The purpose of this article is to identify and track all known bugs and inconsistencies in the current state of the game in order to inform both wranglers and game administrator(s). Because much of the text that appears in this wiki are presented directly from the game, this may also serve as a list of errata for this wiki. Only unexpected game behaviors or erroneous texts should be listed. This is not a place to post balance "issues" or other rants. Please update as new issues are found or current ones are resolved, found to be intentional, or cannot be reproduced. Give reasons for removal.
The bugs are broadly classified into:
- Game play bugs - those bugs which directly contradict or deviate from the way a feature was intended to be used.
- Cosmetic bugs - typos and other cosmetic issues found in the game.
This page may contain spoilers! Continue at your own discretion.
Game play bugs[]
| No. | Title | Island | Bug report | Status | Comments |
| 1 | Points taken away by penguin /raccoon | Icelantica | When the penguin/raccoon is stealing your next 2 catches, they steal your gold, points and g/e points. But they also steal the points you get from "you took 3 members with you and gain 75 points", these 75 points are also stolen, even though it's not related to the fish caught. | Open | |
| 2 | Scuba helmet | Sans Culpra | At least 2 reported cases of not having Scuba helmet after scuba fishing for a while | Needs verification | See [1] |
| Closed | Too general - more specific causes need to be captured in future | ||||
| 4 | Drilling at SD / LF | Icelantica | Drilling in SD and traveling to LF will have the hole open there as well, so there is no need to buy the augmented auger. Or, you can drill in LF for the higher points, and then go back to SD to fish; Drilling timeout is shared between the locations. | Open | See [2] |
| 5 | Illegal fishing | All | a) It is possible to catch elite fish with the wrong pole (reportedly, CI), during a captain trip b) It's possible to fish with Pneumatic Spear Gun in GB c) The spear gun works on Night Fishing trips outside of Sans Culpra |
Open? | (b) is fixed (c) is now fixed - you get the message "Joe had spear gun activated, unable to go" |
| 6 | Captain Trips cornerstone cases | All | There are a couple of cases where the messages on captain trips could be tidied. (a) If you don't catch anything on a Captain Trip, your apprentice gets a generic 'fish' catch, but the captain's message looks like a normal cast - shouldn't the text say "took Joe on a Captain Trip, didn't catch anything"
(b) When the captain is using the CI in FV/WP, the apprentice doesn't get a captain trip, just the reward as if they went with Cap'n Jozek, but the Captain does do a Cubey School cast - this could be treated as a normal captain's trip?
(c) Something similar happens if the Captain bags a Loafy Fish.
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Open | |
In addition, this also had the side effect that there was no pole/chum check in MR so if you happened to be in MR when you joined a tourney, it would burn a piece of fire sludge chum (bizarrely). This one may have been fixed now that MR is now a valid tourney location. |
Fixed | ||||
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| 9 | Scuba Dive count | Sans Culpra | If you use your spear gun above water, it still counts as a dive towards your licence. Strictly speaking it shouldn't. See Forum:Not really help question - Scuba dive count.
In addition, the message that RLC helps towards your dives is shown if you fish in SC even if you don't own a Spear Gun. These casts don't actually count towards your overall count however, but the message shouldn't be appearing altogether.
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Open | |
| 10 | Fixed | From change log: "consider the extra levels a freebie" :-) | |||
| 11 | All misses in Tournament | All | If you miss all 15 tournament casts, your tournament result of 0 pts will not be counted (it will look like you never took the tourney), and you will not receive the RLC for making the lowest score. | Open | See [3] |
| 12 | catches under 'Send Friends fishing' | All | It has been reported on the discussion boards that when someone was 'sent fishing' because they hadn't logged on for over a week they managed to catch a Twig Fish even though their pole was only level 34. | Not verified | |
| 13 | Trophy Cubeys in schools | WP/FV | Catching a trophy cubey in a school of cubeys doesn't make any mention of catching a school and incorrectly refers to the combined school weight as the trophy weight - not the individual weight of the trophy cubey in question. In addition, the gold and points awarded appear to relate to the single trophy cubey in question and not to a school of multiple fish.
