Fishing in Nier: Automata is a way for the player to make more gold, as well as find items. Fish and Fishing Locations will be covered on this page.
To fish, when you're near a body of water, your POD will prompt you to fish. Hold down the action button and you'll be on your way. Use the reticle to send your POD to where it should be fishing and wait. Keep the POD in your view. Once the POD dips underwater or travels in the opposite direction to the current, tap the action button to reel it in. It will return with a fish or whatever else it found.
Two special items can only be acquired by fishing: the Iron Pipe weapon in the sewers leading to the Amusement Park, and Pod B in the Flooded City near the Lunar Tear.
Fish in Nier: Automata are located on this page. You can find Fish at Fishing Locations throughout the game. They can be used to sell for gold.
Fish
| Name / Image |
Effect / Sell Price |
Location |
| 1,500G |
City Ruins - Underground Lake Desert Zone - Oasis Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers |
|
| 2,500G |
City Ruins - Underground Lake |
|
| 1,000G |
City Ruins - Waterfalls / Streams /Underground Lake Desert Zone - Oil Field / Oasis Amusement Park - Bridge Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front Flooded City - Waterfall (Pond) |
|
| 1,000G |
City Ruins - Waterfalls / Streams / Underground Lake / Ravine Desert Zone - Oasis Amusement Park - Bridge Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front Flooded City - Waterfall (Pond) |
|
| 2500G |
City Ruins - Underground Lake |
|
| 2,500G |
City Ruins - Waterfalls / Streams / Underground Lake Desert Zone - Oasis Amusement Park - Bridge Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front Flooded City - Waterfall (Pond) |
|
| 3,000G |
City Ruins - Ravine Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front |
|
| 4,000G |
Amusement Park - Bridge |
|
| 4,000G |
Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front |
|
| 3,500G |
Desert Zone - Oil Field |
|
| 7,500G |
Desert Zone - Oasis | |
| 500G |
Flooded City - Coast / Missile ((20%) |
|
| 2,000G |
Flooded City - Coast / Missile (3%) |
|
| 3,500G |
Flooded City - Coast / Missile |
|
| 2,000G |
Flooded City- Coast / Missile (8%) |
|
 Swordfish |
5,000G |
Flooded City - Missile (1%) |
| Results in Ending K if used 500G |
Received from the NPC Jackass Flooded City - Coast / Missile /6%) |
|
| 1,500G |
Flooded City - Coast |
|
| 1,000G |
Flooded City - Coast / Submerged Buildings |
|
| 3,000G |
Flooded City - Coast / Missile (7%) |
|
 Basking Shark |
6,000G |
Flooded City - Missile (7%) |
| 500G |
City Ruins - Waterfalls / Streams Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front Flooded City - Waterfall (Pond) |
|
| 2,500G |
City Ruins- Waterfalls / Streams Desert Zone - Oil Field Amusement Park - Bridge Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front Flooded City - Waterfall (Pond) |
|
| 4,000G |
Amusement Park - Bridge City Ruins - Ravine Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front |
|
| 2,500G |
City Ruins - Waterfalls / Streams Desert Zone - Oil Field Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front Flooded City - Waterfall (Pond) |
|
| 3,000G |
City Ruins - Ravine Desert Zone - Oil Field Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front |
|
| 2,000G |
Desert Zone - Oil Field Flooded City - Coast / Missile (11%) |
|
 Swordfish Machine |
5,000G |
Flooded City - Missile (2%) |
| 1,000G |
Desert Zone - Oil Field Flooded City - Coast |
|
| 2,000G |
Desert Zone - Oil Field Flooded City - Coast / Missile (9%) |
|
| 3,500G |
Flooded City - Missile (2%) |
|
| 500G |
Desert Zone - Oil Fields Flooded City - Coast / Missile (6%) |
|
| 1,500G |
Flooded City - Coast |
|
| 2,000G |
City Ruins - Ravine |
|
 Basking Shark Machine |
6,000G |
Flooded City - Missile (9%) |
 Freshwater Ray Machine |
5,000G |
Amusement Park - Bridge |
| 7,500G |
City Ruins - Waterfalls / Streams / Underground Lake Desert Zone - Oil Field Amusement Park - Bridge Forest Zone - Front of Castle Flooded City - Coast / Missile (1%) |
|
| 1,500G |
Sewers Leading to Amusement Park Flooded City - Coast / Missile (11%) |
|
| 1,500G |
City Ruins - Ravine Sewers Leading to Amusement Park Forest Zone - Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front |
|
| 1,500G |
Sewers Leading to Amusement Park Desert Zone - Oil Field |
|
| 1,500G |
Sewers Leading to Amusement Park Amusement Park - Bridge |
Fishing Locations in Nier: Automata will be located on this page. These are the places in the game world where you can catch Fish or Special Items.
