Beginner Fishing Rod (Chillet)
Weapon · WeaponFishingRod0★Bait it and cast at the shadows in the water to start hooking Pals. It suits newcomers, and low level Pals are what it reels in.
Beginner Fishing Rod (Chillet) is an early fishing rod: 5th of 6 by attack, so treat it as a stepping stone, at 25 against the 25 of Advanced Fishing Rod (Depresso).
Nothing is crafted from it — it is an end product, so anything you make is meant to be used rather than banked as a component.
Details
It does not stack, so every spare copy costs an inventory slot.
Beginner Fishing Rod (Chillet) Crafting Recipe
Paldium Fragment
Aquatic Pal Fluids
Ingot×8
Fiber×8
Ore×16
Wood×4Crafting it takes 29 materials across 4 types.
Where to Find Beginner Fishing Rod (Chillet)
Beginner Fishing Rod (Chillet) is not something you find lying around — you craft it, and the recipe is below.
The bench matters more than the recipe. Beginner rods are built at the High-Quality Workbench, and that is its own Technology 11 unlock costing 3 points plus 20 Wood, 10 Nail and 8 Ingot. Reach 15 without it already standing and fishing becomes a 5-point entry with 16 Ingot to smelt rather than 8, so a furnace and a copper route are the real prerequisite here. The production benches above it accept the recipe too, so nobody further along has to build backwards.
Using Beginner Fishing Rod (Chillet) Well
The two technology points buy a set, not a rod. The same node hands over Simple Bait, and bait is mandatory — the rod alone will not cast. That drags in a farming requirement the rod's own materials hide: one batch of bait wants 2 Flour, each Flour is 3 Wheat, so a mill and a wheat plot need to be turning before the rod does anything. The rate is generous once they are, since 2 Aquatic Pal Fluids, 4 Red Berries and 2 Flour yield ten baits at a time.
Simple Bait's two side-grades are much worse value than their descriptions imply. Beginner Bait slows the capture gauge's drain and Sweet Bait raises the bite rate, but each costs 4 Aquatic Pal Fluids, 2 Red Berries and 1 Flour for a single bait — against 2 Fluids for ten on the plain version, that is twenty times the fluid per cast. Fish the ordinary stuff on Simple Bait and save the variants for a shadow you would be annoyed to lose.
Expect to keep this rod for a long time. The Gumoss version is the same tier with half again the durability, but it is not on the Technology tree at all — it needs its schematic to turn up, and its build doubles every material and adds 3 Manganese Ore. The next rod the tree actually gives you is fourteen levels out at 29, and it wants a Production Assembly Line standing under it. Barring a schematic find, 120 durability is the whole early and mid game.
Read the water before you cast. Small shadows are ordinary Pals, while the medium and large ones in the same spot are where the boss variants come from — the same species, a much harder minigame. On a beginner rod the small shadows are the ones that pay, and a level 11 Croajiro or Fuack pulled from open water is a Pal you would otherwise have to hunt on foot.
Alternatives and Upgrades
Intermediate Fishing Rod (Cattiva) matches it exactly at 25 attack — those two differ in what they resist and what they weigh, not in raw attack, so picking between them is a swap rather than an upgrade. Nothing above it is meaningfully stronger, so this is effectively the top of the class — below it is Beginner Fishing Rod (Gumoss) at 25.
Other fishing rods at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
