Talk: Bait

Fishing without a bait

Some days ago I accidentally went fishing without baits in my inventory (hello quickstack!). This went unnoticed for a bit longer than it should have, since I managed to catch a wooden crate pretty early on. As I said I am fairly sure I did not have any baits on my inventory since I used quickstack on my fishing supply chest. Therefore I assume that baits are actually only needed for catching actual fishes. Could anybody please confirm this? I haven't been able to reproduce it yet, probably because of the crates low drop rate.

How do you know which bait is active?

When I have multiple types of bait in my inventory I don't know which one is getting used up. From observation I think it uses the strongest bait you have first, but I am not sure what happens if there is a tie for bait power. Once we know what happens let's add it to the article. Camelotcrusade (talk) 02:12, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

Ammo-type items like bait, paint, etc are used from the left-top slot of the inventory to the bottom-right. The topmost/left-most bait item will be used first. Equazcion ^(talk) 02:16, 19 May 2014 (UTC)

How to Obtain?

Some baits obtaining are just simple, find the bug and catch it using bug net, but some other baits are not obvious (like Master Bait and Journeyman Bait), I suggest to place some kind of info on how to obtain the baits. FunAlways (talk) 02:53, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

Apprentice, Journeyman, and Master Bait are obtained from the Angler for completing quests. But yeah, I guess, that should be put in there. Sodapone (talk) 03:16, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

The one baking my head right now is jellyfish, since it seems like the easy thing to do would be firing up a statue to get a limitless supply of bait... but you can't catch the blue jellyfish from the statue in the bug net. I tried going to the ocean to pick up some pink jellyfish, but that didn't work either. It seems like the bug net doesn't work on jellyfish at all, so how do you use jellyfish as bait? Are you 'supposed' to use the bug net but there's a bug (in the bug net... a bug net bug), or is there some other way to catch jellyfish, or are these different entities altogether that just happen to be named the same thing as existing mobs? CDarklock (talk) 17:04, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Apparently the "bait" jellyfish are different entities that have been given a similar name in-game. I caught a blue jellyfish by fishing in the Underground, and the sprite was smaller, like the on that can be seen inside the Jellyfish Jar. --186.136.111.144 15:41, 14 May 2014 (UTC)

Bait Consumption

In the time I've been fishing since the update, I've noticed bait is not always consumed when you catch a fish, but can been when cating crates. It may just be a random chance per cast/catch that bait is lost. --96.42.19.109 17:46, 11 May 2014 (UTC)

I have noticed it can be quite random, sometimes the same rod and bait get me 10 fish and others only one before losing a bait. In any case, in this page it's stated that bait power reduces bait consumption... but in the forums a lot of people are saying bait power works just like fishing power in rods, i.e. it gets you better fish. The Fishing page was recently updated with similar information. --186.136.111.144 19:12, 16 May 2014 (UTC)

Bait power, Fishing power of the Pole, equipment, and time of day all factor into the quality of the catch. I fleshed this out at Fishing from a dive through the code. Equazcion ^(talk) 18:43, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Trivia Section

I mentioned that the 'Master Bait' was most likely a play on words for the act of self stimulation, and it was removed by DoubleFloat for the following reason:

"No source for this. As the whole fishing mechanic is build around a child this reference seems rather unlikey."

I disagree, it would not be the first sexual innuendo this game has made, (see Golden Shower). This is a very old fishing joke, with many bait & tackle shops choosing to humorously name themselves this, which a quick Google search will prove. Also, most associative trivia on this wiki is speculation -- do you plan to remove every bit of trivia that does not have a source? If so, you are going to be very busy. As a side note, I am not the only one that has noticed this, Google 'Terraria Master Bait', and you will see quite a bit of buzz about it, including a video from major Terraria YouTuber, HERO. Livemike (talk)

• I didn't know this phrase was that popular with the fishing community, so sorry for that. Although I still think the choice of using this phrase in connection with a child NPC was rather poor. --DoubleFloat (talk) 14:52, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

We don't know if the Angler is a child. He has a lot of fae-like attributes: arrogance, seemingly has no parents, speaks in lofty tones, seems to have ulterior motives, disappears in a puff of smoke instead of gibbing at death, etc. For all we know, he's a member of The Fair Folk who likes fish. FyreNWater (talk) 21:01, 12 May 2014 (UTC)

Even if he is a child, my kids are eight and ten and they think any kind of sexual wordplay is hilarious; they consider "that's what she said" just about the funniest thing in the world. Well, either that, or something that sounds like a fart. CDarklock (talk) 17:10, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

