What every catch gives you, the soulbound Tidecaller Rod with its forms, tokens and six upgrade paths, Fishing skill and collection rewards, and Halloween candy from fishing.
Fishing pays more than fish. Every catch counts for your Fishing collection and levels your Fishing skill. With the Tidecaller Rod it also earns tokens for a rod that gets stronger the more you fish.
Any rod works for the basics
Collection progress, Fishing skill XP and Halloween candy come from every catch, with any fishing rod. Rod XP and the rod effects need your own Tidecaller Rod in your hand.
What a catch gives you
Every catch that brings up an item does three things for you:
It counts for the collection of that item, if it has one.
It gives Fishing skill XP for the items in the table below.
From season tier VIII of a Fishing collection you catch extra items of that type, rising to +8% at tier XII.
Catch
Fishing skill XP
Cod
3
Salmon
4
Tropical Fish
8
Pufferfish
8
Nautilus Shell
25
Heart of the Sea
120
All other catches give no Fishing skill XP. Mending is removed from enchanted books and gear you fish up.
The Tidecaller Rod
The Tidecaller Rod is a fishing rod you cannot craft. It starts in the form Weathered and grows with every catch: catches give rod XP, rod XP gives tokens, and tokens buy upgrades.
How to get it
Crate
Rarity
Chance per opening
Dragon Crate
Mythic
about 0.30%
Season Crate
Legendary
about 0.33%
The rod is bound to the player who opens the crate. In Myra's Academy, the pond station lends you a Tidecaller Rod for the lesson and takes it back afterwards.
Soulbound
The rod belongs to you alone:
Only you can pick it up.
It never goes into a chest, barrel, shulker box or hopper. Your Ender Chest is fine.
You cannot rename, repair, enchant, grind, smith or craft with it, and the forge refuses it.
It is unbreakable and has Unbreaking III.
Rod XP and rod effects only count when you, the owner, hold the rod in your main hand or off hand.
Rod XP and tokens
Catch
Rod XP
Cod
2
Salmon
3
Tropical Fish, Pufferfish
4
Bow, Enchanted Book, Name Tag, Saddle
12
Nautilus Shell
15
Heart of the Sea
80
Anything else
6
The first token needs 120 rod XP. Every next token needs 35 rod XP more than the one before: 155, 190, 225 and so on. Catches worth 8 rod XP or more count as rare catches in the rod menu.The Angler boost gives +25% rod XP for 30 minutes. You get it from the vote shop and the Vote Crate. All rod XP boosts together stop at +50%.
Forms
The form follows every token the rod has ever earned, spent or not.
Form
Tokens earned
Rod XP in total
Weathered
0
0
Pearlbound
5
950
Mariner
15
5,475
Abyssal
35
25,025
Tidecaller
70
92,925
A higher form raises the base Ancient Cache chance, Luck of the Sea, the bonus fish and storm hook chances, and shortens the instant cast recharge.
The upgrade menu
Hold the rod in your main hand and type /island fishingrod. The top card shows the form, tokens ready and spent, your catches (total and rare), your instant casts and the progress to the next token. Below are the six paths. A path you can afford glows; click it to buy the next level.
Upgrade to level
Token cost
1 to 3
1 each
4 to 6
2 each
7 to 9
3 each
10
4
Maxing all six paths costs 92 tokens.
Path
Levels
What it does
Current
10
1 more instant cast every 3 levels, 4 s shorter recharge per level, +1 Lure every 4 levels
Fortune
8
+4.5% bonus fish chance per level; +1 fish, +2 from level 4, +3 from level 7
Treasure
10
+0.18% Ancient Cache chance per level, +1 Luck of the Sea every 4 levels
Depth
8
Better cache grade at level 4 and 8, +0.07% cache chance per level, rarer storm hooks
Storm
6
+2.5% storm hook chance per level, bigger hooks at level 3 and 5
Renewal
6
Unlocks the Tidebound Mending book, higher chance per level
Rod effects
Effect
New rod
Tidecaller form, all paths maxed
Instant casts
1 cast, 72 s recharge
4 casts, 20 s recharge
Enchantments
Lure I, Luck of the Sea I
Lure III, Luck of the Sea V
Bonus fish
1% for +1
41% for +3
Ancient Cache
0.20%, Genesis
3.36%, Voidsteel
Storm hook
0.4%
17%
Tidebound Mending
-
0.42%
Instant cast: while you have charges, a cast gets a bite almost at once. When the last charge is used, the recharge starts. During the recharge you fish normally.
