In Animal Crossing: New Horizons, you can cook the dread sea bass

You can’t eat fish. Animal Crossing – New HorizonsThe sea bass is a notorious fish. Here’s how it usually goes: OMG! There’s a huge fish swimming in the water. I hope it’s a shark! It’s never a shark. It’s always sea bass, with the same goddamn pun — yeah, yeah … it’s at least a C+. Things are slowly changing.

The days when you could only dream of a mod to rid the sea bass of their ocean are gone. There’s finally a use for them, introduced as part of the New HorizonsThe 2.0 update was released early Wednesday morning, before the Nov. 5 release date. Quickly, players discovered that sea bass can actually be cooked. New Horizons’ new cooking feature: Grilled sea bass, anyone?

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So far, I’ve unlocked two recipes for sea bass. One is sea bass grilled with herbs. I got the herbs from my island. Sea bass pie is the second. It was unlocked when I caught my first sea bass. There are many other options, just like me. New HorizonsIt is a delight for the players.