🎣 Enhanced HowToFish

A modpack for How To Fish that blends quality-of-life improvements with new gameplay mechanics — sharper UI, extra utility, and a few systems the base game doesn't have.

🧩 What's Included

• Dynamic Crosshair — marks where your gun is actually pointing and traces its live spread cone, including bullet drop and muzzle parallax (client-side)
• Boss Timer — shows the exact synchronized time remaining before the active boss leaves, via a native-style HUD
• Boss HP — shows the active boss's exact synchronized HP beside the native health bar, with matching damage-shake animation
• Mod Menu — settings-only native Mod Settings menu with automatic BepInEx plugin discovery and validated configuration controls
• Fish HP — shows the last locally damaged non-boss creature's synchronized HP and native-style health bar, with official boss-bar damage shake behavior
• Stackable Items — lets the same item stack into one inventory slot (up to 100 per slot, 64 by default), with items individually tracked so stacked items can retain different properties
• Better How To Fish — gives every catch and boss a random size (x1.00–x25.00) that scales health, damage, and sale value, with synced health bars, catch cards, a multiplayer Top 3 leaderboard, and a 25-level rod upgrade workbench for luck, reel speed, and sale bonuses
• HTFSlide — adds sliding, a sprint toggle, and momentum-based launches when you slide off a ledge or jump mid-slide (client-side, only affects your own character)
• HTFBulkBuy — buy in bulk at any vendor, press T to pick a quantity (1/5/10/25/50) and buy that many at once (bait, items, pocket unlocks, weapon upgrades)
• SeaLegs — see your own body in first person (legs, torso, arms, and whatever you're holding) instead of just floating hands (client-side)
• Fishydex — client-side QOL mod that shows which lure catches a specific fish
• BetterSwimming — hold jump to swim up and crouch to dive, letting go treads water instead of dropping like a rock, with wave-accurate buoyancy (client-side, fully configurable)
• ChumBucket — a portable bucket you can drop anywhere; throw your catch in and sell it all at once instead of feeding fish to an NPC one at a time (buckets are shared, so anyone running the mod can sell from any dropped bucket)
• AmmoCounter — shows ammo left in your current magazine, weapon name, installed attachments, and an optional StatTrak™ kill count
• HeldItemNameHud — shows the name of whatever you're currently holding above the hotbar, and your current bait above the bait box
• More Colours — adds a full HUD recolor screen to the Options menu, covering palette, score, combat, vitals, boss bars, chat, inspect, hotbar, HUD, screen effects, particles/splatter decals, menu, and more, with built-in themes and shareable custom presets
• Comprehensive Optimization — pure-performance plugin (JIT warmup, log trim, gentle GC, and earlier island load) that reduces stutter without touching mods, loot, saves, or visuals
• Inspect Fix — fixes the inspect panel staying stuck on stale item info after throwing, selling, or switching items
• NoSharedMoney — replaces the crew's single shared wallet with a separate balance per player, synced across sessions, with a /pay command to send money between players (all players in the lobby need this installed, host included)
• MorePlayers — raises the multiplayer lobby cap from 8 to 32 players (configurable)
• HideVersion — adjusts the transparency of the in-game version text and can replace it with "Modded" for clarity when reporting bugs
• ModUpdateChecker — checks your installed mods against their latest Thunderstore versions and flags which ones have updates available (read-only, doesn't auto-update anything)

⚙️ Installation

1. Install Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman
2. Search for Enhanced HowToFish and install
3. Launch How To Fish through the mod manager

💬 Community

Join the official How To Fish modding Discord: discord.gg/BNHgApHyW — new Thunderstore mods get linked there too.

🙌 Credits

Thanks to the mod authors: PapaSalazar, evansvl, AtomicStudio, Hatsune_EXO, Azumatt, Sopika, mexico_nini, FlabasGeezahs, Kalamies, hiccup, ReyshersU and Ice_Box_Studio_HTF for the individual mods included in this pack.

☕ Support

If you'd like to support this pack, you can do so on Ko-fi.

📌 Notes

This is a community-made pack and is not affiliated with the developers of How To Fish.

Changelog

Note: Mods are kept up to date with every release; version bumps for individual mods aren't listed unless something specific broke or changed as a result.

1.1.2

• Temporarily removed NoSharedMoney (incompatible with 1.1.1)
• Updated to work with the new game update (v1.1.0/1)

1.1.1

• Added Better How To Fish (with pre-configured options for the best experience)

1.1.0

• Added HTFBulkBuy
• Added MorePlayers
• Added NoSharedMoney
• Fixed an issue where some creatures displayed “Nothing” instead of their required bait.
• Changed the pack's description to reflect that it now includes new gameplay mechanics, not just QOL

1.0.9

• Added Comprehensive Optimization
• Removed ColorfulPoint
• More Colours now handles item dot colors, previously handled by ColorfulPoint (a config with the modifications is provided)
• Updated all the available mods
• Game Version: 1.0.12

1.0.8

• Fixed several issues with StackableItems (e.g. incompatibility with KeepInventory, stacks overwriting each other, and ghost items)
• Updated all the available mods
• Added emojis to the README.md

Note: the next modpack update will come out in around 8/9 days (i'm in vacation)

1.0.7

• Added Inspect Fix
• Added BetterSwimming
• Added ChumBucket
• Inspect panel now updates correctly when you throw, sell, or switch items instead of showing stale info
• You can now hold jump to swim up and crouch to dive, with wave-accurate buoyancy instead of mashing jump to stay afloat
• Added a portable, shareable bucket to dump your catch in and sell it all at once instead of feeding fish to an NPC one by one
• Fixed several issues with More Colours (themes and colours not saving, etc.)
• Fixed various mod incompatibilities (e.g. HTFSlide and BetterSwimming combining to let you bhop on water, which shouldn't be possible)

1.0.6

• Added HideVersion
• Added More Colours
• Removed WashCookedItems (now part of the main game)
• Removed StickyItems (part of the main game)
• You can now recolor almost every part of the HUD (palette, score, combat, vitals, boss bars, chat, and more) with built-in themes or custom presets
• Took down the Nexus Mods pack. Several dependencies aren't available on Nexus, so they had to be bundled manually as raw DLLs instead of resolved through a proper dependency system like Thunderstore's. That made the pack harder to maintain, so it's been pulled down
• Game Version: 1.0.10

1.0.5

• Re-added StickyItems (now it correctly works)
• Made Installed attachment images 2x bigger
• Updated all the available mods, fixing many issues (missplaced health bar, duped items/weapons, mod menu button having a delay before showing etc)

1.0.4

• Added HeldItemNameHud
• Added ColorfulPoint
• Added WashCookedItems
• Removed StickyItems (has a way to dupe weapons/items, will be re-added once fixed)
• Replaced AmmoCount with AmmoCounter (more features)
• Added HowtoFishIdentityAPI (required by AmmoCounter)
• Updated available mods
• The pack now includes pre-configured configs to ensure a comfortable experience

1.0.3

• Added SeaLegs
• Added Fishydex
• Added StickyItems
• Added AmmoCount
• Added ModUpdateChecker
• Added HowtoFishLocalizationAPI (required by MUC)
• Removed CursorAim (made no-scopes harder somehow)
• Updated HTFSlide to fix a key binding issue
• Updated mods that had an update
• Added Ko-fi page to README.md

1.0.2

• Added CursorAim (welffi)
• Added Stackable Items (AtomicStudio)
• Added HTFSlide (Hatsune_EXO)
• Added BepInExPack as a dependency so the mod loader installs automatically

1.0.0/1.0.1

• Reuploaded due to a README update with corrected mod descriptions