A fishing system is on its way to SL Colonies: over a hundred real species across the realms, a fight you play from your own HUD, rare fish that move from realm to realm each week, and record boards for the heaviest catches. Before the first line goes in the water, the bait is ready, and some of it you can start stocking up on today.
Worms and maggots from the Compost Bin
Every compost batch now has a chance to leave bait behind. When you collect fertilizer, rich compost, sulphur mulch or fine sulphur mulch, six batches in ten turn up 5 to 10 bait worms or maggots as well: worms about twice as often as maggots. Nothing changes about the compost itself; the bait is a bonus on top.
Worms and maggots are the everyday baits for fresh water, and they will also feed the bait tanks that are coming for anglers.
Peat moss, a new Compost Bin recipe
Peat moss: 10 dung and 10 reed make 10, in 35 hours, at level 0. A handful lowers the pH of a bait tank, so it is the Farmer’s to sell to anglers once the tanks arrive.
Six new recipes at the Cooking Station
All six are level 1 recipes at the Cooking Station, two minutes each:
| Recipe | Makes | From |
|---|---|---|
| Sweetcorn bait | 10 | 4 corn |
| Cut bait | 10 | 2 herring |
| Shrimp bait | 10 | 3 prawn |
| Squid strips | 10 | 1 common squid |
| Peeler crab | 4 | 1 brown crab |
| Fish feed | 10 | 3 wheat and 1 anchovy |
Sweetcorn bait, cut bait, shrimp bait and fish feed can be cooked today from ingredients already in the game. Squid strips and peeler crab are ready for the day fishing opens: common squid and brown crab come from the sea. Fish feed is for salt-water bait tanks.
Each bait is taken by its own kinds of fish, so a cook who keeps a few kinds on the shelf will have something for every angler. The Cooking Station also now lists fish in your inventory, so the catch can go straight into the pot.
Where to find it all
- Cooking Station recipes: the six new recipes are on the list.
- Compost Bin recipes: peat moss is on the list.
- Fishing in SL Colonies: a first look at the fishing system, what is biting where, and how to start when it opens.
More on fishing soon: the Fisherman Master and his bait and lures, the rods, and the bait tanks.