Seagull Digestion

Seagulls that steal your food now actually eat it. After a random delay the stolen item turns into a poop: randomised sell price, and a bad idea to eat.

• Host-authoritative, matching how the game already simulates birds.
• The timer cancels if you shoot the bird or grab the fish back.
• Seagulls ignore poop, and rest for a while after a meal.
• Procedurally generated poop mesh, no asset bundle.
• Poop syncs to every client and survives save/reload.

Eating it

The hunger cost is paid out of your stomach first. Whatever your stomach cannot cover is dealt as direct damage, so eating poop on an empty stomach takes the full hit to your health. Poison lands either way, exactly like raw pufferfish.

With HungerCost = 25:

Food-effect mods are blocked from rewarding you for it. With Fish Effects installed, poop grants no timed effect, no Drip luck, and no effect line on the inspection card. Those are ordinary Harmony patches applied from this mod; no other mod's files are touched, and they are skipped when the mod is absent.

Settings

In Mod Settings (Mod Menu) or BepInEx/config/erwins.seagulldigestion.cfg. Changes apply immediately.

Multiplayer

The host needs the mod. Clients without it lose the money either way, but will still see the original fish model.

Changelog

1.3.1 - version bump only; 1.3.0 was already published and Thunderstore never allows re-uploading a version.

1.3.0

• The poop model is sized from the item it replaced instead of a fixed world size, and capped, so it no longer fills the screen when held. Scale is now a multiplier around that fitted size; 1.0 is the new default.
• The inventory icon uses the same mesh as the world model.

1.2.0

• Eating poop drains fullness, deals the unpayable remainder as damage, and always poisons you.
• Fish Effects no longer grants poop a timed effect, Drip luck, or an effect line.

1.1.0

• Fixed white poop: the game's custom item shader takes albedo from a texture, so a fresh material rendered untextured white. The original material is now cloned and its albedo map replaced.
• Sell price rolled per poop, encoded into the SyncVar that marks the item.
• Seagulls no longer target poop, and take a cooldown after eating.

Changelog

1.5.2

Housekeeping only — no gameplay change. The 1.5.1 balance fix is untouched and behaves identically.

• The version history moved out of the README into this file, so Thunderstore shows it on its own Changelog tab instead of burying it at the bottom of the page.
• Needed its own version because a Thunderstore release can never be edited or re-uploaded; the notes only reach the site attached to a new package.

1.5.1

• Fixed a balance of -$2,147,483,648 after selling poop. Selling at a negative price took the balance below zero, which is harmless on its own — but How To Fish - Extended reads any negative balance as proof that a payout wrapped past the integer limit, and "restores" it to $2,147,483,647. The next sale of anything positive then genuinely overflowed. The balance is now held between $0 and the limit, so neither half of that loop can start.
• Poop keeps its negative prices; a sale simply stops at $0 instead of going under.
• Payouts are bounded at the top too, so nothing else can push the balance past the limit either.
• New ClampBalance setting, on by default. There is no good reason to turn it off.

(1.3.2 and 1.4.x were internal builds and never released.)

1.3.1

Version bump only; 1.3.0 was already published and Thunderstore never allows re-uploading a version.

1.3.0

• The poop model is sized from the item it replaced instead of a fixed world size, and capped, so it no longer fills the screen when held. Scale is now a multiplier around that fitted size; 1.0 is the new default.
• The inventory icon uses the same mesh as the world model.

1.2.0

• Eating poop drains fullness, deals the unpayable remainder as damage, and always poisons you.
• Fish Effects no longer grants poop a timed effect, Drip luck, or an effect line.

1.1.0

• Fixed white poop: the game's custom item shader takes albedo from a texture, so a fresh material rendered untextured white. The original material is now cloned and its albedo map replaced.
• Sell price rolled per poop, encoded into the SyncVar that marks the item.
• Seagulls no longer target poop, and take a cooldown after eating.