Cooler Mod

Cooler Mod

Version 0.1.18 for How to Fish / BepInEx 5

Cooler Mod adds a reusable low-poly fishing cooler that carries up to 20 fish. It keeps catches organized, frees inventory space, and lets you transport and sell a full fishing haul in one quick interaction. This speeds up long fishing trips and makes them more convenient because you spend less time juggling, dropping, and selling fish individually.

Features

• Stores up to 20 fish in one portable cooler.
• Preserves each fish's species, appearance, cooking state, multipliers, and exact sale value.
• Captures Better How to Fish rod-sale bonuses and compatible final-price changes when a fish enters the cooler.
• Marks drip creatures with animated rainbow row text and protects them from bulk selling by default.
• Shows a matching thumbnail, name, cooking multiplier, score multiplier, optional size multiplier, and price for every stored fish.
• Sorts stored catches by cooking percentage, score, size, price, name, or recency in ascending or descending order.
• Sells all stored fish together while allowing you to keep and reuse the cooler.
• Lets you take out or drop individual fish whenever you want.
• Supports custom cooler names, saved-world persistence, and multiplayer synchronization.
• Displays an information tooltip above the normal interaction prompt when you look at a deployed cooler within one metre. It shows the cooler name, owner, fish capacity, and combined stored-fish value.
• Adds Inventory and Color tabs with a saved RGB body-color picker for each cooler.
• Plays a local confirmation sound for the player who sells a cooler's contents.

How to use it

| Situation | Control | Action |

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

| Looking at a deployed cooler with empty hands or a non-fish item | Tap E | Open the cooler contents window. |

| Looking at a deployed cooler while holding a fish | Tap E | Store the held fish in the first available cooler slot. |

| Looking at a deployed cooler | Hold E | Pick up the cooler with all contents preserved. |

| Holding a cooler and looking at an upward-facing surface | Hold E | Deploy the cooler on that surface. |

| Holding a loaded cooler and looking at any normal fish-selling vendor or sell box | Tap E | Sell all stored fish for their combined value, hear the sale sound locally, and keep the empty cooler. The holder can do this even when another player owns the cooler. |

| Cooler contents window | Auto bulk sell drip creatures | Off by default. Turn it on only when you want bulk selling to include rare drip creatures. |

| Close to and looking at a fish-selling vendor | Press 8 | Buy a reusable cooler for $1,000. |

| Throw a cooler into a money vendor's mouth | — | Sell the cooler for $500 plus the value of every stored fish. |

| Cooler contents window | Take Out | Move that fish to a free inventory slot. |

| Cooler contents window | Drop | Spawn that fish on the ground beside the cooler. |

| Cooler contents window | Sort and Ascending/Descending | Reorder the displayed list by cooking percentage, score, size, price, name, or most recent catch. Sorting never changes the fish itself. |

| Cooler contents window | Edit the name and press Save Name | Rename that cooler for every player. |

| Cooler Color tab | Adjust RGB and press Apply and Save Color | Recolors that cooler's physical body while keeping its lid, handle, trim, and hotbar icon unchanged. |

| Cooler Color tab | Restore Cooler Blue | Restores the original blue body color. |

| Cooler contents window | Esc or X | Close the window. |

How it works

Deploy the cooler, then look at it and tap E while holding a fish. The fish leaves your hands and enters the first open cooler slot. Tap E with empty hands to open the contents window, where you can inspect, remove, or drop catches and rename the cooler. Hold E to pick the loaded cooler back up. Carry it to a fish vendor and tap E to sell all stored fish while keeping the empty cooler.

Where to purchase it

You can purchase a cooler for $1,000 from any fish-