How to Get Every Fish

April 16, 2024

The Planet Crafter includes 13 fish species, some of which are harder to get than others.

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Every Fish Species in The Planet Crafter

The life forms you develop in The Planet Crafter start out as plant life like flowers and trees. Over time, however, you get access to insects and then fish. These fish start out in aquariums, but eventually you’ll see them swimming around through the lakes and ocean of the main map.

Much like butterflies, you can discover and create over a dozen species of fish over the course of The Planet Crafter. Some you have to create in the incubator, some you can find in the wild, and a few you can only get through a few very specific methods.

While other machines help you automate resource gathering and item creation, the optimizers of The Planet Crafter can make every machine work better.

How to Get Fish Eggs

If you want to get your hands on every fish species, there are a few methods you’ll need to use.

Incubation

Just like with insect larvae (and frog eggs later on), you can use the incubator to turn the raw materials the planet gives you into fish eggs. To craft them, you’ll need Phytoplankton A, B, or C; Mutagen T2 or T3; and Fertilizer T1. You must also have access to a species blueprint for this method to work. See below for which recipes create which eggs, and when they unlock.

Water Life Collection

Fish eggs sometimes spawn in a Water Life Collector instead of phytoplankton. Which eggs appear depends on where you place the collector: some eggs only appear in certain bodies of water, and some lakes and streams will only ever give you phytoplankton.

Space Trading

One fish species is available through the Space Trader Rocket and nowhere else. The eggs cost more than a few Terra Tokens, but the species has the same multiplier as the golden fish.

With the Fish and Drones update, players can build drones and automatically fill their lockers with resources gathered from across the map.

Every Fish Species in The Planet Crafter

If a species is “hidden,” it’ll never show up on the Incubator’s recipe list. However, you can use the Incubator to create a hidden fish species as soon as you have the needed ingredients.
You may be able to get fish eggs from biomes not listed below. However, fish eggs of the listed species definitely appear in the biomes in the “Where to Collect” column.
Just like with butterfly larvae, if you don’t get the fish eggs you want from the Incubator, you can throw them into the Recycler and then reuse the raw materials to try again. The species you get from a specific recipe is random, although you can never produce a species you haven’t unlocked.
You can find unique tree seeds and frog eggs while exploring procedural wrecks, but never any kind of fish eggs.

Fish Species	Animal Mass Multiplier	How to Unlock	Recipe Needed	Where to Collect	Terra Token Cost
Provios	100	30 kt Biomass	Phytoplankton A Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	Central Plateau Lake	NA
Vilnus	150	Hidden	Phytoplankton A Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	NA	NA
Gerrero	150	35 kt Biomass	Phytoplankton B Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	NA	NA
Khrom	200	30 kt Biomass	Phytoplankton B Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	NA	NA
Ulani	250	50 kg Animals	Phytoplankton C Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	NA	NA
Aelera	300	250 kg Animals	Phytoplankton C Mutagen T2 Fertilizer T1	NA	NA
Tegede	300	Hidden	Phytoplankton A Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	Meteor Crater Zeolite Cave	NA
Ecaru	325	Hidden	Phytoplankton B Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	Gate Desert Grand Rift	NA
Buyu	350	Hidden	Phytoplankton C Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	Highlands	NA
Tiloo	400	Hidden	Phytoplankton C Mutagen T2 Fertilizer T1	Waterfall	NA
Galbea	450	NA	NA	Southern Ocean	NA
Velkia	500	Space Trader	NA	NA	4,000 TT
Golden	500	Hidden	Phytoplankton C Mutagen T3 Fertilizer T1	NA	NA

If you want to use an Incubator instead of running around between Water Life Collectors, you’ll need the following ingredients to get every set of craftable fish eggs in The Planet Crafter: