Your rod
About 5.0s a catch · 720 an hour
Open water means a five by four by five box around the bobber holding nothing but water and air. Treasure only appears there, and a roof, a boat or a dock over the bobber is enough to lose it.
Where a catch comes from
Luck of the Sea only moves this choice. Junk carries a quality of minus two, treasure plus two and fish minus one, and the game adds quality times your luck to each weight. Inside a category the weights never move, so more Luck of the Sea means more treasure and never better treasure.
An hour of fishing
What an hour at the water gives you with this rod, assuming you never miss a bite. An AFK farm hits these numbers; a person clicking does not, because the bite has to be caught within a second or two.
Every catch
Go fishing
A sample, not a prediction: the same thousand casts will come out differently next time, which is the point. Read from the game's own files for 26.3.
The one thing worth knowing
Open water matters more than any enchantment. Without it there is no treasure entry at all, so a fishing hut with a roof over the bobber cannot produce a nautilus shell no matter how long you sit there or what your rod says.
After that it is Lure, not Luck of the Sea, that changes your evening. Lure III takes the average catch from twenty seconds to five, which is four times the throughput; Luck of the Sea III roughly doubles the treasure share. Both together are what an AFK farm is really made of.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Luck of the Sea actually do?
It moves one choice. The fishing table picks between junk, treasure and fish with weights of 10, 5 and 85, and each carries a quality of minus two, plus two and minus one. The game adds quality times your Luck of the Sea level to the weight, so at level three treasure goes from 5 percent to 11.34 percent and junk falls from 10 to 4.12. It does nothing at all inside those categories: your odds of a saddle rather than a name tag never move.
How long does it take to fish a saddle?
About 4 and a half minutes on average with Luck of the Sea III and Lure III in open water, and about 40 minutes with a plain rod. A saddle is one of six treasures at equal weight, so it is 1.89 percent of catches at Luck of the Sea III against 0.83 percent without it.
What counts as open water?
A five by four by five box around the bobber containing nothing but water and air. Lily pads, boats, a dock, a roof or the wall of your fishing hut all break it, and without open water the treasure entry is removed from the table entirely, so you can fish forever and never see a nautilus shell.
Does Lure change what you catch?
No, only how fast. Each level takes 100 ticks off a wait that starts between 100 and 600, so the average catch goes from about 20 seconds to about 5 with Lure III. Rain speeds the countdown further and a blocked sky above the bobber slows it.
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