Abilities

Non-magical

• Light - Toggles your Boat's lights on and off reducing Panic buildup speed and increasing visibility in the dark.
• Foghorn - Attracts certain monsters, such as the Night Angler, and repels others, such as Crows.
• Spyglass - Displays the contents of disturbed waters in the reticle within 4 km (~2 map squares). If a fish is not yet in the player's encyclopedia, the spyglass only reveals its silhouette and type. Otherwise, it reveals this and the fish's name and image. Also shows the location of placed map markers.
• Trawl Net - Deploy and retract the player's trawl net to passively collect fish in the "Net" tab in your cargo.
• Crab Pot - Deploys a crab pot over the port (left) side of the boat. The depth gauge indicated how many species are available to catch at that depth, with either None, Few, or Plenty.
• Bait - Chums the water by throwing Mixed Bait off the port side of the Boat, instantly creating a disturbed waters. The species of each catch at this spot may be different from the previous.
• Camera - Allows you to take photos of your surroundings. On Steam, these photos are saved to your Steam Screenshots folder.

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  Lights

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  Foghorn

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  Spyglass

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  Crab Pot

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  Trawl Net

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  Bait

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  Camera

Magical

• Haste - Temporarily boosts your Engine at the cost of engine heat and Panic, damaging an engine slot if overheated.
• Manifest - Instantly transports the Fisherman back to Blackstone Isle in exchange for a considerable amount of panic.
• Banish - Banishes certain Enemies and creates a protection ward at the cost of a moderate amount of panic.
• Atrophy - Instantly harvest a fishing spot with a high chance for aberrations at the cost of light panic, stale fish quality, and slow fish regeneration.

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  Haste

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  Manifest

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  Banish

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  Atrophy

Achievements

Main Article: Achievements

Tangled in This Web

Catch 150 Fish using Trawl Nets

Trapped by These Walls

Catch 100 crabs in Crab Pots

Prey Sighted

Spot a fish of each category through your Spyglass.

Mixed Results

Use Mixed Bait to attract 3 different species to a single spot.

Cruel Heat

Keep your Haste burn meter above 50% for 10 seconds.

Dimensional Bypass

Travel a long distance using Manifest.

Banisher

Banish 10 threats.

Unsustainable Fishing

Use Atrophy on a fishing spot a long way away.

From the Fog

Hear a Foghorn echo.