Perch Stardew Valley is one of the common fishes at the beginning of your career. With its mustard yellow appearance, it makes players yearn for it. Here is a deep guide to its behavior and characteristic features.
Location Perch Stardew Valley
They are mainly caught in the rivers of certain places. perch may be caught in the Cindersap Forest pond, Mountain Lake, and the rivers of Pelican Town or Cindersap forest. It may also be found rarely in the Traveling Carts or garbage cans during the winter.
Season
Winter is known as the season of perch fish, more precisely saying, spring and fall. Following the seasonal conditions will make this fish’s hunt a child’s play.
Weather And Timing
There are no specific weather conditions, and you can catch them in any weather, at any time unless the seasonal conditions are fulfilled. However, the timing will be specific for these fish to come out and show up themselves. They mostly appear from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Magic Bait
Despite the seasonal and habitat limitations, using a magical bait will let you catch it in any season without any hurdles. By the way, perch is not a good choice to use magical bait for.
Difficulty level
This fish has a moderate or low difficulty level. It’s an easy catch just if you have a little fishing experience and little knowledge of this species.
Worth and uses
This fish, like many other fishes in Stardew Valley, has no exceptional use but all of the little worth uses altogether make it useful enough for any player already owning it. Let’s look at some of its uses.
Culinary
You can utilize it to make maki rolls or sashimi. These are not the exceptional dishes but yeah, an option at least. You can also go through the other way i.e. utilizing them to make quality fertilizers.
Crafts
In the list of crafts made from Perch Stardew Valley, we count the valuable yellow dye extracted from it at Emily’s and Haley’s house.
Reproduction
Like many other fish species, placing this fish in the pond will let it reproduce further fish of its type. It reproduces its kind every two days. it even produces valuable roe which is sold to make a profit.
Health and energy gains
A must to discuss the fact of these fish is the health and energy gain due to them. On catching one of these creatures, energy gain will be twenty-five points while health increases by eleven points. This fact needs attention as it has importance in several other fields and professions.
Quests
Perch Stardew Valley is not a part of any community center bundle but may be asked for quests randomly. Some quest statements are coded below.
- During the winter, one perch may be sporadically requested at the “Help Wanted” sign outside Pierre’s General Store in exchange for 150 Friendship points and 165g gold.
- For a reward of 55g gold per fish, Demetrius or Willy may ask for one to four perch throughout the winter at the “Help Wanted” sign outside Pierre’s General Store. You can keep this fish after the quest.
- For a payout of gold equal to selling the fish and the Farm Computer recipe, Demetrius may ask to catch ten perch in the winter at the Special Orders board outside the Mayor’s Manor.
Fishing tactics
Some general fishing tips might help you get this poor little fish.
- Use a higher quality bait and tackle as they always do half the work.
- Keep yourself updated about perks knowledge.
- Follow the seasonal conditions.
- Find them at the right place.
- Higher fishing skills might not be necessary, you can catch it even being a beginner.
- Still can’t find it? Keep trying! It’s not hard to catch but it may take time.