Fisch Crowbar Rod Guide: Doug’s Quest, Full Stats, the 9.088x Contraband Passive & Why It’s Secretly a Stage 10 Grind (July 29, 2026)

Last Verified: July 29, 2026. Every stat, quest step, and passive number below is pulled straight from the official Fisch Fandom wiki — the Crowbar page for the rod itself, The Laboratory page for the location, and the individual Glass Diamond, Scrap Metal, and Olympian Godbreaker pages for every prerequisite in Doug’s quest. Nothing here is a leak. If it is not wiki-confirmed, it is not in this guide.

Getting the Crowbar looks like the easiest quest in Fisch. Doug is standing on a light house at The Laboratory, hands you a shopping list, and says "bring me some gems and some scrap metal." That is the trap.

Two of the five items on that shopping list gate you behind a full Stage 10 endgame rod. The Crowbar itself sits at Stage 10. And the payoff — a rod with a 50% chance to roll Contraband at 9.088x value on every fish — is one of the best cash-grinding passives in the game right now. Here is the full breakdown, one wiki-cited stat at a time.

TL;DR — What Crowbar Actually Is

• Rod stage: Stage 10 — not because Doug’s quest itself is hard, but because Gravitas Scrap Metal requires the Olympian Godbreaker to farm.
• Where: Doug’s quest is picked up near one of the light houses at The Laboratory, the oil rig off Roslit Bay.
• Stats: Luck 245%, Lure Speed 85%, Control 0.15, Resilience 35%, Max kg: Infinity, +40% Progress Speed, +3 Disturbance.
• Passive #1: At the start of the fishing minigame, a Crowbar appears and smashes the bar — granting two lots of 5% and one lot of 15% free progress. That is up to 25% of a bar handed to you before you press a button.
• Passive #2: 10% chance to roll Counterfeit (8x value multiplier) on every catch.
• Passive #3: 50% chance to roll Contraband (9.088x value multiplier) on every catch.
• Quest checklist: 1 Mythical Glass Diamond returned, 1 Opal, 1 Ruby, 3 Amethyst delivered to Doug, plus 2 Gravitas Scrap Metal returned. The gems are all Meteor drops; the Gravitas Scrap Metal is the real wall.

Full Stat Block

Straight off the Crowbar wiki infobox — no rounding, no interpretation:

For scale: Olympian Godbreaker — the endgame rod you literally use to farm this quest — runs 265% Luck, 98.1% Lure Speed, 0.18 Control, and 19.81% Resilience with +35% Progress Speed. Crowbar trades some Luck and Lure Speed for a chunkier Resilience number and a slightly higher Progress Speed passive, then makes up the rest with its mutation rolls.

Where to Find Doug

Location: The Laboratory. That is the oil rig sitting near Roslit Bay at coordinates -1785, 130, -485, added way back in version 1.21.0. If you have never been up there before: climb the rope near the Shipwright to reach the top of the rig.

Doug is not the same NPC as Dr. Crookspine, so do not get them confused. Dr. Crookspine sits inside his lab at the top of the rig and hands out the Glimmersuit Boots quest — three Exotic fish, cross-region, no rod required. Doug is stationed near one of the light houses at The Laboratory, and his quest is the one that ends in a Stage 10 rod.

Practical tip: the Shipwright rope is the only fast way up the first time. After that, the oil rig’s outer platforms let you cut around without re-climbing. If you have never been to Roslit Bay, you need to work your way there through the mainland questlines first — The Laboratory is near Roslit Bay, not somewhere you can teleport to blind.

Doug’s Quest — Every Step, In Order

Five items. That is the whole checklist. Two are Gemstones, one is a Mythical fish, and two are a specific-mutation Trash catch. In wiki order:

1. Catch and return 1 Mythical Glass Diamond. Found in Overgrowth Caves, the second section of Northern Summit — also catchable in the lower parts of Frigid Cavern. C$/kg = 300, average kg = 4, so a clean one runs roughly C$1,200 raw. The wiki explicitly notes that despite being Mythical, it "moves slow and steady across the fishing bar," so it is one of the easier Mythicals to actually land.
2. Obtain 1 Opal for Doug. Gemstone-rarity Meteor drop, tagged to Ancient Isle in the bestiary. If you have been fishing for meteor rewards at all, you likely already have one banked.
3. Obtain 1 Ruby for Doug. Another Gemstone Meteor drop from the Ancient Isle region. Meteoriticist flavor text ties it to Roslit Volcano.
4. Obtain 3 Amethyst for Doug. Third Gemstone Meteor drop. Amethyst is the most common of the three, so requiring three of them still lands well inside "a couple of meteor storms."
5. Catch and return 2 Gravitas Scrap Metal. This is the entire quest. Everything above is a rounding error compared to this step.

