◆ Outer Banks · Customer favorite

Bunyip Favorite Fish — What to Serve in Scale the Depths

Bunyip pays its best tip for Black Sea Bass — here is exactly when to save that catch, what to avoid, and how the base and variant payouts compare.

▶ TL;DR

Serve Bunyip Black Sea Bass for its favorite tip (up to 965 coins total). Avoid Hogfish.

Outer Banks
Bunyip
Favorite
Black Sea Bass
Avoid
Hogfish
Max payout
965 coins

◇ How to serve Bunyip

Bunyip appears in Outer Banks and pays a favorite tip for Black Sea Bass. Black Sea Bass is Bunyip's signature — no other customer treats it as a favorite, so any Black Sea Bass you land has exactly one ideal buyer.

There are two versions of Bunyip. The base pays up to 643 (515 base + 128 tip); the rarer variant pays up to 965, a 322-coin jump for the same fish. A variant of Bunyip is always worth serving over the base when both are on screen — same catch, bigger payout.

Keep Hogfish away from Bunyip — it is the one fish that lowers its payout. Everything else is fair game as long as it fills the hunger of 840.

◇ Where to catch Bunyip’s favorite

Black Sea Bass is caught in Outer Banks — the same world where you meet Bunyip, so you can serve it fresh without backtracking. It has 60 health and a feed value of 150. Scale it cleanly to clear Bunyip’s favorite threshold and bank the 128-coin tip.

Full stats for every catch are in the fish almanac.

✓ Tips

  • If you can already satisfy Bunyip, its variant is free extra income — the favorite and dislike lists are identical, only the numbers scale up.
  • Keep the fish quality high: the 128-coin tip only lands if Black Sea Bass clears Bunyip's favorite threshold, so clean scaling matters more than speed here.

? Frequently asked

What is Bunyip's favorite fish in Scale the Depths?

Bunyip's favorite fish is Black Sea Bass. Serving it at a high enough scaling quality adds a 128-coin tip on top of the 515 base payment.

What fish does Bunyip dislike?

Bunyip dislikes Hogfish. Serving any of these lowers the payout, so keep them for a customer who wants them instead.

How much does Bunyip pay in Scale the Depths?

The base Bunyip pays up to 643 coins and its rarer variant pays up to 965. Both share the same favorite and dislike lists.

▶ Put it into practice

Keep the full customer matchmaker open while you play, then match Bunyip to the right catch and bank the tip. Scale the Depths runs free in your browser.

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