23a:Fishing

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Fishing
Skills used
Template:L
Tasks
Fish Work at Template:L

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Fishing is the Template:L used to catch Template:L. It is a good source of food (and some raw materials) in the early game, though somewhat dangerous. Its usefulness diminishes somewhat as your fortress grows, superseded by Template:L.

Making a Dwarf a Fisherdwarf

1. Specify your dwarf to be a fisher via view, pref, labor.
2. Select "Fishing" using + or -, press enter - it may be located on the second page of jobs.

Unlike Template:L, fishing is done without any tools.

Any dwarf with the Template:L labor enabled will fish, either in the Template:L, an outside river, or the Template:Ls. Fisherdwarves can catch various kinds of Template:L, as well as other aquatic creatures like turtles. Turtles can be very useful to a starting fortress, since eating them uncooked leaves behind bone and shell which your Template:L can use to make trade goods, armour, and ammunition. Skilled Template:L can produce a really immense amount of turtles.

Cooking

Fish cannot be eaten as soon as it is caught; it must be cleaned in a Template:L first.

Note: The game considers fishing a very high-priority labor, meaning that your fisherdwarf will spend most of their time fishing, usually at the expense of more urgent tasks that need doing. This means if you make your fisherdwarf a Template:L as well, the job will never get done and the raw fish will be left in your food Template:L (or on the ground where it was caught, if you do not have one) and will simply rot.

Dangers

Outdoor Fishing

Fishing from the swamps or the outdoor river can draw your dwarves far away from the safety of the fortress. If your map has a lot of dangerous wildlife, you may want to consider assigning guard dogs to your fisherdwarf, or post a military squad near the designated fishing zone.

Underground Fishing

High amounts of fishing from the Template:L may draw the attention of its inhabitants, leading to Template:L and Template:L attacks which can endanger not only your fisherdwarves but your entire population. Additionally, since fisherdwarves go fishing at the beginning of each season, they are at risk of being swept away to drown when the cave river overflows.

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Mining • Wood cutting • Carpentry • Masonry • Stone detailing • Animal training • Animal care • Health care • Fish cleaning • Fish dissection • Butchery • Leatherworking • Tanning • Farming (fields)
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Clothesmaking • Milling • Hunting • Brewing • Plant gathering • Farming (workshop) • Cooking • Trapping • Stone hauling • Wood hauling • Item hauling • Burial • Food hauling • Refuse hauling
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