Nivalis Nights fishing, boats and city travel

Fishing provides ingredients for your restaurants and fish you can sell for extra money. Your own boat also gives you a different way to explore the waters around Nivalis.

Fish for the kitchen or the market

Keeping fridges and freezers supplied matters for serving your customers. Decide whether a catch is more useful for the menu you are preparing or for a market sale.

Before leaving the dock, look at your seafood recipes and kitchen stock. Keep the fish you need for those dishes; check the market price when deciding what to sell. That makes a trip useful even when your priority is earning money rather than adding another item to the menu.

The developers describe fishing as a simulation of visible fish rather than a random catch roll. Fish move in shoals and respond to other fish and your bait. Look at the water itself when choosing where to cast.

Watch where a shoal is moving and how it responds to the bait. If the water you are watching has no visible activity, look for another area before repeatedly casting in the same place. This is a way to observe the fish simulation; it does not guarantee a particular species or catch rate.

The January 2025 development blog also highlights the local newspaper: fishing seasons and droughts can change goods’ availability and prices. Read the current news before making a larger ingredient purchase or deciding to sell your catch.

Take your boat out

You can steer your own boat, discover fishing areas and fish during the day or at night. The January 2025 development blog also describes the boat as somewhere to rest and spend the night.

The October 1 patch improved cockpit visibility and adjusted the boat to reduce nausea. Install the update if the launch version’s boat view made travel uncomfortable.

Choose transport for the destination

Journey	Transport
Exploring the streets of your current district	Walk
Moving between city districts	Automated trains or HOVA taxis
Exploring connected waterways and fishing areas	Your own boat

You do not drive cars or operate a taxi company. Travel between districts includes loading transitions; the October 1 patch added an explanation of how to skip travel transitions.

Read the destination of your active quest before choosing transport. Use a train or taxi for a district visit, then walk to the relevant venue or resident. Take the boat when your goal is on the connected waterways or you are looking for fishing areas. Follow the on-screen skip prompt during travel; the patch notes do not specify one universal button for every input device.

When you return with fish intended for a dish, recheck that venue’s inventory with the restaurant supply checklist before continuing your errands.

Sources: official FAQ, fishing development blog, optimization blog, community Q&A and October 1 patch.