Big news, folks: Terraria has made its fish visible after 12 years
Dec. 1, 2023Now you can confidently reel in a big one
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“We are not sure how the fish in Terraria stayed invisible all this time,” Re-Logic developer Loki wrote in the thread, “but now you can see what you might be reeling in while fishing!” A brief, looping GIF demonstrates what this looks like in action.
In the rain, a player approaches a blue body of water. He drops in his fishing line and, as his lure dangles on the water’s surface, several fish start to congregate. Through the water, you can see their assorted silhouettes compete for the bait until one relatively tall one wins out. The player yanks his line, and the screen announces he’s caught some bass.
Previously, the fishing experience was more secretive than that. Players would plop their lines into totally opaque pools of water, honey, and lava, and they will continue to do so after the 1.4.5 update. But they’d experience exactly zero indicators of whether or not they had snared a fish or garbage, or, if theyhadcaught a fish, what kind it was. Whilesonar potions(8-minute-long buffs that announced names of hooked fish) provided temporary reprieves from fishing obscurity, Re-Logic’s new decision to make all fish permanently visible should help players perform the mini-game more effectively.
Until then, spend time with10 other games likeTerraria.
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Ashley Bardhan is a critic from New York who covers gaming, culture, and other things people like. She previously wrote Inverse’s award-winning Inverse Daily newsletter. Then, as a Kotaku staff writer and Destructoid columnist, she covered horror and women in video games. Her arts writing has appeared in a myriad of other publications, including Pitchfork, Gawker, and Vulture.
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