40d Talk:Fishing

Most of this was taken from the old wiki as it all seems applicable here. Whether or not fish can be depleted or not I do not know - at this point it seems that the turtle supply is endless.--Decanter 05:03, 7 November 2007 (EST)

I had a 'there is nothing to catch in the swamps' message a few times. so it is possible to deplete all the fish in a pond, but haven't been able to get rid of all the fish. --Soyweiser 06:40, 7 November 2007 (EST)

Does anyone with more experience than I know what make (or made) Carp so dangerous? In 0.27.169.33a and previous, swimming creatures would gain incredible attributes due to gaining experience by swimming all the time, which would obviously make combat more dangerous. In the latest version (0.27.169.33b) though, innate swimmers no longer gain swim skill, which sounds like it would make fish rather less dangerous.--Kmgraba 22:37, 18 November 2007 (EST)

Useful stuff to add to article.

Are brooks fishable? Streams? Are swamps depleted permanently or temporarily? Runspotrun 09:24, 13 November 2007 (EST)

Brooks are fishable and can be depleted. Swamps, brooks and artificial underground lakes are depleted temporarily. When any biome becomes depleted - a fishing zone anywhere near the water in that biome shows that there are 0 (zero) squares suitable for fishing.

Also of notice is that the swamp will only repopulate with turtles/whatever was there in the first time even if you connect it to brook with other fish by a channel.

My question now is whether the amount to be fished out before depletion is correlated with the amount of tiles with water or does every biome have a fixed amount preset on map generation?--Another 11:07, 13 November 2007 (EST)

I'd have to say it's at least partially connected to the amount of water; I have 3 different fortresses right now and the one with the fewest lakes definitely gets depleted more commonly, and faster, than the rest of the maps. I haven't ruled out the confound of the biome itself; perhaps there is a larger amount on biomes like swamp, and they also have more water. Anyone know if making lakes larger, or making your own artificial lakes helps with depletion? -Gotthard

Frozen rivers

Can you fish a frozen river / lake?GarrieIrons 00:21, 6 January 2008 (EST)

Fishing in caves

Is it a problem to fish in a underwater lake filled with snakemen and lizardmen? I'd guess they could be fished and kill off the dwarf... I kinda wanta catch em like pokemon.--Seaneat 15:33, 3 July 2008 (EDT)