How to Fish cooking: fish value and burnt weapons

Cook valuable catches carefully before selling them. Cooking can increase their value, but burning them reduces it. If a weapon has become cooked, submerge the held tool in water to reset its cooking state. The cleaning rule applies to tools, so it is not a way to reverse a burnt fish. These are separate rules in How to Fish 1.0.12's item logic.

Why two catches sell for different amounts

An item's sale value combines its base worth, individual size factor, cooking state, roulette multiplier and kill-score multiplier. A species' base worth alone therefore does not predict the amount shown on every body. The game also rounds during the calculation.

Kill-score bonuses multiply together. Adding the displayed bonus percentages will give the wrong result. The bonuses depend on how the killing hit was made, so a rare-looking or expensive species is not automatically the most valuable possible catch.

Use the creature records to compare base facts, then check the actual item's displayed value before selling or wagering it. For the 100,000-value achievement, the game checks one sold item's value. Several cheaper bodies sold together do not substitute for that single item.

What triggers each kill-score bonus?

These conditions describe creature kills in 1.0.12. The game calculates bonuses on the killing hit. Its combat and player-skill logic gives ranged kills a different set of checks from melee and explosions.

The Finally counter adds the configured interval each time a supported attack occurs. It must exceed five, resets on a kill, and also resets when the next attack follows more than 30 seconds without an attack. Holding a rapid-fire gun and firing five bullets is therefore not the same test as five slow attacks.

Some bonuses are alternatives. No scope and Quick scope cannot apply together, and the three airborne conditions select one result. Longshot and Point blank use different distance checks but are not a sensible pair to build a single normal shot around. There is no reason to add every row together and call it a maximum.

Melee creature kills check Endangered, the kill chain, Melee, Killsteal, 360, Finally and Impressive. The distance, headshot and ammunition rows belong to ranged scoring. Explosion scoring follows its own short path. That is why changing the finishing method can change a body's value even when the creature is the same.

For a manageable practice attempt, use a ranged weapon and combine conditions you can control, such as a recent spin, no scope, an airborne shot and the last bullet. Whether the target grants a headshot or other bonus still depends on the actual hit. The Impressive achievement requires the resulting multiplier product to reach at least five; its check is separate from the bonus also named Impressive.

Stop before the catch burns

The extracted cooking-value curve peaks at its cooked key point, where it gives 1.5 times the raw value. At the fully burnt key point it falls to about one tenth of raw value. The intermediate curve is not a straight timer-to-percentage conversion. Do not assume twice as much cooking means twice the money. See the source information for this build's basis.

Watch the catch and its displayed value while cooking. Remove it when cooked rather than leaving a valuable pile unattended. This is especially useful when the body already has a strong kill-score multiplier, because cooking acts on a value that other factors can multiply again.

Burning a creature does have an achievement use: eating a sufficiently burnt creature unlocks Yummy in my tummy. Choose an expendable catch for that attempt. The achievement guide also explains eating a miniboss and unlocking the grill.

How to eat a catch

Hold the creature and keep the primary action pressed until the eating animation finishes. On the default mouse controls this is left-click; use the equivalent action if you changed bindings or play with a controller. Releasing early stops eating, and switching away from the held creature interrupts the attempt.

You do not need to cook it first. Completing the action consumes the creature and restores health and fullness according to that creature's values and cooking state. Cooking changes those restoration amounts as well as sale value. Main bosses cannot be picked up after death, which is one reason the eating achievement specifically asks for a miniboss.

The input, consumption and restoration rules follow the eating logic. Keep a requested quest catch aside if you still need to hand it to an NPC; eating consumes the item.

Is money shared in multiplayer?

Yes. The world has one shared money balance. Selling a catch adds its value to that balance, and purchases spend from it. You do not need to divide the sale proceeds or transfer money to a teammate before they shop.

Agree on expensive purchases with the group. The seller's identity can affect feedback, but it does not create a personal wallet. This is the shared balance recorded in the world's money and save logic.

How to clean a cooked gun or tool

Hold the affected tool and lower it into the water far enough to submerge it. The reset checks the tool's center of mass against the water level, so touching only the tip to the surface may not be enough.

There is no need to throw a valuable weapon into deep water for this reset. Keeping it held avoids turning a cleaning attempt into a lost-item problem. Once the underwater check runs, it resets the tool's cooking state.

This rule covers tools, including weapons. It does not reset a creature's cooking state. Do not put a burnt fish in the sea expecting its original sale value to return. If the weapon is missing rather than discolored, use the inventory and weapon guide.

Earning more without betting the whole catch

Improve the kill, cook the body and sell it. That sequence uses the ordinary value systems without risking the body on a roulette loss. For collection goals, use the appropriate lure rather than choosing bait solely by the most expensive possible catch.

Roulette wins can multiply item worth further, but a loss destroys the wagered items. Keep quest hand-ins, collection trophies you want to retain and necessary equipment outside the betting area. A high possible payout does not make it a guaranteed money-making route.