After seeing AdmiralD's report I thought I'd do one to. This is a report of the fishing income I got after 1 hour of finishing, after the new changes Andrew implemented recently. To keep things consistent I will use the price points AdmiralD used if it doesn't have a sell hand price. Spoiler: Tower Test 1 Spoiler: Stats/Info Stats: Fishing level: 1007 Fishing rod: Star rod (No mending) Auto Erep: Yes Multitasking: No, Just listened to some music but wasn't watching anything while fishing. Method of fishing: Tower fishing. The crazy new looking one. Times Anti-cheat kicked me: 0 (Thank you Andrew!!) Exp: 10,035 (At 1$ per) = $10,035 Spoiler: Fish Raw Fish: 282 (At 20$ each) = $5,640 Raw Salmon: 114 (At 30$ each) = $3,420 Puffer Fish: 49 (At 40$ each) = $1,960 Clown Fish: 6 (At 50$ each) = $300 Total for Fish only: $11,320 Spoiler: Armor/Tools Iron Chest Plates: 13 (At .75$ each) $9.75 Iron Leggings: 4 (At .75$ each) $3 Iron Helmet: 6 (At .75$ each) $4.50 Iron Boots: 10 (At .75$ each) $7.50 Iron Hoe: 6 (At .75$ each) $4.50 Iron Pickaxe: 8 (At .75$ each) $6 Iron Sword: 3 (At .75$ each) $2.25 Iron Shovel: 3 (At .75$ each) $2.25 Iron Axe: 1 (At .75$ each) $0.75 Bow: 1 (No price) N/A Total for Armor/Tools only: $40.50 Spoiler: Other Iron Ingot: 4 (At 7.50$ each) $30 Gold Ingot: 4 (At 10$ each) $40 Lapis: 2 (At 3.75$ each) $7.50 Blaze Rod: 7 (At 1$ each) $7 Ender Pearl: 10 (At 3$ each) $30 Ghast Tear: 30 (At 10$ each) $300 Total for 'Other' items only: $414.50 Grand Total for 1 hour of fishing: $21,810 Thoughts/comments: ...I didn't realize how big a chunk exp was of the fishing profit. Now I know. Definitely don't put mending on star rods. Spoiler: Pond Test 1 Spoiler: Stats/Info Stats: Fishing Level: 1010 Fishing Rod: Star rod no mending Auto Erep: Yes Multitasking: No, just listening to music Method of fishing: Natural pond Times Anti-Cheat kicked me: 0 Exp: 9,430 (At 1$ per) = $9,430 Spoiler: Fish Raw Fish: 308 (At 20$ each) = $6,160 Raw Salmon: 79 (At 30$ each) = $2,370 Puffer Fish: 38 (At 40$ each) = $1,520 Clown Fish: 10 (At 50$ each) = $500 Total for Fish only: $10,550 Spoiler: Armor/Tools Iron Leggings: 8 (At .75$ each) $6 Iron Helmet: 10 (At .75$ each) $7.50 Iron Boots: 10 (At .75$ each) $7.50 Iron Chestplate: 6 (At .75$ each) $4.50 Iron Hoe: 1 (At .75$ each) $0.75 Iron Pickaxe: 4 (At .75$ each) $3 Iron Sword: 5 (At .75$ each) $3.75 Iron Shovel: 4 (At .75$ each) $3 Iron Axe: 1 (At .75$ each) $0.75 Bow: 2 (No price) N/A Total for Armor/Tools Only: $36.75 Spoiler: 'Other' Gold Ingot: 2 (At 10$ each) $20 Iron Ingot: 4 (At 7.50) = $30 Lapis: 3 (At 3.75$ each) $11.25 Blaze Rod: 2 (At 1$ each) $2 Ender Pearl: 8 (At 3$ each) $24 Ghast Tear: 35 (At 10$ each) $350 Total for 'Other' Only: $437.25 Grand Total for 1 hour of fishing: $20,454 Thoughts/Comments: I don't really notice a big difference between towers and ponds. Other than Ponds are more frustrating for me as the bobber hits the fish I reel in some times and sends them off into Narnia.
For anyone who says fish needs to increase in price, they should look at this. With exp, fishing is one of the best methods of grinding
Wow, almost twice per hour than what I earned... guessing it may be due to your mcmmo level? This is what makes it so very difficult for the server to balance prices. Without the junk I went from about 8-9k per hour to 11k per hour, but am worried now that I will be nerfed back to 8k due to the exp alone
Well theres a bit of a risk in exp making up so much of the profit too. If the market tanks and exp drops so will the star rod profits. Melons don't have that risk, tree farming doesn't. Pumpkin farming doesn't. Mining would be effected a bit but I think the star rod is the most reliant on the player market than the other farming tools. Though who knows, how many people have high fishing levels and fish regularly? We shall see what happens
Higher level fishing makes it so fish, as a food, restores more hunger than it otherwise would. It allows you a greater 'shake' chance to get loot, or heads from some mobs, off both passive and hostile mobs. There is a magic hunter thing, but so far the enchants you get are... of "indeterminate usefulness" to quote Kadala. And, it allows for the fishing up of ender pearls, ghast tears, blaze rods, lapis, iron ingots and gold ingots. No other item drops, besides the iron stuff, are currently enabled.
Another hour of fishing... this time at a tower. Statistically the same numbers so I will not repeat the list. $11451.25
Just added A pond test I did! To help find the fishing average Ill be repeating some of these tests and recording them here still. Everything will be nicely kept in spoilers though so the post doesn't become massive.
Yes, fishing in a river or ocean biome should increase your catch rate (I think, can't really trust a nub)
Per McMMO: Master Angler As of the 1.7 update, Master Angler is unlocked at level 125 (by default) and allows you to receive 2 different multipliers for your bite chance. By default your bite chance is 0.2% per tick. There are 20 ticks per second, but due to lag, ticks don't happen uniformly, and on laggier servers, one may have a harder time catching fish. You can multiply your bite chance by 2 by default by either being in a river or ocean biome, or being in a boat. These do stack, and your bite chance can go up to 0.8% because your bite chance was doubled twice. With rain, you can increase your bite chance even more. However, this is not active on ECC... or, at least it doesn't show when you check /fishing
KMax - have you had a chance to take an hour for statistics? I see nothing that explains the vast difference in XP between Strong and myself. Hoping that you, Mission, or Lady will contribute some ideas as that seems to be the largest difference in our numbers.
I haven't knuckled down and done nitty gritty numbers. I'll give that a try either tonight or tomorrow. I'll see if I have my max rod, too, to compare that vs the star rod.