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- Idle Fishing
Steam Trading Cards Are Live!
New Steam Trading Cards - 11 cards, one for each fishing zone - from the Ocean to Mars Craft cards into badges and unlock emoticons and profile backgrounds 5 Badge Levels - Silver through Rebirth Amber 1 Foil Badge - th…
Patch notes - Idle Fishing
Update 2.5.6 - Cloud Save Protection
New Cloud save corruption recovery menu If your cloud save is corrupted, you'll now see a menu to help you decide what to do instead of automatically overriding with the local save — preventing potential progress loss.…
Patch notes1 changeFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.5.5 - Quality of Life & Excavation XP Multipliers
New Open x5 eggs at a time - requested by multiple players New seagull statistics - as requested Seagull catch streak Max seagull catch streak New in-game detailed list of what resets with rebirths and what stays 2 new…
Patch notes6 changesGameplayBalance - Idle Fishing
Update 2.5.4 - Resizable Windows, Improved Translations, Yearly Free Codes
New Free Codes! Easter2026 - Apr 1 to Apr 22, 2026 IdleFishing2026 - May 24 to May 31, 2026 Halloween2026 - Oct 25 to Nov 4, 2026 Thanksgiving2026 - Nov 22 to Nov 29, 2026 Christmas2026 - Dec 20, 2026 to Jan 3, 2027 New…
Patch notes4 changes2 numericGameplay - Idle Fishing
Update 2.5.1 - New Achievements and Statistics
New 35 new excavation achievements (1232 → 1267) Only in game, not on Steam as promised Total rainbow rewards found statistic Viewable in statistics and used for achievements Automatically granted 1 rainbow reward for e…
Event6 changes1 numericFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.5 - Excavation Expansion
New 313 new Expansion upgrades, including Excavation XP Multipliers You will be granted free upgrades based on your current progress For example, if you had 10/20 on a fossils upgrade, after the update you'll have 25/50…
Patch notes9 changesGameplayFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.4.12 - Rainbow Rewards
New Rainbow Rewards in Excavation Some rewards found in excavation will be rainbow rewards that give many times the regular reward value Only fossils, treasure chests, and clocks can be rainbow (not currencies at this t…
Event9 changes1 numericFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.4.7 - Crew Squads
New Crew Squads - have multiple crew squads with different builds and hot-swap them You start out with only 1 squad slots, and you will unlock more via upgrades. Increase the crew squat slots up to 9 in: Medal shop(2 sl…
Patch notes3 changesGameplayFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.4.6 - Expanded Statistics & New Codes
New Free Codes! Christmas2025 - gives 200 gems - expires on 1.2.26 NewYear2026 - gives 10 eggs - expires on 1.2.26 New Statistics category for current & previous Rebirth. Statistics category for current & previous Day.…
Patch notes2 changesGameplayFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.4.5 - Mouse Key Bindings Support
New Added support for mouse key bindings in addition to keyboard(from 2.4.4). The current custom key bindings were reset - because of the internal changes to how the key binds work now - sorry about that but it had to b…
Patch notes1 changeGameplay - Idle Fishing
Update 2.4.4 - Key Bindings
A Commitment to Players Many players have expressed frustration when new Steam achievements are added during updates. From now on, I will not add any new Steam achievements. (You may still see new achievements inside th…
Patch notes6 changesFixGameplay - Idle Fishing
Update 2.4.2
New Expanded the Excavation leveling system Now each Excavation level give you +30% fossil income! Added levels 10, 11, 12 Reduced XP required to lvl up in levels 1-8, levels 9-12 requires less xp as well, the overall l…
Patch notes5 changesGameplayWorkshop - Idle Fishing
Update 2.4 - Excavation Idle Auto Play, 2 different modes
New Auto play for Excavation with 2 different modes Random(selected tool) will randomly use the selected tool on random locations. Smart will use all tools to smartly finish stages. In order for the "Smart" mode to use…
Event6 changesWorkshopGameplay - Idle Fishing
Update 2.3 - Excavation Rework - 10x Pickaxe storage
New Free Codes! ExcavationReworkNovember - gives 200 gems - Expires on 10.12.2025 Changed Pickaxe Storage increased Base storage 30->300 pickaxes Max Additional storage from excavation shop 100->200 pickaxes Max Additon…
Event12 changes1 numericFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.2 - Excavation System, New Pets, Achievements, Crew bonuses
New Free Codes! Excavation - gives 400 pickaxes - Permanent code ExcavationUpdate2025 - gives 200 gems - Expires on 1.1.2026 New Excavation - New huge system How to play: you use the tools to dig into the mine to find r…
Patch notes14 changes1 numericFix - Idle Fishing
Update 2.1 - Mobile Release with Cross-Platform Saves Support!
Get the game at the mobile stores Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.AOGames.IdleFishing iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/idle-fishing-mobile/id6614782311 Use a cloud account to effortlessly sy…
Store11 changesPerformanceGameplay
