Anglerfish in Valheim: Where to Catch It and What It's For
Anglerfish are coastal fish found offshore the Mistlands, and they're the one ingredient standing between you and Uncooked fish n' bread — the base for one of the game's best stamina foods. Catching one takes a Fishing rod and a specific bait, Misty fishing bait, that has to be crafted rather than bought or found. This guide covers where they live, what stats the item itself carries, every recipe that calls for one, and the fish's one confirmed piece of flavor text.
Where to Find and Catch an Anglerfish
The source is specific about habitat: Anglerfish "are coastal fish found offshore the Mistlands." That's a narrower zone than "anywhere in the Mistlands" — you're fishing the water's edge around that biome, not the interior swamps and spires.
Catching one requires two things working together:
- A Fishing rod
- Misty fishing bait, which the source says is crafted at the Food preparation table by combining 20 Fishing bait and 1 Lox trophy
That bait recipe is worth reading twice: it's not built from raw Fishing bait alone, it needs a Lox trophy folded in, which means a Lox kill (or a trophy already in storage) is a prerequisite step before you can even start fishing for Anglerfish. The source doesn't give a catch-rate percentage, a required Fishing skill level, or how many Misty fishing bait one Lox trophy's worth of ingredients yields beyond the stated 1-trophy-to-20-bait ratio — treat catch difficulty and skill requirements as undocumented rather than assumed.
Anglerfish Item Stats and Behavior
The infobox classifies the Anglerfish plainly: type Fish, internal id fish9, usage Crafting, Decoration, obtained from Fishing. Two item-handling stats matter for inventory planning:
- Weight per level: 2.0 — the source gives this as a per-level increment, not a flat base weight, so the exact carry weight of a specific level-1 catch isn't stated here and shouldn't be assumed; only the 2.0-per-level scaling is confirmed.
- Stack size: 10, and it is teleportable ("teleport: Yes") — unlike ore, a haul of Anglerfish doesn't force a boat trip home.
The wiki's Usage notes add a leveling detail worth knowing before you fish past the first catch: "Level 2 or higher Anglerfish do not increase the number of Uncooked fish n' bread created by the recipe." In other words, a higher-level Anglerfish doesn't stretch further in that one recipe — the source says higher levels are "only good for trophies or for increasing the amount of Raw fish harvested per fish," so a level-up matters for Raw fish yield and trophy quality, not for stretching your fish n' bread ingredients.
What to Craft With an Anglerfish
Three recipes call for an Anglerfish, per the wiki's Usage table:
| Item | Anglerfish needed | Other materials | Station |
|---|---|---|---|
| Raw fish | 1 | — | Cauldron |
| Uncooked fish n' bread | 1 | 2 Bread dough | Food preparation table |
| Fishing hat | 1 | 1 each of Perch, Pike, Tuna, Tetra, Trollfish, Giant herring, Grouper, Coral cod, Northern salmon, Magmafish, Pufferfish | Workbench |
That Fishing hat recipe is a checklist, not a quick craft: it's one of each of 12 different fish species total (counting the Anglerfish itself), all at once, at a Workbench.
The source flags a priority worth following if Anglerfish are scarce: "Fish 'n' bread is the third-best stamina food in the game (after the Ashlands release)," and it specifically warns that turning an Anglerfish into plain Raw fish for Fish wraps "would be a bit wasteful," since Fish 'n' bread is described as "a much higher-tier food." The source doesn't give Fish wraps' or Fish 'n' bread's exact stamina numbers here, so that comparison is quoted as a relative ranking, not a computed gap between two stat blocks.
Anglerfish Trivia and Trophy
The Anglerfish's in-game item description, quoted directly: "The dangling light makes it easier to see that pretty little face!" The wiki's Notes section adds one more piece of flavor text tied to the fish: a unique line reading "Do you see the light? It beckons you..." — the source doesn't specify when or from whom this line is heard in-game, so that context is undocumented.
The wiki also confirms an Anglerfish trophy exists (an image file, "Anglerfish trophy.PNG," is listed in the article's Gallery), but the source gives no stats, crafting use, or display requirements for that trophy beyond confirming it exists — its specific properties are undocumented here.
Practical tips
- Anglerfish live in coastal waters offshore the Mistlands — fish the shoreline, not the biome's interior.
- Craft Misty fishing bait first: 20 Fishing bait + 1 Lox trophy at a Food preparation table.
- Don't bother fishing past level 1 for Uncooked fish n' bread — the source confirms level 2+ doesn't increase that recipe's output, only trophy quality and Raw fish yield.
- The Fishing hat needs one of each of 12 fish species, Anglerfish included, all at a Workbench — plan a fishing trip around the full checklist, not just this one fish.
- Catch-rate percentage, Fishing skill requirements, and the Anglerfish trophy's own stats aren't in this source — treat all three as unconfirmed.
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Conclusion
An Anglerfish is a coastal Fish-type item (id fish9) caught with a Fishing rod and Misty fishing bait (20 Fishing bait + 1 Lox trophy, crafted at a Food preparation table), offshore the Mistlands. It stacks to 10, adds 2.0 weight per level, and teleports fine. It feeds three recipes — Raw fish at a Cauldron, Uncooked fish n' bread (with 2 Bread dough) at a Food preparation table, and the 12-fish Fishing hat checklist at a Workbench — and the source is explicit that leveling one up past level 1 only helps trophies and Raw fish yield, not the fish n' bread recipe. Catch rate, Fishing skill requirements, and the Anglerfish trophy's own stats remain undocumented in this source.
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