In the reverse direction, the weight of a large school (in terms of numbers) appears to be treated as a single cubey with respect to personal best records (and shown in the profile as such), but the weight is that of the school and not a single cubey (because it would show up in the trophy leaderboard otherwise).
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Open | |
| 14 | Speargun levels 4% regardless of catch | SC | The normal spear gun appears to be leveling according to the old pole leveling scheme and not inline with the recent changes. For example, it was reported that 4 dives were done with 2 catches and 2 steals. Each of the 4 dives leveled the spear gun 4% to be 16% of level 1.
Catches should have levelled the spear gun 8% each time and steals 4%, so that it would now be 24% of level 1 Once the 200th dive was completed (100% level 8) the license was purchsed from Earl, 8% on catches is being observed. It is not clear whether it was the 200th dive or the license that made the change. It is also not clear if this behavior is intentional, or in error. |
Not verified | |
| 15 | - | Fixed | [1] | ||
| 16 | Using Ice Cubes and Red Shark Skips | - | The Red Shark Skips interfere with Ice Cubes preventing the Ice Cubes from yielding a skip should the red skips be used before using any Ice Cube skips. The workaround is to use Ice Cube skips first, but there shouldn't be a required order | Not verified | |
| 17 | I |
Fixed | Not possible to enter the shop until destination reached | ||
| - | Fixed | Captain Trips do not use chum now | |||
| 19 | Captain Trips and Slacker Captain Trips | - | Consider the use case where an apprentice, Wrangler B, to Captain Wrangler A, is also a captain to Wrangler C. (i.e. so hierarchy is Wrangler A -> Wrangler B -> Wrangler C). Now Wrangler C overtakes Wrangler B so B is now a Slacker Captain.
Wrangler A will only go on a Captain Trip for the day if Wrangler B logs in before Wrangler C. i.e.
Wrangler A's Captain Trips should not be affected by when someone unrelated to him logs on. This should proceed as normal. |
Open | |
| 20 | - | This also occurs on the Tuna class.
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Fixed | ||
| 21 | Dual crew trips interfere with catching streaks | - | It is has been known for some time that it is possible to get dual crew trips (when you get taken on a crew trip at exactly the same time by more than one crew member). If this dual crew trip happens during a catching streak the system gets confused over what streak is currently active. This is an example taken from a skipper's log - any misses/deckhand trips happening between these casts has been excluded for brevity.
As can be seen, the current streak was on Shoguns. Two crew trips happened at the same time (3:05pm), one catching an Eyeball Ray and the other another Shogun, making that the 3rd. The next cast was an Eyeball Ray which was incorrectly given as a 4th streak. |
Open | |
| 22 | Negative gold | - | It is possible to go into the red when buying the rocket booster which could leave wranglers struggling. There should be a check on any purchase that prevents the item being purchased if the wrangler does not hold enough gold. | Open | See [5] |
| 23 | Negative chum | - | Free love chum is displaying negative. | Open | Due to new deckhand voucher feature. Work is in progress to fix. Negative amount will correct itself upon purchase/receipt of chum. |
| 24 | Broken CI works in MR during tournament casts | Magma Reef | It's possible to use a broken (=Cubey-less) Cubey Incinerator in Magma Reef whilst tournament casting. | Open |
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Cosmetic Bugs[]
| No. | Title | Island | Bug report | Status | Comments |
| 1 | Lake Freezberg map with wrong info about Advanced Augers | Lake Freezberg | On the map, the current text suggests that the minimum requirement (Advanced Auger) is a requirement for travel, and not just to fish | Open | Cosmetic |
| Fixed | See Rabid Raccoon | ||||
"xxx () - not with yyy in Blue Crescent." |
Fixed | ||||
