For anyone having the same or similar issue, with RIMMSqol:
Open Races menu
-> Look for the Mech to correct the job type, "Oceanus" for me
-> Open it, then open Race properties (top of the menu)
-> Bottom of Race properties -> Mech work types -> click "+" to add an option, select Fishing
-> Reload, done, enjoy :)

It works great for colonists, but now Mechs don't have the Fishing category. I patched the Angler to allow for it to Fish, but since the Fishing job isn't in the Mech tab, it isnt allowing it to do the job.

Thank you! Not sure why this wasnt vanilla. It's non sense to mix boths in Rimworld skill context

@Alzz Thanks so much! I just pushed an update with your translations added in, and added a note in the Readme and Description that attribute the contribution to you.

Hey! I made a translation patch for this mod covering three regions: Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. If possible, could you integrate it into your mod? This would make it much more convenient for people to use it! :)
Here's the link to my mod:
https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3537406944

There is also a huge difference between karate fight and a gun fight, yet they are both violent. If cutting a chicken is violent, then cutting a fish is as well.

Idk what people are talking about fishing being violent, as someone who has done both there is a HUGE difference between shooting and animal and catching a fish.

@Muon @Ilunak Personally I think there is a fairly significant difference between the violence of hunting vs fishing, but given that a few people have brought this up I have made a secondary patch mod you can add that will set the new fishing work type as violent if you would prefer that. The mod can be found here: https://steamhost.cn/steamcommunity_com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3534512447

With that the jobs will be separated and slaves will still be able to fish, but non-violent pawns will not be.

I'm sure it will only be a temporary mod because the base game's fishing has so many bugs that they'll release an update sooner or later

Fishing is totally not closer to butchering than hunting - butchered animals are already dead. Or does the mod add a long delay after each catch for the fish to die on its own?

yes! just the one i need

@Muon...it's clearly the point of this mod.

Biotech's Highmates are incapable of hunting or fishing, because their "Violence disabled" gene explicitly disables the hunting job. Is it by design that, with this mod, Highmates are allowed to fish, or was it merely an oversight to not patch said gene?

thank you for this

Yes!
Thank you CADmonkey

Yes! I thought the implementation of fishing was very awkward. I'd often have high shooting characters with only moderate animal skills set to hunting, but then they'd go and fruitlessly fish with their low animal skills. Or people with super high animal skills who are great at fishing running off and punching deer because they were set to hunting. Stupid.

This fixes the only bad thing about fishing, thank you!

@CADmonkey

In my case, the issue occurred while the AI Manager was handling the management tasks, with both mods active. The manager didn’t properly update the hunting job. I suspect it’s similar to what happens when you add a new job mid-game — all the pawns’ job schedules get scrambled.

I installed the fishing mod after the AI Manager was already set up. I tried removing and reinstalling the AI Manager to refresh the job logic, but it didn’t help. The manager only started working again after I disabled your mod.

I don’t think the issue is on your end — it’s probably more related to Colony Manager Redux — but I figured it was worth mentioning in case it helps with compatibility insights :)

@Angel Soulstar Do you have any more info about what is not working with it? Any reproduction steps would be appreciated and I can take a look at whats going on.

I'm not familiar with Colony Manager Redux so not sure what the intended behavior is, but from some brief testing I see hunting jobs getting toggled correctly with both mods enabled. I'm not sure if CMR has support for fishing at all, as even on its own it does not seem to toggle fishing zones when a hunting job is full, but I'm not familiar with the mod so may be missing something.

Beautiful, thanks for fixing this issue. I can't believe fishing made it through testing merged with hunting

Hi, I found an incompatibility issue with this mod "Colony Manager Redux"

@CADmonkey Thank you so much king! 👑

@Mega Good point. I just updated the mod so slaves can now fish but still not hunt. Thanks for the suggestion!

can you maybe make so Slaves can do the fishing job but not the hunting?

@八云辉夜 Unfortunately I don't know Chinese so can't do the actual translation part. I made a quick template of the needed translation file here that could be used to make a translation mod, and from a quick test seems to work. https://gist.github.com/CADmonkey/6d7a2c11f11526306bae855d1e5fb4e6

Let me know if you need any more help with that, or if you give me the translation text I could throw together the translation mod.

Can you translate this mod into Chinese? I tried to translate it myself, but it didn't work

Been using it all day, so far so good!

@Seawald Yes, its fine to add to an existing save.

@MsKarMagik I hadn't used Vanilla Fishing Expanded, but I just ran a quick test with it and it looks to work as expected. Let me know if you encounter any issues.

Gonna assume this works just fine if Vanilla Fishing Expanded is installed? (With Odyssey of course)

can this be added mid save?

Thank you

@Side1iner With this fishing is now separated from hunting. Pawns assigned to hunt will not fish and pawns assigned to fish will not hunt unless they are assigned to do both.

Is 'Fishing' now ONLY a job in it it's own or is it also still part of 'Hunting'?

Thank you!

@flynn That's fair, but I would consider fishing closer to butchering than truly violent like hunting. And non-violent pawns can already do butchering fine so it seems more consistent to allow them to fish as well.

(great mod btw)

Have you been fishing? It can be pretty violent actually, though I suppose you could have peaceful pawns hand live fish off to someone else..

thank you so much for this

Very useful to have, thanks