¶ Dank Memer Fishing
In 2023, the fishing command in Dank Memer was complete redesigned and expanded to add multiple subcommands, new creatures, unique NPCs you can interact with, multiple fishing locations, a skills system, and more. It was one of the largest updates the bot has had in years, and brought a completely new way of playing Dank Memer.
Fishing Commands:
- /fish buckets - Use to manage your buckets, organize what you've caught, sell creatures, and move creatures to your fish tank.
- /fish boosts - Use to purchase personal boosts for fishing.
- /fish catch - Use to equip tools and baits, pick a location, and to fish.
- /fish guide - A useful guide that shows all the creatures you've caught, NPCs you've met, locations you've visited, and your fishing stats.
- /fish idle - With the AFK skill, you can use this command to start an idle fishing machine that will fish for you while you do nothing.
- /fish leaderboards - Use to check the daily leaderboards where you can compete for special rewards.
- /fish log - A log for fishing-related items, so you can see what you've caught and sold.
- /fish season - A leveling system within fishing where you can earn rewards, or upgrade to the premium pass for bonus rewards.
- /fish settings - Used to manage your settings for fishing, such as if you want to auto-equip bait or tools.
- /fish shop - A shop where you can use the Fish Tokens you've earned to buy fishing-related items.
- /fish skills - Used to check what skills you can upgrade to make fishing easier and more profitable.
- /fish tank - Virtual fish tanks where you can save a few fish to show off or put decorations.
Fishing Tutorials and Resources:
- Complete Fishing Tutorial
- Complete Video Fishing Tutorial
- Fishing Boost Tutorial
- Fishing Leaderboard Tutorial
- Fishing Simulator
- Legacy Fish Items vs New Fishing Items
- Managing Buckets and Creatures Tutorial
- NPC Tutorial
- Random Fishing Events
- Season Pass Tutorial
- Seasonal Fishing Events
- Skeleton Key Tutorial
¶ Fishing Basics
The basic command to get started with fishing is /fish catch. You can use this command to equip baits and tools, pick a location to fish at, and to start fishing. Sometimes, there are also random fishing events active without warning, but you can see when one is currently live from this basic /fish catch menu also.
The tools, baits, buckets, and creatures you'll use and find while fishing are not like other items in Dank Memer. They won't enter your normal Dank /inventory, and instead are exclusively used within the fish commands. Visit the fishing item page to see a complete list of fishing-related items and creatures.
Each tool and bait you use has a limited number of uses, but you can always use your bare hands to fish. Bare hands is always available for free, and you can upgrade it a little with the Zen Hands skill .
Once you begin fishing, you'll see one or more shadows in the water.
If there is only one shadow, it is guaranteed to be an item or creature. If you see more than one shadow, however, it can be an item, a creature, or a mine. If you look at the image above, you can see the shadow on the right has spiked points coming out of it and it has a slightly clearer shape. This tells you it is the mine and you want to select the other shadow to catch.
Move your tool to the shadow you want and click catch to pull something from the water. While fishing, you have one minute to fish before the catch will get away. Avoid running into or going over a mine, as it will end the fishing game and damage any tools you are using.
If you want to shorten the time between fishing, decrease the number of mines, or improve the shape of the shadows so you can see what you are catching, there are skills you can upgrade to help in /fish skills.
When you see two mines and one shadow, it means that you've encountered a boss creature. Navigate around the two mines to the non-mine shadow to capture the boss.
¶ Locations
Each location has a different set of possible creatures you can catch there, as well as a different group of NPCs who like to visit it. There are also some locations that may be exclusive holiday spots that are only available for a limited time.
To complete a location page in /fish guide, you must catch one of each creature possible at the location and meet each NPC possible at the location. In order to catch one of the boss creatures, you must first catch every other possible creature at the location. If a creature is ever moved to a new location, you must catch it at the new location to re-finish the location even if you've caught it before somewhere else.
Traveling to a different location takes 60 minutes by default, but you can speed up the process by using /fish skills for shorter wait times or gems to fast travel.
