Palia fishing guide – all fish locations and schedule

What is the Palia fishing schedule? Early on in your time in the cozy MMORPG, you are handed a bunch of tools, including an axe, a pickaxe, and even a bow and arrows. One really necessary tool you receive is your fishing rod – you need to eat, after all.

Palia fish aren’t just for sustenance though, as you need to flesh out your collection for various quests along your journey in the relaxing game. Whether you’re a completionist or just looking to complete a quest bundle, here’s everything you need to know about fishing in Palia, all available fish, and their catch schedule.

How to fish in Palia

You unlock fishing in Palia once you have set up your tent and spoken to Auni, who gives you your mail. One of your parcels is a fishing rod from Einar, and once you collect this, you are free to fish. To fish, follow these steps:

• Hold R and equip your fishing rod.
• Approach a body of water, and hold the right mouse button.
• Release the right button when the indicator is blue.
• Wait for three ‘nibbles’, and right click again on the fourth splash.
• Hold the right button to reel in the fish, and move your mouse right band left to keep the fish inside the blue indicator.
• If the indicator turns red, your fishing rod starts to deteriorate.

When the fish is reeled all the way in, a catch animation will show, telling you which fish you have caught. Some fish are only available at certain times of day, in specific bodies of water, and can only be caught with a particular bait type.

All Palia fish and their catch times

The Ancient Fish can only be caught once you have completed the Something’s in the Water accomplishment, by gathering all of the items in a Vault of the Waves bundle, part of a main quest given by Jina.

Palia Worm and Glow Worm farms

You can purchase worms from Zeki’s General Store and glow worms from Einar once you reach fishing level ten, but both can be obtained yourself with farms. By placing food into a Glow Worm Farm or Worm Farm crafter, you can obtain a set number of the critters after a period of time.

To make a worm farm crafter, you must first reach fishing level 4 and purchase the crafter recipe from Einar for 500 Gold. The glow worm farm crafter recipe can be purchased from Einar for 2,000 Gold upon reaching fishing level 7. One of the cheapest ways to farm glow worms is using ruined food and five gold, while the easiest way to farm worms is with apples.

You’d better get back to Palia and arm yourself with that fishing rod, there’s a lot of work to be done. The hit MMORPG game is still in open beta, so there may well be more fish to be added to this list in time, but in the meantime there’s still plenty to keep you busy. If you’re still struggling to catch them all, there might be one or two Palia mods that can help.