LivingSkies

Living Skies

The whole sky, alive: real sunsets, galaxy nights with a glowing moon,

an ocean that mirrors it all, fog that wears the colour of the horizon,

and grey rolling storms with rain, lightning and thunder.

Which mod do I need?

• This one. Living Skies is the complete package: the full

HTF Day and Night cycle is built in, plus the weather on top.

• Never install both - this mod already contains Day and Night, and

the separate HTF Day and Night is no longer updated.

What it does

• Storms park over the island. A grey ceiling of rolling cloud seals the

sky, fog swallows the horizon, the light goes flat and dead, and slanted

rain comes down in squalls. Sail out from under it and the storm lets you

go - and stays sitting on the island behind you.

• Lightning you can see. Jagged bolts crack from the cloud deck to the

sea, sometimes striking twice down the same channel, with thunder rolling

in late like it crossed real distance. Distant sheet lightning blinks on

the horizon before the storm arrives.

• Storms wait for the light to fail. Under a high sun a storm spell

rolls as heavy rain; the real storm breaks from late afternoon through

the night. Weather and hour always agree.

• Everyone shares one sky. The forecast is computed from synced server

time - the same storm rolls over the whole crew at the same moment, with

zero extra network traffic. Storms last about 3 minutes, rain about 3 and

a half, with long clear spells between.

• The fog is the horizon. Distance fog wears the colour of the sky

where the sea meets it: blue at noon, warm towards a low sun and cool

away from it, dark at night. Far islands and far water fade into the

sky instead of into a flat grey. It is clear at noon so distant islands

stay readable, thickens a little at dawn and dusk, and more at night.

• The night sky is alive. Stars twinkle the way they really do -

each on its own rhythm, hardest down near the horizon where you are

looking through the most air, almost still overhead. The moon and sun

hold steady, because discs do not scintillate.

• Shooting stars. Meteors cross on their own clocks: mostly faint

scratches you half-catch, occasionally a slow bright fireball that

flares as it breaks up. They burn at different heights, so some sweep

fast and close while others creep across the top of the sky.

• Sunsets you can see in the water. The sky is warm on the sun's side

and cool on the other, and anything that reflects the sky, the sea

above all, sees that.

• Day and night included: real sunsets, a galaxy night with a glowing

moon, an ocean that mirrors the sky, co-op synced time, F9 resync, and

arrow-key time shifting (your personal view only).

Best with Better Oceans

The sea is lit by the game's own light, so everything this sky does

arrives on the water by itself: the sunset lays a path across the swell,

the storm turns it grey and hard, and the moon rides it at night. Better

Oceans 2.0.2 and up reads the same fog this mod sets, so sea, islands and

sky all fade into one horizon.

Get it here:

Better Oceans

Installation

With a mod manager (easiest)

• Install r2modman or the

Mod Manager.

• Select How to Fish, search for LivingSkies, click Install

(BepInEx is installed automatically as a dependency).

• If you have HTFDayNight installed as a separate mod, disable or

uninstall it - Living Skies already contains it.

• Press Start modded.

Manual

• Install BepInEx 5 x64 into

the game folder - the one with How to Fish.exe

(Steam: right-click the game, Manage, Browse local files).

• Run the game once and quit, so BepInEx creates its folders.
• Copy HTFWeather.dll, HTFDayNight.dll, htfsky.bundle and the

sound files into How to Fish/BepInEx/plugins/ - everything side by

side.

• If an older copy of HTFDayNight is already in there from the separate

mod, delete it first.

Then just play. You spawn under a living sky; the first weather rolls in

on its own (storms hold until the light starts to fail). N