Fishing huts are a type of small structure found on frozen lakes and coasts. While they can be found in many regions, they are especially abundant in Mystery Lake and Coastal Highway.
Overview[]
Fishing huts are sheds placed on a frozen lake or ocean to provide shelter during ice fishing.
Fishing huts have an ice fishing hole, which can be used after breaking the ice cover of it with a hatchet, hunting knife, prybar, or heavy hammer. Other furniture includes a pot belly stove, cupboard, drawer and two shelves. There is enough space to place a bedroll or a bearskin bedroll.
Most fishing huts lack doors, but animals, to include wolves and bears, do not enter them. Fishing huts with doors will also keep out bears and wolves when closed. However, even with the door closed, animals can still sense the player's presence, and may awaken the player if they attempt to sleep. The player can try going to sleep again, but if a hostile animal is still nearby, there is a chance the player will be awoken again. If the player is unexpectedly awoken by a hostile animal, the game will register this as an interrupted sleep and will not save.
Note that fishing huts with door give a +3ºC warmth bonus (it doesn't matter whether the door is open or not).
Common items to find inside the hut are: fishing tackle, hook, food and some wood like cedar firewood or reclaimed wood. Rarely, the player may find a hatchet, hunting knife, or rifle ammunition.
As the interior of fishing huts technically counts as outside, they make excellent shelters when trying for the Night Walker and Beneath a Starry Sky achievements, as well as warding off Cabin Fever.
Sleeping in a bedroll without a fire might lead to hypothermia and death.
Locations[]
The map with the most fishing huts is Coastal Highway, with a total of nine huts scattered across the frozen bay. Mystery Lake also hosts four fishing huts on its namesake lake. Additionally, Forsaken Airfield and Bleak Inlet have two huts each, with Bleak Inlet's huts being near the Fallen Lighthouse and Forsaken Airfield having huts near Drift Island. Finally, Timberwolf Mountain, Keeper's Pass South, Pleasant Valley, and Ash Canyon each have one hut, located on Crystal Lake, a frozen river, Pensive Pond, and Bitter Marsh respectively. Ash Canyon's hut is unique in that it is ruined, but the Pot belly stove can still be used for warmth.
Locations that don't have any fishing huts include Blackrock, Broken Railroad, Desolation Point, Forlorn Muskeg, Hushed River Valley, and Mountain Town, although it's possible to fish in most regions using a free-form fishing hole.