2021 Changelog Archives

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These are the CLA (ChangeLog Archives) for 2021.

For the most recent changelogs, go here

January 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 Happy New Year! Very excited for this next year.. :)

Looking for feedback on next new level.. Cap'n Jozek's Hideaway.. https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/forum/questions?id=121535 :fw!

Going to work on couple new SBQ's and MNF's in meantime with that level and a new extension off of Eldritch. :)

  • Post #2 Aware of facebook bug, with header warning saying "Adobe Flash No Longer Supported".. Facebook's Wednesday code push must have broke something.

https://developers.facebook.com/support/bugs/2560309057601948/

  • Post #3 Looking for feedback on changing special bonuses to no longer auto-activate, and rather just expire. See:

https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/forum/questions?id=121551

Also, I'm going to release new Auto-Fish Special Bonus, into a "BETA" test here.. and I want to give people the option of using it or not... hence I think it will auto-expire if you don't activate it in time.

  • Post #4 Putting Auto-Fish test on hold till Monday when I'm back and can more quickly fix things. Getting close to official release! <3 It will no longer be given out.
  • Post #5 Auto-fish special bonus lasts for 4-8 hours in treasure chests now. In MTC's they become more common with higher luck.. and the # of hours it lasts for is based on luck.. right now 180 luck => 12 hours.. 90 luck=> 6 hours. They seem to be functioning better now, and not taking people on repeated trips.
  • Post #6 Fixed issue with profile pictures, forum uploads not displaying.. was because we have 2 webservers and data wasn't synced across.
Trying to fix up issues with Auto-Fish special bonus. Thanks for all the feedback.
  • Post #7 Bonus Coolers take 2 days to recharge now. (ie can only use one every 2 days.) Won't drop in Claustro or future levels if you more than a dozen.
  • Post #8 Corrected Timer Special Bonus message to properly give time till next fishing trip.. Wasn't taking timer deductions of being Ad Friendly into consideration.

May adjust Bonus Cooler to only cool off your oldest 10 special bonuses, and have no recharge wait time.. give feedback on forum: https://apps.facebook.com/fishwrangler/forum/questions?id=121626

  • Post #9 If you're in an area with enemies, auto-fish special bonus will trigger them, but continue to fish (without costing you resources).. This way if you're looking for enemy interaction and want to use auto-fish, you can.
  • Post #10 Auto-Fish should now use attractants/repellents properly. I'm going to work on it taking crew next... And it should properly auto-expire.. let me know if it doesn't.. :miny!
  • Post #11 Added warning to starting auto-fish if you have a wait time.
  • Post #12 Updated auto-fish to use resources and take crew.. they'll see message like "Joe auto-led trip... " so they know you're auto-fishin'.. :)
  • Post #13 Auto-Fish should properly expire, if you don't activate it.. and it should take you fishing, if you start it.. (some cases where people weren't taken)
  • Post #14 If you don't have chum, or any invalid setup, but are ready for a crew trip, your crew trip timer will now be updated, even if you're not taken. It was stuffing up crew trips, so you'd keep trying to take a person, who couldn't go.. and not take any friends. Confused? :)

February 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 Updated Kwanky to have correct Min Reqs..

Updated error message when traveling to new location with DH special bonus... only notifies you on loss of an hour on active special bonuses.

Fixed main collectable page, so you can now send crew collectables properly.

  • Post #2 If in the future we have an issue where you're able to fish repeatedly, with no wait.. I may try to code a fix in, to basically back check your trips and count them towards your wait time. So if you fish 250 times in five minutes.. I'd try to take server offline, write code to check everyones trips, then give that person a 63 hour wait time.

You can now also purchase the Heart Strings pole in Red Love Bay! (and the old Fir String Contest Pole in Waterport for old contest x-mas reindeer fish)



  • Post #4 The Soulmate Squid should be catchable with its listed reqs... RLB with heart strings.. cleared cache which was problem with it not being catchable.
  • Post #5 Releasing Auto-Fish Special bonus into beta 2.0. Should be synced much better with your actual fish timer, if you reduce your wait time by opening MTB's or a MTC.. it should properly adjust your next auto trip properly.

Hoping to also verify that trips do happen right when your time is up and you're ready to fish. (14 minutes on fish-wrangler.com and 15 minutes on FB)

You will no longer receive an "expired auto-fish special bonus" notification. It will just silently expire. It's currently the only special bonus that doesn't automatically start.

I'm going to give away 10 auto-fish bonuses to whoever responds first here: https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/forum/questions?id=121860

So I can test the feature carefully.. then release it back into treasures/mtb's/mtc's.

