Open inventory while fishing

by Jevon Lipsey·v1.0.0·Updated 2025-10-21

A lightweight quality of life mod that allows you to open your inventory, map, and crafting tabs while fishing without the in-game clock pausing. Especially suitable for organizing items, especially when used with the automatic fishing module. Specifically designed for Stardew Valley 1.6.

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About this mod Machine translation

A lightweight quality of life mod that allows you to open your inventory, map, and crafting tabs while fishing without the in-game clock pausing. Especially suitable for organizing items, especially when used with the automatic fishing module. Specifically designed for Stardew Valley 1.6.

Open inventory while fishing

🎣 **A practical module that allows you to manage efficiently while fishing! **

✨ Core Functions

This mod allows you to open the game's main menu while fishing without pausing the in-game clock. When you open your inventory after casting your fishing line, time will pass normally. If a fish takes the bait, the menu automatically closes, ensuring you never miss a catch!

🌟 **Perfect Match**: Especially suitable for players who use auto-fishing mods, or players who want to make the most of every minute of every day.

🛠️Technical features

  • Use stable, non-intrusive "ghost menu" technology
  • Highly compatible with other modules, including time scaling modules such as ItsStardewTime/TimeMaster

📋 Function list

  • 🎒 Open inventory, map, skills and crafting tabs while fishing
  • ⏰ Keep the game clock running and time passes naturally
  • 🐟 Automatically close the menu when a fish takes the bait (configurable)
  • ⚙️ Option to not pause time always or only when fishing
  • ⌨️Support keyboard operation (handle support coming soon)

🔧 Installation requirements

  • Install the latest version of **SMAPI**
  • Install **General Module Configuration Menu**
  • Download and unzip this mod to your Stardew Valley/Mods folder
  • Launch the game via SMAPI

⚙️ Configuration options

If you have the Universal Mod Configuration Menu installed, you can edit the following settings in-game:

  • **Always never pause time**: If enabled, the inventory menu will never pause the game, even when not fishing. Off by default
  • **Don't pause time only when fishing**: If enabled, the inventory menu will not pause time only when fishing. Enabled by default
  • **Close when fish takes the bait**: If enabled, the menu will automatically close when the fish takes the bait. Enabled by default

🔄 Compatibility

  • 🎯 Built specifically for version 1.6
  • ⏱️ Does not affect time control modules
  • ✅ Tested and compatible with 140+ mods

🔗 Related links

source code

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
InventoryWhileFishing1.0
File size
15.2 KiB
SHA-256
47e6df85d7569fd20855c79ab17b11a097e355b256cc97c3135ec49ecf949854
Stored at
2026-10-10 10:32