Patch Notes

Player impact: opens a new progression area, adds a large quest batch, expands gear, and fixes important Leviathan and mobile issues.

• The Twilight Realm became officially accessible.
• Leviathan drops can be sold to an NPC.
• More than ten quests and new gear were added.
• The mobile “E” enchant bug was fixed.
• Leviathan health should no longer appear empty when one hit remains.

Player impact: makes the boss health clearer, improves scaling fairness, and rewards every participant after a successful clear.

• Added a visible Leviathan health bar.
• Health scaling now uses players at the event instead of everyone in the instance.
• Health percentage remains stable when players join or leave.
• Damage now applies when the catch is reeled in, not when hooked.
• Every participant receives a Badge of Honor after defeating the Leviathan.
• Eligible rarity rolls are 10% more likely to hook a Leviathan part.

Player impact: normalizes sell values, improves the reward for top-rarity catches, and reduces quest softlocks.

• Fish pricing became more standardized and consistent.
• Some mid-rarity prices were reduced while the rarest fish gained significant value.
• Harrison’s gator quest moved to the new quest system.
• Alien-related quest changes were made to prevent softlocks.

Player impact: improves Leviathan rewards, raises the rod’s capacity, and adds two Secret fish.

• Leviathan Rod maximum weight was increased to match the Pharaoh rod.
• Lower-player-count Leviathan health increased slightly.
• Tear drop logic changed so everyone at the event has a chance to receive one.
• Two new Secret fish were added.
• Leviathan timing was adjusted toward one global spawn every two hours.

• Lowered Leviathan health significantly.
• Added a quest indicator to Petey and more Alien Quest safeguards.
• Prevented Sea Events from flashing.
• Nerfed the Soft Shelled Turtle and raised the Cleanerfish price.
• Added two skins for Giuseppe’s boat.

• Attempted fixes for Lava Zone access issues.
• Restored Index progression behavior after the major update.
• Addressed version mismatches that could display different fish between players.

Player impact: introduced a boss-event loop, expanded quests and boats, and added crafting as a new progression system.

• Added the Baby Leviathan boss event.
• Introduced a new quest system with more than twenty quests.
• Reworked boat statistics and made every boat upgradeable.
• Added boats, a rod, crafting, relic combining, Secret fish, and a modifier collection list.

• Bounties now remove the lowest-value eligible fish when turned in.
• Homepoints can be saved and used when entering the world.
• Fixed Android and iOS NPC interaction problems.
• Each completed Index now grants +15 Luck.
• Added more persistence, equipment-security, boat, and quest fixes.

• Launched and tuned the Easter Event.
• Added an enchanting pity system that guarantees a red enchant after enough attempts, based on relic rarity.
• Improved quest recovery and reduced softlocks.
• Made potion timers persistent and later capped them at two hours.
• Caught fish began counting toward quest progress.

• Ran the Saint Paddy’s mini-event across multiple patches.
• Raised higher-rarity fish XP, improving Luck-based leveling.
• Added distinct fishing icons for Ultimate Secrets, Relics, and event items.
• Allowed Whirlpool events inland and increased the maximum simultaneous whirlpools.
• Introduced a fish inventory limit, then raised it from 300 to 1,000.
• Delivered numerous boat, bounty, weather, quest, and stability fixes.

• Strengthened save-data integrity and automatic quest-item recovery.
• Overhauled boat ownership around player-exclusive objects.
• Improved mobile performance, rod orientation, fog, NPC movement, and timed enchantments.
• Buffed the Alien Rod and prevented Powerful Relics from rolling common enchants.
• Adjusted Speedy and Pharaoh rods in a balance hotfix.

Milestone: FISH! moved from its rapid public beta cycle into version 1.0.

• Official full release of FISH! in VRChat.