| Location | Creatures | NPCs |
|---|---|---|
Camp Guillermo  Freshwater |
Bass, Koi, Crappie, Guppy, Minnow, Bluegill, Goldfish, Snapping Turtle, Bullfrog BOSS: Aspidochelone, Ahuitzotl |
Margaux, Chet, Zara |
Crypt Keeper's Pond  Freshwater, Exclusive Halloween Location |
Ghost Fish, Zombie Fish, Spectral Fish, Electric Eel, Skeleton Fish, Piranha BOSS: Gorgolox |
Thrym |
Ice Caves  Saltwater, Exclusive Winter Location |
Beluga Whale, Jellyfish, Ocean Sunfish, Coelacanth, Narwhal, Arctic Char, Sturgeon, Vampire Squid, Leafy Sea Dragon BOSS: Pliosaur |
None |
Mystic Pond  Freshwater, Only available Tuesday and Saturday |
Spectral Fish, Guppy, Koi, Flying Fish, Goldfish, Crayfish, Box Turtle BOSS: Vodyanoy |
???? ???? (Mysterious Figure) |
Scurvy Waters  Saltwater |
Blue Tang, Kathzilla, Lionfish, Parrotfish, Sailfish, Wahoo BOSS: Lusca |
Meridian, Zara, Chet |
Snowy Mountain  Freshwater, Exclusive Winter Location |
Spectral Fish, Guppy, Flying Fish, Arctic Char, Nelma, Arapaima, Bluegill BOSS: Issrakr |
Thrym |
Underwater Sanctuary  Saltwater |
Sardine, Cod, Marlin, Barracuda, Coelacanth, Giant Squid, Tuna, Mahi Mahi, Swordfish, Salmon, Vampire Squid BOSS: Leviathan, Kraken |
Zara, Chet, Samuel, Meridian |
Vertigo Beach  Saltwater |
Shrimp, Butterfly Fish, Pufferfish, Starfish, Hammerhead Shark, Ocean Sunfish, Sardine, Cod, Jellyfish, Flounder, Leafy Sea Dragon BOSS: Scylla, Charybdis |
Margaux, Chad, Zara, Meridian |
Wily River  Freshwater |
Rainbow Bass, Electric Eel, Catfish, Crayfish, Arapaima, Red Arowana, Piranha, Golden Dorado, Salmon, Sturgeon BOSS: Jormungandr, Bunyip |
Chad, Samuel, Zara |
¶ NPCs
NPCs are non-playable characters that you can encounter when fishing. They may pop up to interact with you in diferent ways, such as offering a gift, asking to trade, requesting something you caught, or even just to talk. How you reply to an NPC can affect how they feel about you.
The more they like you, the more they'll visit and the better rewards they'll offer. You can read more about NPC interactions in the NPC tutorial. There are also several skills in the /fish skills to help you with NPCs.
| NPC | Image | Description | Location(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| ???? "Mysterious Figure" ???? |  |
Is a bit odd and always wears a hood. Says a lot of ominous things. | Mystic Pond |
| Chad "The Giga" Erningway |  |
Likes working out, fishing, and is surprisingly nice. Doesn't like bullies. | Vertigo Beach, Wily River |
| Chet "Crypto Bro" Sterling |  |
Likes money, making money, and hearing himself talk. | Camp Guillermo, Scurvy Waters, Underwater Sanctuary |
| Developer Team |  |
Melmsie, Badosz, and Zain's (AKA Aetheryx) cat as NPCs | Available during Dank Memer's birthday at all locations, and after only during the NPC Space Time Rift event. |
| Marguax "Robbie" Handler |  |
Is new to real life, and still learning about the world. Likes making friends and trying new things. | Camp Guillermo, Vertigo Beach |
| Meridian "Mermaid" |  |
A defender of the ocean and extremely curious about humans. | Scurvy Waters, Underwater Sanctuary, Vertigo Beach |
| Samuel "Tired Father" Booker |  |
Loves his family, woodworking, and meeting new people. | Underwater Sanctuary, Wily River |
| Thrym "Golden Leash" |  |
A winter wolf who loves to rob and steal things. | Ice Caves, Snowy Mountain |
| Zara "Fisherwoman" Grey |  |
Loves fishing, being outdoors, and helping people. | Camp Guillermo, Scurvy Waters, Underwater Sanctuary, Vertigo Beach, Wily River |
¶ Fishing Boosts
The /fish boost command gives you a chance to buy exclusive boost for fishing to help you reach your goals faster. Boosts are personal boosts only for you, and you can purchase them with gems, fish tokens, or coins.
Once you purchase a boost, you will not be able to purchase another one until the purchased one has fully eneded. Boosts rotate throughout the day every few hours, and there are a variety.
Read more about fishing boosts in the fishing boost tutorial.
¶ Fishing Guidebook
The fishing guide book available in /fish guide is one of the most useful tools for fishing. The guidebook gives you information about each creature, location, the NPCs, and even the tools and baits available. The guide also lists out all of the skill challenges you can complete, and has a summary page that shows your overall fishing progress.
If you are missing information, you can use /fish guide to view other people's guidebooks as well, so you can check someone who has completed more than you to find out what you need to know.
To complete the guidebook and earn the Seasoned Angler badge, you must fill in all the missing information. Find every creature and every variant, unlock the complete time available for each creature, meet every NPC, and meet every NPC at each location they visit. All shadows and question marks must be filled in before your guide will count as being completed.
See more information about what each page of the guidebook shows here.
¶ Fish Leaderboard
Every day there is a special competition for all users to compete to be the top of a few leaderboards for fishing. At the start of a new UTC day, one location, one npc, one bait, one tool, and three fish are chosen for the competition. You can only win each type (creature, NPC, bait, tool, location) of leaderboard once per week.
The new leaderboard choices are announced each day in the Dank Memer Community server, or you can see them by doing the /fish leaderboards command.
The scores on each leaderboard are not just the number of interactions you've had with an NPC or the number of fish you've caught, and involve a complex combination of stats.
For example, to top the location leaderboard, it takes into account the number of fish you've caught at that location, but the quality of the fish matters too, and the person who catches the largest fish of the day has a big advantage.
