Fishing (Dragon Quest Builders 2)

Fishing in Dragon Quest Builders 2 is available to players who bought the Aquarium DLC or play on PC or Xbox.

Overview

Fishing requires two things: a body of water and the fishing rod tool. The former can be found naturally in the game or created with the bottomless pot, while the later is obtained from Gillian after doing some quests for her.

Fishing is done via a mini-game that begins by casting the fishing rod into a large body of water. Three different fish will appear. One at random will begin swimming towards the bobber and bite hesitantly at it. The player can either press the confirm button early or press the same button they used to cast the rod to stop fishing before the fish bites down confidently. Failure to press the confirm button within a few seconds after a confident bite will result in the fish running away, and when the third fish runs away the Builder will be left with no fish while they stare blankly at the water. However, if the player presses the confirm button after a confident bite, they enter the second stage, and all other fish run away.

A bar will appear, with "Escape!" on the right side and "Catch!" on the left. If the player presses the confirm button fast enough, the game considers it a "PERFECT HIT!" and a fish icon appears somewhere in the middle of the bar, but if the player is too late, it registers as a regular "HIT!" and the fish will appear further to the right. The fish icon will slowly swim to the right side. Sometimes, there will be text underneath the bar that says "It's a big one!" and battle music will play - these fish are harder to catch, moving faster and also struggling. If it is a normal fish, the player must rapidly press the confirm button to reel the fish in, as without doing so, the fish slowly slips away. If it is "a big one", occasionally it will turn red and move extremely quickly. The player must hold down the confirm button to stop it, and when it turns back to normal the player can return to spamming the confirm button..

All the catches can be displayed in bodies of water with their preferred water type (otherwise they will swim for a little bit and pop right out as an item) with a maximum of 50 fish displayed per island.

After the Builder obtains the fishing rod from Gillian, the toughie and elder npc villagers will fish in any body of water, and they will put their catches in nearby chests. This includes the named toughie npc villagers like Digby or Gillian too.

Catching all 40 different species unlocks the Marine Monument recipe.

Fishing

Each fish has four values that determine where it can spawn: water type, size, island, and specific location.

• Fish only live in the four water types: fresh water, muddy water, seawater and hot water. They cannot live in the other liquid types (poison, lava and plasma).
• The size refers to the size of the shadows that appear when fishing. There are four possible sizes: small, medium, large and gigantic.
• The island refers to the general location it can be fished in.
• Some species can only be fished in very specific locations or under specific situations, like the Angelfish being only catchable in the underground lake in Khrumbul-Dun's mines. Some species spawns are determined by the map tile you're fishing on. Map tiles cover an area of 32x32 blocks, and depending on the block type, the minimap will display a kind of tile or another.

Additionally, each species comes in three sizes: standard, big (★) and "whopping great" (★★). This secondary size value is independent of the fish's species shadow size that determines spawns, and is mostly for decoration purposes. For small fish, the "whopping great" size will show the text "It's a big one!", and for medium fish, both the big and "whopping great" sizes will show this text. For some large fish, all three sizes will show this text. However, some food recipes like the smoked salmon can be made in better quality by using big or whopping great ingredients. Note that while any size will count for unlocking the Marine Monument statue (catching all fish types), only the standard size for each species counts towards filling the Builderpedia recipe section in.

Fish list

The following list does not provide every location for each species, but their most common or even unique location in some cases.