  • Post #6 Now that Valentine's Day has passed, we've doubled resource costs and will double the catch req's tomorrow. The quest catch quantities were much lower as using the Heart Strings for most catches, wasn't anticipated.. and finishing it in under an hour wasn't intended.. ;)
  • Post #7 Fixed issue where you start an Auto Fish, and it doesn't properly start.. Should be taking people very consistently now as well.. fixed issue with 2nd web server not properly running auto-fish. :)
  • Post #8 As you know Earl has been competing with Cap’n Jozek for over a decade, out of a small supply store in his house. Cap’n Jozek wondered how Earl kept his prices so low for so long, and sent the auditors after Earl. Well, Earl never paid his taxes or kept records, so he’s in debt big time and needs gold fast. He’s willing to give you directions to a top secret fishing spot, for a hefty fee of course, but wants to make sure he can trust you… so you'll have to answer a few questions first....

Stay tuned Wranglers! -Betsy Lou

March 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 Earl here.. da ol' secret spot ya been waitin' for be ready dis Tursday.. stay tooned!
  • Post #2 I believe I fixed an issue while auto-fishing and opening MTB Opens / MTB Sends / using tarpits / ice cubes, or any other resource that MTC's track.. If you see that your resource usage stats aren't getting saved properly to your MTC, let us know on the ol' forum.

PS I'm trying to figure out what Earl is talking about.. not sure how he hacked into my account..

  • Post #3 UPDATE: Nevermind, it appears I need to do more debugging.. auto-fish is resetting my MTB open stats.. Stay tuned.
  • Post #4 Ok, MTC stats should properly save now while auto-fishing.. :)
  • Post #5 Earl here! Temporary max of Stealth Level 3.92 on me ol' Secret Standard Pole! The carbon fiber mod is in need of adjustment before it breaks! Max will be lifted tomorrow at 'round dis time.
  • Post #6 Secret Standard adjustment be red-e n' chirty minutes, 10am FTV. -Earl
  • Post #7 Da new Stealth Modifications r now capable of double stealth leveling from Regular Tripz, however da tweak no longer 4x's Night Fishin' leveling.. just 2x. -Earlie
  • Post #8 Auto fish special bonus in treasures will appear if you don't have a multiplier OR if you're in a 3+ month old release.
  • Post #9 Originally released funky spunky sea animales to give fun random boosts, not to completely give a runaway lead of fishing every 2 minutes for an hour, getting 5x pole leveling boost, right upon a new release. Funky spunky sea animales will only now appear in 3+ month old releases.

Credited anyone more than enough FLC that had Secret Standard stealth deducted.. (you can get 8 xp per level.. it's 105 xp per stealth level.. so 13 flc per stealth level, plus 30 for incovience) leveling shall unlock again tomorrow at ~10am.

Randomness can be fun if in check.. too much of it is bad.

  • Post #10 Liquid Gold formula update! It now works on any rarity of fish, not just the first dozen rarest fishies! Science!
  • Post #11 Doo too me poor math skills, stealth leveling functions iden-tickle-y, to pole levelin'. Aye tried to get me stelath modificationes to work more gooder, but couldant. -DruNk EaRL
  • Post #12 You'll now get a skippers log message when an Auto Fish Special Bonus expires... again they need to be manually started or they'll expire. (FYI: Over the last 30min, you may have wrongly gotten this expiration message.. disregard it. ;) )
  • Post #13 Removed secret quest completions from showing up under profile prizes.. wasn't intended for that.. Earl said it's supposed to be super secret.. "Donut tell nobodie. -Earl"
  • Post #14 Fixed scram! message on special bonuses. Updated leaderboard layouts, to include profile pictures and just a more readable layout.
  • Post #15 Added in night fishing catches to summary logs, it's beta.. please report any bugs on forums. Example:

12:55pm FVT In the last 0 hours: • 17 catches from 17 trips (14 nf, 2 regular, 1 skip) • 27,132 gold and 28,166 pts from fishing (avg 1,596 gold and 1,657 pts per catch) 

 » Net of 13,083 gold and 28,166 pts what?

Catches: nf catches will be added here • WaterPier: 3 Salma Haddock, 3 Houdini, 2 Un-bottled, 2 Puffy Puffer, 2 Ninja, 2 Cubey, 1 Vampire, 1 Mime, 1 Hippie

Pole Leveling: nf catches added into pole leveling.. stealth leveling not displayed here, sorry • Gained 8.27 Broken Standard levels: 14 nf (82%), 2 regular (12%), 1 skip (6%)

Chum: you'll often see more catches than chum used, with how NF'ing works.. goofy, i know.. but the 'what?' will link to details saying this as well • Used 13 Red Love what?: 17 catches (100%), 0 steals (0%), 0 whiffs (0%)

Found: (1 resource worth 200 shells) • WaterPier: 1 Old Jug of Rum

  • Post #16 Temp max stealth level o 1.02 on da Silenced Rifle, ran outta ammuonionz. Shuld be gooder n' few days. -Earl
  • Post #17 Updating forum db, sorry for outtages.. going to check on bugs/issues shortly. <3

The wikia was loaded with ads, kept bothering me.. plus I'd like to add on any special features / code to our own wiki. I'll be giving away monthly donation rewards of $100 to 1st place, $50 to 2nd place, $20 to 3rd-10th place in the "last 30 days" contributors and adding a FW profile badge to those who help contribute (if they want). (If someone can remind me each month of who is in what place.. just add your UID to your "User" page)

Don't be afraid to edit.. I'd like to even move our FAQ in-game, onto the Wiki.. and just link it much better throughout Fish Wrangler.