Scrap Metal itself is Trash rarity and can be fished up anywhere — regionless, day or night, no bait needed, no weather requirement. Cheap catch, cheap sale (about C$8.09 per kg). What makes step 5 hard is not Scrap Metal. It is Gravitas.

The Stage 10 Trap — Why Gravitas Scrap Metal Is the Whole Quest

Gravitas is a value-multiplier mutation with an extremely narrow source list. Per the Crowbar wiki page, itself: "the Crowbar is a stage 10 rod because it requires 2 Gravitas Scrap Metal, which requires the Olympian Godbreaker, a stage 10 rod itself."

Read that again. The wiki is straight-up telling you the rod is classified Stage 10 because of the quest ingredient, not because of Doug’s dialogue.

Cross-check on the Olympian Godbreaker page: the Godbreaker’s first passive is "30% chance for Gravitas (9.81x)" on every catch. That is the roll you are trying to trigger onto a piece of Trash-rarity Scrap Metal. Since Scrap Metal is regionless and the Godbreaker’s Gravitas roll fires on every catch, the process looks like this:

1. Buy or grind out the Olympian Godbreaker (C$50,000,000 at Olympian Fissure, gated behind 100% bestiary on six areas plus catching the Olympian Devil secret).
2. Equip it and go fish Scrap Metal anywhere.
3. Each catch, you get a ~30% shot at Gravitas rolling.
4. Bank 2 Gravitas Scrap Metal.
5. Hand them to Doug.

If you already have Godbreaker, expect this to take a session. If you do not, the "quest" is actually the entire endgame path up to and including buying Godbreaker. That is why every guide, tier list, and Discord thread refers to Crowbar as a Stage 10 unlock rather than a mid-game quest reward.

The Passives — Smash, Counterfeit, and the 9.088x Contraband Roll

Crowbar carries three separate passives, and the wiki spells all three out on the rod page. This is the part that makes the grind worth it.

1. The Minigame Smash

"At the start of the minigame, a Crowbar will appear and start smashing around, granting the player two lots of 5% progress and one lot of 15% progress."

Do the math: that is 25% of the progress bar handed to you before you even start reeling, if all three smashes connect. Even in the worst case — if only the 15% lot lands cleanly — you are still starting the minigame 15% ahead. On tough progress-locked catches, that opening buffer is what turns a fail into a Perfect.

2. Counterfeit — 10% chance, 8x value

Straight from the wiki: "10% chance for Counterfeit (8x)." Every catch has a flat 10% shot at rolling the Counterfeit mutation on top, multiplying the sale price of that fish by 8. On a Trash catch that is nothing. On a Legendary or higher, this passive alone can pay for a session.

3. Contraband — 50% chance, 9.088x value

The headliner: "50% chance for Contraband (9.088x)." Half of your catches will roll Contraband. Contraband multiplies sale value by 9.088x. Not 9x rounded — 9.088x specifically, per the exact value listed on the rod page.

Stacking these matters. Because Counterfeit and Contraband are independent rolls per the passive block, you can (and will) end up with both firing on the same fish. The rod is currently one of the best pure C$-per-hour setups in the game specifically because of that math.

Is Crowbar Worth It Over Olympian Godbreaker?

Short answer: they are different tools, and you want both.

Olympian Godbreaker pulls ahead on raw stats (265% Luck, 98.1% Lure Speed) and has a Cragged/Gravitas value passive of its own plus a black-hole style third passive that hands you extra fish on Starcaller procs. That makes it the go-to for grinding areas with rare targets, because the Luck stat lifts your Legendary+ hit rate directly.

Crowbar trades a chunk of Luck and Lure Speed for a massively higher Contraband-tier mutation ceiling. A Godbreaker session gives you more chances at rare fish; a Crowbar session gives you more sellable value out of the fish you actually pull.

Real-world play pattern: use Godbreaker to build up bestiary and hunt rare catches, then switch to Crowbar for pure C$ farming runs where the goal is to convert time-to-hook into cash-per-hour as efficiently as possible. Both rods being Stage 10 with Infinity max kg means neither one is capping you on giant fish.