Fishing Locations
Zone |
Description of Fishing Spot |
Fish Caught There |
City Ruins |
Waterfalls / Streams / Ravine (Just outside the Resistance Camp in City Ruins.) (Ravine is Under Wooden Bridge, by City Ruins: Near the Tower Access Point.) |
|
City Ruins |
Underground Lake (Emil's house). |
|
City Ruins |
Sewers Leading to Amusement Park |
|
Desert Zone |
Oasis (Past Desert: Center Access Point, Located at the Photographs Sidequest) |
|
Desert Zone |
Oil Field |
|
Amusement Park |
Bridge (Theater Building Entrance.) |
|
Forest Zone |
Waterfalls / Rivers / Castle Front |
|
Flooded City |
Waterfall (Pond) / Coast / Missile (Pond by Flooded City: Coast Access Point.) (Coasts by the Submerged Buildings.) (Missile by Missile Supply Mission.) |
Anonymous02 Jul 2020 03:43
This might seem a little crazy and I haven't had enough time to fully test the theory, but I believe turning the Pod light on and off over and over again works to catch fish better.
- Anonymous
23 Jun 2020 10:28
I'm having no luck finding Arowana Machines in the ravine... I've found Arapalma Maachines and even just live Arowanas but no machine versions and it's been damn near a couple hours at that spot anyone know of other places?
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- Anonymous
03 Mar 2020 22:15
I've found the Machine Lifeform Head in the Forest Zone: River/Waterfall areas as well.
- Anonymous
03 Dec 2018 13:55
I caught Machine Lifeform Head in Flooded City near Missile after 3 hours of fishing
- Anonymous
18 Mar 2018 18:43
It seems that fish bite faster when you stand on the shore versus in the water. Could just be a coincidence, but it was taking 1-2 minutes to catch something standing in the water where standing on the shore they would almost always bite within 10 seconds.
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- Anonymous
05 Mar 2018 12:05
Why am I not getting fish as much any more now when I fish it'll bob under the water once come back up and stay perfectly still for ages sometimes when I pull it up it'll start moving like it caught a fish and it will catch one by why won't it show me it caught it till I press something
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- Anonymous
24 Aug 2017 04:12
I caught a second pod in the flooded city:coast. It came equipped with a laser. I also used that pod to fish and seemed to get much better results, though that might be subjective.
- Anonymous
29 Jul 2017 15:20
Where to find arowana machine? In the fishes list it says desert Oasis, its page says city ruins/forest and in the fishing location it isn't even inserted.
- Anonymous
12 Jul 2017 11:27
Page is wrong, it says you can sell fish for gold when you can only sell them for G. If you talk to the NPC wearing the machine head in the resistance camp he explains that G is really just scrap given bartering value. So it's not gold.
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- Anonymous
12 Mar 2017 23:34
You can fish in river in the forest area. It's really hard cause you can barely see your pod but it's possible.
03 Aug 2020 07:16
This may be just coincidence, or just my luck, but I caught fish about 35-40 percent faster every cast if I turned my pods light on and off in sync with the waves coming from the pod. As soon as I stopped that, my times went back up. Not an exact science but meh
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