Palia -- All that and a gaggle of glow worm fish

I haven't had a chance to play as much Palia these past few days, so I thought I'd check back in and report a bit more on my Blaugust progress.

First things, I've got my aquarium room all sorted out and it's looking pretty good.

Largest on stage right, Mediums on stage left, and smallest on the upstage.

 

Second things, I dinged level 11 (only 9 more to go to get my extra cool fish tank).

It's one better than 10!

Because I've been away from the game for a bit, my glow worm farm chugged out a lot of the little yellow guys for me to use all over Palia and score a few new fish that I haven't shown off yet. So without further ado, here's the new crew!

The Bahari Pike

From a Bahari River and not Pike Place Market

The Black Sea Bass

From the Bahari Ocean and Not the Black Sea

The Blob Fish

It objects to the term blob and prefers spherically challenged

The Cactus Moray

When a cactus hits your eye and it hurts like a stye that's a cactus moray!

The Crimson Fangtooth

It's a Crimson Fangtooth, not a fun colored Lanternfish

The Fathead Minnow

Not fond of slurs like fathead.

The Honey Loach

Honey Loaches are the bees knees

The Hypnotic Moray

When you get hypnotized by a fish of this size that's a moray!

The Indigo Lamprey

*hangs head* I missed the cool New Fish screenshot on this one . . .

The Midnight Paddlefish

It's got stars upon thars!

The Swordfin Eel

Answering the question, what if a sword fish and an eel had a baby?

And after all that I STILL haven't caught all the fish that are available in Palia. It's kind of crazy. Hopefully someday I'll be able to check them all off my list and proudly say I'm done, but today is not that day.

Happy Dueling!

Palia -- I'm the worst at Gardening

Gardening in Palia started out for me as nothing more than a cotton farm empire. It was all about the touch and the feel of fabric, as they say, and I cared nothing for what happened. Soon I discovered it was pretty easy to craft up vegetable soup and I had a few free carrot seeds in my bags, so the crop became a split between cotton and carrots.

Fast forward to today and I've started to branch out to wheat, rice and potatoes as well. Now here's the ugly truth. I've just been throwing these things down any old willy-nilly way because ain't nobody got time for figuring out gardening beyond, I put stuff in the ground, I water it, I get stuff out.

It's like I went to the haircut place and said in a chad voice, "Just mess me up."

The above is the view of my garden from in game. Pretty ordinary garden shot . . . not the largest garden by any means. I'm working with a 6x6 plot. I could expand that all the way up to a 9x9 if I wanted, but up to this point gardening has been entirely an afterthought to fishing.

Give me the messy look, ma'am, you know, "Just mess me up."

The above is a 2D graphical representation of my garden from the site Palia Garden Planner. My current haphazard layout of stuff is so so. I'm getting minor quality increases, water retention, weed prevention, and harvest boons with my accidental layout. But what If my garden looked a little more like this?

got the root vegetables adding water retention and the tomatoes doing some weed prevention

Now we're looking a bit better on all the stats and definitely a more well rounded crop. Hmm . . . what if I double downed on the tomatoes and sacrificed a bit of the cotton in a layout kind of like this?

Rotating around the weed prevention, increasing tomatoes for profitability . . .

Oh man, I hate that I've found this site. Now I'm going to have to actually think before I garden . . . just imagine what it's going to be like when I expand the plot and start growing blueberries and apples! What a nightmare gardening is. To quote the Matrix, "Ignorance is Bliss."

Happy Dueling!

Palia -- The amazing fishtank discovery!

I was chilling in Palia this evening and really wanting to have more information about this Fisher's Aquarium you can get at 20th level, and while I didn't really find out any good information on it. What I did find out however is that you can just plunk down any star quality fish in your house and it makes a fish tank. Which then caused me to break out all my starred fish from my inventory and go absolutely nuts.

FISH! EVERYWHERE! IN MY HOUSE!

So as you can see, things are a bit crowded inside my cute little house now, and that can mean only one thing needs to happen. I need to grow my house. Because of that I dropped 6k gold on purchasing a small room and began construction post-haste.

