BetterFishing

Sailwind mod that makes the fishing experience better 🎣😎

Features

• Adds a hammer, sealing nails, and empty crates to seal crates full of fish. The items are for sail at Gold Rock City, Dragon Cliffs, Fort Aestrin, and Fire Fish Town. Selling sealed crates of prepared fish is more lucrative than selling raw individual fish. See sealing crates below. The prices for Tuna, Eel, and North Fish have been adjusted to make a fishing heavy style of gameplay more lucrative with the crate sealing system. The prices of Swamp Snappers and Golden Albacore (can be caught with NANDTweaks installed) have also been adjusted.
• Removes all fish that are also sold in crates from local shops.
• Increases the efficiency of stoves and smokers.
• Reduces the price of salt.
• Adds monetary value to fish slices.
• Adds lures for increase chances of catching tuna, eel, or north fish. In the game, each species of fish has a peak latitude where they are more likely to be caught and the more you are outside of the that latitude the less likely you are to catch that species. The added lures work best at the peak latitude for a fish and become less effective the farther you are from that latitude. If you are more than 6 degrees away from the peak latitude the lures work just like hooks. A config option allows you to increase the effectiveness of the lures.
• Fish move when caught instead of remaining motionless. Their speed will depend on their species.
• Fish will have different tension on the line depending on their species.
• Makes hook loss on collecting fish configurable.
• Option to disable the line break mechanic.

Sealing Crates

The requirement for sealing a crate is to prepare it in the same way it would be when you purchase a crate of fish. To achieve this these the following requirements must be met:

• You need a hammer in your hand and a box of sealing nails nearby
• The crate needs to be a standard or small sized crate
• The crate needs to only have one species of fish and nothing else
• The types of fish that can be sealed are: Tuna, Sunspot Fish, Salmon, Eel, Trout, and North Fish
• The number of fish needed in the crate depends on the species. All require 16 except Salmon: 12 and Eel: 9
• The fish cannot be burnt or spoiled
• The fish need to be preserved in some manner: smoked, salted, or dried

If any of the requirements are not met there will be hint text telling you why when you point the hammer at a crate.

Configurable

• Price multipliers for all fish.
• Fish movement, line tension, stove and smoker efficiency increase, salt price reduction, and removal of fish from local stores can be enabled/disabled. Enabled by default.
• The percent chance you will lose a hook when collecting a fish.

Info For Other Mod Authors

I use prefab directory indexes 800 - 808. I have screenshots of the stalls where I have shop items placed, check the Screenshots folder.

Requires

• BepInEx 5.4.23
• HooksHangMore >= 1.0.4

Installation

If updating, remove BetterFishing folders and/or BetterFishing.dll files from previous installations.

Extract the downloaded zip. Inside the extracted BetterFishing-<version> folder copy the BetterFishing folder and paste it into the Sailwind/BepInEx/Plugins folder.

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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[v1.5.0] - 2026-06-23

Updated

• Guid, removed the 82.
• Guids for referenced mods in several patches.

[v1.4.1] - 2026-06-05

Updated

• Position of shop items that were overlapping with oars and oakum.

[v1.4.0] - 2026-06-03

Updated

• Changed the release process so hopefully some linux users will no longer have issues when unzipping the release file.

Performance Improvements

• Some data structures were being rebuilt when called, these are now cached.
• Changed multiple LINQ queries to instead use hash sets/dictionaries to find values.

[v1.3.2] - 2026-04-24

Added

• Purchasable empty crates and sealing nails to stalls in Happy Bay and Oasis.
• The ability to use small crates for sealing crates of preserved fish.

[v1.3.1] - 2026-04-08

Added

• Disabling line breaking mechanic. Configurable, disabled by default.
• Configuration option to increase how effective the lures are.

[v1.3.0] - 2026-02-23

Removed

• Hammer since the base game now has a hammer.

Added

• Crate sealing ability to hammer from base game.

Updated

• Position of top water fishing lure in shop in Fort Aestrin.
• Version in HooksHangMore dependency.

[v1.2.2] - 2025-09-15

Updated

• Position of hammer in Gold Rock City shop to not conflict with bucket position.
• Removed sealable fish from new port shops.

[v1.2.1] - 2025-08-28

Fixed

• Glow in the dark labels on lure crates and sealing nails.

[v1.2.0] - 2025-08-26

Added

• Lures for increase chances of catching tuna, eel, or north fish. In the game, each species of fish has a peak latitude where they are more likely to be caught and the more you are outside of the that latitude the less likely you are to catch that species. The added lures work best at the peak latitude for a fish and become less effective the farther you are from that latitude. If you are more than 6 degrees away from the peak latitude the lures work just like hooks.
• Individual lures and small crates of lures added to Gold Rock City, Dragon Cliffs, and Fort Aestrin.

Updated

• Sealing nails can now be placed in your inventory.
• HooksHangMore dependency version.

[v1.1.6] - 2025-08-12

Added

• Reduction of salt to half price.
• Increase efficiencies of stove and smoker. Stove should cook most fish with one pice of firewood.
• Removal of crateable whole fish from stores. Replaced them with their respective slices in most places.
• Monetary value to fish slices.
• Configs to enable\disable stove efficiency adjustment, salt price adjustment, and whole fish removal.

Updated

• Default values for fish price multipliers.

Fixed

• Empty crate shop item position in Dragon Cliffs.

[v1.1.5] - 2025-08-08

Fixed

• Not being able to find the assets when using a mod manager.

[v1.1.4] - 2025-08-08

Updated

• Dependency HooksHangMore version

Fixed

• Empty crate and sealing nails colors having a washed out appearance, second attempt.

[v1.1.3] - 2025-08-07

Fixed

• Save bug by reverting changes made for the colors.
• Unable to interact with a crate after eating an item while the crate is still open.

[v1.1.2] - 2025-08-07

Fixed

• Empty crate and sealing nails colors having a washed out appearance.

[v1.1.1] - 2025-08-06

Added

• Price multiplier configs for all fish.

Fixed

• Crate inventory size for empty crates in the CrateInventoryUI.

Updated

• Placement of the empty crates at the Fort Aestrin shop as to not conflict with Lilith's Furniture mod.

[v1.1.0] - 2025-08-05

Added

• Hammer, sealing nails, and empty crates for purchase in Gold Rock City, Dragon Cliffs, Fort Aestrin, and Fire Fish Town.
• Crates can be sealed to make fishing more profitable as sealed preserved fish sell for more.
• Price adjustments to make certain fish more profitable. See readme for which fish.
• Config to adjust percent chance of a hook loss on collecting fish.
• Dependency on HooksHangMore

Removed

• Item holding functionality. This has been moved to its own mod HooksHangMore!

[v1.0.3] - 2025-07-30

Added

• Lamp hook can hold a knife.

Fixed

• Bug from not handling cache of boat items properly that was also causing errors when attempting to save.

Removed

• Dependency on ModSaveBackups

[v1.0.2] - 2025-07-29

Added

• Lamp hook can hold a chip log.
• Lamp hook can hold a quadrant.

[v1.0.1] - 2025-07-29

Added

• Lamp hook can hold a broom.

[v1.0.0] - 2025-07-28

Added

• Lamp hook can hold a fishing rod.
• Fish move when caught instead of remaining motionless.
• Fish will increase tension on the fishing line depending on species.
• Configuration option to enable/disable fish movement.