Shrimp

Shrimp

Type	Fish
Season	All
Size	1 to 3
Sell Price	60g

The Shrimp is a small ocean creature caught in a Crab Pot rather than on a fishing rod. A baited pot left in salt water can bring one up in any season, with no minigame to play. The Shrimp is one of the options for the Crab Pot Bundle in the Community Center. It is also the key ingredient in two well-loved dishes: Shrimp Cocktail, which boosts Fishing and Luck, and Tom Kha Soup, which Elliott loves. In a Fish Pond it becomes a small treasure box, turning out Coral, Sea Urchins, Nautilus Shells and Beach warp totems alongside its roe.

Catching

Only a Crab Pot placed in salt water catches the Shrimp. The ocean at The Beach works, as does any other body of salt water. Season, weather and time of day make no difference. Only the type of water matters.

The Crab Pot recipe unlocks at Fishing level 3. It needs 40 Wood and 3 Iron Bars. After reaching that level, Willy also sells pots at the Fish Shop for 1,500g. Completing the Crab Pot Bundle rewards three pots as well.

Place the pot at the water's edge, load it with bait and check it the next morning. An ocean pot can also bring up Clams, Crabs, Lobsters, Mussels and Oysters, plus trash, so the Shrimp is one catch among many.

Two Fishing professions change Crab Pots. The Trapper profession at level 5 makes the pots cheaper to craft, needing 25 Wood and 2 Copper Bars. At level 10, Luremaster lets pots work without bait, and Mariner stops them catching trash. Both make a line of ocean pots an easy daily income.

Each Crab Pot catch, trash included, gives a little Fishing experience. The Traveling Cart sometimes sells a Shrimp for 180g to 1,000g.

Prices

A Shrimp sells for modest money. Fisher adds a quarter to a Shrimp's price, and Angler adds half. Both sit on the other branch of the Fishing tree from Trapper, so a player must choose between better pots and better fish prices.

A Fish Smoker doubles the price of the Shrimp. It needs one piece of Coal per item.

Like other Crab Pot catches, raw Shrimp is inedible, so its value lies in selling, smoking or cooking. Sashimi sells for 75g, which is more than a normal Shrimp, so spare Shrimp earn more as Sashimi once Linus sends the recipe.

In a Fish Pond, Shrimp reproduce every two days. A Shrimp pond starts with room for three and grows to ten across three requests. The first asks for 5 Clay. The second asks for Bug Meat or Quartz. The last asks for a Sea Urchin, Solar Essence or Wild Bait.

A Shrimp pond is unusual. Shrimp Roe is only one of many items it produces, and on many days it makes nothing at all. In return, the pond offers Seaweed and trash at low levels, and Coral and Sea Urchins from five Shrimp upward. A full pond of nine or ten adds the chance of a Warp Totem: Beach or a Nautilus Shell. Shrimp Roe itself is worth 60g, and a Preserves Jar ages it into Aged Roe worth twice as much.

Uses

Shrimp Cocktail is the signature dish. Cooking a Shrimp with a Tomato and Wild Horseradish makes it. The Queen of Sauce teaches it on Winter 28 of Year 2. The dish restores a large amount of energy and gives a boost to Fishing and Luck.

Cooking a Shrimp with a Coconut and a Common Mushroom makes Tom Kha Soup. Sandy mails the recipe once she reaches 7 hearts of friendship. The soup boosts Farming and Max Energy, and Elliott counts it among his loved gifts.

The Shrimp is one of the options in the Crab Pot Bundle in the Fish Tank. That bundle asks for five of its Crab Pot catches and rewards three Crab Pots.

The Shrimp also counts as "any fish" for Sashimi, Maki Roll and Quality Fertilizer.

At the Sewing Machine, a Shrimp in the spool makes a dyeable Sailor Shirt.

A Bait Maker turns one Shrimp into Shrimp Bait.

Cooking Shrimp with the other ingredients below makes these dishes.

Dish	Image	Ingredients
Shrimp Cocktail		Tomato (1), Shrimp (1), Wild Horseradish (1)
Tom Kha Soup		Coconut (1), Shrimp (1), Common Mushroom (1)

Gifts

Raw Shrimp is a poor gift. Among those who feel neutral about Shrimp are the older villagers Demetrius, Linus and Pam. The same goes for Willy and Leo. The marriage candidates Elliott and Sebastian also feel neutral about it.

Shrimp is a poor gift for Abigail, Alex, Emily, Harvey, Leah, Maru, Penny, Sam and Shane. The same goes for the Dwarf, Krobus, Sandy and the Wizard, and for the shop owners Clint, Gus, Marnie and Robin. Jas and Vincent dislike it too, and so do the older villagers Caroline, George, Jodi, Kent and Lewis.

Evelyn, Haley and Pierre hate it.

Cooked into Tom Kha Soup, the same Shrimp becomes one of Elliott's favourite presents.

Notes

Set a few Crab Pots in the ocean early in the year. Shrimp collected over a season cover the Crab Pot Bundle, Shrimp Cocktail and Tom Kha Soup, with plenty left for Sashimi.

All Crab Pot Catches

Every entry in this group, with its key details.

Name	Location	Season	Price
Clam	-	All	50g
Cockle	-	All	50g
Crab	-	All	100g
Crayfish	-	All	75g
Lobster	-	All	120g
Mussel	-	All	30g
Oyster	-	All	40g
Periwinkle	-	All	20g
Shrimp	-	All	60g
Snail	-	All	65g