I feel the current wiki, has too much going on, and is difficult to maintain. I feel the most helpful areas of it are storylines, and if/when they can be unlocked and how.. (ie the various spoiler storyline unlock walk throughs)

So I'm looking for old/outdated pages to be deleted.. like: https://wiki.fish-wrangler.com/?title=Talk:Islands

and some of the old forum talk /chats that are un-responded to..

Check out a random wiki page: https://wiki.fish-wrangler.com/?title=Special:Random

Check out contribution leaderboards here: https://wiki.fish-wrangler.com/?title=Special:ContributionScores

  • Post #20 Yarr maties! Da secret fish have magically increased in value by 25%! WooHoo!

May 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 I know this could probably have been worded better but it's late and has been on my mind since I noticed the changes but you'll all get my drift......

Anyone else enjoying the "new" changes to Chum shops (can now be bought in Claustro Cave instead of having to travel back to Breakfast Bay, not sure about others where you used to have to travel to reload)

And the changes to MTB's where it updates immediately those who you've already sent to so you no longer get that "red" message accepting it even if you've already sent one and can't send any more to that person?

Well I, for one, am. THANKS JOE!

  • Post #2 I agree! There has been many changes that I love lately, but that have never been mentioned.

The MTB change - love that!! Highlighting of chum and poles that you can use on an island - that is just great and make switching so much easier! More chum, than LC, in the drop down when you travel to Plastic & Tragedy - I've wanted that for ages! Just to mention the ones I can think of now :) THANX JOE!!

  • Post #3 Aye, kudos indeed to Joe (and Jillian) for all those recent changes- the MTB change was a MUCH welcomed sight- I always get so many more than I can return- and for all that ease the transitions from island to island; so grand to be able to swiftly find what I need in each place! Thank you, Joe!!
  • Post #4 :) Thanks.. was meaning to add that MTB change for awhile.

I like that Jillian still gets love here.. <3 Kirra is just starting pre-school so I think Jillian will be making a comeback with some fish ideas/etc.. :)

  • Post #5 I've got some other ideas for ajax'ing all of these links, so it just quickly deducts time and you can Fish NOW!

---> Fish sooner with Tarpit Stout (Chug?) or Kelpie Juice (Drink?) or a Large Ice Cube (Use?) or Open a MTB?


  • Post #6 Jillian is always loved by this motley crew but wasn't sure how much time she has had to get into "game mode" since the birth of the kids. THAT in and of itself is a time consuming, sometime thankless, job
  • Post #7 Done diddly.
  • Post #8 :) Yeah it's nice to see she's still remembered.. and yesterday felt like a day from our lives pre-kids.. Kirra's only doing 2 half days a week, but it feels like a huge freedom, plus she absolutely loves it and wants to go everyday already.. haha.. we'll see if it continues.. but completely different experience than with the first bugger.
  • Post #9 I don't like the new ajaxed Tarpit and Ice Cube, they pretty ugly and, most of all, not faster at all: before, by activating a tarpit, the page would reload and bring me back to the top, and if I wanted to use another one (even after having fished) I just had to press F5; now I can't do any of this anymore, is just awkward and slow.

I don't like them at all. :(

  • Post #10 Seriously NOT LIKING the new ajaxing for Tarpits. Made it worse than it ever was. Sorry
  • Post #11 DITTO
  • Post #12 Would someone in *very simple terms*, please explain "ajaxing"? I don't understand the change and how it benefits/deters my game :) Thanks in advance!
  • Post #13 Can you explain as to why?
  • Post #14 Are you using them from the resource list? I can have it auto-scroll to top of page after using it from resource list.. and there's always a link to use another..
  • Post #15 With your help, I can make it better.. but simply saying you don't like it, won't help anything.
  • Post #16 What does "They pretty ugly" mean?
  • Post #17 It's several times faster.. the whole page doesn't have to reload.. and you can quickly hit the use another link, to use another.. instead of pressing f5.
  • Post #18 I see what Soren is saying, but I love the new changes. I don't have an F5. With the new way to use Tarpits, I don't have to scroll down the the bottom of the page, open the resources section, and then click to use another Tarpit. This makes it much easier and quicker for me. Thanks, Joe!
  • Post #19 Instead of it throwing you back to the top of the page so you can actually SEE how much time you have left before you can FISH NOW after using a Tarpit (I don't like to waste a 15 min Tarpit when I only have a few minutes. So say I had 7 minutes before I could Fish Now, I would actually FISH NOW setting the timer to 18-21 minutes, use a Tarpit (deducting 15 min., NOW leaving 6 minute or so) When you get to the 4th Tarpit it only deducts 10 min, the 5th deducts 5 min, the 6th 4 min etc thereby giving you an extra FISH NOW and not wasting the extra time) NOW you have to scroll up to see how much time you had left before you choose to use another or to Fish Now . Hope that makes sense. My wife explains it better and once you get used to just checking your time and then using another FULL Tarpit it becomes routine
  • Post #20 I'm still not sure I understand how my change makes this worse..
  • Post #21 You have to scroll up and down a few more times now to get the job done, I thought the Tarpit worked just fine the way they were personally. Definitely did NOT make it faster for me
  • Post #22 YES auto-scroll would be nice 1/2 the battle. Once you have used one from the Resource list if it kicks you back up to the top of the page Great. Once you hit Fish Now again, the link at the top disappears and you have to scroll back down the Resource list to use another. The way the Sunscream works seem to work better if I remember correctly (haven't used one of those lately)
  • Post #23 Yeah, but I can't use 2 tarpit in a row.

