Fishing is coming to Fallout 76, along with your own Dogmeat and cat pets for your camp

Fallout 76’s waterways have typically never been places you want to spend any amount of time in due to, you know, them mostly being irradiated and all, but this looks set to change when fishing comes to Bethesda’s online Fallout game in a future update.

Tonight’s Fallout Day broadcast only included the briefest of teasers that fishing would be coming to Fallout 76, but I spoke to lead producer Bill LaCoste earlier this week to try and find out more about it. He says it will likely be “closer to the end of the year” before the team details how fishing will work in full, but he did reveal that you’ll be able to fish “anywhere where there’s a body of water that you can drink from” – and that includes interior and exterior locations.

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While it’s unclear at the moment whether you’ll be able to fish up some of Fallout 76’s more aggressive aquatic monsters – I’m not sure I’d fancy my chances if I hooked one of its enormous, four-legged Angler creatures, for example – LaCoste says it will “pretty much be guaranteed that we’ll have common types of fish” to find, and that your catches will “feed into new recipes” you can cook up to keep your hunger levels at bay.

He also teased that the team plans to use fishing “in other ways”, too, but that the details of this were under lock and key until that end of year announcement.

Sticking with the animal theme from the Fallout Day broadcast, though, another big reveal came in the form of Camp Pets, which will be arriving in December. There will be just two types to start with in the game’s shop – the classic cat and dog(meat) combo – but more will be added down the line, including “some that are not so furry,” creative director Jonathan Rush teased in the broadcast.

When I ask LaCoste about adding pets to Fallout 76, he says they’ve been one of the “most requested” features from fans, and not just because of the success of the Fallout TV show. “Players have wanted pets in their camps for a very, very long time,” he says, and it’s “been on our design roadmap for a good while, even before we knew about the show and when the show would even drop. I think the show itself just kind of helps that be more important for players now, especially now the show is out.”