Last checked: August 18, 2026
Fisch Update [Halibut Harpoon] – Patch Notes & What's Next
· August 18 — published;
CollectMyPufferfish dead· August 16 — livepatch 1.97.0.4 eased Dr. Monty's quest 3
· August 15 — patch live, 16:00 UTC
The current Fisch patch is version 1.97.0, Halibut Harpoon, live August 15, 2026 at 16:00 UTC. It's a small one: a point release on The Deep, built around one hybrid rod, one NPC questline and a code that lasted a day.
What's new in the Halibut Harpoon update
Size first, because it changes how you read this. The official wiki logs it as 1.97.0, a point release. The previous drop, The Deep (1.96.0, August 8), added a location, three sub-locations and 61 fish; Halibut Harpoon added one sub-location, Monty's Lab, and no fish.
The headline item is the Halibut Harpoon, a rod that converts into a harpoon gun with Q. You earn it by finishing Dr. Monty's questline at Monty's Lab in The Deep, and the gate is brutal: level 1000 to start, 50,000,000 C$ for the rod. It carries 288% Luck, 132% Lure Speed and no weight cap, and fishes lava, brine and noxious pools.
The passive minigame is genuinely new. On reel-in, 15 to 35 harpoons home toward random spots on the bar, and another volley fires every five seconds. Each one that lands adds +1% Progress; land 15 and the catch's final weight is multiplied by 1.7×.
Elsewhere: two more rods (Darkheart, Sword of Light), the Plaguereaver mastery, seven mutations, 15 skins. Seraphic Rod's Luck went 150 to 225, Entrenched 6× to 4×, Bioluminescent 4× to 6×. The Chapel and five NPCs were removed.
What this means for players
Below level 1000 the new rod isn't on your menu, so this lands as a balance and cosmetics patch. Where it ranks against the rest of the roster is a longer argument — see our Fisch tier list and the Fisch Robux guide.
The Developer Gift was the part everyone else got, and its window has closed. The wiki calls it an apology for The Deep's poor launch, claimable only between August 15 and 17, 2026. It carried the Darkheart rod, five relics and a stack of cosmetics.
Fisch itself is healthy: a median of roughly 79,400 concurrent players across eight readings between August 16 and 18, 2026 (live count 56,408 on August 18), 4.78 billion visits, 3,574,359 favourites, a 90.6% like ratio, servers capped at 20. More on the Fisch hub.
Codes with this update
One code shipped with the patch, CollectMyPufferfish, and it has already expired. The wiki dates it added August 15 and expiring August 16, 2026 at 16:00 UTC — about 24 hours, level 25 required. That's the pattern: TheDeepIsVeryDeep ran August 8 to 9, HarpoonGunsAreAwesome August 1 to 2, both closing at 16:00 UTC. Miss launch day, miss the code. Full table on our Fisch codes page, method on how we verify codes.
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Update history
- August 15, 2026 — Halibut Harpoon (1.97.0): the rod-and-gun hybrid from Dr. Monty's questline, plus Darkheart, Sword of Light, the Plaguereaver mastery, 15 skins and the Developer Gift. Code:
CollectMyPufferfish, now expired. - August 8, 2026 — The Deep (1.96.0): the big one. A new main location plus Gloomy Crevice, Lower Deep and Outer Deep, 61 new fish, four rods, four harpoon guns, three spears, the Monstrous Cusk Hunt. Code:
TheDeepIsVeryDeep.
What's next for Fisch?
Two dated items sit on the Fisching group's own Roblox event listing, re-checked August 18. Astral Observatory, subtitled "The Fishing Anomalies...", starts August 22, 2026 at 16:00 UTC, with no description published. Skycrest follows September 5, 2026 at 16:00 UTC as a new location: an island below Fischfest is rising, and the listing says to "Swim up to Skycrest Island and discover everything there is to find!"
Fischfest, running since June 20, 2026 at 16:00 UTC, is still active. Nothing past Skycrest is dated. Watch the Roblox game page — we track patches the same way for Steal a Brainrot and Grow a Garden.
How we sourced this
Patch notes come from the official Fisch wiki's 1.97 changelog (last edited August 17, 2026 at 10:42 UTC) plus its Codes, Dr. Monty and Developer Gift entries. Stats came from Roblox's games API on August 18, 2026, the dates from the group's event listing.
Two repeated claims failed the check: a "Stabilizer Chip" said to stop you sinking is really a Deep-era Survey Device module giving +15% Resilience to harpoon guns (the one that holds your depth is the Buoyancy Chip), and a "Double Luck Weekend" is single-sourced, undated and uncorroborated.
Frequently Asked Questions
Version 1.97.0, Halibut Harpoon, live August 15, 2026 at 16:00 UTC. A small point release on The Deep: one hybrid rod from Dr. Monty's questline, two other rods, a new mastery, 15 skins and balance changes.
Finish Dr. Monty's questline. He stands in Monty's Lab inside The Deep, and the wiki lists a level 1000 requirement to start. The rod is listed at 50,000,000 C$.
No. The official wiki dates it added August 15, 2026 and expiring August 16 at 16:00 UTC, so it was dead before August 18. Fisch launch codes run about 24 hours.
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