Fishies 0.8.1

field-guide/en-GB/world/open-water.md

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+# Open Water
+
+_Swim out as one of your fish and meet other keepers._
+
+## A sea you share
+
+Open Water is a shared place where you swim as one of your own fish and meet other keepers in real time. Back home, your aquarium stays safe and keeps growing.
+
+It's still in beta, and more places will open as the reef grows.
+
+## The ocean map
+
+The Map opens on a painted ocean map. Home marks your own aquarium, the Kelp Forest and the Shipwreck take you out to Open Water, and the [Coral Neighbourhood](https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/explore) opens other keepers' homes.
+
+Places that only carry a name are still uncharted.
+
+## Diving in
+
+Open the Map, choose a place and pick the fish you'd like to swim as. Until you've hatched a fish of your own, you swim as a Clownfish. You'll need a username before you travel.
+
+## Places
+
+There are 2 places to swim, each with room for 12 keepers at a time. When one fills up, another copy of it opens beside it.
+
+- Kelp Garden · a coral garden that runs into a kelp forest, several screens wide.
+- Shipwreck · an old ship asleep on its side in the sand, its lanterns still lit. It's a little deeper and darker than the garden, and you can swim through its ribs.
+
+## Swimming place to place
+
+Out in one place, every other place is a swim away: open the Map in the corner and pick it, and you travel there with the same fish. Home on the same map swims you back. Your aquarium stays safe and keeps growing while you're out.
+
+## Getting around
+
+On a phone, turn your device sideways to swim.
+
+- Tap or click the water to swim there.
+- Hold and drag to steer.
+- Arrow keys or WASD work too, and Esc stops.
+
+## Saying hello
+
+Chat with everyone in the same place, or use one of 8 emotes, like a wave or a heart. If you don't move for 5 minutes, you drift back home.
+
+Tap another keeper's fish to open their card, where you can visit their aquarium, whisper or follow. Tap your own fish to see your own card.
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+In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/open-water · Fishies 0.8.1
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+This page is generated. Its text lives in [`locales/en-GB.json`](../../../locales/en-GB.json) under `wiki.topics.open-water`; correct it there.