RandomCreatureSize

RandomCreatureSize — random creature size

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Overview

Every creature in the game — seagulls, the whole fish family, crabs, albatrosses and bosses — gets a random visual size when it spawns. One value, s, drives everything:

appearance = weight = sell price = save = multiplayer — a single value throughout.

• Server-authoritative: the size is rolled on the server and written into the creature's synced weight field, so every client sees the exact same size (works in multiplayer with no extra sync).
• Per-axis jitter (±30% by default): length / width / height each jitter around s, derived deterministically from the object id — same body shape for everyone.
• Save persistence: a caught fish keeps its size after reloading (the saved weight is the size).
• Bosses use their own independent scale range (0.5–2 by default) and can be toggled separately.
• v1.1+: bigger creatures move slower (speed = 1 / size^exponent, floored) and HP scales linearly with size (×s, minimum 1).
• 100% vanilla when disabled: with every toggle off, behavior is identical to the unmodded game.

Installation

• Install BepInEx 5 (BepInExPack for How to Fish) into the game directory.
• Extract the zip and merge the BepInEx folder into the game folder (e.g. F:\steam\steamapps\common\How to Fish\How to Fish\).
• Start the game through Steam (steam://rungameid/4001890). The mod auto-loads; check BepInEx\LogOutput.log for RandomCreatureSize.

The plugin lives at BepInEx\plugins\RandomCreatureSize\RandomCreatureSize.dll.

Configuration

First launch generates BepInEx\config\top.yw.randomcreaturesize.cfg — edit it while the game is closed (or use the in-game Mod Menu if installed).

| Section | Key | Default | Description |

|---|---|---|---|

| General | Enabled | true | Master switch (off = fully vanilla) |

| Category | ScaleBirds | true | Seagulls |

| Category | ScaleFish | true | Fish family (caught fish / land fish / attacking fish) |

| Category | ScaleOthers | true | Other creatures (crabs, albatross, decoys...) |

| Category | ScaleBosses | true | Bosses (independent range; off = fully vanilla bosses) |

| Size | MinScale / MaxScale | 0.1 / 10 | Normal creature multiplier range |

| Size | BossMinScale / BossMaxScale | 0.5 / 2 | Boss multiplier range |

| Size | LogUniform | true | Log-uniform distribution (0.1/1/10 equally likely); false = uniform |

| Size | JitterEnabled | true | Per-axis jitter (off = pure uniform scaling) |

| Size | JitterPercent | 0.3 | Jitter amount (±30%) |

| Size | ExtremeBias | 0.3 | Bias toward extreme sizes (0 = log-uniform, 1 = always extreme) |

| Size | SpeedEnabled | true | Bigger creatures move slower (s≤1 keeps vanilla speed) |

| Size | SpeedPow | 0.5 | Speed decay exponent: speed = 1 / size^exponent |

| Size | SpeedMinFactor | 0.4 | Speed floor (slowest = 40% of vanilla, i.e. at most 60% slower) |

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Module introduction

All creatures in the game (seagulls, all fish families, crabs, albatross, bosses) get random appearance sizes when spawned. One value s applies to everything:

Appearance = Weight = Selling Price = Archives = Online - One Value Wins All.

• Server authority: The size is rolled on the server and written to the bio-synchronized weight field, so all clients see exactly the same size (no additional synchronization is required online).
• Axis jitter (default ±30%): length/width/height are each randomized around s, derived deterministically from the ObjectId - everyone sees the same body shape.
• Loading and maintaining: The size of the fish caught is maintained after loading (the archive weight is s).
• Boss independent magnification (default 0.5–2), can be switched individually.
• v1.1+: The larger the size, the slower the movement (speed = 1/size^index, with a lower limit); the blood volume changes linearly with the size (×s, minimum 1).
• It is exactly the same as the original version after turning off all switches.

Installation method

• First install BepInEx 5 (BepInExPack of How to Fish) into the game di …