Fisherman



The fisherman isn't quite a building in the sense of the other buildings. Rather, he appears at your base for free once you unlock the Old City zone and clear out the enemy squads in the zone. At this point, he takes up residence in the canal running through your base; you also receive a few baits (7 simple baits, 5 balancers, and 5 wobblers) to get started.

The basic strategy in fishing is pretty straightforward: once you select a bait, blue ripples will start appearing around your hook. Once the ripples go away, the circle will turn gray. Wait for it to stay gray for a moment (since sometimes it goes immediately back to blue), and then quickly click to maximize your chances. MacDrum's guide has some more detailed tips.

You can receive 10 simple baits per day, which can catch you a wide variety of random things. You can also buy premium baits for gold, which increase the odds of you getting a specific prize (and presumably also increase the value of that prize).

Your journal has this to say about the fisherman: ''Uncommunicative, secretive, fishing for days on end. Almost never sleeps or eats. Every morning, at dawn, he takes the fishing rod, gets into the boat and comes back only after sunset.''

''It seems it has always been this way. Many years ago, he earned his living by sitting with a fishing rod for hours. The river flowing through the fortress originates in mountain lakes. There's lots of fish in it. Osterberg is located at the intersection of trade routes, so the Fisherman had no problems with buyers, until the war began.''

''He didn't want to leave the city with the refugees of the Steel Empire, so he left there. The fishery supplied him with food for many months. After the Osterberg desolation he witnessed how the uncontrolled river washed its way forward, turned the lower floors of the fortress and the catacombs into the canal and formed a grotto.''

''How many valuable things - gold, equipment, documents, spare parts - went under water? Things that could belong to him... Only to him... And he will surely take possession of all this, because nobody knows this river better than him.''