Usually, I use 1 tarpit, then fish, and then use another 1 tarpit. And that was way faster before. For me, the way it was before, it was perfect.

  • Post #24 As I said in post #23, can't use 2 tarpit in a row because I can fish.
  • Post #25 You could have done it even before. The "use another one" link there was even before, if I'm not wrong...


  • Post #26 It doesnt makr it worse. Some people jusr resist change.
  • Post #27 Does the saying"If it ain't broke don't fix it" ring a bell? I do like the way the ice cubes work now, same yet different. It's not a matter of resistance to change. I guess what works for some may not for others
  • Post #28 I don't understand how my change breaks anything for you? If you use one, you can click fish now, then go back to resources and use another? Only thing, is it's faster.. as you don't have to reload the entire page, after drinking a tarpit?
  • Post #29 Does the saying "If it can be better, then try" ring a bell? ;)
  • Post #30 I agree. I tried and it worked well while playing on mobile.. :D did a bit of scrolling the page initially, then tried using the 'jump to' links on top of the page.. I'm yet to try how it wil work on laptop/ web version as I think it would require some scrolling or use pg-up or pg-dwn keys.
  • Post #31 It's just a lot more scrolling now Joe. Pages updating quicker is only 1/2 of the issue. THAT part is good. More scrolling is not I never said it was worse but it's definitely NOT better. At least for ME, and apparently a few others, it isn't. I HATE SCROLLING. my page is so long. Maybe I'll have to figure out a new shortcut
  • Post #32 Scrolling is also hard for me because I have arthritis in my hands and it is painful to the point meds don't even help
  • Post #33 Now:

1 - use a tarpit 2 - scroll up until "fish now" 3 - Fish now! 4 - scroll down until resources 5 - get back to 1

Before: 1 - use one tarpit 2 - Fish now! 3 - press F5 4 - get back to 2

And that was way faster. But, like, a lot.

  • Post #34 Used to be able to hit refresh and quickly drink your three tarpits. Now you have to scroll down, activate, back up, click ‘fish now’ (x2). It worked more quickly and smoothly before. Love the other changes though!
  • Post #35 Agree about the tarpits, too many clicks/scrolling now required. Even if you send us back to the top of the page after drinking one, would still have to scroll down and go to resources to use another vs just refreshing the page to drink again since the command was in the url.

Maybe automatically fish now after drinking since most of the time you drink then immediately fish. But only if timer <=0. Would not want it to use a skip and increase the timer.

  • Post #36 Auto fishing after drinking will not work for me, since the UV sunscreens are available only in Roperia, and sometimes I would like to shuttle back to Farovia to Fish Now.
  • Post #37 Anybody figure out the new daily limits on tarpits? I have used 12 so far today. 9th on deducted one minute
  • Post #38 Using an Android tablet, Tarpits are Slower to use but it has nothing to do with the loading especially while using the first 3,

I fish now, then - ( 14 minutes on timer ) I use a tarpit timer now in the Negative but you have 2 pop up's 1 in resources asking to use another, 2nd in header after activation but you cannot use another until you fish now,

Fish now - back to Resources and repeat the above until first 3 are used,

Once you are down to 10 minutes or less for each Tarpit, then no need to go scrolling back to Resources, it can be all done from the top of the page activating until back in the Negative again to fish now,

All this was done in the same way before, but now you get more Scrolling up and down, and with 2 pop ups for the same action ( Resource pop up / header pop up below Fishwrangler ) to use another One.


