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Net A Fish Rebirth: Requirements, Resets and Unlocks
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Rebirth increases your permanent Showcase income multiplier and unlocks new progression options. Before advancing, meet the next rank’s fish and cash requirements and decide whether to spend surplus cash on equipment you will keep.
Rebirth Requirements and Rewards by Rank
Rebirth checks all-time fish caught and cash currently held separately. Both must show DONE before you can advance. The fish target is cumulative, rather than a fresh batch of catches required after each promotion.
Your first Rebirth, Deckhand, requires 8 fish and $1,500. It raises the permanent Showcase income multiplier from ×1 to ×1.25, awards the Driftwood base and Deckhand title, increases Showcases from five to six, and unlocks Boat access and Treasure Diver.
Each Rebirth awards 3 Skill Points. The Showcase multiplier listed for a rank is the resulting multiplier, not an additional multiplier to stack on top of the previous rank. Base rewards change your dock’s appearance, while title rewards can appear above your character and base.
Fish targets written with K retain the menu’s abbreviated precision. Use the requirement’s DONE indicator to determine completion near an abbreviated target.
What Resets and What You Keep
| Progress | After Rebirth |
|---|---|
| Cash | Resets to $0, including cash above the requirement |
| Fish, Cooler and Showcase | Kept |
| Nets and Upgrades | Kept, including purchased Fishing and Market upgrades |
| Journal | Kept |
| Pearls | Do not reset |
| Charms | Kept with their bonuses |
| Rebirth rewards and skill bonuses | Permanent |
Your retained fish and Showcases let you rebuild cash with the new rank’s Showcase income multiplier. You do not need to replace your collection or repurchase your existing net to resume earning.
Prepare Your Cash and Confirm Rebirth
- Open Rebirth from the left-side menu. Check the next rank’s fish target, cash target and rewards.
- Finish any remaining requirement. At 42/48 fish for Angler, you still need six catches even if the $30,000 cash target is complete. At 198/240 fish for Netcaster, you need 42 more.
- Consider spending surplus cash on useful permanent equipment. A better net or a relevant upgrade survives Rebirth. Keep enough cash to meet the promotion requirement afterward; if a purchase takes you below it, earn and collect the difference before continuing. The menu’s suggested net purchase is optional, not an extra Rebirth requirement. Compare net purchases and Fishing upgrade priorities to choose something that helps your current bottleneck.
- Check that both requirements show DONE. Press REBIRTH once. When the button changes to TAP AGAIN TO CONFIRM, press it again to complete the promotion.
- Open SKILL TREE from the Rebirth window. Spend your three new points using the Skill Tree and build guide to match your next goal.
Why Rebirth is unavailable
Completing either requirement alone is insufficient. If the fish bar is short, continue catching fish. If the money bar is short, improve and collect Showcase income. For example, Storm Chaser still requires more cash when fish progress is 3.2K/2.9K but held cash is $5.01B/$21.88B.
For exact fish counts, subtract your all-time catches from the target to find the remaining catches, stopping at zero. For cash, subtract your current balance from the required amount and recalculate after purchases. Lifetime earnings do not replace the held-cash requirement.
Once both conditions are complete and you have considered useful purchases, advancing gives you the permanent income increase and Skill Points sooner. Waiting makes sense when it lets you secure a useful retained upgrade before the cash reset.
Choose the Next Progression Milestone
Choose a milestone that removes your current limit or opens the activity you want to use:
- Rebirth 1 — Boat access: Start working toward boats and automatic trawling.
- Rebirth 2 — Crew creation: Reach Angler to unlock the CREATE option for your own Crew. This is the creation requirement.
- Rebirth 5 — Trading: Unlock player fish trading. Trading partners must also meet the eligibility rules, including a maximum difference of three Rebirths; see Trading requirements.
- Rebirth 6 — Jungle Swamp: Captain unlocks Chapter 2’s personal river environment.
- Rebirth 8 — Higher upgrade levels: Deep Diver opens levels 11–20 for Longer Soak, Lucky Bait, Net Weaver, Giant Bait and Double Haul, and unlocks Bait Saver. If these upgrades are stopped at level 10, Rebirth is the next progression step before buying more levels. See Fishing upgrades for their effects and purchase priorities.
- Rebirth 11 — Frozen Glacier: Stargazer unlocks Chapter 3’s personal river environment and Rare Twins.
- Later ranks — Net requirements: Aurora Warden at Rebirth 16 meets Apogee Net’s rank requirement; Sun Sovereign at 18 meets Infinity Net’s; Boundless Legend at 20 meets Umbra Net’s. Reaching the rank does not buy the net: you still need the required cash and preceding net purchases. Use the net catalog to plan that chain.
Jungle Swamp and Frozen Glacier change the surroundings of your river; each player sees their own world theme. After a chapter unlock prompts you to open the Cooler, use Skins to access world-theme selection. See locations and world unlocks for more detail.
If catches are holding you back, keep fishing while improving equipment that will carry forward. If cash is holding you back, focus on stronger Showcase income. Use your permanent Skill Tree bonuses to support that goal, and visit the titles guide to equip an unlocked title.
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