Graveyard Keeper

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Ichthyologist

Ichthyologist

Caught 15 types of fish! You know everything about fish. They feel uncomfortable about it...

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How to unlock the Ichthyologist achievement in Graveyard Keeper - Definitive Guide

Update 04/02/19

There are 16 species of fish in the game, you need to catch 15 for this achievement. There are 3 rods in the game but you only need to use 2 for the achievement, the simple fishing rod (the one given to you by the fisherman) and the excellent fishing rod (aka the most expensive one). You can catch 7 different fish with the simple fishing rod and 9 with the excellent rod.

You get the simple fishing rod by bringing 6 moths to the fisherman at the lighthouse (you'll need to unlock the technology to catch moths). Moths are caught when picking up flowers during nighttime.

All fishing spots locations:
- The dock on the beach/sea. Hard to miss.
- The small pond N-E of the village.
- The waterfall to the left of your house. You access it from the other side of the bridge you need to repair past the church.
- The very top of the river on the left of your house. It's to the right of the marble quarry.
- The last one is in the swamp. This one is a bit tricky to pinpoint its location so bare with me, go down past where you need to build a small bridge that leads to Cloto and then make your way around the swamp.

Here's all the fish you can get with the simple fishing rod (location / range / bait type / %):

Anchovy: sea / near / no bait / 100%
Frog: pond / near / butterfly or moth / 100%
Tilapia: pond / middle / butterfly or moth / 100%
Perch: pond / far / butterfly or moth / 100%
Gudgeon: pond / far / no bait / 100%
Bream: river / near / no bait / 100%
Eel: swamp / near / no bait / 100%

...And with the excellent one:

Sardine: sea / near / no bait / 74%
Tuna: sea / far / gem lure / 98% during the day
Goldfish: sea / far / gem lure / 5% at night
Silver Crucian: pond / far / gem lure / 100% at night
Carp: waterfall / near / no bait / 100%
Salmon: waterfall / far / gem lure / 67%
Gold Crucian: river / near / anchovy or gudgeon / 16% during the day
Pike: river / near / gem lure / 100%
Sturgeon: river / middle / butterfly or moth / 100%

A few fishing tips: Fishing in this game can be a bit tricky to understand at first, but once you get the hang of it, it becomes much easier. To fish, you need to wait until the fish bites (takes around 8 seconds for most fishing spots). Your window of opportunity to press A to reel is quite short so you need to be real quick, if you're a bit too late you'll miss and have to wait a bit more until the fish bites again. As for the mini game itself, you need to keep the fish icon in the yellow bar, which is sometimes a pain in the back end, for this simply hold A and release it to keep the yellow bar on the fish. This mini game seems daunting at first, but trust me there are way worse fishing mini games out there (looking at you Oceanhorn). The faster you complete the mini game, the easier it'll be as the fish tends to move a lot (and gets more difficult) when you don't complete the mini game quick enough.

Eating fish-related food before fishing can help a lot. Fish nuggets give you more time to reel the fish after it bites. Baked fish and fish soup both make the mini game a little bit easier (by making the fish move slower).

Big up to Failure Online, Jacky chaud and beMoD for pointing out the changes introduced in the last update.
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20 Aug 2018 19:17

