BONUS! Fishing Mastery

BONUS! Fishing Mastery

Difficulty: 🎄🎄🎄🎄
Catch at least one of each species of fish that live around Geese islands. When you’re done, report your findings to Poinsettia McMittens.

Hints

I Am Become Data

From: Poinsettia McMittens One approach to automating web tasks entails the browser’s developer console. Browsers’ console allow us to manipulate objects, inspect code, and even interact with websockets.

Fishing Machine

From: Poinsettia McMittens There are a variety of strategies for automating repetative website tasks. Tools such as AutoKey and AutoIt allow you to programmatically examine elements on the screen and emulate user inputs.

Solution

I let my script run for quite a while but I wasn’t able to obtain all the fish, so I looked at the images I downloaded from https://2023.holidayhackchallenge.com/sea/fishdensityref.html. I understood that white gradient in the image would indicate where a fish could be found. I started overlapping the density with the minimap and thought about automating the whole process of moving & catching for each fish. When doing that I noticed the Piscis Cyberneticus Skodo having a really narrow catching area that can be seen in white in the image below:

While working on a new version, I let my old script run with the boat in the fishing area for the Piscis Cyberneticus Skodo. Eventually the night passed and I woke up having all 171 fish. The Piscis itself was catched #170 and the last one was actually a Whiskered Jumblefish 🙂