Four hours can't come fast enough

The whole purpose here of course (or should I say porpoise) is to make a fish aquarium room where it will be nothing but wall-to-wall fish tanks. In about four hours from now I should have that room all built and ready to populate. YES! I would have waited to write about this epic room four hours from now, but it's Blaugust and I need to put out a blog post for the day.

Anyway, now that I'm level 10 in fishing, I guess I need to start thinking about the other skills as well. According to my character sheet, when you add all my levels together, I'm a grand total of 41 with my next highest skill being wood cutting and my lowest skills being furniture crafting and hunting.

Why make furniture when I can just fish it up?

To be honest though, the skill I've been enjoying most past fishing lately is gardening.  Yup, been a bit of a cotton baron lately to be honest, but I'm starting to branch out into the vegetables as well. (I need something to keep that glow worm farm churning out my favorite yellow friends.)

Speaking of my yellow friends, I have two more new fish to show off tonight!  These two come from a pond in Bahari Bay. Behold!

The Scarlet Koi

Shunned by the other koi for its many adulteries

The Mottled Gobi

NOT from the Gobi Desert

OH!  I've got one last piece of information for the night. I finished up that whale bone quest finally. At first Jina was thinking it was a Glow Whale, but when she sent it off for testing to her friend, it came back negative, meaning I had discovered a whole brand new species of whale. To celebrate, they sent me a poorly drawn sketch of "Stingite's Whale" to hang on the wall.  I'm thinking this should probably go somewhere in my new aquarium room I'm making.

 . . . not even framed? Still cute I guess.

Happy Dueling!

Palia -- Level 10 and the Glow Worm Escapades

I did it, Team! I went fishing in Palia so much I'm now listed on Nextdoor as that fishy smelling dude that talks to robots.

You get 10! 10 fishing medals!

Now that I'm earning fishing medals, I'm ready to shoot for that Aquarium! Oh wait . . . 980 medals and 20th level?!

Um . . . that's a lot of medals . . .

On the plus side though, once you hit 10th level, you also get new challenges that show up in your achievements window.  I had no idea those were a thing until I asked a guildmate if Einar was lying to me.

Are you being on the level with me right now, Einar?

Thankfully my best robot buddy would never lie to me, it's just they weren't 1- in a very intuitive place to look in the UI and 2- I hadn't fished enough to discover it on my own. Luckily enough my guildmate's quick tip helped me get those done before the weekly reset that happens in just a couple hours from now.

ok ok!  100 medals a week. That seems very doable.

Anyway, my new haul of glow worms has been pretty great for fishing up new fish. Get ready, I've got a ton of them to share! Here we go! It's the mega glow worm haul!

The Alligator Gar

I wonder why it's not called the Crocodile Gar?

The Beluga Sturgeon

A Sturgeon needs steady fins to operate!

The Blue Marlin

Not invited to the kid's bouncy house party.

The Crucian Carp

Look at the fancy blue fins on this guy!

The Enchanted Pup Fish

If it has offspring is it called the Enchanted Papa Fish?

The Kenli Carp

Likes to get in street fights with the Chunli Carp

The Platinum Chad

A Chad's favorite hair color is obviously platinum

The Ribbontail Ray

I "bow" to the Ribbontail Ray -- ok I shouldn't be allowed to type right now.

The Stone Fish

Should definitely lay off the weed

The Yellowfin Tuna

Likes to play Name That Tuna!

. . . And that's fishing in Palia, folks.  I'm now amongst the apex fishermen in Bahari Bay.  All I have to do now is earn that aquarium and really show off.

Happy Dueling!

Palia -- Go with the Flow for Exquisite and the Glow

Well . . . guess what I did today? Yeah. I played a lot of Palia. Like . . . a lot. Typically my Saturdays are super busy and my family is running me around everywhere to do everything. Not today, friends. Not today. Today was spent running around in Palia, and it was great! I finally felt like I got a ton accomplished in game.

Gimmie those glistening gems of a Palium Node!