This page has seen a lot of edit fighting over this one bit of trivia already. I for one believe it should stay because A) it's by far not the first sexual pun in the game (mourning wood, anyone?) and B) it's an old fishing joke as it has already been pointed out. The current "trivia" that has replaced it is evident to probably anyone with a rudimentary grasp of English and seems to be more of an excuse to remove the old one. --186.136.111.144 19:39, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

I replaced it. The last revert said "no, just no", which hints that either the editor found it offensive or unbelievable. I find it quite believable given the other sexual humor in the game and the fact that it's a common fishing joke. If the wiki were to adopt a rule barring the explanation of such things, despite their being there, I'd say it can go -- but until then, it should remain. Equazcion ^(talk) 19:41, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

I would beg to differ on the fishing joke, since there is Apprentice Bait and Journeyman Bait, it seems that Master Bait is just refrencing the fishing skill level, I would re-add my old trivia without tampering with the trivia that I feel is rather immature, but I honestly thing that Equazcion would just undo it again. As to be honest the whole skill thing a logical piece of trivia and I dont think it would deserve removal. Would you still say the whole masturbate/master bait thing if there was novice bait and expert bait? What if they got tired of people mistaking it and simply renamed Master Bait to Expert Bait? Just throwing out a few thoughts. WelchDrew (talk) 20:02, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Well, we could easily have both to have the whole picture of the joke in place and add that it's a common fishing joke and everyone would be happy. If the devs hadn't actually called it Master Bait the joke would be nonexistant and the trivia needless; if they actually didn't intend the joke and it gets "fixed" in-game later, then we can simply remove the masturbation bit. --186.136.111.144 20:09, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

WelchDrew's choice of "trivia" is obvious information that doesn't belong in the trivia section. I would be pretty compelled to remove that if it were placed, as I would remove any over-explanation of something so obvious on any page, as it adds nothing. I'd be okay with leaving it, along with the joke explanation, as a compromise -- however I think WelchDrew wants it there only to justify removing the masturbation bit. If I'm wrong then I'm okay with having both.

As for the "what if", if the developers renamed Master Bait to Expert Bait, then of course there would be no joke to point out -- but that doesn't factor into what we do when it is named Master Bait. The developers clearly aren't shy about including sexual jokes in the game (Golden Shower, Mourning Wood), and combined with the fact that this is such a common joke and the name is so suggestive on its face at any rate, I'm not sure how you'd find it incomprehensible that it's intentional. They probably would have named it "expert bait" etc. if they didn't intend any humor here.

Again though, compromise is cool by me. Let's include both, if all are okay with that. Equazcion ^(talk) 20:14, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

I think it's perfect as it is right now: all the relevant info and viewpoints are there, so that should hopefully prevent any further misunderstanding. --186.136.111.144 21:06, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Its still inappropriate and unneeded. Plus kids view this site.10.109.0.156 12:10, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Those same kids also play the game, where you can take the severed arm of an undead and use it to smash bunnies and squirrels into bloody chunks. Should items be renamed to Heckstone or Banished To The Shadow Realm Sickle because kids might see them? Once you're at the point where you're casting piss spells, you can't really censor for a younger audience. 98.196.175.207 22:30, 18 July 2014 (UTC)

Okay, #1, anybody who doubts for a second that the pun was intentional should probably get some therapy. I mean, really?!?

And #2, this "what about the kids" crap is so ridiculous. What is the fear, exactly? That kids will figure out that they aren't the only people who play with their junk? That they'll learn a word they can giggle about with their friends? I mean... seriously, I really don't understand what the fear is here.

Honestly, what keeps me up at night is that one day my kids will find out we live in a world where a huge minority of people are so neurotic that they flip out over a really corny pun. That is indeed a dark, dark world I have brought them in to... --24.93.29.60 09:36, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

YOUR JUNK IS BAD AND EVIL AND NO ONE SHOULD EVER TALK ABOUT IT EVER Gearzein (talk) 14:35, 20 October 2014 (UTC)

I don't really know what happened to this wiki page, but it was just a pun so does it really matter to much, also other achievements are "big booty" "it's hard" and "boned" - anonymous

Master Bait

You really had to explain that very obvious pun? Like, really? 2.29.92.144 02:19, 12 July 2015 (UTC)

Yes, unfortunately I really did. I felt is was pretty obvious too. Livemike (talk) 07:25, 19 July 2015 (UTC)