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Yellow Boxfish — How to Fish

Desert Island · Fish

Yellow Boxfish: location, bait and collection notes

Yellow Boxfish is a Standard Lure catch on Desert Island with a recorded 53-coin base. Compare it with Sea Urchin while keeping their creature categories separate.

Island reference
Desert Island
Tool
Fishing Rod
Bait or encounter
Standard Lure
Recorded raw base
53 coins
Entry type
Fish · not a boss

Entity facts retain the guide’s Patch 1.0.10 snapshot (2026-08-28); the newly written notes are not a current-build playtest. Fixed values are raw bases, not guaranteed sale offers. Patch 1.1.3 adds bait display after a first kill in Fishipedia; use your current game to check a returning catch.

Check the exact Desert entry

Yellow Boxfish is listed as a fish caught with the Fishing Rod and Standard Lure on Desert Island. The two-word name matters when you compare your catch list with the guide.

Sea Urchin also comes from the Standard Lure setup, despite belonging to the Special category. The lure pool crosses those categories; a non-fish result does not mean you changed to the wrong bait.

A small value difference

The recorded base is 53 coins, only 1 more than Sea Urchin’s 52. Catfish and Clownfish are both 46, while Angelfish and Bluegill are 62.

Use those figures to compare catches already in hand. Without encounter probabilities, the narrow price gaps do not justify a precise farming-rate claim.

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