Fishing in the open worlds

Fishing is a calm side activity in the open worlds. You throw a spear at fish in the water and then bring your catch to the vendor in town. There you trade the fish for standing or have them cut into fish parts. You need those parts for many blueprints, for example Zaws, Kitguns, Amps and even whole Warframes.

The key terms in short:

Fishing spear

Your fishing tool. You buy it from the fish vendor and use it as gear. Different spears suit different fish.

Bait

A consumable you throw into the water. It attracts certain fish. Rare fish on the Plains only show up with the right bait.

Hotspot

A special spot in the water. On the Plains you see white, circling bubbles, in the Orb Vallis and on Deimos a greenish shimmering patch. Bait works here.

Servofish

The fish in the Orb Vallis are Corpus and Orokin robots. You catch them best with a shock spear.

Exocrine

The thick Infested mass in the Cambion Drift. Only Daughter’s spears can pierce it.

Cutting

The vendor cuts your fish open. You get common parts like Fish Meat plus one special part that only this species has.

Luminous Dye

A tool from Fisher Hai-Luk. It colors the water so the fish glow brightly and are easier to see.

• Standing: Fisher Hai-Luk (Ostron) and The Business (Solaris United) trade whole fish directly for standing. Rare fish give up to 2,000 standing each.
• Resources for blueprints: Fish parts are in many open world blueprints. Without them you will not get far with Zaws, Kitguns, MOAs, Amps and Necramechs.
• Ranking up: Rank 2 with the Ostron, for example, needs 60 Fish Scales.
• Decoration: Every vendor sells trophy blueprints you can place in your Orbiter.

A few examples of what the parts are used for:

World	Fish parts	Used for
Plains of Eidolon	Fish Scales, Fish Oil, Norg Brain, Murkray Liver, Tralok Eyes, Mortus Horn, Sharrac Teeth	Zaw parts like Balla or Jai, Amp parts (prism, scaffold, brace), Grendel, Caliban, Vasca Curative for a Vasca Kavat
Orb Vallis	Scrap, Synathid Ecosynth Analyzer, Charamote Sagan Module, Tromyzon Entroplasma, Eye-Eye Rotoblade	Kitgun parts, MOA parts, Amp parts, parts for Baruuk and Yareli, the Oxylus sentinel
Cambion Drift	Ferment Bladder, Spinal Core Section, Cranial Foremount, Saturated Muscle Mass, Sporulate Sac, Pustulent Cognitive Nodule	Necramechs (Voidrig, Bonewidow), antigens and mutagens for Predasites and Vulpaphylas, Infested Kitguns, Helminth Segment, parts for Xaku
Duviri	Nacreous Pebble, Ariette Scale, Maw Fang	Kullervo and some Duviri weapons

1. 01

   Earn some standing

   The first spear costs 500 standing. Run one or two bounties in that world for it, for example with Konzu in Cetus.

2. 02

   Buy a spear

   Go to the fish vendor and buy a spear. On the Plains the Lanzo or Peram Fishing Spear, in the Orb Vallis the Shockprod Fishing Spear, on Deimos the Spari Spear. Add a few cheap baits and some Luminous Dye.

3. 03

   Equip the spear

   Open the Arsenal and put a spear into a gear slot. One is enough: every other spear, bait and dye you own can be picked straight from the fishing menu later.

4. 04

   Go to the water

   Find a lake, pond, the coast or a cave with water. Pull out the spear through the gear wheel (default: hold Q). Only now do fish start to spawn.

5. 05

   Aim and throw

   Hold the right mouse button to aim. The surroundings go quiet and you can hear the fish splashing. Throw with the left mouse button.

6. 06

   Turn in your catch

   Back in town you trade the fish for standing at the vendor or have them cut.

• On the Plains each spear suits different fish. The Lanzo is good for smooth fish like Charc Eel, Goopolla, Murkray or Cuthol. The Peram is for scaly fish like Mawfish, Norg or Glappid. You need the Tulok for the armored Tralok.
• You can catch Servofish with Cetus spears too, but they get damaged and then give less standing and fewer parts.
• Daughter’s spears also work on the Plains: the Ebisu behaves like the Lanzo, the Spari like the Tulok.

