{"id":463,"date":"2023-03-26T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/?p=463"},"modified":"2026-07-21T00:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T03:24:08","slug":"official-engineer-survival-manual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/?p=463","title":{"rendered":"Official Engineer & Survival Manual"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019nanghal Shikhu@Zodiark<\/a> (DoH\/L mentor from The Balance) shared with me the FSH pages of this book, \u30af\u30e9\u30d5\u30bf\u30fc\u3068\u30ae\u30e3\u30b6\u30e9\u30fc\u3092\u30bc\u30ed\u304b\u3089\u6975\u3081\u308b \u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30ca\u30eb\u30d5\u30a1\u30f3\u30bf\u30b8\u30fcXIV \u516c\u5f0f\u30a8\u30f3\u30b8\u30cb\u30a2\uff06\u30b5\u30d0\u30a4\u30d0\u30eb\u30de\u30cb\u30e5\u30a2\u30eb<\/a>, initially released by SE in 2017 around the time of patch 4.2. Kyrie Overdrive <\/a>has it and provided scans of all six FSH pages.<\/p>

I translated tables that were in the images of the book in the spreadsheet linked here<\/a>.<\/p>

Within it is information about fish from ARR to 4.2. Not every fish, but most with conditions.<\/p>

For the fish it has it provides (if they exist): gathering minimum, perception needed for HQ, weather conditions, time conditions, and if Snagging is needed or not.
It has this information for 241 fish and of those for 27 it provides information different from the most common resources.<\/p>

The red below indicates a difference from the most common resources. The column on the right explains what the difference.<\/p>

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Most are big fish. Italicized names are white-rarity fish.<\/p>

As stated, this book does not cover every fish with conditions from 2.0 \u2013 4.2. After receiving it, I went to go try to test something randomly. I wasn\u2019t fully paying attention while reading and went to Dravanian Squeaker, which is not included in this book, instead of Capsized Squeaker and it turns out that it also has a 16:00-18:15 window (while trackers had 16-9) like Capsized Squeaker is stated to.<\/p>

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Most of these are fairly understandable errors, primarily just time which is difficult to prove or disprove with big fish. In particular, many of these times are unusual and proving times like them is even more difficult especially with how players often report times when providing data.<\/p>

Until now it was thought that fish would end their windows at :00 or :30, and that there were only two big fish that ended at :30.<\/p>

As it turns out there is also :45, :20, :15, and :05 end points.<\/p>

Further, Fingers from 2.3 is the first fish with a 30 Eorzean-minute time window rather than Ealad Skaan from 5.55.<\/p>

The weather discrepancies are very lightly documented correctly in sources from around ARR\/HW times and just got lost while popular resources were being established.<\/p>

The way the book handles weather is also interesting in how it displays it, in specific weather groupings.<\/p>

Sunny (\u6674\u5929)<\/strong><\/td>Clear Skies \/ Fair Skies \/ Heat Waves<\/td><\/tr>
Overcast (\u66c7\u5929)<\/strong><\/td>Clouds \/ Fog \/ Wind \/ Dust Storms \/ Gloom<\/td><\/tr>
Sunny & Cloudy (\u66c7\u6674)<\/strong><\/td>Clear Skies \/ Fair Skies \/ Clouds \/ Fog<\/td><\/tr>
Precipitation (\u96e8\u5929)<\/strong><\/td>Rain \/ Showers \/ Thunderstorms \/ Snow \/ Blizzards<\/td><\/tr>
Extreme Weather (\u8352\u5929)<\/strong><\/td>Gales \/ Rain \/ Showers \/ Thunder \/ Thunderstorms \/ Heat Waves \/ Blizzards \/ Gloom<\/td><\/tr>
Snowfall (\u964d\u96ea)<\/strong><\/td>Snow \/ Blizzards<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>

\u2013 A fish does not have to be available in all of these if its available in one.
\u2013 The groupings are used for some fish which have multiple weathers possible, or multiple weathers at either end of a
transition.
\u2013 There are some fish which could have a grouping used for its weather condition, but the book does not assign them one.<\/p>

It describes using these:<\/p>

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\u201cA generic term is used when there are multiple weather conditions. Each generic term are below. In the case of Snow \u2192 Blizzards, the weather change is specified in the condition, with the right indication the weather when fishing and the left indication the weather preceding.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>

and then the groupings as specified in the image above.<\/p>

For example, the book states that The Dreamweaver\u2019s conditions are Overcast (\u66c7\u5929), which includes Clouds\/Fog\/Wind\/Dust Storms\/Gloom. This is sensible because Gloom and Wind are not weathers from the zone that The Dreamweaver is in.

The terms are probably used for brevity, but I\u2019m curious if there\u2019s classification on the part of the designers using these because for some fish with a singular weather condition they use these groupings, while for some others they don\u2019t.<\/p>

Snowfall (\u964d\u96ea) is used for every fish in Coerthas with Snow\/Blizzards as its weather condition, which does make sense. Precipitation (\u96e8\u5929) could also be used but in practice it is only used for fish with Rain\/Showers\/Thunderstorms.<\/p>

The fish I\u2019m most curious about that has a discrepancy is Sunfish. Trackers either have a sizable amount of erroneous data or the the weather restriction the book has is wrong (or more likely, Sunfish is bugged in some way in-game as it does have the \u2018Weather Restrictions: Yes\u2019 flag).

Everything else looked at that the book provides has been correct, in terms of what can be proven easily with white-rarity fish.
With big fish, the longer times times can be proven rather simply, but most of them are smaller time windows than trackers currently provide. The times for those are are basically attempting to proving a negative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Translating the FSH-relevant portions of “\u30af\u30e9\u30d5\u30bf\u30fc\u3068\u30ae\u30e3\u30b6\u30e9\u30fc\u3092\u30bc\u30ed\u304b\u3089\u6975\u3081\u308b \u30d5\u30a1\u30a4\u30ca\u30eb\u30d5\u30a1\u30f3\u30bf\u30b8\u30fcXIV \u516c\u5f0f\u30a8\u30f3\u30b8\u30cb\u30a2\uff06\u30b5\u30d0\u30a4\u30d0\u30eb\u30de\u30cb\u30e5\u30a2\u30eb” published by Square Enix.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-big-fish","category-useful-miscellanea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=463"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":978,"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463\/revisions\/978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oceanfishing.boats\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}