my river only produces garbage

[Twisterheart]

Everytime I go fishing, the only thing I catch is garbage. This has been going on for a few days now. I don’t know what to do. Is there a way to fix this?

 

[jefflomacy]

Can you post a full town map and circle where you are catching garbage?

Post automatically merged: Dec 27, 2020

Here is a relevant thread. This is not a bug:

Trash pond!

So I just found out you can make your own trash pond on your island that only spawns trash! Why would anyone want this, you ask? Well cuz some people like trash okay, don't judge! XD Anyway, it's good since you no longer have to store your trash materials, cuz if you ever need trash for DIYs...

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[Twisterheart]

The trash is through the entire red area.

 

[jefflomacy]

Check the thread above. I believe your river needs to ultimately connect to an ocean or it will not produce fish. That is my assumption.

 

[KittenNoir]

I have been getting rubbish from the river mouths I am trying to complete my fish section of the museum but when ever I am looking for fish in the mouth of the river I just get rubbish

 

[Twisterheart]

I figured out how to stop it. It was the waterfalls, for some reason.

I thought either I had too many bridges, or my river was too small. So I decided to rebuild another river the exact same width as my other one, still not connected to anything. I could catch fish out of that river so I figured size wasn’t the problem. So I destroyed the waterfalls, and now I’m getting fish again. I had a river exactly like this before with waterfalls, so I don’t know why it wasn’t working here, but it’s gone now.

 

[Bluebellie]

Glad you figured it out! Also very nice map so far!

 

[jefflomacy]

It appears that if you have a waterfall, it must ultimately exit into one of your river mouths somewhere along the line, or the river will only produce trash.

If you remove the waterfall and leave it disconnected from a river mouth, you will probably only catch lake fish there.

 

[John Wick]

Check the thread above. I believe your river needs to ultimately connect to an ocean or it will not produce fish. That is my assumption.

I've made several waterfalls with river ponds and fish spawn all the time.

 

[annex]

I had no idea this was a thing. Good to know.

 

[Skunk]

There is a thing called a garbage pond that you can make to only catch garbage, maybe your layout is similar to its structure and that's why? D:

 

[JKDOS]

It appears that if you have a waterfall, it must ultimately exit into one of your river mouths somewhere along the line, or the river will only produce trash.

If you remove the waterfall and leave it disconnected from a river mouth, you will probably only catch lake fish there.

Some maps auto generate with a waterfall leading into a pound.