Pao Pao Side Quests: Fishy Business, Putting Down Roots and Legend Reborn

Pao Pao’s side quests branch off the start of the main story, and each one doubles as a lesson in one of the game’s big activities: Croc teaches you to fish, Haze teaches you to garden, and Nancy turns your restaurant stars into a long-term goal. All three open within your first few days, so you can work on them while you follow the main story walkthrough.

Quest List

How It Starts is the main story moment that hands you the quest, and Reward is what you get for finishing it.

Fishy Business

Croc hands you his fishing guidebook when you deliver Nancy’s letter in The Fastest Mail in Town, and that starts this quest. If you somehow skip it, choose Fishy Business in Croc’s menu any time after that quest. He gives you the guidebook and a Beginner’s Fishing Rod if you don’t already have one.

1. Reach the pier. Walk down to the pier at the City port.
2. Read the fishing guide. Follow the quest marker to Croc’s fishing guide board and read it. It sums up his advice: stand steady, reel in smoothly, level the fish out when it pulls sideways, and ease off before the line snaps.
3. Read the sign by the bay. Every body of water has a sign showing what lives there. Follow the marker to the one by the City bay and read it.
4. Get in the boat. Climb into a boat.
5. Take the fishing rod out of the tool wheel. Open the tool wheel and equip your fishing rod.
6. Catch a fish. Catch 5 fish of any kind. The fishing guide explains the reeling minigame, and its zone tables show what bites in each spot.
7. Tell Croc about your catch. Choose Fishy Business in Croc’s menu. Half the town watched you fish, and Croc declares you the town’s new skipper. Finishing the quest gets you 5 Catfish Delight and 5 Salmon Lure, two of the species baits in the fishing guide.

Putting Down Roots

Haze’s letter A Little Secret arrives two days after you earn your first restaurant star. Open it to start the quest and collect 5 Simple Garden Beds and 25 Carrot Seeds, which is everything you need except the tools. Haze’s instructions in the quest journal are simple: set up garden beds at your house, dig them with a shovel, plant the seeds and water them with a watering can.

1. Place garden beds and plant carrots. Place the beds at your house in the Outskirts, dig each one and plant 5 Carrot Seeds. If you don’t have the tools yet, the Tool Shop sells a Shovel and a Watering Can for 250 coins each (see the tools guide).
2. Water the garden beds. Water 5 beds.
3. Harvest carrots. Harvest 10 Carrots. Carrots take 3 days and give 3 to 5 each, so five beds always produce at least 10 in a single harvest.

Finishing the quest gets you 5 Potato Seeds and 5 Chili Pepper Seeds.

Water the beds every day until the carrots are ready, because a growing plant that stays dry dies. Carrots don’t grow in Winter, so plant them in Spring, Summer or Autumn, and finish before Winter starts. The farming guide covers watering, seasons and what to plant next, and the leftover 20 carrot seeds plus Haze’s new seeds are a good start on your next crops.

Legend Reborn

The Guild’s letter First Star! starts this quest when you read it after earning your first star.

1. Talk to Nancy. Choose Legend Reborn at the post office. She explains that every star brings more tourists, and with them more shops, residents and jobs. Her advice is to get the restaurant to at least 6 stars.
2. Get 6 stars from the Guild of Restaurateurs. Keep earning stars. The restaurant stars guide lists what each star needs.
3. Talk to Nancy. Choose Legend Reborn again. She looks back at everything that changed since you arrived, from the cleared roads to the reopened library and arcade, and reminds you that 6 stars isn’t the limit. Finishing the quest pays 1,000 coins.

If you talk to Nancy between those two conversations, she just mentions how much more mail the post office handles now that tourists are coming back.