For NPC leaderboards, the number of interactions you have with an NPC on that day does help, but also your overall reputation and how the NPC feels about you.
You can read more about how fishing leaderboards work in the leaderboard tutorial.
¶ Fish Log
The /fish log command is similar to the /currencylog but is exclusively for fishing. The fish log will show you what you catch, what tools and baits you used, and what creatures you sold.
You can also see info about what creatures you collected from your /fish idle machine and info about NPC interactions.
¶ Fish Season
The /fish season command shows you the current season pass that is available for fishing. A season pass for fishing is an exclusive fishing leveling track you can work on to earn rewards. Every fish you catch gives you XP toward the /fish season pass.
There are two possible reward tracks you can earn from: the free track on top and the premium track on the bottom. All users will receive the free rewards when they reach that tier, but only users who buy the premium season pass will receive the premium rewards.
The fish season pass is available for a set amount of time, but if you purchase the premium pass, you will continue to have access for as long as you need to earn all of the rewards.
Once the season ends, a new pass will be released will all new rewards to aim for. There is also a premium+ version of the season pass you can purchase that will allow you to move up 25 levels instantly, so you can unlock 25 tiers of rewards all at once. You can upgrade the season pass at any time while the season is available, and if you sign up for the regular premium pass and decide you want to move to the + version, you can do that as well.
The current fish season pass is titled, "Season of the Booty" and you can see the full rewards available here.
Event fish, variants, and bosses give more XP, so if you are trying to level up quickly on a season pass, go after those creatures and use nets or dynamite to catch more fish at once. You can also use XP Bait to earn more XP per catch.
Previous Season Passes:
¶ Fish Settings
The /fish settings command allows you to change your settings for fishing so you can control how bait and tools are managed.
Currently, the /fish settings allows you to control:
- If you automatically re-equip baits when they break while fishing
- If you automatically re-equip baits in your idle machine when they break
- If you automatically re-equip tools when they break while fishing
- If you want to encounter NPC Game events or not. NPC games include Rock-Paper-Scissors if an NPC likes you and fights if the NPC dislikes you.
If you have the re-equip bait or re-equip tools settings enabled, it will automatically grab a new tool or bait when one breaks so you don't have to go back to the equipment menu.
¶ Fish Shop
You can find the fishing shop with the /shop view or /fish shop commands. The fishing shop is where you can spend the Fish Tokens you earn from selling your fish. Throughout the fishing shop you'll find fishing-related items like tools, buckets, and baits, as well as fish tank decorations and some foods that can be consumed to give you boosts outside of fishing.
Some items in the shop rotate every few hours, so check back after the shop rotates if you don't see what you are looking for.
Some items in the Fish Shop are restricted, though, and you'll notice they are grayed out. These items need to be unlocked by either leveling up a special skill in /fish skills, or by being friends with one of the fishing NPCs.
¶ Fish Skills and Upgrades
The new fishing system comes with a new skill system as well. In the /fish guide there are Skill Challenges you can complete to earn a Skill Point.
Skill Points can be used with the /fish skills command. There are a variety of skills you can upgrade to help you fish easier and make more money. For example, several skills in the economy section increase the coins or tokens you can earn when selling fish.
Other skills help improve your tools, shorten cooldowns, and increase NPC interactions. There is even a skill that unlocks an idle fishing machine. Check out a full list of the available skills and skill challenges here.
You can reset your skill points once ever 3 days. Once you reset them, you can re-apply them anywhere you want. If you want to reset skills more often, you can by using gems.
¶ Idle Fishing
The idle fishing machine is a machine that will fish for you while you are away from the keyboard. You can unlock this machine by applying a skill point to the AFK skill in the science category.
Once unlocked, the idle machine will automatically fish for you every 30 minutes and attempt to catch a fish. It is not guaranteed it will catch something, though, and it will continue to operate every 30 minutes until the storage space is full. When it is, you will be notified and given a grace period until the next catch to keep it going before it stops.
You can decrease the time between fishing attempts and increase the storage by continuing to upgrade the AFK skill. By default, the machine will fish at all available locations for you, so it can catch a variety of creatures. If you want to fish at a specific location, use baits, or enable it to catch bosses, upgrade the AFK Skill under the science skills category.
Upgrading can also allow you to decrease the cooldown, and increase storage space.
¶ Fish Tank
If you want to save a few of your favorite fish, you can put them in your fish tanks. You start with one fish tank by default and one space for a fish. If you want to purchase more fish tanks, you can buy up to 5 from the /fish shop. If you want to hold more than one fish, upgrade the Aquarium Keeper skill and each tank can hold up to 5 creatures.
To put a fish in your tank, use the /fish buckets command. Select a bucket, then a fish, and click move. To remove a fish from your tank, use the /fish tank command. Press the manage button, select a fish, and click remove.
You can also get decorations to put in your fish tank from the /fish season and /fish shop. To enable the use of decorations, upgrade the Aquarium Keeper skill.
You can see a full list of the possible decorations so far here.
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