Sea Cucumber
| Sea Cucumber | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Type | Fish |
| Location | Ocean; Submarine at Night Market |
| Time | 6am to 7pm; Anytime during Night Market (5pm - 2am) |
| Season | Fall; Winter |
| Weather | Any |
| Difficulty | 40 |
| Behaviour | Sinker |
| Size | 3 to 21 |
| Sell Price | 75g |
The Sea Cucumber is a slow ocean creature that bites at The Beach and on the Beach Farm through Fall and Winter. It is one of the gentler ocean catches, so it suits a new angler with a basic rod. Its sell price is modest, but the fish earns its place in three other ways. It is the key ingredient in Lucky Lunch, a dish that raises Luck. Willy loves it as a gift, which makes it an easy way to build his friendship. It also settles well into a Fish Pond, and it turns up as a rare catch in the deep-sea submarine at the Night Market.
The in-game description reads: A slippery, slimy creature found on the ocean floor.
Catching
The Sea Cucumber lives in the ocean south of Pelican Town. Any spot along the shore or on the docks will do. Players on the Beach Farm can catch it in the salt water on their own land.
It bites during the day, from 6am until 7pm, and weather makes no difference. That makes it a good daytime target in Winter, when farm work is light. Evening ocean fishing in Winter turns up the Squid instead, so a day spent at the beach can cover both.
On the line, the Sea Cucumber is a sinker with a low difficulty. It tends to drift down the bar rather than dart about, so it is a forgiving fish to land. Bait shortens the wait between bites. A Quality Bobber on a better rod helps turn catches into gold or iridium fish, which matters for pond stock and for selling.
The Night Market offers a second spot. On Winter 15, 16 and 17, the submarine at the docks takes players on a deep-sea fishing trip for 1,000g. Each catch on that trip has a small chance, around one in twenty, of being a Sea Cucumber.
Magic Bait removes the season and time limits. With it, a Sea Cucumber can be hooked at the beach at any hour and in any season.
The fish can also be found rather than caught. Garbage Cans around town sometimes hold one during Fall and Winter. The Traveling Cart may stock it too, at a price between 225g and 1,000g.
Prices
Quality lifts the price in steps. An iridium Sea Cucumber is worth twice a normal one. The Fisher profession adds a quarter to the price of every fish, and Angler adds half. An iridium Sea Cucumber sold with Angler fetches 225g, three times the base value.
A Fish Smoker doubles the value of any fish. It takes one piece of Coal per fish and keeps the fish's quality. Smoking works best on gold and iridium Sea Cucumbers.
Raw sale is rarely the best use, though. Cooking one Sea Cucumber into Lucky Lunch makes a 250g dish. That is more than three times the fish's base price, and the dish has a use of its own.
In a Fish Pond, Sea Cucumbers reproduce every two days and produce Sea Cucumber Roe. Roe is worth 30g plus half the fish's base price, which comes to 67g. A Preserves Jar ages it into Aged Roe worth twice as much.
A pond of Sea Cucumbers starts with space for three and grows to ten through three requests. The first asks for Driftwood, a Frozen Geode or Seaweed. The second asks for Clams or Coral. The last asks for Aquamarine, a Mussel or Sea Urchins. Below five fish, the pond makes roe only part of the time. From five fish upward, every item it produces is roe.
Uses
Lucky Lunch is the reason most players keep a few Sea Cucumbers. Cooking a Sea Cucumber with a Tortilla and a Blue Jazz makes the dish. The Queen of Sauce teaches it on Spring 28 of Year 2. The dish adds 3 Luck for a short time and restores 100 energy. Catching a stack in Winter means the recipe can be cooked as soon as Blue Jazz blooms in Spring.
The Sea Cucumber also counts as "any fish" in Sashimi, Maki Roll and Quality Fertilizer.
At the Sewing Machine, a Sea Cucumber in the spool makes a dyeable Tube Top. In the dye pots at Emily and Haley's house, it works as a yellow dye.
A villager may post a request for one Sea Cucumber on the Help Wanted board outside Pierre's General Store in Fall or Winter. Delivering it pays 225g, three times the fish's value, and adds 150 friendship points with that villager.
A Bait Maker turns one Sea Cucumber into Sea Cucumber Bait. Bait aimed at one species raises the chance of hooking that same fish, which helps when stocking a pond.
Cooking Sea Cucumber with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.
| Dish | Image | Ingredients |
|---|---|---|
| Lucky Lunch | 
|
Sea Cucumber (1), Tortilla (1), Blue Jazz (1) |
Gifts
Willy loves the Sea Cucumber. It is one of the easiest loved gifts to supply him, since it bites all day in Fall and Winter and fights only gently. His birthday falls on Summer 24, so a fish kept in a chest from Winter makes a fine birthday present.
Demetrius, Leo, Linus, Pam and Sebastian feel neutral about it.
The Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard count Sea Cucumber as a disliked gift. The children Jas and Vincent dislike it too, and so do Clint, Gus, Marnie and Robin. The older villagers Caroline, George, Jodi, Kent and Lewis share that view, and so do the marriage candidates Abigail, Alex, Emily, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam and Shane.
Elliott, Evelyn, Haley and Pierre hate it. Elliott also hates the Super Cucumber, so neither cucumber belongs in his gift list.
These villagers love receiving Sea Cucumber as a gift.
| Villager | Image |
|---|---|
| Willy | 
|
Notes
Keep a few Sea Cucumbers in a chest before Winter ends. They are needed for Lucky Lunch in Spring and for Willy's birthday in Summer, and in those seasons only Magic Bait will bring one up.
