Deep Sea Fishing

[abt79]

There's been much talk about spicing up the geography of Oceans; archipelagos, ocean biomes, etc. That's all wonderful and welcome, but I'd like to instead propose some new content, to focus on adding activities rather than more places where they might occur. To that end, Deep Sea Fishing!



Make yourself a specialized Deep Sea Rod (from steel/silk?), drop lure into the depths, wrestle for a bit as a might sea beast struggles for freedom, then lug its medium-large liftable corpse onboard to later butcher as you would any other animal. Lots of possibilities for catches: Marlins, Sea Bass, Groupers, Tuna, maybe even mid-size Sharks.

Seafaring requires a significant resource investment and Deep Sea Fishing would be quite difficult and time consuming so the rewards would have to be well worth it. The meat of large fish would have to be at least as FEP-rich as that of cave anglers, but some of the rarer/larger catches would need to have meat comparable to the better cheeses (when dried) to make all the effort worth it. Also plenty of room for new and unique materials and of course curios. Increased quantities of roe/caviar? Shark Tooth necklace? Swordfish sword as a weapon? The possibilities are surely endless.

Knarrs and even Snekks do have enough liftable storage, and the large fish would bear enough meat, that a single trip would be analogous to mass-production, but it would certainly not be mindlessly easy to fill a boat with such powerful creatures. I believe this Endgame Fishing content fits perfectly into the currently vacant Ocean Content niche.

[Zentetsuken]

This would be badass. I could see it even being something you need a whole different ship, or a built platform for. Maybe a fishing specific boat with some rigs to hold special ocean fishing rods.
Maybe you'd need a lot of stats invested to increase your odds of getting something good, but it would be pretty cool to have a few fish between the range of "inventory size" and "orca." Like something you can real up and hold on to that you must place down to butcher, with size ranges from fox and larger.