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If you use the best (expensive) rod, is the mini game easier?
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By Tenreth on 29 Aug 2018 23:47
No, the better fishing rods only gives you access to higher quality fish. Also, you can't fish lower quality fish with the most expensive rods.
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By GoyetteQC on 30 Aug 2018 00:07
Thank you, ... this sucks. :( i'm so bad at the mini game :(
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By Tenreth on 30 Aug 2018 00:16
Seems important to mention some fish only appear at day or during the night. Another important note - lures are another bait category, and I've seen at least 2 or 3 lures on sale from time to time.
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By JORAX on 03 Sep 2018 02:28
Yeah the fish that appears only at nighttime or daytime aren't necessary for this achievement, same for using the lures. If you fish all of the frogs, eels, anchovy, gudgeon locations you should be pretty close to 15. Using the lures (other than the gem one for fishing the goldfish) is kind of a waste of money.
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By GoyetteQC on 05 Sep 2018 20:28
I didn't know that, thanks for the info. I'll check this on a new save/profile in the upcoming days and update the solution if need be.
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By GoyetteQC on 06 Sep 2018 01:02
I believe some of the info in your guide is incorrect now that patches have been released for this game. I’ve got fish that I’ve already discovered that fill in a “?” But don’t progress the achievement. And certain fish can only be caught with certain quality fishing rods.
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By Purds on 06 Sep 2018 05:00
Same for me. This solution probably needs an update.
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By Hieronimus on 07 Sep 2018 17:43
Ok so I can confirm they actually patched it and now you actually need to catch 15 unique fish. Working on an update right now.
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By GoyetteQC on 10 Sep 2018 01:31
Updated. Let me know if anything else needs fixing.
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By GoyetteQC on 10 Sep 2018 03:00
Thumps up for the excellent update clap
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By Hieronimus on 10 Sep 2018 14:26
The Gold Crucian is the hardest fish you don't have to catch, so skip it and catch everything else. The Goldfish is the hardest to catch, but it has to be done for another achievement. Like the other guide for catching 200 says, counting really helps you time when to reel in the fish. Fish normally bite between 6-8 Mississippi if you start counting from when the bob comes back up and the line tightens slightly.
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By BStringbean on 22 Nov 2018 06:38
silver crucian is in the pond only at night
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By Failure Online on 24 Dec 2018 08:34
pike is river, not sea
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By Failure Online on 24 Dec 2018 09:32
Just keep in mind that most fish appear in multiple locations, I'm just providing the easiest/fastest one.
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By GoyetteQC on 24 Dec 2018 17:16
Pike: sea / near / gem lure / 100% with excellent fishing rod. It looks to me that it's only 100% sardine!! :(
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By Jacky chaud on 16 Jan 2019 03:56
Failure Online is right! It should be Pike: river / near / gem lure / 100%
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By Jacky chaud on 16 Jan 2019 04:44
It was definitely accurate, they mush have changed it recently. I'll give it a look to see if they changed anything else when I get a chance.
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By GoyetteQC on 16 Jan 2019 19:26
Silver Crucian: pond / far / gem lure / 100% should be Silver Crucian: pond / far / gem lure / 100% at night now.
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By beMoD on 04 Feb 2019 10:53
Sorry for the delay, I completely forgot about that. Thanks guys for the input, I updated the solution.
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By GoyetteQC on 04 Feb 2019 17:08
I went through half of your list for my missing fishes and except for Pike it was very accurate. Please verify and change accordingly. Thanks for the guide! wave
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By Jacky chaud on 16 Jan 2019 04:57
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The term “different fish” here is a lie and a provocation. This means opening the fish with a question mark at the fishing spot. The same type of fish can be caught in different places, but it will be counted towards achievements as many times as the number of question marks you have opened.
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22 Jun 2020 13:35

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Nothing like this. You need to catch exactly 15 different types of fish, and not open questions. There are 35 questions in the game in total, and one species, even if it is opened at least three times, is counted as one, and not according to the number of places it was caught. Goldfish is the sixteenth and last species in the game, so you have to catch all the options. By the way, if you catch fish with a low percentage of the chance of catching, and the rest is already open in this category and is not needed, then there is a way not to waste the bait in vain. Each species swims in its own way, and when you hook it and see that this is an already familiar algorithm, simply reset by pressing and try again until you achieve the desired result. This, for example, is suitable for a situation when you are catching golden crucian carp, but you come across pike because of which you will have to catch fry again for bait. You can constantly drop pikes and pull out crucian carp.
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By Alarius on 29 Sep 2022 22:17