| Fixed | |||||
| 5 | FW box in FB profile | All | FW's pole image is not display properly when "moved to wall tab" under FB's profile section. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 6 | CI at WP/FV Chum usage | Waterport / Fishertonville | No chum used / left details while catching schools of cubeys | Open | Cosmetic |
"Use only in Waterport and Fishertonville where the overpopulated fish exist" But Minys and Cattys don't exist in Fishertonville. |
Fixed | ||||
| 8 | Loafy fish chum usage reporting | Waterport / Fishertonville | When you catch a Loafy Fish, and you use loaf chum to catch it, the number of loaf chum that you are told is left doesn't include the amount of loafs you had just received from said Loafy Fish. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 9 | Trophy/Streak fish list | - | The Loafy fish doesn't appear on the trophy or longest streak fish lists. | Open | Cosmetic |
| Open | Upgraded to gameplay bug #13 | ||||
| 11 | Fixed | ||||
| 12 | Skipper's log minor issue on long posts | All | It is possible for the message received on a catch to exceed the maximum limit for those messages. Example:
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Open | Cosmetic |
| 13 | Travelling with snow shoes | San Digloo | When travelling to GB from SD/LF/SR, the picture show the cruiser yet the text explcitly mentions the snow shoes: "Voyaging to Glacier Bay with my Snow Shoes". Voyaging between other Icelantican locations always shows the snow shoes picture. Likewise when traveling from any island in Farovia to SD/LF/SR, the picture is the snow shoes yet the text mentions cruiser. It looks like the image is just using the destination to work out what image to use, whereas the text is correctly classifying the mode of transport using both the source and destination island. |
Open | Cosmetic |
| 14 | Double attractant usage message | All | Caught and released ….Used 1 Joan of Farovia Attractant. Used 1 Joan of Arc Attractant. 2nd Joan of Farovia in a row!.... | Open | Not a bug? |
| - | Fixed | ||||
| 16 | Fixed | ||||
| Closed | Non-reproducible | ||||
| 18 | |||||
| Fixed | |||||
| 20 | Peccant and Octo appearing in trophy/streak lists early | trophy/streak lists | The Peccant and Octo appear in the trophy/streak lists before SC is unlocked. The other SC fish are not shown. | Open | Cosmetic |
| Fixed | |||||
| 22 | Auger description points error | San Digloo / Lake Freezberg | The descriptions for the two augers states that they give 0-1,000 and 0-2,000 G/E points per use respectively - but they actually only award up to 400 and 800 points per use. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 23 | Level 100 good/evil poles do not glow | All | Reaching level 100 with the Holy and Evil poles does not add the glowing aura that other maximum level poles have. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 24 | Carriage return missing after missing NF member | Night Fishing | There is a carriage return missing in the sumary after a crew member is missing from a Night Fishing trip"
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Open | Cosmetic |
| - | Big Mouth Fish - "The Big Mouth is a type of bass that flourishes in the Icelantcian lakes" Nebula Fish - "a canon ready to explode", should be cannon. |
Fixed | |||
| - | Fixed | ||||
| Fixed | |||||
| Fixed | |||||
| 29 | Incorrect Night Fishing message | Night Fishing | If the captain has already been NF in the last 24 hours (in a different NF party), they are correctly prevented from going, but the rest of the team are set to have gone on that trip - when they didn't because the captain didn't. The log says they went and their last NF trip was at that time, but they don't return with any fish (probably because they never went). Message in the log is:
(Jenny was the captain - see Jun 6th results at http://apps.facebook.com/fishwrangler/night-fishing-party/100941). As logically the group shouldn't have gone NF, this is being classified as a cosmetic issue because of the incorrect message in the log.