All Fish
Every entry in this group, with its key details.
| Name | Image | Location | Season | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albacore | 
|
Ocean | Fall; Winter | 75g |
| Anchovy | 
|
Ocean | Spring; Fall | 30g |
| Angler | 
|
Pelican Town | Fall | 900g |
| Blobfish | 
|
Submarine at Night Market | Winter | 500g |
| Blue Discus | 
|
Ginger Island | All | 120g |
| Bream | 
|
River | All | 45g |
| Bullhead | 
|
Mountain Lake | All | 75g |
| Carp | 
|
Mountain Lake; Secret Woods; The Sewers; Mutant Bug Lair | Spring; Summer; Fall in The Mountain Lake; All in Secret Woods, The Sewers, or Mutant Bug Lair | 30g |
| Catfish | 
|
River; Secret Woods; Witch's Swamp | Spring; Fall Secret Woods / Witch's Swamp:; Spring; Summer; Fall Only with Rain Totem: Winter | 200g |
| Chub | 
|
Mountain Lake; Forest River | All | 50g |
| Clam | 
|
- | All | 50g |
| Cockle | 
|
- | All | 50g |
| Crab | 
|
- | All | 100g |
| Crayfish | 
|
- | All | 75g |
| Crimsonfish | 
|
Ocean | Summer | 1500g |
| Dorado | 
|
Forest River | Summer | 100g |
| Eel | 
|
Ocean | Spring; Fall | 85g |
| Flounder | 
|
Ocean; Ginger Island | Spring; Summer | 100g |
| Ghostfish | 
|
Floors 20 and 60 of The Mines | All | 45g |
| Glacierfish | 
|
Cindersap Forest | Winter | 1000g |
| Glacierfish Jr. | 
|
Cindersap Forest | All | 1000g |
| Goby | 
|
Cindersap Forest Waterfalls | All | 150g |
| Halibut | 
|
Ocean | Spring; Summer; Winter | 80g |
| Herring | 
|
Ocean | Spring; Winter | 30g |
| Ice Pip | 
|
The Mines, Floor 60 | All | 500g |
| Largemouth Bass | 
|
Mountain Lake; Wilderness Farm | All | 100g |
| Lava Eel | 
|
Floor 100 of The Mines; Volcano Caldera | All | 700g |
| Legend | 
|
Mountain Lake | Spring | 5000g |
| Legend II | 
|
Mountain Lake | All | 5000g |
| Lingcod | 
|
River; Mountain Lake | Winter | 120g |
| Lionfish | 
|
Ginger Island | All | 100g |
| Lobster | 
|
- | All | 120g |
| Midnight Carp | 
|
Mountain Lake; Forest Pond; Ginger Island North & West (freshwater) | Fall; Winter | 150g |
| Midnight Squid | 
|
Submarine at Night Market | Winter | 100g |
| Ms. Angler | 
|
Pelican Town | All | 900g |
| Mussel | 
|
- | All | 30g |
| Mutant Carp | 
|
The Sewers | All | 1000g |
| Octopus | 
|
The Beach; Ginger Island; Submarine at Night Market | Summer; Winter (during Night Market (15-17)); All (Ginger Island) | 150g |
| Oyster | 
|
- | All | 40g |
| Perch | 
|
River; Mountain Lake; Forest Pond | Winter | 55g |
| Periwinkle | 
|
- | All | 20g |
| Pike | 
|
River; Forest Pond | Summer; Winter | 100g |
| Pufferfish | 
|
Ocean; Ginger Island | Summer | 200g |
| Radioactive Carp | 
|
The Sewers | All | 1000g |
| Rainbow Trout | 
|
River; Mountain Lake | Summer | 65g |
| Red Mullet | 
|
Ocean | Summer; Winter | 75g |
| Red Snapper | 
|
Ocean; Beach Farm | Summer; Fall; Winter with Rain Totem | 50g |
| Salmon | 
|
River | Fall | 75g |
| Sandfish | 
|
The Desert | All | 75g |
| Sardine | 
|
Ocean | Spring; Fall; Winter | 40g |
| Scorpion Carp | 
|
The Desert | All | 150g |
| Sea Cucumber | 
|
Ocean; Submarine at Night Market | Fall; Winter | 75g |
| Shad | 
|
River | Spring; Summer; Fall | 60g |
| Shrimp | 
|
- | All | 60g |
| Slimejack | 
|
Mutant Bug Lair | All | 100g |
| Smallmouth Bass | 
|
Town River; Forest Pond | Spring; Fall | 50g |
| Snail | 
|
- | All | 65g |
| Son of Crimsonfish | 
|
Ocean | All | 1500g |
| Spook Fish | 
|
Submarine at Night Market | Winter | 220g |
| Squid | 
|
Ocean | Winter | 80g |
| Stingray | 
|
Pirate Cove | All | 180g |
| Stonefish | 
|
Floor 20 of The Mines | All | 300g |
| Sturgeon | 
|
Mountain Lake | Summer; Winter | 200g |
| Sunfish | 
|
River | Spring; Summer | 30g |
| Super Cucumber | 
|
Ocean; Ginger Island; Submarine at Night Market | Summer; Fall; Winter during Night Market (15-17) | 250g |
| Tiger Trout | 
|
River | Fall; Winter | 150g |
| Tilapia | 
|
Ocean; Ginger Island | Summer; Fall | 75g |
| Tuna | 
|
Ocean; Ginger Island | Summer; Winter; Ginger Island (except Island North): All | 100g |
| Void Salmon | 
|
Witch's Swamp | All | 150g |
| Walleye | 
|
River; Mountain Lake; Forest Pond; Forest Farm Pond | Fall; Winter with Rain Totem | 105g |
| Woodskip | 
|
Secret Woods; Forest Farm | All | 75g |