Idle Waters: Achievement Guide 100%

For different species, fish in different zones and at different times/weather.
Rainbow fishes can only be caught when you capture all the variants of its kind.

• First Catch! – Catch your first fish
• A rare fish – Catch 1 fish (rare color)
• A silver fish – Catch 1 fish (silver)
• Not all that glitters is gold – Catch 1 fish (golden)
• From the stars – Catch 1 fish (cosmic)
• The silver moon – Catch 1 halfmoon (silver)
• The golden dorado – Catch 1 dorado (golden)
• The true rainbow trout – Catch 1 rainbow trout (rainbow)
• The legend of the full moon – Catch 1 lunar moth fish (?)
• The greedy fish (To get the fish you need to have common Rubby Snapper and Sapphire Ram in your inventory))
• The ancient fish (?)
• Warming up – Catch 100 fish
• And a thousand fish later… – Catch 1,000 fish
• Smells like fish – Catch 2,500 fish
• That was easy – Catch all fish (common)
• Starting the collection – Catch 10 different fish species!
• Starting the collection (2) – Catch 60 different fish species
• Researcher – Catch 100 different fish species
• Ichthyology – Complete the fish collection

Easy achievements, you will get them fast.

• A mysterious cat – Give a fish to the cat
• Help from the cat – First cat exploration
• Cleaning waters – Catch 1 trash
• Recycle – Recycle one item (recycle trash for one Karma)
• A message from the sea – Find one message in a bottle (Use a bottle to get the message. You can find bottles while fishing; random event just click on the bottle if you see one)
• Trader – Trade your first item (3 fishes for one item)
• Sea explorer – Use a map for the first time

For money, sell as many items, treasures and fishes you can. Use the aquarium for items with a high selling price.
Your rank increase while you’re fishing. Just wait for it.

• It’s honest work – Earn 100 coins
• I can’t hold all these coins – Earn 10 000 coins
• Wealthy Fisher – Earn 1 000 000 coins
• Rank D – Achieve Rank D
• Rank A – Achieve Rank A
• Rank SSS – Achieve Rank SSS

Use Charms like Shiny Charm or Luck Charms and upgrade your fishing rod.

• A rare fish – Catch 1 fish (rare color)
• A silver fish – Catch 1 fish (silver)
• It’s not all gold that glitters – Catch 1 fish (gold)
• Follow the rainbow – Catch 1 fish (rainbow)
• From the stars – Catch 1 fish (cosmic)
• Exotic fish – Catch all fish (rare color)
• On a silver platter – Catch all fish (silver)
• Gold, gold, gold! – Catch all fish (gold)
• Rainbow hunter – Catch all fish (rainbow)
• All the stars – Catch all fish (cosmic)

Visit following places:

• Pond in the forest
• Beach (Cat can find it)
• Magic Forest (Cat can find it)
• Ocean (Buy a boat)
• Shining Cave (Map)
• Coast (Storm or Map)
• South River (Map)
• Top of the Mountain (Map)
• Snow Lake (Map)
• Moon Cave (?)
• Sky Island (Only the blessed by the Four Guardians may enter the kingdom hidden among the clouds)
• Cosmic Sea (?)
• Volcano

Finish the quests to get Blessings, Karma and Charms.

• The merchant quest – Complete the first quest of the merchant (Village)
• The pirate quest – Complete the first quest of the pirate (Beach)
• The suspicious catfish quest – Complete the first quest of the suspicious catfish (The forgotten Sea)
• Bridge to adventure – Repair the bridge (Bridge to the Island; 3 Wooden Log)
• The statue in the forest – Receive the Guardian’s Blessing (?)
• The Guardian of sea – Receive the Guardian’s Blessing (?)
• The Wise – Receive the Guardian’s Blessing (?)
• Exotic Items – Complete all quests of the merchant (Village)
• Arrr! – Complete all quests of the pirate (Beach)
• Is this the end of the world? – Complete all quests of the suspicious catfish (The forgotten Sea)

You get Karma for quests and recycling trash. You unlock the Karma Store when you enter The Magic Forest.
You can buy upgrades by clicking the coin symbol next to the map. Click the tab “upgrades”.

• Karma (10) – Earn 10 Karma
• Karma (100) – Earn 100 Karma
• Karma (500) – Earn 500 Karma

• Getting fancy – Upgrade your fishing rod for the first time
• Max Fishing Rod Level – Upgrade Fishing Rod Level to max level (Max. level is ?)
• Max Bag – Upgrade Bag to max level (Max. level is ?)
• Max Auto-fishing speed – Upgrade Auto-fishing speed to max level (Max. level is ?)
• Max Auto-Sell – Upgrade Auto-Sell to max level (Max. level is ?)
• Nice day for fishing! – Achieve +100 luck (Increase your luck with charms and karma)
• Max Luck – Upgrade Luck to max level (Increase your luck with charms and karma. Max. level is ?)
• Max Fish Quality – Upgrade Fish Quality to max level (Max. level is ?)
• Max Cat Level – Upgrade Cat Level to max level (Max. level is ?)

You get charms when you’re blessed. Unlock new zones and finish the quests. Some charms need to be crafted.

• Lucky charm! – Get your first charm
• More charms! – Craft your first charm
• Very charming! – Collect all charms (20 total, you need to craft/unlock all of them)

Put a fish in your aquarium and you get the item the fish produces.

• The aquarium – Buy your first aquarium
• Friendship – Get an item from a fish in an aquarium (Wait a few minutes and click on the item)
• Max Aquarium Friendship – Upgrade Aquarium Friendship to max level (Max. level is ?)
• Too many fish on my desktop! – Buy all aquariums (You can buy 10 aquariums)
• Playing fetch – Receive a stick from a fish in an aquarium (dogfish or puppy fish)
• Love or hate? – Receive poison from a fish in an aquarium (blowfish)
• Coffee shop – Have an aquarium with fish that gives you donut, cookie and coffee (Donut: Muskie, Tripletail, Tuffy; Cookie: Polka Dot, Flounder, Lingcod; Coffee: Catfish, Black Crappie)

• Secrets of the Sea – Complete the notes collection (open bottles until you find all 12 notes)
• Clues to a legend – Find clues about a legendary fish (find the message “The legend of the full moon” in a bottle)
• Friend of the fish – Complete the item collection (find all 44 items)
• A true treasure hunter – Complete the treasure collection (find all 40 treasures)
• Mystery egg – Find the mystery egg (Top of the mountain)
• From the ashes – Return the mystery egg (Vulcano)
• A hot cave – Complete the shrine outside the volcano
• Shining bag – Have diamond, emerald, ruby, sapphire, pearl, topaz and opal in your inventory
• Greedy fisher! – Carry items and treasures worth 35 000 coins in your bag (Increase the selling price with karma and have a lot of high level treasures in your inventory)
• Archeologist – Carry all three fossils in your bag (Your cat can find the fossils)
• A cozy rainy day – Carry bread and coffee in your bag on a rainy day
• When fish fly…. – Catch a flying fish (?)
• Fishing the moon – Catch two halfmoon fish at the same time
• Legendary Treasure Hunter – Catch 1 legendary treasure
• A thousand year sleep – Find the lost guardian (?)