Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26335978-20161001161016

The current fishing system is decent enough, but I think it could be much improved.


 * Worms: These will spawn on grass blocks during rain storms.  They will probably wiggle in much the same way that silverfish do, but with a worm model.  Worms will move very slowly and cannot jump.  Worms will drop as an item (like termites).  Worms (the items) can be crafted with fishing rods like bottles of poison and daggers, however, they can only be used once per worm.  More than one worm can be applied to a rod, but every time you fish, it will consume one worm.  Finally, fishing with a baited rod will essentially be like fishing with a lure III enchanted rod.  Fishmonger traders will buy worms.


 * Biome-specific Loot: Fishing in Gondor will sometimes give you Gondor items, fishing in Eriador would give you Ranger or generic items etc.


 * Morphed fish: (I don't have the exact quote, but I may get it) In the Hobbit it says that the Goblin King would send goblins to fish in Gollum's lake for fish.  Also, it says that the fish in such lakes had big eyes.  So, fishing underground in the Misty Mountains will yield morphed fish, which may give the player night-vision when eaten.


 * Fishers: Located in fishing huts (which generate near water like willow trees), there will be Gondorian, Hobbit, Lake-Town (when it's added), Dunland, and Nurn fishers.  Fishers are given "fishing range" and they will look for suitable places to fish in this range (natural or artificial pools will work).  Once they find water, they will fish.  I am not sure how difficult it would be to have bobbers in the water for such NPCs, but ideally this would be the case.  They will fish up anything a player would, but much slower.  A chest with a fishing rod in an item frame can be used to drop off their catches.


 * Lucky rod: Basically the same as the worm idea, but instead of worms, silver or gold nuggets are used.  All this would do is make the rod an equivalent of a luck of the sea enchanted rod (silver: III, gold: IV)


 * Other fish: I'm not sure which ones these would be, but they would only require new textures to add them.

And that's it! Kudos, comments and additional ideas are always appreciated. Thanks for reading! 