Fishing in LEGO Fortnite: how to make a fishing rod, a bucket of bait and where to fish

Fishing inamulets and decorative items. In fishing, it is important to choose a good fishing rod, stock up on bait, find, or even independently create, fish habitats in the world’s waters.

In the guide we will explain how to fish in LEGO Fortnite, create a fishing rod and bait, tell you how many types of fish are found in the game and where all the underwater creatures live. Separately, we will give some important tips that will help you catch rarer specimens more often.

How to fish in LEGO Fortnite

To start fishing, you just need to fulfill 2 conditions:

1. Create fishing rod on the workbench.

2. To find fish place in any body of water in the game. Each point where underwater inhabitants gather shines white, green, blue or purple, indicating the potential rarity of the catch. The best prey lives in the purple cluster points. Fishing place possible create it yourself, to do this, you just need to throw a bucket of bait into any body of water, even underground. To start fishing, you don’t need bait in LEGO Fortnite, but it saves you from searching for fishing spots and saves time.

If a fisherman can do without bait, then he will not be able to catch a single underwater inhabitant without a fishing rod. Let's look at how to create both types of equipment.

How to create a bait bucket

A bucket with bait is used to create a fish habitat in a pond. So, even if you can’t find a fishing spot in the open world, make one yourself by using bait in any body of water. The bait bucket in the game has 4 types of rarity:

• Ordinary.
• Unusual.
• Rare
• Epic.

The higher the rarity of the bait, the higher the rarity of the fishing point.

Repeat the following steps to create your bait:

1. Create a fishing rod and catch a couple of fish in any nearby body of water.
2. Create a field kitchen at your base. This device processes fish first into fillets and then into minced meat for bait. To get a field kitchen diagram, create and use sawmill.
3. Open a field kitchen. Drag any fish onto the table and the device will cut it into several slices fish fillet, which restores some health, is used as a culinary ingredient, and also in creating bait.
4. Place the fish fillet on the field kitchen table again and the device will turn it into 1 regular bait.

In the field kitchen, you can grind fillets only into a regular bucket with bait. To unlock rarer versions, craft a juicer and use it to craft buckets of rare blends. An unusual (green) bait is created from the following resources:

• Bucket with bait ×1;
• Creepers ×2;
• Raspberry ×2.

Rare (blue) bait requires adding various seeds to the mixture:

• Bucket with bait ×1;
• Corn grain ×3;
• Pumpkin seed ×3;
• Pepper seed ×3.

All seeds can be obtained from vegetables and other crops using a grain crusher. Corn and pumpkin grow in the "Fields" biome, peppers can be found in snowy area of ​​the world.

The Epic Bait Bucket is a mixture of minced fish and rare food and drink. The recipe looks like this:

• Bucket with bait ×1;
• Invigorating Nectar ×1: also prepared using a juicer;
• Spicy Burger ×1: Grilled from flour (×1), meat (×1) and hot pepper (×1).

After collecting several buckets of bait, go to any nearby body of water, including shallow cave lakes. Throw a bucket into the water - a catch point for the corresponding rarity will immediately appear at the place where it falls.

How to make a fishing rod

A fishing rod is an essential fishing tool: while you can do without bait, you can’t catch fish without a fishing rod. Craft an item using workbench. There are 4 rarities to choose from: the better the fishing rod, the higher the probability of catching a valuable sea animal, but cheaper models are easier to manufacture.

The recipe for a regular fishing rod is as follows:

• Wooden stick ×1;
• Lace ×2: made by spinning wheel and opens the recipe for this item;
• Wolf Claw ×2.

An unusual model requires upgrading the workbench to the blue level and the following resources:

• Root stick ×2: crafted at a sawmill and unlocks the recipe for this fishing rod;
• Lanyard ×3;
• Silk thread ×1;
• Wolf Claw ×3.

The rare fishing rod can be crafted at the blue workbench using the following materials:

• Cactus stick ×3: cut at a sawmill and unlocks the recipe for a rare model;
• Becheva ×1;
• Wool thread ×2;
• Sand Claw ×3.

The Epic Fishing Rod is the most powerful. To create it, upgrade your workbench to the maximum and collect enough resources:

• Becheva ×2;
• Thick wool thread ×3;
• Arctic Claw ×3;
• Frosty pine stick ×4. Add it to your inventory for the first time to unlock the Epic model recipe.

Regardless of the rarity of the fishing rod in your hands, you can catch a fish at any fishing point: the white model can be used even in epic places, but the potential catch will not be as valuable as in the case of a purple item in your hands.

All types of fish and where to find them

There are a total of 15 species of fish in the game + 15 legendary variants of each species, for a total of 30. Each species has its own rarity and habitat, leaving behind various rewards for catching and processing in the field kitchen. All the unique features of sea creatures are listed in the following table.

LEGO Fortnite Fishing Basics

This section describes the fishing algorithm from start to finish. Here are some tips on how to increase your chance of a rare catch.

Craft a fishing rod and bait

At the workbench, create 1 of 4 types of fishing rods. In your inventory, move the fishing rod to the active slot, click on it and thereby take the fishing tool into your hands.

Find or create a fishing spot

Look for dots shining white, green, blue or purple on the water surface of any body of water - these are fish habitatswhere you can fish. Save time searching with bait: simply throw a bucket into any water and a fishing spot will immediately appear. The types of fish caught for a particular spawned point depend on the rarity of the bait bucket, but are limited by the environment. In other words, an epic point created in the fields will never produce fish that usually live in desert.

Cast your line and pull

Having found or created a fishing point, throw a fishing rod into it by holding, aiming and releasing the LMB (on PC). Watch the float and wait until one of the fish bites. When this happens, an interactive “Pull!” message will appear. Hold LMB to pull the fishing rod until the creature is caught. The fishing mechanics are literally one-button, but the convenience of the process and the likelihood of catching rare species directly depend on the availability of high-level equipment.

To increase the likelihood of a rare catch, keep an eye on how deep the float goes into the water. If he reacts weakly, then the fish will most likely be small and ordinary. If the float goes deeper, the chance of catching a rare specimen increases. Thus, wait until the fishing rod catches a really valuable fish that will pull harder.

After catching a fish, there are 2 options for what to do with it:

• Release by pressing the E key (on PC) - the game allows you to fish the American way.
• Do not press anything and wait until the animation plays and the creature is added to your inventory.

Process fish or use it in crafting

Some underwater creatures are used to create talismans. There are types that unlock recipes for talismans and dishes.

All fish can be processed into fillets and other materials in the field kitchen.

Grilled fillet pieces can be used to make sushi and a spicy fish sandwich.

Caught legendary specimens can be hung on the wall. In the construction menu, select “Decorations”, then “Wall Decorations”, make a sign out of the legendary individual. Create the true home of a legendary fisherman with chambers hung with reminders of his fishing exploits.

We hope this guide helped you learn how fishing works in LEGO Fortnite. Feel free to leave questions and thoughts about materials extraction in comments. Read others in a special section LEGO Fortnite guides.