PC How to cheese the Angler - 200 fishing quests in 5 to 6 in-game days

I'll open up for you even easier way: use player redactor, give a player every possible fish, save. Multiply savefile by 50 (or as much as you want), rename them and do it in 4 days. Or multiply by 200 and do it in 1 day. You can use Terrasaver: Terrasavr
Yes, it is cheating. But isn't any save manipulation a cheating anyway?
 
I haven't seen anybody else post about this, so here goes.
By far the most frustrating of the achievements at the moment is the Angler quest achievements - especially the one that requires 200 quests. Let's do some number crunching...
If you only have one character and one world without the Enchanted Sundial, you would need 200 full in-game days with one quest a day - which is 24*200 = 4800 minutes. That's 80 hours in real time. Nobody got time for that.

Luckily, Terraria allows you to have multiple characters enter the same world. Therefore the same Angler with the same daily quest. And each of those characters can turn in the quest independently.
And luckily, there's a little quirk to fishing up quest items that allows you to fish them indefinitely: if you put the quest item in a chest and continue fishing, you can find the quest fish again.

So - here's the basic how-to of cheesing the Angler's fishing quests for about 30-40 quests a day:
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Preparation:
01
- Make sure you have plenty of Sonar Potions and preferably also Fishing Potions, as well as a good fishing rod (The Golden Fishing Rod is preferred, but in case you want to try this without having done any fishing prior, there are some other rods that are close in fishing power that can be bought from NPC's - check the wiki). I also recommend having the High Test Fishing Line for the 1/7 increase in efficiency.
02 - Make 39 new characters (I suggest naming them 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09, 10, 11, etc. to keep track)
-- 02.1 - Make sure all of these 39 characters have their spawn point set as close to a chest and the Angler as possible - any extra distance will lower the daily rate of finished quests pretty significantly since you need to add the extra distance*39 to the time.
03 - Make sure you know where to go fishing (with properly sized pools) for all the different quests, and that you have quick ways of getting there. Speed is pretty important.
04 - Have an extra Piggy Bank with you. A Money Trough is a possibility too, but for convenience I recommend placing an actual Piggy Bank since the Money Trough will despawn several times during a day of fishing.

The actual fishing:
05 - Check the Angler right when the time hits 4:30 in the morning, and immediately go to a properly sized pool of water in the designated area.
06 - Place piggy bank, summon whatever minion you want for protection, drink potions - and start fishing.
-- 06.1 - Keep the Piggy Bank open so you can immediately shift click the quest fish into it whenever you catch one. Also always keep the Sonar Potion buff up - this is just generally incredibly convenient and prevents you from getting a loaded inventory. You only want the quest item preferably.
07 - And then just keep fishing until the time is about 6-7 pm. Keep track of the time - either manually or you can have the Moon Charm accessory to give you the visual cue of turning into a werewolf when it becomes 7:30. At this point you should have been able to fill the entire Piggy Bank (40 items total) with quest items. If you fill the Piggy Bank before this time, that's just bonus time for the next step.
08 - Go back immediately (Magic Mirror or similar) and fill your inventory again with the quest items and transfer them over to an empty chest near the Angler. The quest items act a little weird though, as you cannot loot all the items simultaneously. You basically need to drag and drop them individually from the Piggy Bank to your inventory. For depositing them in the chest, you can luckily just deposit one and from then on just auto-stack to nearby chest when you don't have the chest open.
09 - First take one fish and complete the quest with the character you used to gather the quest items. Then exit the game quickly.
10 - Open up character 01 in the same world, get a quest item from the chest and turn it in and immediately exit (you don't have time to look at the rewards and put them in chests and stuff - as soon as you've clicked Quest on the Angler's screen you need to exit the game)
11 - Repeat step 10 until you have gone through all the 39 characters you prepared for this.

12 - Success, after doing this for 5 to 6 in-game days in a row you now have 200 completed quests.


