The Sardine is a fish that can be caught in the ocean at The Beach or on the Beach Farm during Spring, Fall, and Winter. It can also sometimes be found Garbage Cans during Spring, Fall, or Winter or randomly at the Traveling Cart for 120–1,000g.
Sardines can be caught regardless of time of day or season using Magic Bait.
Information
| Location | Ocean |
| Time | 6am -7am |
| Season | Spring Fall Winter |
| Weather | Any |
| Difficulty | 30 |
| Behaviour | Dart |
| Size (inches) | 1-13 |
| Fishing Xp | 13 16 19 25 |
| Energy /Health | 13 5 18 8 23 10 33 14. |
Sell Prices
| Base | Fisher (+25%) | Angler (+50%) |
| 40g | 50g | 60g |
| 50g | 65g | 75g |
| 60g | 75g | 90g |
| 80g | 100g | 120g |
Artisan Sell Price
| Roe | Aged Roe | Aged Roe (+40%) |
| 50 | 100 | 140 |
Bundles
The Sardine is used in the Ocean Fish Bundle in the Fish Tank.
| Name | Description | Ingredients | Energy/health | Buffs (s) | Buff Duration | Recipe Source (s) | Sell Price |
| Dish O the Sea | This’ll keep you warm in the cold sea air. | Sardine (2) HashBrowns (1) | 125 56 | Fishing (+3) | 5m 35s | Fishing Level 3 | 220g |
| Maki Roll | Fish and rice wrapped in seaweed | Any Fish (1) Sea Weed (1) Rice (1) | 100 45 | N/A | N/A | The Queen of Sauce 21 Summer, Year 1 Stardrop Saloon for 300g | 220g |
| Quality Fertilizer | Improves soil quality, increasing your chance to grow quality crops. Mix into tilled soil. | Sap (2) Any Fish (1) | N/A | N/A | N/A | Farming Level 9 | 10g |
| Sashimi | Raw fish sliced into thin pieces. | Any Fish (1) | 75 33 | N/A | N/A | Linus (Mail – 3+) | 75g |
Tailoring
Sardine can be used in the spool of the Sewing Machine to create the dyeable Sailor Shirt. It can be used in dyeing, serving as a blue dye at the dye pots, located in Emily’s and Haley’s house, 2 Willow Lane.
Fish Pond
Sardines can be placed in a Fish Pond, where they will reproduce every 2 days. The initial pond capacity is 3 fish, but the capacity can be increased to 10 by completing three quests. The only possible output is blue Sardine Roe.
Quests
- Item Delivery: One sardine may be randomly requested in Spring, Fall, or Winter at the “Help Wanted” board outside Pierre’s General Store for a reward of 120g and 150 Friendship points.
- Fishing: Demetrius or Willy may randomly request 1-5 sardines in Spring, Fall, or Winter at the “Help Wanted” board outside Pierre’s General Store for a reward of40g per fish. (You get to keep the fish).
- Aquatic Overpopulation: Demetrius may request 10 Sardine to be caught in Spring at the Special Orders board outside the Mayor’s Manor for a reward of gold equivalent to selling the fish and the Farm Computer recipe.
- Two Sardines are requested by Midnight Squid in a Fish Pond quest to increase the capacity of the pond from 5 to 8.
- Two Sardines are requested by Squid in a Fish Pond quest to increase the capacity of the pond from 5 to 10.
Bugs
Sardines may be requested in a Fishing Help Wanted quest during Summer.