  • Post #39 2nd one appears below Home, Store, etc

Dropdown Menu's

  • Post #40 I didn't see this topic before. I posted a couple of days ago about how the AJAXex tarpits is slower for me. Basically, can't use refresh to open another. Have to do more scrolling and finding the correct link.
  • Post #41 I think it was Smitha, that mentioned, using 50 somewhere. Not sure if it was the limit though.
  • Post #42 Yes, I used 50 couple of days ago, and if I remember correctly, I got a message about drinking tar and was blocked from drinking 51st one.
  • Post #43 Added non ajax links to top of resources section.. meeting half way.. I guess I don't use these the same way you guys do.. maybe I should add a fish now link in the tarpit message.. kind of think I'll maybe just remove ajax for tarpits when in resource list? vote on it here: https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/forum/questions?id=122531
  • Post #44 I'm not sure I like that change either.. you guys? Keep old simple limits?
  • Post #45 I changed it because I saw some people have so many they'll never be able to use.. but I don't want click-fests..
  • Post #46 Thanks for clarifying this.. I see how this effects that.. I usually use all of mine after skipping out.. but i'm in minority
  • Post #47 I liked the old limits....Not sure 50 is really useful when its just a few seconds each after a point.
  • Post #48 Might give a 1% chance of getting 5min or something.. so it's more exciting.. but I still don't know.. maybe prefer old limit..
  • Post #49 I prefer the old limits. This would make it even more unfair during racing and it's bad enough as it is. This is most certainly not going to benefit newer players btw.

I like the new change when I use tarpits though. I mostly use mine when I do my 20 in MR - to get away from there asap :) and I don't have any problems.

  • Post #50 Oh, great! I really like the new buttons! It's even faster than before. Also they look very pretty.

Many thanks!


  • Post #51 I am now noticing the faster page loads. Thanks for staying in touch with us wranglers and hearing us out on our game play. I too am realizing that everyone plays differently. i think "my" way is the best though hahahaha. J/K
  • Post #52 I on't think THIS one will gain popularity. Tarpits are valuable since you have to use shells to buy them (winning them is far and few between. Although it seems some people have thousands and thousands of shell to I don't
  • Post #53 Don't forget that you can use SunsCream instead. They cost silver and you get 100 from one collection.
  • Post #54 Joe, I'm really loving all the little (and big) changes you've made lately. Except for the Tarpits of course
  • Post #55 Yes Pygge but you have to travel to Roperia to use them. Kind of a pain in the butt but then kind of worth it
  • Post #56 I know - and with the limit of travels/hour, I've gotten stranded quite a few times. It's worth it though, but I must admit that I use tarpits instead now and then when I feel lazy ;)

I doubt I will use more than 4 though. I'm a bit too tight and the gain is not big enough these days. If we couldn't use bonuses, while racing, it would have been different. As it is now, these few minutes will drown in the gain from a NF bonus - not worth it to me.

  • Post #57 Well said!

I'm not a racer . I don't feel the need to be in the top 10 of anything, it's nice when I am though lol. Especially in Tournament and Contests.

  • Post #58 Our way Joe, you get 3 or 4 extra trips that only cost a tarpit. Much like using Ice Cubes get you extra free trips if you just use your 6 Green Skips, use 3 Ice Cubes, use 6 Green Skips, use 3 Ice Cubes. Fish as usual. But you can't BUY Ice Cubes with shells or anything
  • Post #59 YES!
  • Post #60 It's only useful if you've used too many skips and you might miss Night Fishing. Then you could use the extra time reduction to make sure you don't miss the boat
  • Post #61 Super bad shock when drinking tarpits today on the 16th one. I'm never drinking more than 4 again ever too.

Didnt know that could happen, as I reported before, I have drunk 50 twice since the recent changes without any issues whatsoever. I do wish things wouldnt change so rapidly without being well documented atleast in changelog or someplace.

11:38pm FVT Miss Farovia, my love! Howzit goin'? TIP: You added 13 hours 27 minutes to your fishing wait time.

  • Post #62 That is not fun! and it's during a contest too. Very unfair!
  • Post #63 Yeah, normally in the old days (before the recent changes), even if you go over the limit and add time, it used to start with adding 5 minutes or something like that.

13 hrs+ just out of the blue was a huge shocker...

Never mind, I wasnt doing too great in the contest anyway... Atleast silver lining is it didnt happen during a race, I guess.

  • Post #64 I expected that something would change, since we were discussing it, but that big of a change without warning... I don't like it. It's like you're being punished for daring to try out things. Good Luck when you get back. It's enough with one big fish for the Contest!
  • Post #65 In Roperia, my drink button states: The Vial of Bile can only be used in Farovia. But I really like the selection in the resource header. Adding 13 hours to a fishing time would be a big no for me, too "automatic"...
  • Post #66 Don't drink to many tarpits

I now have a 29 hour wait to fish again. 9:36am FVT

Where's Joan of Farovia? Joan?! COME BACK I'M SORRY! TIP: You added 11 hours 8 minutes to your fishing wait time.

9:36am FVT

Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You added 8 hours 45 minutes to your fishing wait time. 11:01am FVT

Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You added 12 hours 12 minutes to your fishing wait time.


  • Post #67 Omg that's terrible.
  • Post #68 I've only ever drunk max of five.

Didn't know you could benefit on more.

