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  • Building A Fish Pond
  • Raising Fish In A Pond
  • Removing/Changing The Fish In The Pond
  • Pond Decorations

Every bit yous work your way upward in Stardew Valley, you lot begin to consider building things you might have overlooked before. New buildings from Robin allow you lot to create Artisan Goods, have your very own horse, and more! The Fish Pond is something that's, honestly, not terribly expensive — players might overlook it because they're so preoccupied with just managing their first patch of crops and a few chickens.Slowly, however, you'll gain access to items that automize much of the farming process and yous'll eventually have enough fourth dimension to investigate and build in these new contraptions. If you're new to the world of Fish Ponds, thhere's no need to worry! This guide has all the information yous'll need and more than.

Building A Fish Pond

Stardew Valley Fish Pond Building Requirements

You can build a Fish Pond by talking to Robin at her shop in the mountains.

Edifice Materials Required:

  • v,000g
  • 200 Stone
  • 5 Seaweed
  • v Green Algae

It'll take up a 5x5 space on your farm, then make certain you've cleared enough room before going to visit Robin! She'll have two days to build it.

Raising Fish In A Pond

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In one case your fish pond has been completed, add together fish by approaching with the fish in hand and interacting with it. After that, interacting with the swimming will bring upwards its menu and testify you how many fish live in that location, what the maximum number of fish is, and how happy they are.

Fish live in the pond and slowly reproduce, creating more than fish! All fish can live in a Fish Pond, with a few exceptions:

  • Legend
  • Legend II
  • Mutant Carp
  • Radioactive Carp
  • Crimsonfish
  • Son of Crimsonfish
  • Glacierfish
  • Glacierfish Jr.
  • Angler
  • Ms. Angler
  • Clam

Quests

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Every and so ofttimes, the fish in your Fish Ponds will give yous a quest, noted past an exclamation mark symbol over the pond. Quests will only spawn when a Fish Pond is at maximum capacity. The fish will inquire you to bring them a particular item or items. These may be easy to locate, like Acorns, Coal, or White Algae, or they may be rarer, such as Dried Starfish, Diamonds, or Dwarf Scrolls.

Unfortunately, at that place's no manner to modify the detail once it's been determined. Reloading, fishing a fish out and letting the pond repopulate, and all other methods have always returned the same particular request.

By completing quests for the fish, you'll be able to increase the maximum number of fish in the pond, upwardly to a maximum of ten fish. The only exception to this dominion is the Tiger Trout, which does not reproduce. You'll be able to add ten Tiger Trout from the start.

Production

Stardew Valley Fish Pond on River Farm
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Fish produce items overtime in the chum bucket on the border of the swimming. Most fish produce Roe, simply certain species have a small risk of producing other items as well! You may demand to have a certain fish population to get them, however.

Aging Roe In Preserves Jars

Stardew Valley Fish Pond Farm (gameplay screenshot)
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Roe, which fish produce more than any other particular, tin can be preserved and turned into Aged Roe (or Caviar, if the Roe is from a Sturgeon) — an Artisan Skilful that sells for a much college cost! To create them, just make a Preserves Jar and interact with it while property the Roe; it'll exist taken out of your inventory to process.

  • Aged Roe must be processed for 4,000 minutes (3-4 days)
  • Caviar must be candy for 6,000 minutes (v-6 days)

The price of Roe and Aged Roe depends on the fish'south base of operations price. Roe sells for 60g + the fish'due south base toll. Anile Roe sells for 2 x Roe Price. Caviar sells for a apartment 500g. The prices of Caviar and Aged Roe are increased by xl% if you lot have the Artisan Profession, also.

Removing/Changing The Fish In The Swimming

Stardew Valley Fish Ponds split image (fishing in pond on left, pond menu on right)

To take fish out of your pond, all you lot need is your trusty fishing rod. Just cast into it and wait for i of your pets to bite! It's a reliable manner to take a sustainable supply of certain rarer populations — though certain fish reproduce slower than others. The quickest that fish reproduce is every solar day and the slowest is every 4 days.

If you want to switch the species of your Fish Pond, you'll need to empty it, first. You lot can practise this past interacting with the pond and clicking the appropriate push button on the right-hand side. However, you lot should catch all the fish that are currently in the pond. Emptying it through the card volition not catch them for you and they'll be deleted from the game. Once you've caught them all, you still need to collaborate with the menu and click "Empty Pond" to ready the swimming back to neutral. Otherwise, it won't allow you put any fish in there unless they are the same species as earlier.

Pond Decorations

Stardew Valley Fish Ponds split image (coloured ponds on left, different pond decorations on right)

There are three ways you can consider decorating your pond.

First, and well-nigh basic, yous tin interact with the pond afterward adding at to the lowest degree one fish. On the correct-hand side, there'southward a button that allows you to toggle the swimming-side decorations between a few key designs.

Second, you can add any sign (including a Sign Of The Vessel) on the left-hand corner of the swimming. Once there, the sign will display the type of fish and the number currently in the swimming.

Finally, four fish are capable of irresolute the colour of the water in the Fish Pond! Lava Eels turn the water red one time yous've completed their showtime quest. The other fish modify the water'south colour once their population reaches 3; Super Cucumbers plough the water light purple, Void Salmons change information technology to be nighttime purple, and Slimejacks get in green!

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