The whole day was spent pretty much in Bahari Bay gathering Flow Wood and Palium, which feel like the two kind of premium resources right now for wood and ore. Palium is only semi-difficult to come by if you're going by a map like this. Flow wood, not so much. That's the challenge!

Luckily I ran across a non-English speaking friend who was more than happy to have me follow him around and help chop down flow trees. Tetonka was great! He would wait for me to chop on a tree or mine a node and then we'd finish the job together.  I spent a good half hour just following this guy around like a pet.

You go, I follow Tetonka!

With Flow Wood, you typically have to run around looking for regular trees that have become enchanted and then call out to the server to find additional bodies to help chop it down. Sit long enough in a zone and you'll be hearing a call for help to come chop a Flow Tree.  It's the first time I've really felt the need to interact with other people in this game.

That's not to say I'm not trying to be social. I also joined the official Discord for the game and found a guild, er, I mean "Community." These people seem like a nice bunch. Hopefully it'll make the game more sticky at the end for me.

Anyway, it took a lot of running around and crafting and catch up with my other skills today to get to the point that I could even craft Palium bars and Flow Wood Planks. I've got the advanced smelter and wood cutting machines chugging away now, and managed to get myself to 9th level in Fishing.  When that happened, my old pal Einar called me back to tell me I could buy his most exquisite recipe he offered.

We did it, Buddy! We did it!

By the end of the day I had enough Flow Wood and Palium that I could craft both the glow worm farm and the exquisite fishing rod.

Thing to craft 1!

Thing to craft 2!

Also during my search for Palium I found myself inside the caves of Bahari Bay and that meant I was fishing up some new cave fish.  Check 'em out!

The Eyeless Minnow

Really bad screenshot. It's like I was eyeless when I took it.

The Umbran Carp

Who is this Carpe? And why is he in my DMs?

The Albino Eel

Looks more pink than Albino to be honest

The Mutated Angler

You're a little close to the surface to be a deep sea fish, aren't you?

The Bat Ray

Here I am throwing up my Bat Signal

The great thing about owning a glow worm maker now is that I will have the ability to catch even MORE new fish. I can't wait to try them out with my new Exquisite fishing rod.

Happy Dueling!

A Whale of a mystery -- plus more new fish in Palia

Oo! I'm cutting it close tonight with putting out a blog post for the day. It's been super busy at work and at home, but I did get a chance to play a little Palia tonight.

First things first, while I was out fishing up some new stuff in the wilds of Bahari Bay, I happened to find a whale bone inside of a chest. This whale bone was actually a quest item that I had fished up and the only NPC that could answer the riddle of the bone was Jina, So I ran all the way back to the other zone, tracked her down and she had some interesting lore to share.

Flow whales you say?

Unfortunately, she was just going to need MORE WHALE BONE! So back to Bahari Bay I went and fished and fished until I got another one. This time it was a whale skull, and it all made her theorize that perhaps humans aren't the only things returning to the Earth.

is that remerge or reemerge?

Unfortunately, she was just going to need YET MORE WHALE BONE! So again I ran my way back to Bahari Bay and fished and fished until I got another one. This time it was a Dorsal Fin bone, and there wasn't a lot of plot furthered here in the mystery other than Jina identifying what kind of whale it wasn't.  

I wonder if the whale was from Fin-land

Unfortunately, she was just going to need EVEN MORE WHALE BONE! But . . . I needed to quit playing because I have this Blaugust blog post to write.  Put it on the checklist of things to do tomorrow. Done.

The other exciting news for me tonight was that I managed to hit the ponds of Bahari Bay (instead of the ocean and score more new fish to help build up my renown.

They were as follows:

The Cutthroat Trout

Competition is pretty cutthroat for those fishing nodes after all.

The Kilima Redfin

All these new fish are Kilima-ing me!

The Yellow Perch

Thanks for perching here to read my blog post!

The Silvery Minnow

If you think of better fishing puns, let minnow!

The . . . That's no fish!

that's a ship fragment?! Well, I haven't caught one of those before.

So There you go. Still fishing in Palia and excited to be uncovering more lore of the mystery of me . . . and a whale.

Happy Dueling!