Part 1 of Spear Fishing’s Christmas Event adds a seasonal currency, a rotating Christmas Climate, and a small event shop built around one core loop: catch holiday-mutated fish, sell them, and turn the proceeds into Santa Hats for limited-time rewards.
What the Christmas Event changes in Spear Fishing
The Christmas Event is a limited-time run that lasts 21 days. During that window, you can collect Santa Hats and trade them in for event shop items, including coin bundles, gem bundles, bait, and the Christmas Trident.
Logging in each day during the event also grants one free Christmas Gift per day for the full 21-day span. Those gifts can include Coins, Gems, Bait, and other materials.
Santa Hats: the event currency and how you earn it
Santa Hats are the event’s primary currency, and the game pushes you toward holiday-mutated fish as the most direct way to earn them.
- Catching Christmas-mutated fish awards Santa Hats. These fish are visually marked by wearing a Santa Hat and dropping candy canes.
- Selling Christmas-mutated fish awards additional Santa Hats alongside Coins, so the same fish effectively pays twice.
There’s also a daily earning cap: you can earn up to 2,500 Santa Hats per day. That limit shapes the pace of the grind, especially for the top-tier shop item.
Christmas Event Shop rewards and prices
| Item | Cost (Santa Hats) |
|---|---|
| 2,000 Coins | 500 |
| 10 Gems | 750 |
| Aromatic Bait | 1,000 |
| Christmas Trident | 25,000 |
The numbers make the intent clear. If you’re targeting the Christmas Trident, the 2,500-per-day cap means a minimum of 10 days of capped earnings to reach 25,000 Santa Hats.
Where Christmas-mutated fish spawn (and where they don’t)
Christmas-mutated fish can spawn in three locations:
- Rushing Stream
- Island Center Lake
- Submerged Pool
They do not spawn at the Beginner River, so players who stay parked in the starting zone will miss the main event loop entirely.
How the Christmas Climate affects spawns
Christmas-mutated fish can appear in any Climate, but their spawn rate increases when the Christmas Climate is active. Like other climates in Spear Fishing, it appears randomly and runs for 10 minutes.
If you’re trying to maximize Santa Hats within the daily limit, the practical implication is simple: when the Christmas Climate hits, it’s worth relocating to an eligible zone and focusing on volume while the spawn odds are tilted in your favor.
Christmas-mutated fish list and spawn locations
| Fish | Spawn Location |
|---|---|
| Christmas Rock Bass | Rushing Stream |
| Christmas Catfish | Rushing Stream |
| Christmas Rainbow Carp | Island Center Lake |
| Christmas Mustache Fish | Island Center Lake |
| Christmas Flounder | Island Center Lake |
| Christmas Frog | Island Center Lake |
| Christmas Lobster | Island Center Lake |
| Christmas Crocodile | Island Center Lake |
| Christmas Turtle | Island Center Lake |
| Christmas Shark | Submerged Pond |
| Christmas Sperm Whale | Island Center Lake |
How the Christmas Sperm Whale works
The Christmas Sperm Whale is currently positioned as the rarest fish in the game, with Divine rarity. It’s tied to a boss encounter rather than normal fishing: the Sperm Whale boss spawns every 8 minutes, and the Christmas Sperm Whale is obtained by defeating it.
It’s also tuned as a group challenge. The boss has 75M health, and the fight is described as difficult. In practice, this is the event’s high-end time sink, especially for newer players.
Christmas mutations and the Christmas Skin
Christmas-mutated fish can roll additional mutations from the wider game. When a Christmas-mutated fish also has other mutations, collecting it can award Gems in addition to the usual event currency.
There’s also a Christmas Skin you can obtain at Island Centre Lake and apply to a Harpoon or Speargun. It increases weapon damage and crit chance, making it a straightforward performance upgrade rather than a cosmetic-only unlock.
The event is built around predictable constraints: a 21-day window, a daily gift cadence, and a hard daily cap on the currency required for the headline weapon. If you plan around those limits and fish in the right zones during the Christmas Climate, the grind becomes less about luck and more about time management.
