No Man's Sky Is Finally Getting Fishing

Summary

• New Aquarius update in No Man's Sky adds highly-requested fishing activity, equipment, recipes, and more.
• Players can now catch a variety of fish using fishing rods, bait, and pots in different habitats.
• Update also includes a new deep-sea jetpack for underwater traversal and hidden messages in a bottle.

With No Man's Sky's big World's Part 1 update in the rearview window, Hello Games has revealed that it will be adding one of the game's most requested features to the game. And it's coming later today.

No Man's Sky Player Discovers Planet That Doesn't Have Color Unless It's Stormy

"This is definitely the coolest planet I've discovered so far."

The new Aquarius update, which was teased on Twitter over the weekend and speculated to include rivers, is actually a brand-new fishing activity.

It Really Is The Age Of Aquarius

In a message from Hello Games founder Sean Murray, fans were thanked for generating the highest player numbers in five years. Murray then went on to add, "Something folks really loved in the Worlds update was the new water technology, tons of players were posting videos of themselves just chilling at the water’s edge. One piece of fan art in particular stopped us in our tracks, of a player lazily fishing from their wing of their boat. That inspired our next update, AQUARIUS - where we finally add fishing to No Man’s Sky!"

The update will add a bunch of new equipment, including fishing rods, bait, and fishing pots, alongside new recipes, trophies, and a fishing log to complete.

That inspired our next update, AQUARIUS - where we finally add fishing to No Man’s Sky!

Murray confirms that the update will add "a huge array of fish, from common minnows to wild alien catches, each with its own habitat and catching conditions." Different items will help with catching different fish; for example, the new fishing pot is designed to help with rare catches.

One of the major other changes coming to the update is a new deep-sea jetpack, which will allow players to speed up their underwater traversal. This, in turn, will allow them to hunt for new hidden messages in a bottle.

While this isn't the big Worlds Part 2 update that players may have been expecting, it's certainly exciting to get such a highly-requested feature, and it seems like there will be more than enough content to pass the time until Part 2.

No Man's Sky

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No Man's Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe's mysterious existence.

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