BetterSwimming
Hold to swim instead of mashing jump. Treading water, diving, wave-accurate buoyancy, all configurable.
About this mod Author’s original text
BetterSwimming
Swimming in How to Fish is a jump-mashing contest. Vanilla clamps you to a constant sink and gives you exactly 5 real
strokes before _jumpForce gets divided down to nothing, so staying afloat means hammering space forever.
This makes it behave like water. Hold jump to swim up, hold crouch to dive, let go and you tread water at the
surface instead of dropping like a rock. Waves lift you properly too, since vanilla tests your height against the flat
water plane and ignores the actual swell.
All of it is configurable, and everything defaults to something reasonable. Drowning damage and its grace period are
left at vanilla values out of the box.
Client side only. Nothing here touches anyone else's movement.
Installation
Drop BetterSwimming.dll in BepInEx/plugins.
For questions or comments, find me in the Hexium discord or in my own:
Install & use Install: follow the bundled instructions
- Unzip the archive from playbuff and read the bundled readme / instructions first.
- Most mods rely on the game's mod loader — the usual route is a community mod manager (such as r2modman): pick this game, install, and it handles the loader and dependencies.
- For a manual install, put the mod files into the matching Mod / plugins folder inside the game directory.
- Launch the game to confirm it loaded; mods with listed dependencies need those installed as well.
Install locations vary a lot between mods — the bundled readme is the most reliable guide.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: