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Your builder has quite a lot to keep up with in My Time at Sandrock, but if you’d like to find new cooking ingredients and source some of the best gifts for certain townsfolk, sandfishing is the way to go. You’ll make traps and use bait to lure desert fish from their sand pits and use them for all sorts of things.
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But slice-of-life games like Sandrock are infamous for having tricky fishing mechanics, and between that and fish spawning in six different locations, our guide below has everything you need to know about fishing in My Time at Sandrock.
How To Fish
In My Time at Sandrock, fishing works a little differently than it does in other slice-of-life games like it. Sandrock is in the desert, meaning there’s not much water for traditional fishing.
However, you’ll be happy to know that sandfishing is a pastime in the arid region.
Your introduction comes when you bump into Elsie over at the fishing spot near Eufaula Salvage out in the Quarry behind your Workshop.
She’ll ask for help reeling something in, which serves as your first glimpse into fishing in My Time at Sandrock.
Elsie also offers you some basic fishing supplies in exchange for your help, to kickstart your fishing journey in Sandrock.
Overall, you’ll need a Sandfish Trap, which you can craft at your Workbench back home after this exchange with Elsie, and one of several types of fish bait to use with it.
Though you can use different traps in different locations, fishing spots around Sandrock only allow certain types of bait, which is how you’ll catch different fish in each one.
Once you have your tools, head out to one of the six fishing spots around Sandrock. These are marked on your map with a red fishing hook.
Engage with the fishing spot, and you’ll be able to choose which kind of bait to use, provided that the fishing spot allows that type of bait. After selecting it, throw the bait out into the fishing spot.
The fish you catch in each location change depending on the bait you use, and you can see which fish you’ll be catching as they approach your bait.
Though it sinks eventually, since bait doesn’t last forever, you’ll immediately notice a handful of fish that swim toward the bait.
When you’ve got a fish nibbling your bait, aim and throw the sandtrap at the fish that took the bait. You’ll catch it by throwing the trap at it, but just beware that this will spook other fish near the bait, so plan carefully when you plan to toss out your trap.
You may also occasionally find fish that can only be caught without using bait to fish, but these will be marked in our table below.
What Do You Use Fish For?
In My Time at Sandrock, there are plenty of uses for the assorted fish you’ll catch around the region.
Primarily, you’ll use it in cooking dishes either for yourself or as Commissions. The second tab of the Commissions board features cooked meals and ingredients that the townsfolk are searching for, which will often contain fish.
Additionally, for some of the townsfolk around Sandrock, specific fish make for great gifts for your friends. Some folks truly do enjoy receiving fish as a present!
Finally, you may occasionally be tasked with optional part-time work gathering resources for the Blue Moon Saloon. Owen will ask for your help periodically, typically asking for either crops from your Workshop or fish you’ve caught to use in his dishes at the Saloon.
All Traps And Baits
In the table below, you’ll find information about making different sandfish traps at your Workshop, as well as info about the different types of baits and where you’ll find them.
More advanced traps can catch more fish at once, so it’s always worth it to upgrade your sandfishing traps when possible!
Sandfish Traps And Bait
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Sandfish Traps |
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Name |
Recipe |
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Basic Sandfish Trap |
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Advanced Sandfish Trap |
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Professional Sandfish Trap |
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Sandfish Baits |
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Bait Name |
How to Get |
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Bran Bait |
Craft in the Blender |
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Chestnut |
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Fine Rice Bait |
Craft in the Blender |
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Sandrice |
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Sandworm |
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Scorpster |
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Each Worktable will be able to make one sandfishing trap, so your progress with sandfishing will match up with the progress at your Workshop.
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All Fish In Sandrock And Where To Find Them
Finally, we’ve tracked down the location of every fish in My Time at Sandrock. There are 19 types of fish in total, but some of these fish are size variations (for example, you’ll find three different sizes of Lungfish).
We’ve included where to find each fish around Sandrock, as well as which bait to use when you try to catch them.
For any fish that has an asterisk next to a fishing location in the table below, this means that, at that location, this fish is available without using bait.
Every Fish In My Time At Sandrock
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Fish Name |
Fishing Spot(s) |
Bait Required (If Required) |
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Desert Mudfish |
The Bend Grand Mesa * |
Shellipede |
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Large Desert Mudfish |
The Bend Grand Mesa |
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Desert Mudfish King |
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Horned Adder |
The Bend * Eufaula Desert * Grand Mesa |
Shellipede Scorpster |
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Large Horned Adder |
Eufaula Desert Grand Mesa |
Scorpster |
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Horned Adder King |
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Lungfish |
The Bend * Eufaula Desert Wandering Y * |
Chestnut |
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Large Lungfish |
The Bend Eufaula Desert Grand Mesa Northern Plateau |
Chestnut Scorpster |
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Lungfish King |
The Bend Eufaula Desert |
Chestnut |
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Sand Carp |
Paradise Lost * Wandering Y * |
Sandrice Sandworm |
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Large Sand Carp |
Paradise Lost Wandering Y |
Sandworm |
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Sandfish King |
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Sand Snake |
The Bend Eufaula Desert * Grand Mesa |
Chestnut Scorpster |
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Sandacuda |
Paradise Lost * Wandering Y |
Sandrice Sandworm |
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Large Sandacuda |
Paradise Lost |
Sandrice |
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Sandacuda King |
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Bullhead |
Northern Plateau |
Bran Bait |
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Giant Loach |
Fine Rice Bait |
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Crucian Carp King |
You’ll continue to unlock new sandfishing spots and catching new fish throughout the game, so be sure to fish often in My Time at Sandrock to catch every fish!
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