Valheim Deep Waters

Valheim: Deep Waters

A fishing overhaul for Valheim. Fish swim up to your bait, nibble, and then bite, just like vanilla, but now you play the fight with line tension, drag, and stamina. There are rods for every era, a tackle screen with reels, lines, floats, hooks and weights, bait you gather from the world, spear fishing, buffs, trophies, and a catch log.

Requires BepInEx 5 and Jötunn 2.30 or newer. Built for Valheim 1.0.20.

Full guide, one page per topic: the Deep Waters wiki.

Features

• All 12 vanilla fish plus 31 new ones, including 10 legendaries, each with its own biomes, depth,

favourite bait, time of day and weather

• Fish you can see swim up to your bait, nibble the float, then bite. Strike too early and you spook them;

make noise and they flee

• A real fight: line tension, drag on the mouse wheel, sideways runs, leaps and snapped lines
• Twelve rods, one for each era plus special ones, that wear out with use and upgrade to level 4
• A tackle screen beside the inventory with the whole rod pictured and eight slots - rod, reel, line, float, hook,

bait or lure, weight and leader - and three loadouts you can swap between; the rod in its slot takes no space

• Reels, lines and floats for every era, and hooks in six sizes and four kinds: J, circle (sets itself), EWG

(holds big fish) and treble (soft baits, on the bottom)

• Bait from the world: worms, grubs, flies, leeches and baitfish, and baits you make, each with its own model
• Weights and leaders: every fish feeds at its own depth, so set your leader to fish the depth you want, or fish the

bottom with a weight, a Texas rig or a Carolina rig. Light weights get dragged about by waves and storms

• Tackle boxes in seven tiers (four crafted, three from Hildir): carry your tackle in your hand, open it anywhere, set it down as a chest
• Coolers in three tiers that keep your catch fresh: fresh fish sell for more and clean into more
• Lures you cast far and retrieve (spoons, spinners, crankbaits, jigs, soft baits, swimbaits, poppers and flies),

with trailers, and seven boss lures

• Spear fishing: stab or throw a spear at fish near the surface, with eight leisters (fish spears) made for it
• A Fishing Boat you row, with a passenger seat and a bow holdfast
• Fishing meads (from mead bases, like vanilla's), chum, totems, rare relics, a Fisherman's armour set and two angler caps
• Seven boss fish you summon with boss lures, each with its own weather, music and fight
• Angler ranks, species mastery with Gold Trophy Plaques, and rare golden and albino catches
• A Fish Cleaning Table, fish materials, dishes and feasts, and traders who each buy their own catch
• An endgame: the Allfather's Rod and Njord's Regalia, earned by landing every boss fish
• Size classes, a trophy mount, cooking, selling, a catch log with rewards, and Valheim's Fishing skill
• In multiplayer, players nearby see your line, the fish you're fighting and the catch

How to fish

1. Craft a Wooden Fishing Rod (workbench) and some Tiny hooks, and dig up worms from wriggling soil

in the forest.

1. Put the rod, bait and a hook in your tackle screen beside the inventory (or right-click them there).
2. Face the water, hold left click to charge, and release to cast. A quick tap drops the bait just in front

of you, handy for fish you can see.

1. Fish come to the bait and nibble the float with small dips. Don't strike yet.
2. On the real bite (FISH ON!, a big dip), right click to set the hook.
3. Hold right click to reel and use the mouse wheel to set the drag. Tighter drag reels faster and

tires the fish quicker, but risks snapping the line. Reeling costs stamina.

Bait is only used up once a fish is hooked.

| Action | Input | |---|---| | Cast | Hold and release left click | | Set the hook | Right click on the bite | | Reel in early | Right click while waiting | | Reel | Hold right click | | Drag | Mouse wheel (configurable) | | Reel speed | Alt + mouse wheel (configurable; Shift: full speed) | | Twitch a lure | Left click while retrieving | | Pull back on a fish | Hold left click | | Next bait / next hook | B / H | | Catch log | J |

Rods

Each rod is better than the last. Every rod lists its stats in its tooltip: cast distance, line, line strength, reel speed, power, hook bonus, stamina use and durability.

| Rod | Station | Materials | |---|---|---| | Wooden | Workbench 1 | Wood 10, Leather scraps 4 | | Copper | Forge 1 | Wood 6, Copper 5, Deer hide 2 | | Finewood | Forge 2 | Fine wood 10, Bronze 4, Troll hide 2 | | Ancient Bark | Forge 2 | Ancient bark 10, Iron 4, Guck 3 | | Silver | Forge 3 | Fine wood 6, Silver 6, Wolf pelt 2 | | Black Metal | Forge 5 | Fine wood 6, Black metal 6, Linen thread 6 | | Yggdrasil | Black forge 1 | Yggdrasil wood 10, Carapace 4, Eitr 2 | | Ashwood | Black forge 2 | Blackwood 10, Flametal 4, Asksvin hide 2 | | Frostwood | Black forge 3 | Timberwood 10, Frostcore 3, Moose sinew 4 | | Leviathan | Black forge 2 | Two materials from each of the seven boss fish, Yggdrasil wood 10, Flametal 6 |