  • Post #69 How many did you drink???
  • Post #70 I lost count
  • Post #71 Smitha got it after 15 (see post #61).
  • Post #72 It is a new thing and it was up to 50. Some days ago it suddenly changed to 15 - with an added penalty.
  • Post #73 Not enjoying the added tarpits.. wasn’t paying attention as I still thought it removed random small increments and ended with a near 20-hour wait time. The old way was better.
  • Post #74 Didn't even know it changed.

Missed this.

  • Post #75 holy crap, just happened to me, didn't know it was a thing. i went ONE over my usual 10. THE HELL am i supposed to do with a 15 hour wait time?!
  • Post #76 Wow! I assume it’s the same with Sunscream…how many tarpits/sunscream can we safely use? Is there a documented number?
  • Post #77 My NF Captain got his hours after 14. I guess 10 is safe?? Maybe ;) My 'normal' use is 4, maybe 5 so I hope I'm safe....
  • Post #78 All of the new automatic things have made me expect automatic things. So sometimes I get surprised.

When you change poles the latest quest for that pole activates, but there is an exception to that. If you are doing a quest that has fish in both domains, Roperia and Farovia, the quest does not activate when you change domains. Is this a bug or a feature? Example: If you start the Valentine Quest in Roperia, when you move to Red Love Bay with the Heart Strings pole in Farovia for the third fish, the quest does not activate automatically. You have to go into quests and manually activate it. Otherwise you miss having your catches count. This is an easy thing to do, but you have to remember to do it. This issue was raised in a thread about the Valentine Quest but the thread was closed without anything being changed.

  • Post #79 The problem with this one is that sometimes it does activate and sometimes not. One thing is for sure - you'd better be alert and check!
  • Post #80 It is not random though. You have to manually activate it the first time you change domains. After that it will change automatically.
  • Post #81 Not for me. I had done that yesterday and I'm sure of it. Still when I went to Farovia I had to turn it on - again :(
  • Post #82 I do t understand all the complaints about the Tarpits. You were never meant to open that many. It warns you after the third
  • Post #83 I think people complains because the amount has changed many times lately with no warnings and a huge penalty.
  • Post #84 Having AJAX on the tarpits on the cell phone is still a pain. Perhaps change it back for mobile devices?
  • Post #85 Even on the computer, having AJAX on tarpits is a pain because you have to manually go to the top of the page. The work around I use is not to turn them on but instead to click on their name, and that takes you to the top of the page and you can activate them from there. It's still not as good as it was before, but at least it's less agravating
  • Post #86 Woah what?? You were drinking regular tarpots? 50th one did that? Not intended..
  • Post #87 Was not intended.. will fix now..
  • Post #88 I think non-regular quests are exceptions, because of all the different poles/locations they can be activated.. I can't recall exactly why it was excluded..

So issue is with starting quest in different region and then shuttling, and it not being auto-activated at first? Will check this now.

  • Post #89 Dang.. still trying to figure out what to do.. I can have it auto scroll to top? Any ideas on how to improve tarpit usage on mobile? I can exclude it.. but I'd prefer to streamline it like the other resources.. so it's all the same.
  • Post #90 Capn' changed it for a 1% chance of a 1min-60min time reduction.

The huge 15hr addition was due to a toxic batch of tarpits.. causing bad cases of food poisoning!

  • Post #91 So kelpie,tarpit, ice cubes are now displayed in italics.. denoting that it'll be instantly activated and scroll to top.. making it easier to see timer deductions and use another, via the little link message at top. Better?
  • Post #92 Perhaps on mobile have it do what it was before: open a different page. Then we can use ctrl-R to drink another after "fish now".

That's how I use MTBs as well. I have a shortcut to the page so I don't have to scroll through the Resources and then I use the shortcut or ctrl-R (or page refresh on mobile) to open another.

AJAXing seems like a good idea but I'd rather use ctrl-R than have to seek, find, and click. And definitely not have to scroll, seek, find, click, scroll again on mobile.

  • Post #93 Thank you Joe!! Glad to be rid of the toxic batch of tarpits :)
  • Post #94 Better

Thank you Joe

  • Post #95 Much better! Thanks Joe!
  • Post #96 Much Appreciated Joe!
  • Post #97 Error“Cannot fish n' Secret Spotski's without me Stealthy Modificationes!” -Early Meyers

Next Super Secret Task: “Reel in the Coy Koi to unlock da next sonar stealh mod.” -Sneaky Earl

  • Post #98 I just paid 21m for this and it says I still need to buy it ?
  • Post #99 Same
  • Post #100 same problem here


  • Post #101 Looks like a few of us got screwed then.

Someone was lucky on 1st catch.

  • Post #102 Looks like I can use ctrl-r again to chug another. Thanks Joe!
  • Post #103 What is the current situation regarding the tarpits? Are folks still getting hours added after 50 drinks? 15 drinks? Seems like it's now like 15 seconds for each one starting with the 10th drink, with some ranging from 11-50 seconds?


