Rare Fish Variants

01Use the named Drip goal to plan the variant hunt

The Steam store describes collecting rare variants, while Steam’s named achievements use Drip for one Drip kill and Fishipedia for all Drip creatures. The community guides used here organize normal and Drip forms together. Use the game’s Drip record to confirm this hunt rather than assuming the store’s broader wording creates another separate collection requirement.

Choose whether this trip is for your first Drip or an unfinished Fishipedia entry. For a first Drip, work with a bait pool you already have access to. For a particular missing creature, search its name in the catch table and select that bait before casting. Collector’s find-and-kill goal is a separate achievement, so keep normal and Drip results in separate checklist columns.

02Find Wishbone before an extended collection session

Look for a mini island made of tall rock pillars with a jumping route between them. Climb toward the highest pillar and inspect the Wishbone offer there. Germany328’s 1.1.1 account and later Steam guides describe euro purchases that improve the chance for Drip creatures. Fund the visit by selling bottle money or Crab Carcass catches to a merchant.

Read your in-game Fishipedia’s chance display before and after buying an upgrade so you can check the result on your save. If the Wishbone prompt reads “Maxed for this island”, stop repeating that interaction and check the benefit already recorded. For current prices and the distinction between Wishbone and Bow spending, use the existing upgrades guide; 1.1.2 changed Wishbone pricing.

03Build one fishing trip around a known bait pool

Kill a base creature once and read the bait revealed in Fishipedia on 1.1.3 or later. Keep that bait equipped while you search for its Drip result. A higher-tier shop lure can move you to a different pool, so an expensive purchase is not automatically an improvement for a missing Cod, Koi Fish or Tench.

For the Islet pool, equip Crab Carcass to work through Alaska Pollock, Tench, Char, Amberjack, Squid, Mahi-mahi, Starfish and Sponge. Collect that bait from the three low sandy patches with bones. When planning an older pool, group all unfinished names using the same lure so one trip can address several gaps. Wishbone supports the variant hunt; bait still determines which creature pool you are testing.

• Choose the missing creature or a small group sharing one bait.
• Check the base kill and the bait hint in the game’s Fishipedia.
• Equip that bait, then inspect the Drip chance shown on your save.
• Confirm a Drip kill in the game and mark it separately from the base kill.
• Change bait when you move to the next unfinished pool.

04Confirm the kill before selling or depositing a catch

After an unusual encounter, check the creature name and the game’s Drip record after the kill. Steam’s Drip and Fishipedia conditions are kill goals, so appearance or a successful hook alone is not the completion check. Mark the result in the browser tracker only after confirming it on your current save.

Then decide whether to sell the catch, keep it for an active quest or use it for the Reel of Fortune route. Check its role before spending a quest trigger on another system. The named achievement conditions do not say you must permanently carry every collected creature; recording a confirmed result is more useful than filling your inventory with catches you have not checked.

05Fix the setup when the last variant will not appear

If only ordinary catches appear, first check the target’s bait and your displayed Drip chance; a short unlucky run does not identify which part is wrong. If the target itself never appears, recheck its pool before spending more euros on Wishbone. For Tench, use Crab Carcass on 1.1.2 or later because that patch fixes its spawning from the new bait.

If you think you already killed the missing Drip, compare the current game record and Steam result with your browser notes. The site’s 63 rows include a separate hidden Bing Bong report and are not an official achievement threshold. For bosses or hidden encounters, use the relevant trigger route rather than assuming every row needs an ordinary lure-based Drip search.