FishQualityBonus

FishQualityBonus

In base game, recipes that consume a whole fish (Fish 'n' Bread, the fish mead bases)

output the same amount whether you spent a quality-1 perch or a quality-4 anglerfish. This is

totally inconsistent with how Raw Fish behaves.

This mod adjusts the behavior in the following ways:

• Bigger fish make more. Output scales with the fish's quality, using the same formula

the game already applies to Raw Fish. For example, using a quality-5 fish makes 13 instead of 1.

• Rarer fish make more. Each species' flat +0/+1/+2 tier applies on top, read out of

the game at load rather than hard-coded. Fish 'n' Bread takes a +2 species, so that

quality-5 craft actually lands at 15 meals.

• Fish of different sizes can be combined. The base game refuses to craft when your

fish qualities don't match (e.g. two trollfish of different sizes can't brew a mead that needs two,

even though the ingredient list says you have enough). This fixes that, and the output is based on

the average size of what you spent.

• Choose which fish size to prioritize. Configuration options include which fish gets consumed first

(e.g. prioritize higher or lower quality in your inventory when crafting).

Most of the above parameters are configurable, including a master switch that restores vanilla exactly.

Why I made this

Hello! I created this mod to fix a nitpick that felt, in my opinion, like an oversight, which

is simply this: fishing recipes should reward you for the quality of the fish.

In Valheim, Raw Fish, prepared from

an actual caught fish, are multiplied in value based on the quality of the fish caught.

If I catch a big, quality-5 tuna, I can actually prepare 14 "raw fish" from that single tuna.

However, this does not apply to any recipes that consume a whole fish, which in my opinion

completely wastes the higher quality fish in those recipes.

Since recipes like Fish 'n' Bread, currently one of the best stamina foods in the game, take

a whole fish, the player is effectively penalized for using the better quality anglerfish

in that recipe. (Making the joy of actually hooking a high-quality fish not worth the stamina

spent to reel it in)

This mod adjusts it by applying the same raw fish computation formula to other whole-fish

recipes, as well! And while I was in the code, I decided to fix the mixed-quality-crafting issue as well.

Behavior

What a recipe that normally makes 1 gives you, at the default settings:

| Fish quality | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 |

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

| A +0 species (perch, pike, tetra, trollfish) | 1 | 4 | 7 | 10 | 13 |

| A +2 species, which is what Fish 'n' Bread takes | 3 | 6 | 9 | 12 | 15 |

The formula behind that:

sizeBonus = floor( (averageQuality - 1) amount BonusPerQualityLevel )

output = amount + sizeBonus + speciesBonus

amount is what the recipe normally makes. averageQuality is the mean quality of the fish

spent, which is just the fish's own quality when they're all the same size.

BonusPerQualityLevel is configurable and defaults to 3, matching the game's own Raw Fish behavior.

speciesBonus is the game's +0/+1/+2 tier for the species — see Raw Fish.

Like vanilla, it's flat: even a small quality-1 anglerfish still earns its +2. Also configurable.

Which fish gets eaten

Vanilla spends whichever fish you picked up first, and it doesn't even matter where it sits in your inventory ( effectively random). This mod picks on purpose, smallest or largest first, via FishToSpend.

Fish of different sizes

Vanilla won't let you craft when your fish don't match. It checks your biggest single-size

stack instead of your total, so two trollfish of different sizes can't brew a Troll Endurance

mead that needs two. Confusingly, the ingredient list shows 2 of 2 in white, and the Craft button

stays grayed out with nothing explaining why. This is really only a problem that affects fish recipes,

as every other crafting material has only one quality level.

This mod allows the craft and pays out on the average of what you