12:21pm FVT Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 15 seconds. 12:21pm FVT Miss Farovia, my love! Howzit goin'? TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 41 seconds. 12:13pm FVT Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 11 seconds. 12:13pm FVT Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 15 seconds. 12:13pm FVT Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 60 seconds. 12:13pm FVT Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 2 minutes. 12:13pm FVT Miss Farovia, my love! Howzit goin'? TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 3 minutes.

  • Post #104 The first 9 are 15, 15, 15, 10, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 min(60 sec)

10th onwards to 50th are randomized 10 sec to 59 sec each. With a very rare bigger random reduction thrown in sometimes between the 10th and 50th one like below -

October 3 12:48am FVT Joan, that you? I have something to tell you! TIP: You cut down your fishing wait time by 31 minutes.

After 50th it stops you from drinking any more with a message like I'd rather drink tar etc... At no point in any of this does it add time.

  • Post #105 What do some have that they'll never use?
  • Post #106 Chug? Is now appearing at the end of the description of catches. Links to open a Tarpit. Love it!
  • Post #107 Armpits.
  • Post #108 And the Chug? Is no longer there after you use 51 Tarpits. Cool!
  • Post #109 Can you do the same with UV SunsCream?
  • Post #110 If you click Chug it uses tarpits, so if you want to use sunscreen instead you have to click on the actual sunscreen
  • Post #111 If I remember right: before it was so that when you used a SunsCream and clicked Chug, another SunsCream was used. I think that has changed.
  • Post #112 Tested it. Used a sunscreen and cast then hit Chug at the end of the catch description. It used a tarpit
  • Post #113 I think Estelle was asking Joe if he could do the same (ie make it scroll to the top) with the UV SunsCream as he did with the kelpie, tarpits & ice cubes.

"So kelpie,tarpit, ice cubes are now displayed in italics.. denoting that it'll be instantly activated and scroll to top.. making it easier to see timer deductions and use another, via the little link message at top. Better?"

If you use the chug option at any point it uses a tarpit not another of what you just used (kelpie, ice cube or sunscream)


June 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 Fixed accidental Mystery Tackle Crate openings..

If you opened a MTC after 10pm FVT, and then reloaded that link (ie clicked back in history, or simply came back and reloaded that open MTC link) it would accidentally open a new one for that day.

Now the Open MTC link is only valid for 1 minute, and will ask you if you're sure you want to open it, if outside that time frame.

  • Post #2 Sorry for the 6 hours of downtime today. I'm in Sequoia National Park, so of course the game would crash.
  • Post #3 I'm going to rerun night fishing between 2am-8am fvt at 10am today.
  • Post #4 Trying to pinpoint the issue with mobile devices playing on Fish Wrangler.. it seems like searching for "Fish Wrangler" and clicking the Play Now button works.. however posts linking to apps.facebook.com/fishwrangler don't work.. and say it's not available for your phone.. if anyone recalls this working, can you please post on the forums as to how long ago that was, and if it'd just forward you to the mobile web version of FW.. (as I assume it did.. somewhere near the start of June is when we started getting loads of reports on this)
  • Post #5 Blue Caldera, a majestic warm water secret fishing spot within Blue Crescent, opens tomorrow at 9:30am. The stealth modification for the Steam powered Hydro-pole is called the "Electric Hydro", no carbon emissions for when you're fishing within enclosed caverns! Stay healthy wranglers!

Earl's charging 21m gold, however it gets 28k cheaper/min.. making it nearly free within 24 hours.

The Sonar Pulverizer stealth modification (Nuclear Pulverizer) will be released on our 13th birthday (July 15th 2021)! YOWZER! It will cost 25m gold and become nearly free within 13 hours after it's release.

Hope you guys love all the new fish, I had a blast coming up with them. If everyone likes the humor with them, we'll continue some more levels with same original art style/humor. Let us know your thoughts on the forums! <3 :fw!

  • Post #6 Restarted web servers due to slow loads..

July 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 Still working on world maps and next levels. Should have it done within two weeks.

Nuclear Option secret stealth addon releases tomorrow for our 13th Anniversary! Along with a new Birthday Shark Contest!

Thanks to everyone's continued support! It's unbelievable how much code and artwork is now in the game. Cheers! Here's to another 13 years! :beer! :cocktail! :wine! :miny!

September 2021[edit]

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Facebook is slowly phasing out "Web Games" (like Fish Wrangler). Eventually I foresee them removing all integration on apps.facebook.com, but keeping integration on fish-wrangler.com. Either way, you really should verify your email/password are set in your FW settings. So you're not impacted in these situations.

Go to "account settings" and make sure your email/password are stored: https://apps.facebook.com/fishwrangler/my-settings


Anyways, we're still working on the Roperia map, and couple new voyaging fish. Hoping to have Farovia map released before the fish, so players can report issues/etc.. I'm loving how each one looks... :D

  • Post #3 After lots of work, finally released early version of the animated map.. still need to have it animate your actual voyage, possibly show your voyaging catches, have secret fish that you can find by clicking around..