FAQ

Is Crowbar a limited-time rod?

The wiki does not flag Crowbar as limited or event-locked. It is listed as a permanent Stage 10 rod obtained by completing Doug’s quest at The Laboratory. The Laboratory location itself has been in the game since version 1.21.0.

Do I have to have Olympian Godbreaker specifically, or can any rod farm Gravitas Scrap Metal?

The wiki’s own Crowbar notes state that Gravitas Scrap Metal "requires the Olympian Godbreaker" — because Godbreaker is the source of the Gravitas mutation roll (30% chance every catch). Without it, you have no reliable way to force the mutation. That is why the rod is classified as Stage 10.

Where do I get Opal, Ruby, and Amethyst?

All three are Gemstone-rarity drops from Meteors, tagged to the Ancient Isle region in the bestiary. If you have been evaluating meteor drops with the Meteoriticist, you likely already have Opal and Ruby banked; Amethyst is the most common of the three, which is why the quest asks for three of it.

Where is the Glass Diamond found?

Overgrowth Caves — the second section of Northern Summit — is the primary spawn. It can also be caught in the lower areas of Frigid Cavern. It is Mythical rarity but moves slowly on the fishing bar, so it is one of the more forgiving Mythicals to land.

Does the Crowbar smash passive always give 25%?

The wiki describes it as "two lots of 5% progress and one lot of 15% progress" — three separate smash events. That caps at a 25% opening buffer if every smash lands cleanly. It is not stated as guaranteed, so treat 25% as the ceiling, not the floor.

How do Counterfeit and Contraband stack?

They are two separate mutation rolls listed as independent passives (10% Counterfeit, 50% Contraband). Both can and do fire on the same fish. Since both are pure value multipliers (8x and 9.088x respectively), a Trash fish that rolls both suddenly becomes worth 8 × 9.088 = ~72.7x its base sale price.

Is the Crowbar the best money rod in Fisch right now?

It is one of the top C$-per-hour options because of the 50% Contraband roll. Olympian Godbreaker is still called out as the current best C$-grinding rod overall thanks to its Cragged/Gravitas passives and its Starcaller extra-fish proc. In practice most endgame players run Godbreaker for bestiary and rare-target sessions, and Crowbar for pure cash farming.

Related Guides

• Fisch Hub — the main Fisch guide index and latest news.
• Fisch Rod Tier List — where Crowbar sits against Olympian Godbreaker and the rest of the Stage 10 pool.
• Fisch Rods Wiki — full rod database with stat blocks and unlock paths.
• Fisch Codes — active in-game codes for free rewards.
• Fisch Drylands Update Guide — the last major biome and rod drop, and how the Marrow Rod compares.

Sources

• Fisch Wiki — "Crowbar": primary source for the rod’s full stat block (Luck 245%, Lure Speed 85%, Control 0.15, Resilience 35%, Max kg Infinity, Progress Speed +40%, Disturbance +3), Doug’s five-step quest checklist, all three passive descriptions (minigame smash 5%/5%/15%, 10% Counterfeit 8x, 50% Contraband 9.088x), and the Stage 10 classification note tied to Gravitas Scrap Metal.
• Fisch Wiki — "The Laboratory": location coordinates (-1785, 130, -485), the version 1.21.0 add note, the Shipwright rope access path, and the separation between Doug and Dr. Crookspine’s quests.
• Fisch Wiki — "Glass Diamond": Mythical rarity, Overgrowth Caves and Frigid Cavern spawn regions, average kg 4, C$/kg 300, and the "moves slow and steady across the fishing bar" note.
• Fisch Wiki — "Scrap Metal": Trash rarity, regionless spawn, C$/kg 8.09, day-only, no bait/weather requirement.
• Fisch Wiki — "Olympian Godbreaker": 265% Luck, 98.1% Lure Speed, 0.18 Control, 19.81% Resilience stat block; C$50,000,000 price at Olympian Fissure; six-area 100% bestiary + Olympian Devil catch requirements; 30% Gravitas (9.81x) first passive; Starcaller Cry third passive.
• Fisch Wiki — "Opal", "Ruby", "Amethyst": Gemstone-rarity Meteor drops tagged to Ancient Isle, with Meteoriticist flavor text confirming meteor-source obtainment.