Notes:
-If for some reason you get to 6 or 7 pm without a full Piggy Bank, you need to get back immediately anyway - you don't want to not have enough time during the night to turn in all the quest items you've fished up.
-It happens though, so you should estimate it to take about 6 in-game days instead of 5.
-Another thing that I happened upon while doing this - my game (as well as Steam entirely) seemed to crash pretty consistently after exiting and entering my world about 7 or 8 times. I don't know if this is something everyone is going to run into, but if you do it's not a big problem, just a hassle to have to reopen Steam and the game. I suggest making little rhymes or sentences for each time you load a new character to turn in the quest - in case the game crashes it's much easier to remember which one you got to that way.


I hope you can find this useful. I don't really know what the hell they thought when they made an achievement for doing 200 quests, it's by far the most grindy of them all. Weird. Anyway, happy super-fishing. It's really satisfying getting three or four quest items in a row :)
This is a great tip! I will be sure to try it out!
 
So you're spending your play time juggling 40 characters for several real-time hours for what -- an achievement meant to commemorate something you're not actually doing? Not to mention your rewards, should you bother to collect them from among all the characters, will all be "first few quests" rewards, instead of a single character working their way up to get all the various fishing gear and other real rewards (including Cell Phone components that you can't get anywhere else).

If you actually do the quests, the 200th quest will come in time (probably in Hardmode, and there's fishing stuff you can only get in Hardmode too), and you'll be able to pick up a lot of good loot from the actual fishing. To avoid having to fish every day, you can just save (say) 3 extra of the quest fish to turn them in immediately the next time he asks for that one, so once you build up a stock you'll only need to actually fish for them 25-30% of the time. (Set up one chest for each copy you're stashing.)
 
I'll open up for you even easier way: use player redactor, give a player every possible fish, save. Multiply savefile by 50 (or as much as you want), rename them and do it in 4 days. Or multiply by 200 and do it in 1 day. You can use Terrasaver: Terrasavr
Yes, it is cheating. But isn't any save manipulation a cheating anyway?
At this point why bother going into terraria at all? Just download Steam Achievement Manager and check the achievement yourself. Btw i'm joking using any third party program obviously ruins the achievement cheesing it true an ingame mechanic is better but still kinda dumb imo. I think the dumbest way of them all has to be yours tho you waste a lot of time even tho you're cheating with a third party program. So if you cheat atleast use SAM to do it in 15seconds.
 
At this point why bother going into terraria at all? Just download Steam Achievement Manager and check the achievement yourself. Btw i'm joking using any third party program obviously ruins the achievement cheesing it true an ingame mechanic is better but still kinda dumb imo. I think the dumbest way of them all has to be yours tho you waste a lot of time even tho you're cheating with a third party program. So if you cheat atleast use SAM to do it in 15seconds.

It is currently easier to find a quick way to complete angler's big quest, simply changing your character's name if the trick is not removed with update:
New 200 Angler Quests Guide (1.4.2)
I think it can have a measure of challenge or ease to complete this quest:

1. There are those who prefer to complete it with 0% cheat in the longer conventional way;

2. There are those who prefer a faster way without killing the quest through "achievements editor", in my case for example I usually repeat the game with the challenge of choosing a "class", resetting all achievements in the game files on each new main character, I've used the name change trick a lot.
I used to do this in the GOG version, I don't know if this is possible to reset the achievements only in the game without touching the steam achievements, I still haven't repeated the game in the steam version that I bought a little while ago because I started to be interested in steam achievements, I started to find Steam more satisfying than GOG;

3. And there are the others that kill the quest with some "achievements editor".
 
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I þink you can save time while fishiŋ by filliŋ your inventory wiþ someþiŋ stackable like arrows or copper coins so ðe quest fish never enter your inventory and you don't have to stop fishing to drop ðem in a chest. When night falls you can empty one inventory slot and quickly shift-click all your new quest fish into ðe piggy bank. Retrieving ðem is still slow because you have to drop each one on ðe floor so you can pick it up and put it in a chest like you did wiþ ðe piggy bank.
 
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