Anyways, I'd like for people to report any issues / bugs in as much detail as possible for now.. once it's stable I'll release Roperia's map. :)

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  • Post #4 I'm also going to fix mobile pinch zooming..

October 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 Fixed a few issues with world map.. if you click near the dock of an island (even if you click on land) it'll say "Close Enough?" and bring up that locations details, so you can quickly see the voyage button / location details. Same thing with "No Path", if you click close to an island, it'll take ya there.
  • Post #2 When playing on mobile v2, it's hard to tell when the header news gets updated.. now it'll glow red.. and once you click or view the news, it'll stop glowing.. so now it's easier to know when I've updated the news. :) Meant to do this when I first released mobile v2, but the last 5% of code was unfinished.
  • Post #3 Paid out Red Lust payments via amazon/paypal - congrats to all!

Added in all locations back to the map page, under the world map. :)

  • Post #4 If you get to 100% completion on a quest while fishing, you'll be able to instantly see the exchange / drop off links. And upon handing in quests, it'll bring you to that poles quest page, so you can more easily see the next quest for the pole you're on.. It's always bothered me having to make an extra click into the poles quest detail page.. (I'm hoping this doesn't cause a cache issue when instantly viewing the quest page.. let me know if ya notice an bugs)
  • Post #5 Temporarily added in how many quest catches are left, to see if there is in fact some sort of bug with quest catches not saving.. as per: :fw/fishwrangler/forum/bugs?id=123191

It'll say "103 Quest Catches left!" instead of "Quest Catch!".

If you notice that after a catch, the number doesn't decrement, let us know on that forum report.

  • Post #6 Added in long over due links to view other regions stores/maps.

Example, if you're in Roperia, and viewing the Pole/Chum/Boat/Skill/Map list, you'd see a link in header to shuttle to the other region. Now if the link is blue, you'll be able to instantly see the list without shuttling.

Same should be true for random links that link to individual poles/chums/boats/skills/towns... (ie with URL that has ?id=# in it)

There might be a few bugs with it, let me know on the forums. thanks!

  • Post #7 Fixed issue when sending MTB's and scrolling down, and accepting one from a friend that you've already just sent.. (it'd sometimes give option to send another MTB to them.. then give you an error).. it now properly says you can't send them a MTB.. :)

November 2021[edit]

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  • Post #1 Sorry for the delay in releases.. the whole family here (besides Kai somehow) caught covid and we're fortunately all through it safely it seems. <3

Anyways, I finalized some details on the Roperian World Map... I might tweak a couple parts of it, that I'm not the biggest fan of.. but otherwise I think it turned out pretty sweet! Check it out at: https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/map?region=roperia

I'll be releasing details on 3 new shuttling fish and 3 new voyaging (trolling net) fish. :) I kind of want to release a fish that can only be caught when you click on the correct spot on the world map.. haha.. this way everyone has to at least try it out! :)

December 2021[edit]

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Along with 2 new shuttling fish and 4 voyaging fish! https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/fish-all?fish=%5B%221339%22%2C%221340%22%2C%221341%22%2C%221342%22%2C%221343%22%2C%221344%22%2C%221345%22%5D

  • Post #2 Accidentally changed all tournament locations to burnout bay for last hour.. fixed it.. might credit everyone rlc that did it and erase the results.
  • Post #3 Broke Auto NF'ing for some people.. may have said "Krakken Rocks" isn't unlocked... or some other location.. fixed this error now. Sorry for any inconvenience.. short term pain for long term bug-free-ness.
  • Post #4 The Abdo Elfie is en route from the North Fishin' Pole. New holiday collection and holiday feast quest coming any day!

Removed tournament results for Dec 8th, glitched it half way through day,... so a bunch of people did tournament casts in Burnout Bay, instead of whatever town it was actually supposed to be in. Claim 15 FLC in the header! https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/my?gimmie-gimmie-gimmie=flc-woohoo


  • Post #5 Fixed Auto NF's shuttling ability, with saving your last known pole/chum/location. Should be good for any parties leaving after right now.
  • Post #6 Going to adjust servers to help with increase in traffic/slow loads. :)
  • Post #7 Fixed issue with inviting friends to quests.

Also added in display of crew mates that have started but not completed the specific quest you're viewing.. which then had me remove the restriction of inviting and accepting an invite to a quest you've already started.. (so it'll just let you have two pending quests FYI)

  • Post #8 Congrats to these 10 lucky followers! Contact us on Fish Wrangler, so we can credit your $100 in Love Chum! We'll give away another $100 in Love Chum to 10 more followers on New Years Day! @bunhare6395, @martingenik, @hderringer, @cristyfur, @niklavst, @duchessmrmb, @whirlwind151, @john_orlowski, @kimbeydoun, @cmsbd
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