Bonus fish: only on Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish and Pufferfish.
Ancient Cache: goes into your inventory, or drops at your feet when it is full. The grade is Genesis, Ancient or Voidsteel. Brush it open like any other cache.
Storm hook: an extra Kelp, Prismarine Shard, Prismarine Crystals or Nautilus Shell. Without Depth it is Kelp 52%, Prismarine Shard 26%, Prismarine Crystals 16% and Nautilus Shell 6%. Every Depth level shifts it towards the rarer items: at Depth 8 Nautilus Shell is 22%. Kelp comes as 3 to 5, Shards and Crystals as 1 to 3, depending on your Storm level.
Tidebound Mending: an enchanted book with Mending I. Each Depth level adds 0.008% to its chance.
The rod's item text shows all of this with your current numbers: form, enchantments, the odds of every effect, your path levels, rod XP and tokens.
Fishing skill
Fishing is one of the seven skills. Its first level needs 160 XP, so a Fishing level costs about 15% of the XP of the same Mining level. Every level gives +0.1% luck, up to +5% at level 50, where you also earn the title Master Angler. Luck improves your Lucky Block rolls.
At Fishing level 20 you unlock the Angler Power for your accessories: +10% luck before Magical Power. The coin and crate key rewards per level are the same as for every skill.
Fishing collection
The Fishing category has 12 collections: Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish, Pufferfish, Prismarine Crystals, Ink Sac, Glow Ink Sac, Nautilus Shell, Sea Pickle, Turtle Scute, Sponge and Heart of the Sea. Your category level is the sum of their tiers.
Category level
Reward
10
50,000 coins and 1 Vote Crate key
25
150,000 coins, 1 Vote Crate key and the Nautilus Ring
50
400,000 coins, 1 Void Crate key, the title Fishing Collector, a badge, the Leviathan Relic and a cosmetic
There are also five Fishing achievements, from 100 to 50,000 fish caught.
Halloween candy
While the Halloween event runs, every catch has a 2% chance for 1 to 2 candy, with any rod. During Spukstunde or Kürbisregen on the island you fish on, you get more candy per drop. Candy bonuses from Halloween gear and accessories do not count for fishing.
Fishing without moving
You can fish standing still. Only a long session with no movement and almost no camera movement brings up the anti-AFK check, the same as for mining. It never gives you a strike or a ban on its own.
Commands
Command
What it does
/island fishingrod
Opens the upgrade menu of the Tidecaller Rod in your main hand
/island skills
Opens your skills, Fishing included
/island collections
Opens your collections, Fishing included
/island menu
The Tidecaller Rod entry is in Gear and Tools
/is, /ob and /oneblock work in place of /island.
Bedrock
On Bedrock the rod upgrade menu opens as a normal chest menu, and you click the paths the same way. /island skills opens a Bedrock form.
Tips
My rod gets no XP
Hold the rod in your main hand or off hand, and make sure it is your own. A rod bound to someone else gives you no rod XP and no effects.
Which path should I take first?
Current makes fishing faster with instant casts. Fortune gives more fish per catch. Treasure is the way to Ancient Caches. Renewal is the only way to get Mending from fishing.
Why can I not put my rod into a chest?
The Tidecaller Rod is soulbound. Use your Ender Chest instead.
Does the rod help with Halloween candy?
No. Candy from fishing is 2% per catch with any rod.
