How to Use a My Time at Sandrock Sandfish Trap for Fishing 

Instead of fishing in My Time at Sandrock, you go Sandfishing, but using the Sandfish Trap you made may be a bit tricky. Here’s how it works.

How to craft a Sandfish Trap in My Time at Sandrock for fishing

You’ll get the recipe for this Worktable recipe after getting a letter for the “World of Sandfishing” quest from Owen. This arrives in your mailbox one morning after finishing the story quest “Picking Up the Slack,” automatically teaching you how to make one. 

The requirements for this recipe are very relaxed. You need a Thick Rope, two Copper Bars, and two Wooden Sticks. The Thick Rope recipe was acquired as part of “Picking Up the Slack,” as you needed to buy it from the Commerce Guild Store for 16 Gols.

In case you don’t have leftovers from that quest, here’s what you need:

• 2 Copper Bars – Get some copper scrap from a daily Eufaula Salvage trips. Popping one into a Recycler practically guarantees you one bar.
• 2 Wooden Sticks – Eufaula Salvage and digging through the salvage could mean getting wooden scrap, and the wood piles in the field between it and your workshop can spawn it too. When put in the Recycler, you’ll usually get either wood you can make into a wooden stick or even an actual wooden stick. Three pieces of wood can make one Wooden Stick if needed.
• 1 Thick Rope – After getting plant fibers with an axe from something like a Yakthorn, go to your Worktable. Four of them makes one Thick Rope.

Combine all those and you get the Basic Sandfish Trap.

How to go Sandfishing in My Time at Sandrock

Here’s where things might get a bit tricky. The “World of Sandfishing” questline will set a marker for you to follow for the Sandfishing spot right next to Eufaula Salvage. However I found there are three parts that may trip you up. 

First, you need bait. On the way to the spot, use your pickhammer on some of the gravel rocks. You’ll get some Sandworms you can use as bait. (You usually get one per piece of gravel.) 

Next, make sure you move over to the Sandfish Trap in your hotbar so your character is holding it over their head. The game doesn’t mention this, but you have to be right in front of the sign near the fishing hole to use the trap in My Time at Sandrock. 

Once you do, you’ll shift to a first-person view of the fishing hole. You’ll see some types of fish “swimming” around in the sand. Instead of just tossing the trap, move over on the hotbar to the Sandworms from earlier. Toss them into the pit. When you see fish gather around it, swap to your trap and aim it. I highlighted where I tossed a Sandworm in the screenshot below to show an example of a good spot. Fish will eventually head to it, if you’re patient.

The trick here is you want to see a blue outline around the fish. I took a screenshot of it below, so you can see exactly how it should look. If you do that, then when the Sandfish Trap lands, it will catch the fish and pull it back to you.

Keep in mind that you will eventually need to craft better traps. The basic one you make as part of this questline is too small for certain fish.

My Time at Sandrock is available on the PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and PC. A PS4 version is also in development.