ComfyFishing
Fishing without the tug-of-war: a bite, a click, and it reels itself in. Skill and rod tiers gate the catch.
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Comfy Fishing
Fishing without the tug-of-war.
Haldor's rod is what it always was: hold the button, watch your stamina drain, lose the fish. Craft your own rod and fishing changes. Cast, wait, and when something bites you get a proper moment to click (1.5s, not half a second). Then the fish reels itself in — no stamina, no escaping, no snapped line. Let go of the mouse. Bigger fish take longer; higher fishing skill and a better rod bring them in faster. Skill still levels while you reel.
Rods
Four craftable rods, so you never need to find Haldor. Each tier unlocks more bait and reels 20% faster than the last.
| Rod | Where | Cost | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wooden fishing rod | Workbench | 10 Wood, 4 Resin, 2 Leather scraps | 60 |
| Bone fishing rod | Workbench 2 | 10 Fine wood, 4 Bone fragments, 5 Resin | 100 |
| Silver fishing rod | Forge 2 | 10 Fine wood, 4 Silver, 2 Guck | 150 |
| Black metal fishing rod | Forge 3 | 10 Fine wood, 5 Black metal, 5 Linen thread | 200 |
Crafted rods wear one point per cast and upgrade to level 4 at their station — each level adds durability and another 10% reel speed. Haldor's rod never wears, but it never gets comfy either.
Bait
Bait is per biome, so bait is how the catch is gated. Each needs a fishing skill level and a rod before fish will take it. All bait is made at the Cauldron; the biome ones are vanilla recipes.
| Bait | Made from | Skill | Rod |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fishing bait | 2 Neck tails + 1 Mushroom → 10 (or Haldor) | 0 | Wooden (or Haldor's) |
| Forest bait | 20 Fishing bait + Troll trophy | 10 | Wooden (or Haldor's) |
| Cave bait | 20 Fishing bait + Fenring trophy | 20 | Bone |
| Swamp bait | 20 Fishing bait + Abomination trophy | 25 | Bone |
| Ocean bait | 20 Fishing bait + Serpent trophy | 30 | Bone |
| Plains bait | 20 Fishing bait + Lox trophy | 40 | Silver |
| Mistlands bait | 20 Fishing bait + Seeker soldier trophy | 55 | Silver |
| Ashlands bait | 20 Fishing bait + Morgen trophy | 70 | Black metal |
Under-levelled? It bites, you're told it's too strong for you (or your rod isn't up to it), and it swims off. Each biome bait now carries its biome's colour so they don't all look the same. The whole tier table is one line in the config.
Config
BepInEx/config/games.loxley.comfyfishing.cfg
| Setting | Default | |
|---|---|---|
| VanillaRodVanillaReel | true | Haldor's rod keeps the vanilla fight |
| AutoHook | false | hook on the bite with no click at all |
| HookWindow | 1.5 | seconds to click after a bite |
| ReelSpeed / ReelSpeedMaxSkill | 3 / 6 | metres of line per second at skill 0 / 100 |
| Tiers.Enabled | true | bait gating on/off |
| BaitTiers | (table above) | bait:skill:rodtier, comma separated |
Requires BepInEx and Jötunn. Everyone fishing needs it; the server doesn't.
Coming
New fish per biome, gutting for rod-making materials, and a few more things to cook.
Support
If this saved you a rage-quit at the pier, you can buy me a coffee on Ko-fi. More games and mods at loxley.games.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
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