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Open | Cosmetic |
| 30 | Boat picture when surface fishing in Sans Culpra | Sans Culpra | The image used when surface fishing in SC always shows the Mini-Cruiser regardless of what boat you are currently using (e.g. Dinghy or Toxic/Hybrid Cruiser). | Open | Cosmetic |
- guessing it should be "...at least I was able to get a tentacle" |
Fixed | ||||
| 32 | Mini cruiser description typo | - | ... the Mini Cruiser can take you to Fishertonville and Blue Crescent much faster than with the Dingy. | Open | Cosmetic |
| Fixed | |||||
| Fixed | |||||
| 35 | Progressive chests and tarpits | All | The image used when you get a x2 or x3 on a single tarpit is that of a 6-pack. The single tarpit image should be used for consistency (in the same way you get a single attractant image when you get x2 or x3 on attractants for example). | Open | Cosmetic |
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Fixed | |||
On the Quests completed it shows, e.g.:
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Fixed | ||||
| 38 | - | Fixed | Cosmetic | ||
| 39 | Quest Info on profile missing | - | The quest information on a user profile is only shown if the user has an active quest. If the user has no currently active quests then this info is not displayed even though they may have completed one or more quests. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 40 | - | Fixed | Minor | ||
| 41 | Typo on last SPHP augment | - | Everywhere else it is called Electro, but on completing the 4th quest, the message is
BetsyLou rewarded me with the Railway Reuben Dish! (Received the 246th one ever!) Completed quest for my first time ever in 7,930.13 mins! Unlocked the Electo DeathClaw Augment! |
Open | Cosmetic |
| 42 | RLC Boost message very slight inaccuracy | - | Real picky point here, but if yor boost is only 1.5 the message informs the user the boost is 1.5 ".. as the last quest catch was earlier today.". Strictly speaking, the message should read "... as the last quest catch was within 24 hours." as the last quest catch could have been yesterday (both locally speaking and in Farovian time). | Open | Minor |
| 43 | Overlook on fish descriptions | - | On the Houdini's description, it says that "The Houdini Fish can only be caught with a Level 50 Broken Standard fishing pole", when it should say "50+". Same for the Pioneer, but 25+. | Open | Cosmetic |
| - | Fixed | ||||
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<fb:intl>Block Crew Trips for 10 min?</fb:intl> <fb:intl>This feature allows users to block crew trips while they do tournament casts with resources, so resources are only used on tourny casts.</fb:intl>
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Fixed | |||
| 46 | Missed Cubey school message | - | Another picky one. One of the messages for missing a Cubey isn't phrased correctly when catching a school.
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Open | Cosmetic |
| 47 | Snowpeak unlocking requirements | - | The in-game text states you need a level 72+ pole before you can meet the Bottom Feeder to unlock SR. However user experience has demonstrated that it can be unlocked with a level as low as 69. Unknown whether the text is wrong and it should say 69 or whether those who unlocked it at 69 did so via a glitch. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 48 | Leaderboard errors | - | There are a few errors in the leaderboards;
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Open | Cosmetic |
| 49 | Captain Trips and RLC before scuba licence | - | On a captain trip before acquiring the licence, the text states that the use of RLC gives you an additional 3 trips towards your licence. As chum is not used on Captain trips, this message should not be there. Note that the message is in error as the trip doesnt actually count towards the total dive count anwyay.
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Open | Cosmetic |
| 50 | Summary Log and shells from magmaniacs | - | Incorrect display of shells worth on summary log when you catch a magmaniac which gives shells.
The calculation of the shells found are squared by itself into the total worth. |
Open | Cosmetic |
| 51 | Repair of overheated Cubey Incinerator | - | After repairing your overheated Cubey Incinerator, it shows up in your Poles area when your CI is active, that it 'Will be ready at 2am FVT', when it should actually be 12am FVT. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 52 | Sigs fish descriptions in the fish-all list | - | The fish descriptions for Sigs fish show the locked version on the fish-all page even though the fish may have already been unlocked and caught. | Open | Cosmetic |
| 53 | Resources error in summary log | - | If you just find resource(s) that cannot be traded in at the Resource Exchange (for example oxygen tanks) then the summary log will report
where it usually informs the user how many resources were found and their value. |
Open | Cosmetic |
| 54 | - | Open | Cosmetic | ||
| 55 | - | Fixed | Cosmetic | ||
| 56 | Symbiotic augment links missing | - | The augment link for the symbiotic poles (e.g. http://apps.facebook.com/fishwrangler/augments/planktonite) is present in the pole list when the Planktonite pole is not the active pole, but disappears when it is the active pole.
