DeathItemRack

Death Item Rack

Your gear waits for you on a rack instead of scattering across the map.

When the whole squad goes down, How to Fish dumps everybody's inventory in one pile wherever

the last player gave up. Half the time that is over water, on a slope, or inside a rock — so

the gear rolls away, sinks, or falls through the ground, and what survives is one heap nobody

can sort out.

This mod catches it. Every player gets their own rack, stood in a row at the island's

spawn point and labelled with their name, holding their inventory and whatever they were

carrying in their hand when they died.

Each rack is a shelved cabinet on a plinth with an open flank down each side. Handguns, melee

weapons, shotguns and uzis go on the shelves. Snipers, assault rifles and fishing rods are too

long to lie down, so they stand upright in the flanks, caught by prongs at two heights and

held there — they stay standing until you take them, rather than slowly toppling out. Anything

much longer than a shotgun is stood up rather than laid across a shelf — fish excepted, which

lie down whatever their length.

Playing solo, your own death is the wipe.

It never eats your stuff

The rack disappears once the last item has been taken off it, or after three minutes, with the

game's own puff of smoke — so it does not clutter the island.

If it times out while gear is still on it, only the rack goes. The items drop to the ground

where it stood and stay there like any other dropped item. The mod never destroys anything.

Requirements

BepInEx 5 (x64), the mod loader. If you already have a BepInEx folder in your game directory,

skip to Installation.

• Download BepInEx_win_x64_5.4.23.5.zip (or newer 5.x) from

• Right-click How to Fish in Steam > Manage > Browse local files. This opens the game

folder (it contains How to Fish.exe).

• Extract the BepInEx zip directly into that folder. You should end up with a BepInEx folder

and winhttp.dll sitting next to How to Fish.exe.

• Launch the game once and quit, so BepInEx can generate its folders.

Installation

Extract this mod's zip into the game folder, merging with the existing BepInEx folder. You

should end up with...\How to Fish\BepInEx\plugins\HowToFish.DeathItemRack.dll.

To verify it loaded, open BepInEx\LogOutput.log and look for:

[Info:Death Item Rack] Death Item Rack loaded.

Multiplayer

Install it on every machine — and the host must have it.

• The host is what notices the wipe and arranges everyone's gear. Without it there, nothing

happens for anybody.

• Each player draws the racks on their own machine. Without it, that player sees the gear

laid out neatly in mid-air with nothing holding it up.

Loot is safe and reachable either way, but the racks are only visible to players who have the

mod. Everyone should also be on the same version, since each machine works out the rack

layout for itself rather than being told where it goes.

Configuration

After launching the game once, edit BepInEx\config\alexandre.howtofish.deathitemrack.cfg.

| Setting | Default | What it does |

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

| Enabled | true | Build a rack on squad wipe at all. |

| SweepLooseItems | true | Also rack the item you were holding in your hand when you died. |

| SweepRadius | 25 | How far away that item may be before it is left where it fell. |

| OffsetForward | 3 | How many metres in front of the spawn point the rack stands. |

| OffsetRight | 0 | Nudge it sideways if it lands somewhere awkward on your island. |

| PinItems | LongGearOnly | How much of the rack is held still: None, LongGearOnly or Everything. |

| PinSettleSeconds | 1.5 | Seconds before held gear is pinned for the other players too. |

| LingerSeconds | 180 | How long the rack sticks around. Items on it are never destroyed. |

| PoofWhenEmptied | true | Vanish as soon as the last item has been collected. |

| ShelfCount | 3 | Shelves in the cabinet, for the smaller gear. |

| CabinetWidth | 1.2 | Width of the shelve