Wild Albatross

Albatrosses are wildlife now.

Wild Albatross adds recurring Albatross encounters to How to Fish.

Instead of being limited to the normal boss encounter, Albatrosses can periodically spawn while exploring the islands as regular hostile wildlife.

Requirements

• How to Fish
• BepInEx 5.4.23.5

When installed through Thunderstore Mod Manager, the required BepInEx package will be installed automatically.

Features

• Recurring Albatross spawns
• Island 1 excluded by default
• Wild instances do not register as the global Albatross boss
• Does not interfere with the Boss UI of real bosses
• Configurable spawn interval
• Configurable health
• Configurable melee damage
• Configurable projectile damage
• Configurable meat drop count
• Configurable meat value

Default settings

• Spawn interval: 30–60 seconds
• Health: 120
• Melee damage: 8
• Projectile damage: 5
• Meat drops: 1
• Meat value: 40

Configuration

After launching the game once, edit:

BepInEx/config/com.howtofish.wildalbatross.cfg

Main options:

[General]
Enabled = true

[Spawn]
ExcludedScenes = Island1
MinSpawnInterval = 30
MaxSpawnInterval = 60
SpawnHeightAbovePlayer = 28

[Stats]
Health = 120
MeleeDamage = 8
ProjectileDamage = 5

[Drops]
MeatDropCount = 1
MeatValue = 40

Installation

Thunderstore Mod Manager

Install Wild Albatross normally through Thunderstore Mod Manager. BepInEx 5.4.23.5 is declared as a required dependency and should be installed automatically.

Manual installation

1. Install BepInEx 5.4.23.5 for the game.

2. Place WildAlbatross.dll in:

   BepInEx/plugins/WildAlbatross/

3. Launch the game.

Compatibility

This release targets BepInEx 5.4.23.5 on the Mono version of How to Fish.

Changelog — 1.1.0

• Added BepInEx 5.4.23.5 support for Thunderstore.
• Added BepInExPack as an automatic Thunderstore dependency.
• Wild Albatross no longer touches the Boss UI directly.
• Fixed Wild Albatross spawns hiding the health bar of an active real boss.

Changelog

1.0.0

• Initial public release.
• Added recurring Wild Albatross encounters.
• Island 1 excluded by default.
• Added configurable spawn interval.
• Added configurable health, melee damage and projectile damage.
• Added configurable meat drop count and meat value.
• Prevented Wild Albatross instances from registering as the global boss.
• Suppressed boss UI for Wild Albatross encounters.