As of now, your rod suddenly becomes magically immune to lava if you simply use a hell critter as bait. This, obviously, does not make sense. Plus, you can do this trick to repeatedly fish in lava until you find the lavaproof fishing hook that... allows you to fish in lava, making the hotline rod completely useless. This should be fixed.
I suggest instead that the lavaproof fishing hook or upgrades be required to fish in lava.
Now you may say "But wait, the lavaproof fishing hook is obtained by fishing in lava". Fear not! It would now be rewarded by the angler at a rate of 25%, but only when turning in the demonic hellfish (similar to the way the honey sponge works with the Bumblebee tuna). Along with this change, the demonic hellfish would now be caught exclusively by lavafishing in hell, and only available after the 35th quest.
Why the 35th quest? Because the 35th quest would now be the hotline fishing hook rod, so until you find the hotline fishing hook, you now CAN fish in lava, but with 5% less fishing power (than using the golden rod). This makes the lavaproof fishing hook actually useful for a small window of time, unlike in vanilla where you only have a 1% to get it. in hardmode. after the 25th quest but are guaranteed the golden rod at 30. But once you get the lavaproof hook, you're obviously going to just use the golden rod from that point forward. Also the hot line hook's current availability after quest 25 at a chance of 1% would have to be removed.
As a reminder, here are how the quests line up (the lines starting with * are my suggestions):
5: fuzzy carrot guaranteed
10: angler hat guaranteed
15: angler vest guaranteed
20: angler pants guaranteed
25:hot line available (1% chance) <Removed
30: golden rod guaranteed (at this point you have best water fishing gear)
*35: hot line guaranteed (at this point you would now be able to fish in lava)
*45: lavaproof hook guaranteed? (at this point you would use the golden rod instead)
*50: Rubber Worm, a new infinite ammo item for fishing.
Oh and Hell critter bait would instead give a boost when fishing in the underworld to distinguish it from other baits described in my post here: Better Biome/Critter Fishing
I suggest instead that the lavaproof fishing hook or upgrades be required to fish in lava.
Now you may say "But wait, the lavaproof fishing hook is obtained by fishing in lava". Fear not! It would now be rewarded by the angler at a rate of 25%, but only when turning in the demonic hellfish (similar to the way the honey sponge works with the Bumblebee tuna). Along with this change, the demonic hellfish would now be caught exclusively by lavafishing in hell, and only available after the 35th quest.
Why the 35th quest? Because the 35th quest would now be the hotline fishing hook rod, so until you find the hotline fishing hook, you now CAN fish in lava, but with 5% less fishing power (than using the golden rod). This makes the lavaproof fishing hook actually useful for a small window of time, unlike in vanilla where you only have a 1% to get it. in hardmode. after the 25th quest but are guaranteed the golden rod at 30. But once you get the lavaproof hook, you're obviously going to just use the golden rod from that point forward. Also the hot line hook's current availability after quest 25 at a chance of 1% would have to be removed.
As a reminder, here are how the quests line up (the lines starting with * are my suggestions):
5: fuzzy carrot guaranteed
10: angler hat guaranteed
15: angler vest guaranteed
20: angler pants guaranteed
25:
30: golden rod guaranteed (at this point you have best water fishing gear)
*35: hot line guaranteed (at this point you would now be able to fish in lava)
*45: lavaproof hook guaranteed? (at this point you would use the golden rod instead)
*50: Rubber Worm, a new infinite ammo item for fishing.
Oh and Hell critter bait would instead give a boost when fishing in the underworld to distinguish it from other baits described in my post here: Better Biome/Critter Fishing
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