Better fishing and beach collection

by cometkins·v1.1.0·Updated 2025-11-04

Want to change the appearance of fish, crab pots, and beach-gathered items in your game to make them more realistic? Want a more muted color? Then you've come to the right place!

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About this mod Machine translation

Want to change the appearance of fish, crab pots, and beach-gathered items in your game to make them more realistic? Want a more muted color? Then you've come to the right place!

Better Fishing and Beach Foraging

🎣 **Want to change the appearance of fish, crab pots and beach collection in the game? Then you've come to the right place! **

✨ Module Features

The goal of this mod is to make all fish, crab pot creatures, and beach-gathered items look more realistic, with softer and more natural colors. The overall visual effect is much more pleasant and pairs perfectly with other pastel map recolor mods you may be using!

🐠 Scope of influence

  • Optimized appearance of all fish
  • Visual improvements for creatures caught in crab pots
  • The items collected on the beach are now realistic
  • Green algae/white algae, Joja Cola, cave/river/jellyfish, squid juice, pearls and aquarium decorations

🛠️ Installation Guide

  • Make sure SMAPI and Content Patcher are installed
  • Download this mod from
  • Drag and drop the unzipped files into your mod folder
  • Launch Stardew Valley and enjoy!
  • A configuration file will be created when the module is loaded for the first time, and any fish/gathering items that you do not want to use can be set to 'false'

🌟 Compatibility

Works perfectly with the author's "Better Visuals" series of modules to provide a unified visual experience.

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Want more mod updates and development progress? Want to vote for the next mod? Please follow the author's blog!

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Give your fishing and beach gathering experience a whole new spin in Stardew Valley! 🌊

Install & use Install: SMAPI mod (Stardew Valley standard)

  1. Install SMAPI first (Stardew Valley's mod loader): download it from smapi.io, run 'install on Windows.bat' and pick your game folder.
  2. Unzip the archive from playbuff and find the folder that contains manifest.json — that folder is the mod.
  3. Copy that whole folder into Stardew Valley/Mods/.
  4. Launch the game through SMAPI (run StardewModdingAPI.exe or set it as the launch option). The console before the title screen lists each mod's load result.

Cheat-style tools may not need SMAPI — unzip and run them as the readme describes. Back up your save before editing it; SMAPI lists failed mods in its console.

File & checksum

Filename
Better Fishing and Beach Foraging
File size
192.6 KiB
SHA-256
60850ccf388ba86bdf8c93ab16cb56acd0ab872f5bfc0a0579512db133644a67
Stored at
2026-10-10 16:10