Ride A Fish Radar Guide: Basic vs Improved Radar and What They Do

A radar in Ride A Fish is equipment with one demonstrated job: it points you toward egg locations. Two radar items have been recorded in the game — Basic Radar (Radar Dasar), which you first receive during the tutorial at the purple Equipment Shop marked PERALATAN, and Improved Radar (Radar yang Disempurnakan), listed below it in the same shop. One recorded shop menu showed Basic Radar at 1,000 Coins and Improved Radar at 8,000 Coins, but that is a single snapshot, not a standing price list.

What gameplay footage actually verifies: activate a radar and follow the direction it indicates, and it leads you to eggs. What no reviewed footage shows: a detection radius, any boost to egg odds or rarity, or a measurable difference between the two tiers.

What a radar does in Ride A Fish

Eggs drive the game's loop — find one, carry it home before it hatches, and hatch it in your aquarium — and spotting them is genuinely hard. One player combed an underwater temple and found nothing ("It's so hard to find eggs"), and another decided mid-session that buying a radar was the fix ("I think we need to buy a radar... See, it's hard for us to find").

The radar answers exactly that problem, and only that problem. Players who switch one on describe it as giving clues that "can lead directly to this egg". It does not make your fish faster, and it does not extend the timer that starts once you grab an egg — if you keep losing eggs on the way home, that is a transport problem, not a radar problem.

Basic Radar and Improved Radar

Both recorded radar items come from the same equipment stall: PERALATAN (Toko Peralatan), the purple shop the tutorial sends you to. The seller there deals only in radars.

A few details on those rows matter before you spend:

• The tutorial's Basic Radar is free in the recording — the narrator picks it up "for free" and it appears in the hotbar. That is one observed instance, not a rule: later in the very same session, the shop lists Basic Radar at 1,000 Coins.
• The recorded Basic Radar row shows a small "5 min - 1 use" label, implying a radar has limited uses, plus a "Click to see Egg chance" control whose expanded contents the recordings never show.
• Every price, stock count and label above is one menu snapshot. Stock was visibly finite (three and two units), and the menu includes a restock button and an auto-purchase toggle whose behavior the recordings don't demonstrate — so read your live menu before buying.
• Stream players also mention other radar tiers such as "elite" and "legendary", but no reviewed footage shows those tiers in a clean menu capture, so this guide sticks to the two recorded rows.

How to get and equip a radar

1. Check your hotbar first. The tutorial hands you a Basic Radar and it appears directly in the hotbar — if you've finished the intro, you may already own one without realizing it.
2. Buy from the PERALATAN Equipment Shop if you need more. Read the current price, stock count and the small duration/use label before spending. The recorded rows were 1,000 and 8,000 Coins, but those are snapshots, not quotes.
3. Use it from the hotbar. The recorded radar is carried as a hotbar item, and that slot is how it is equipped and activated — one player buys one and immediately says, "Let's try it out. We'll use the radar."

Video walkthrough: Watch the tutorial Basic Radar pickup at the Equipment Shop. The player starts at 2:55 in the original recording.

Watch this segment on YouTube from 2:55.

Using a radar to find eggs

1. Activate the radar while you are out hunting.
2. Follow the indicated direction. Players describe the radar as giving clues that point straight at an egg, and in the recordings they simply swim the indicated way until the egg is in sight.
3. Judge the trip before committing. A radar can point at an egg you cannot reach in time — one player with a weak fish gave up on a far target ("It's pointless, guys, to get a good one when our fish is still weak"). Your riding fish's speed decides whether the trip pays off, so upgrade it if the radar keeps pointing too far.
4. Grab the egg and head home. Success looks like reaching the indicated egg and picking it up; from that moment the return timer takes over, as covered in how to deliver eggs and the egg break timer.

The recorded outcomes show both the payoff and the judgment call: one player used the radar to locate a 60-million-value egg and chose to skip it, while another followed a radar to a distant lava area, grabbed the farthest Eternal egg they had ever seen, and made it home with it.

Verified effects versus unknown range and odds

What gameplay footage verifies:

• An activated radar points toward egg locations, and players following it reach eggs — including a 60-million-value egg and a distant Eternal egg.
• Uses are limited: the recorded Basic Radar row carries a "5 min - 1 use" label.

What no reviewed footage establishes:

• A detection radius or any range number for either radar.
• Any change to egg odds or rarity. A player found a valuable egg while a radar was active, but that is a single anecdote — it does not show the radar changed anything.
• What "Click to see Egg chance" actually displays. Treat it as a prompt to read the current in-game explanation, not as proof that a pricier radar guarantees a rare egg.
• Any difference between Basic and Improved Radar in range, duration, number of uses or results.

The bottom line: if finding eggs is what is slowing you down, a radar is the fix the footage supports — the tutorial gives you your first one free, and players in the recordings bought radars specifically because eggs were hard to find. Just make sure your fish can cover the distance before the timer runs out, and trust your live menu over any fixed price. For current stock and price observations, check the Equipment Shop page.