In addition, the augment list from the pole-addons page (e.g. http://apps.facebook.com/fishwrangler/pole-addons) leads to the quest pages, not to the augment page .Further hunting from there eventually leads to the correct page. The combination of both these issues means that it is a task just to find the page to purchase the augments from! |
Open | Cosmetic |
| 57 | Setting Liquid Gold to "Not Harnessed" returns an incorrect message | - | The message shown is: Success The Liquid Gold will harness its powers, once activated, on the four rarest fish! | Open | Cosmetic |
| 58 | Incorrect header image at raffle | - | The header image for the FLC Raffle says "RLC Raffle" instead of "FLC Raffle". | Open | Cosmetic |
| 59 | Incorrect or Lost image file | - | The hidden image for the Planktonite add-on Haunting Aroma (Addon #15 of 23)(94) is the same as Murderous Sucktion (Addon #156 of 23)(95).
https://fish-wrangler.com/images/v2/feed/addon/94-hidden.jpg https://fish-wrangler.com/images/v2/feed/addon/95-hidden.jpg https://fish-wrangler.com/fishwrangler/customize/poles?name=planktonite&id=14#planktonite |
Open | Cosmetic |
Not Bugs[]
The following "bugs" have been verified to be intentional.
Additional Commentry[]
Please add additional commentry to any of the above bugs here:
Scuba Diving with no helmet[]
It is possible to "re-acquire" the helmet by fishing in Blue Crescent with the Necro-pole. One possible suggestion as to the presence of this bug is that there may not been an initial check for the helmet when you first go diving. It is only when you want to purchase the license and/or PSG upgrade that a check is made. This hypothesis needs verification of course, but perhaps those affected by this bug never had the helmet in the first place?
Edit: As reported on the discussion boards, apparently there is a check for the helmet when you first arrive at SC (not sure whether this is as a warning whilst at the surface of SC or when toggling into scuba mode via pressing the "Fish" text), but there is no such check/warning when the spear gun is activated - which also enables scuba diving mode. As such it is possible to dive even if you do not have the helmet and hence a possible explanation to the above bug.
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This of course could be game design. If drilling was not shared between locations then wranglers could simply drill at both locations and earn themselves double the goodness/evilness points for doing so. A better fix could be to make the drilling separate, and not award points if the previous hole is still open.
All Misses in Tournaments[]
This could be intentional. As learning skills is not mandatory, it is easy enough to intentionally put you at a disadvantage once you reach Blue Crescent. As the probability of having all 15 casts miss through normal progress must be incredibly low, not including any 'all-misses' streaks ensures the wooden-spoon 'winners' are awarded their consolation prize fairly.
Rubies attribution bug?[]
Today (or yesterday should I say) results in Prodigious class:
Tiara Tilaar 6,205pts 1,000 rubies Robin Poitras 6,205pts 950 rubies Nicholas Zachary 6,205pts 925 rubies
All have the same points and should share the same points, but in fact the game engine choose an order an attribute point according to it.
The funny thing is that all are considered as 'first' but only one get the points for being first...
This can affect any position as long a reward > 900 is involved.
(eg two at the 4th place will have a 911 and 900 points awarded.)
Esby 11:32, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
- There is a defined ordering;
- "In the event of a tie for a position, the person who created their Fish Wrangler account the earliest will receive the higher placing." - Monthly_Tournament#Scoring
The explanation could work, still:
Tiara Tilaar Member Since: 01/24/09 ( 24 january 2009)
Robin Poitras Member Since: 01/03/09 ( 3 january 2009 )
I'd assume earlier means first here ?
Esby 23:07, September 25, 2009 (UTC)
Besides, at this time of the day it now looks like that. (This ain't new, I already seen that before...)
1st Robin Poitras 6,205pts 950 rubies Tiara Tilaar 6,205pts 1,000 rubies Nicholas Zachary 6,205pts 925 rubies
Going Negative[]
The issue with purchasing the rocket booster is that the user got the question wrong and the price has now inflated. So they may have had enough to cover the initial cost of the booster, but the additional 40,000 gold has put them in the red. It is assumed that there is a check for the 100,000, but when the price changes, no further check is made.
Ideally, the system should inform the user that they got the question wrong, tell them the price has been put up and as they don't have enough money they should come back to purchase it when they have made more cash. Or Earl just takes the 40,000 off them but doesn't give them the rocket booster. The next time they go to buy it, they are not asked the question again. The net effect is the same.
Reports have also been made that it is possible to go into the red when repairing a pole for which you don't have sufficient funds. These too should be prevented, forcing wranglers to fish with a different pole until they have raised sufficient cash to repair the damaged pole.