• The spear flies in a slight arc and takes a moment to arrive. Aim a bit above the fish and a little ahead of it, in the direction it swims.
• Watch the fish names that appear over the water while you aim. That way you know what you are looking at.
• Do not walk into the water and do not throw wildly. Scared fish flee, and scaring them too often makes them disappear entirely.
• Luminous Dye makes every fish nearby glow brightly. That helps a lot at night and in murky water.
• One bait per hotspot is enough. You do not have to hit the bubbles exactly, close is fine. The bait lasts up to three minutes.
• You are defenseless while fishing. Clear out nearby enemies first or fish with a squad.

Shock spears in the Orb Vallis: Once you hit a Servofish, a bar appears with a marker moving back and forth. Press fire when the marker is inside the small red zone. The fish is stunned and you pull it out. If you miss the zone, you stagger and the fish escapes.

On the Plains the time of day matters. A cycle lasts about 150 minutes: 100 minutes of day, 50 minutes of night. There are three kinds of water: the big lake right north of Cetus, the many small ponds, and the ocean coast to the left and right of the gate.

The most valuable fish only show up with the right bait at a hotspot:

• Every Plains fish gives Fish Meat, Fish Scales and Fish Oil when cut, plus its special part, e.g. Norg Brain from the Norg or Seram Beetle Shell from the Glappid.
• Common fish like Mawfish, Charc Eel or Goopolla give only 25 to 50 standing. They are still worth it for Fish Scales and Fish Oil.
• You buy bait from Hai-Luk with standing. The rarer the fish, the higher the rank you need.

Instead of real fish, the Orb Vallis has Servofish swimming in coolant. Instead of day and night the weather changes: about 6 minutes 40 seconds warm, then 20 minutes cold. Fishing spots are the big lake right outside the Fortuna elevator, ponds, and caves with coolant.

Servofish come in three quality grades. You tell them apart by the number of attachments, not by size. Every species can appear without bait, but the matching bait makes it far more likely.

• Cutting always gives Scrap and the species’ special part, e.g. Synathid Ecosynth Analyzer or Tromyzon Entroplasma.
• The Stunna Fishing Spear also stuns every Servofish nearby on a successful shock.
• Common Servofish like Scrubber, Tink or Brickie are attracted by the cheap Broad-Spectrum Bait.

On Deimos the two wyrms Fass and Vome decide which fish are out. Fass is active for 100 minutes, Vome for 50, at the same time as day and night on the Plains. The fish swim on the surface or in caves through the exocrine. Daughter’s spears hit them inside it, other spears only when they jump out of the mass.

You collect the basic bait yourself: while Vome is active you find Fass Residue in orange zones, while Fass is active Vome Residue lies around. The processed bait for rare fish is sold by Daughter.

Fish	Where	When	Bait (rank)	Special part
Myxostomata	Cave, hotspot	Vome	Processed Vome Residue (4)	Cranial Foremount
Aquapulmo	Surface, hotspot	Vome	Processed Fass Residue (3)	Biotic Filter, Pustulent Cognitive Nodule
Flagellocanth	Surface, hotspot	Fass and Vome	Processed Fass Residue (3)	Ocular Stem-Root
Chondricord	Cave, hotspot	Fass and Vome	Vome Residue	Spinal Core Section
Duroid	Cave, hotspot	Fass and Vome	Vome Residue	Biotic Filter

In Duviri you do not fish with a spear. Instead, you find platforms near the water that let you control the Golden Maw, a giant worm, for a short time. With it you snap up as many fish as you can before the timer runs out. This only works in The Duviri Experience.

• From 10 fish you get fishing resources like Nacreous Pebble, Ariette Scale and Maw Fang, with 15 fish you get more.
• If you catch 15 fish on your first feeding in a Duviri run, you also get a live fish for the aquarium in your Orbiter.

More about Duviri in Duviri and the Circuit.

• Before fishing, always check whether it is day or night, warm or cold, Fass or Vome. You can see the current cycle on the Star Chart.
• Do not hand in common fish for standing without thinking. Many parts need large amounts of Fish Scales, Fish Oil or Scrap.
• Keep some special parts from rare fish. They are often needed for strong Amp and Kitgun parts.
• Fishing goes well with Mining in the open worlds and Conservation: capturing animals in the open worlds: all three happen in the same open worlds and give standing with the same syndicates.
• General tips on farming resources are in Resource farming: get there faster.