Asciilands Fishing & Tin Panning
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Two water-side skills: fishing for food and compost, and panning for the tin you need to make bronze.
How to fish
- Make a Fishing Rod at a workbench: 3× Stick + 2× Rope + 2× Fiber. A new rod lasts 120 uses.
- Equip it and stand near water, facing open water. You can also fish from a raised wooden or stone floor built out over the water.
- Hold R to choose how far to cast, then release. Stay still and watch the float.
- When BITE appears, press R to reel in. Walking away breaks the line.
- Cook your catch at a campfire (F).
Catches we can confirm in the item data: Lake Fish and Brook Trout ("a freshwater fish from shallow streams"). Herons, which you can tame with lake fish, are covered in companions.
| Makes | Ingredients | Where | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1× Cooked Fish | 1× Lake Fish + 1× Wood Log | Campfire | 10 s | Fuel: 1 Wood Log or 1 Charcoal or 1 Emberstone. |
| 1× Cooked Fish | 1× Brook Trout + 1× Wood Log | Campfire | 10 s | Fuel: 1 Wood Log or 1 Charcoal or 1 Emberstone. |
| 1× Honey Fish | 1× Cooked Fish + 1× Wild Honey + 1× Wood Log | Campfire | 15 s | Fuel: 1 Wood Log or 1 Charcoal or 1 Emberstone. |
| 3× Compost | 3× Fiber + 1× Lake Fish | By hand |
How to pan for tin
- Make a Panning Tray at a workbench: 2× Plank. Select it while standing beside water.
- Hold F to wash and release while the marker is in the green band. A good release washes gravel away and keeps the tin.
- Each gentle wash speeds up the next one and narrows the green band. Two good washes earn extra tin; three earn the most. You can hold F early to queue the next wash.
- Watch for "Tin retained", repeat until the pan fills, and after three gentle washes hold F to finish. Just holding the whole time still gives a little tin.
- Walking away cancels the pan. Smelt the tin grains into ingots.
Where to pan: Highland and karst streams carry more tin. Limestone Karst also has tin ore you can mine directly.
| Makes | Ingredients | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1× Tin Ingot | 3× Tin Grains + 1× Charcoal | 10 s | Fuel: 1 Charcoal or 3 Wood Log or 1 Emberstone. |
| 1× Tin Ingot | 1× Tin Ore + 1× Charcoal | 10 s | Fuel: 1 Charcoal or 3 Wood Log or 1 Emberstone. |
| 2× Bronze Ingot | 2× Copper Ingot + 1× Tin Ingot + 1× Charcoal | 15 s | Fuel: 1 Charcoal or 3 Wood Log or 1 Emberstone. |
| 2× Bronze Ingot | 2× Copper Ore + 1× Tin Ore + 1× Charcoal | 15 s | Fuel: 3 Wood Log or 1 Charcoal or 1 Emberstone. Appears after you find Copper Ore. |
Bronze is the step that unlocks iron: a bronze pickaxe mines iron ore and bog iron. See the smithing guide for the whole chain.
More Asciilands guides
Beginner guideTutorial, first tools, survivalControls & keybindsEvery key and menu shortcutCrafting recipesEvery recipe by stationSmithing & metalsOres, ingots, forging, tool tiersMagic & spells12 spells, inscriptions, manaBuilding housesPieces, costs, storeys, decayTowns & plotsTown Hall, plots, upkeepMap, regions & materialsWhere each material isFarming & cookingCrops, compost, dish buffsCompanionsTaming, talents, saddlebags
Sources
- Asciilands in-game Field guide (Help menu, H); numbers on this page re-read from it automatically on every game update
- Asciilands game data sent by the game server to a guest player (build c7ba7029d359), first read Oct 22, 2026 and re-checked unchanged on Oct 23, 2026; flagged above when the game ships a newer build
- asciilands.io/play: the game client
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