Image	Name	Water type	Size	Islands	Details
	Angelfish	Fresh water	Small	Khrumbul-Dun	Fish in the underground lake.
	Anglerfish	Sea water	Medium	Furrowfield Moonbrooke	FF Fish in deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile. MB Fish in shallow sea water, from any rocky tile.
	Arowana	Hot water	Large	Isle of Awakening	Fish in hot water.
	Bass	Muddy water	Medium	Isle of Awakening	Fish in muddy water.
	Blowfish	Sea water	Medium	Moonbrooke	Fish in deep sea water, in the northernmost part of the island. Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Blue Betta	Fresh water Hot water	Small	Isle of Awakening Khrumbul-Dun Moonbrooke	IoA Fish in hot water. KD Fish in fresh water, not in the underground lake. MB Fish around the Shrine of Rendarak.
	Blue Queen	Sea water	Medium	Khrumbul-Dun	Fish in shallow sea water. Fish in deep sea water, from any rocky tile.
	Blue Tang	Sea water Hot water	Medium	Furrowfield Moonbrooke	Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Carp	Fresh water	Medium	Furrowfield Moonbrooke	FF Fish in fresh water. MB Fish in fresh water, but not in the frozen river.
	Clownfish	Sea water Hot water	Small	Isle of Awakening Furrowfield Angler's Isle	Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Coelacanth	Fresh water	Gigantic	Moonbrooke	Fish around the Shrine of Rendarak.
	Colourful Carp	water	Large	Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun Moonbrooke	FF Fish in fresh water. KD Fish in the underground lake. MB Fish in fresh water, but not in Rendarak nor the frozen river.
	Flounder	Sea water	Medium	Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun	Fish in deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Goldfish	Fresh water	Small	Isle of Awakening Moonbrooke	IoA Fish in fresh water. MB Fish in fresh water, but not in Rendarak nor the frozen river.
	Halibut	Sea water	Medium	Moonbrooke Gurgling Lagoon	MB Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile. GL Fish in shallow sea water or deep sea water.
	Humphead Wrasse	Sea water	Large	Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun	FF Fish in shallow sea water, from any rocky tile. KD Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Jellyfish	Sea water	Medium	Khrumbul-Dun Moonbrooke	KD Fish in deep sea water, from ay non-rocky tile. MB Fish in shallow sea water or deep sea water.
	King Salmon	Fresh water Sea water	Large	Moonbrooke	Fish in the frozen river, under the large bridge in the east.
	Lake Trout	Fresh water	Small	Moonbrooke	Fish in fresh water, but not in Rendarak.
	Lemontail	Fresh water Muddy water	Small	Isle of Awakening Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun	IoA, FF Fish in muddy water. KD Fish in fresh water, but not in the underground lake.
	Mackerel	Sea water	Medium	Isle of Awakening Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun Angler's Isle	IoA Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile. FF Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile. KD Fish in shallow sea water. AI Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Manta Ray	Sea water	Gigantic	Moonbrooke	Fish in deep sea water, in the northernmost part of the island.
	Marlin	Sea water	Gigantic	Khrumbul-Dun Moonbrooke	Fish in deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Moonfish	Sea water	Large	Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun	Fish in deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Nautilus	Sea water	Large	Gurgling Lagoon	Fish in shallow sea water.
	Neon Tetra	Fresh water	Small	Isle of Awakening Khrumbul-Dun	IoA Fish in hot water. KD Fish in fresh water, but not in the underground lake.
	Pink Queen	Sea water	Small	Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun	FF Fish around the old Deitree's island. FF Fish in deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile. KD Fish in shallow sea water, from and non-rocky tile.
	Piranha	Muddy water	Small	Isle of Awakening Moonbrooke	Fish in muddy water.
	Rainbow Trout	Sea water	Medium	Isle of Awakening Khrumbul-Dun Moonbrooke	IoA Fish in fresh water. KD Fish in the underground lake. MB Fish in the frozen river.
	Red Betta	Fresh water Hot water	Medium	Isle of Awakening Khrumbul-Dun Moonbrooke	IoA Fish in hot water. KD Fish in fresh water, but not in the underground lake. MB Fish around the Shrine of Rendarak.
	Red Snapper	Sea water	Medium	Furrowfield Moonbrooke Gurgling Lagoon	FF Fish around the old Deitree's island. MB Fish in shallow or deep sea water. GL Fish in shallow sea water.
	Rockfish	Sea water	Medium	Isle of Awakening Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun Angler's Isle	IoA Fish in shallow sea water, from any rocky tile. FF Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any rocky tile. KD Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any rocky tile. AI Fish in shallow sea water, from any rocky tile.
	Salmon	Sea water	Medium	Furrowfield Moonbrooke	FF Fish around the old Deitree's island. MB Fish in fresh water, including the frozen river. MB Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Seahorse	Sea water	Small	Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun	Fish in shallow of deep sea water, from any rocky tile.
	Squid	Sea water	Medium	Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun Moonbrooke	FF Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile. KD Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any rocky tile. MB Fish in shallow sea water, from any rocky tile.
	Striped Beakfish	Sea water	Medium	Isle of Awakening Furrowfield Khrumbul-Dun Angler's Isle	IoA Fish in shallow sea water, from any rocky tile. FF Fish in deep sea water, from any rocky tile. KD Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any rocky tile. AI Fish in shallow sea water, from any rocky tile.
	Stripy Salmon	Fresh water	Small	Moonbrooke	Fish around the Shrine of Rendarak.
	Sunfish	Sea water	Gigantic	Isle of Awakening Furrowfield Moonbrooke Angler's Isle	IoA Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile. FF Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile. MB Fish in shallow or deep sea water, from any rocky tile. AI Fish in shallow sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Tuna	Sea water	Large	Moonbrooke	Fish in deep sea water, from any non-rocky tile.
	Whale Shark	Sea water	Gigantic	Furrowfield	Fish around the old Deitree's island.

IoA = Isle of Awakening, FF = Furrowfield, KD = Khrumbul-Dun, MB = Moonbrooke, AI = Angler's Isle, GL = Gurgling Lagoon

Trivia

• Unlike in Dragon Quest X or the first Builders game, only aquatic animals can be caught when fishing in Builders 2.