players who don’t have a clue what causes server performance issues. Most of the performance issues are client side or network related.
Actually is busted as far as server drain. But they forgot people would just find a way to spam bait, and thus didn’t really fix the issue, server drain. But by making oil so much easier with T3 Alchie, and removing ichor from consolidant, fishing really is a rp mechanic at this point.
Actually it was easier than I thought…there are a few places within 2 or three runs you can get one pretty quickly. But yes, it still requires one to go thralling.
I have a clan mate that had his first encounter with a rocknose while mining iron. He’s talking fast and loud in chat, with no idea what he’s doing. We were telling him it was no big deal. He’s level 10 or so. The fight just kept going, and we could not figure out why.
He then announced that he had killed the beast, almost 10 minutes later. He had, no lie, killed the rocknose with a stone pick. That’s what I see when you talk about hand picking seeds for oil.
Recreational and sport fishing are fishing primarily for pleasure or competition. Recreational fishing has conventions, rules, licensing restrictions and laws that limit how fish may be caught; typically, these prohibit the use of nets and the catching of fish with hooks not in the mouth.
