Drone Mod

DRONE MOD

Personal sentry and FPV companion

Version 0.1.20 for How to Fish / BepInEx 5

DRONE MOD gives you a personal flying companion for exploration and island defense. Your drone can follow at your shoulder, hold position as an airborne sentry, or switch to a first-person camera that you pilot yourself. Equip it with a gun, improve its combat systems, give it a custom name, and recolor the body, propellers, and accents so it feels like your own machine.

Press F3 to open the violet-and-green Drone Control Center from anywhere. A drone costs $10,000, and each player may own one.

Controls and first flight

| Control or menu action | What it does |

| --- | --- |

| F3 | Opens or closes the Drone Control Center. |

| Buy Drone — $10,000 | Purchases your one personal drone and places it in an open inventory slot. |

| Hold E while holding your drone | Throws the drone forward, starts it up, and lets it right itself before it settles smoothly into the saved Follow position. |

| F3 → Recall to Leash | Recalls your drone from any distance and returns it to its saved Follow leash position. |

| F3 → Recall to Hands | Retrieves your drone from any distance and places it directly in your empty hands with its gun and settings preserved. |

| F3 → Enter FPV | Transfers control and the camera to your deployed drone. Your character remains visible where you left it and can still take damage. |

| W / A / S / D in FPV | Moves forward, left, backward, and right. |

| Space / Left Ctrl in FPV | Raises or lowers the drone. |

| Hold Left or Right Shift in FPV | Engages flight boost and doubles movement speed from 8 m/s to 16 m/s. |

| Mouse in FPV | Aims and turns the drone camera and mounted gun. |

| Left mouse in FPV | Fires the equipped gun toward the center crosshair. Automatic targeting pauses during FPV control. |

| Hold right mouse in FPV | Smoothly zooms the drone camera for a more precise shot; releasing it returns to the normal view. |

| Hold E for 2 seconds in FPV | Locks the drone at its current airborne position in Turret mode, restores the player camera and HUD, and starts normal automatic targeting. |

| P in FPV | Toggles free-flight camera movement. Press P again to return to a level orientation. |

| Esc in FPV | Leaves FPV and returns control to your player. |

| Follow / Turret / FPV Mode | Changes the drone's operating mode. Switching an active drone plays the matching positional mode announcement for nearby players. |

• Press F3 and purchase your drone for $10,000. Each player may own one.
• Hold the drone and hold E to launch it, or choose Follow mode in F3.
• Buy a weapon in the Main tab. Buying a different weapon replaces the equipped gun; buying the same equipped gun does not charge you twice.
• Set its follow leash radius, customize its colors, and select Follow, Turret, or FPV mode.

Drone Control Center

The F3 interface shows the drone’s name, owner, operating mode, current distance from its owner, weapon, ammunition, targeting tier, upgrade level, and safety status. Its Main tab controls the weapon, flight mode, follow leash radius, upgrades, targeting, Recall to Leash, and Recall to Hands. The two recall controls use compact labels so both actions remain fully readable at the normal interface scale. The Colors tab has separate RGB controls for:

• Main body
• Propellers
• Accents and lights

The selected colors update immediately for the owner, host, and other players. They are saved with the drone and appear on its world model, held model, and hotbar icon.

You can rename the drone in the Main tab. Look toward a deployed drone from up to eight metres away to see its name, owner, and current mode directly above the interaction prompt. This cooler-style proximity and look-angle check does not depend on hitting the drone's small pickup collider. The same extended range lets its owner hold E to pick it up.

Follow and flight modes

Follow mode calculates its launch point from the activating player's live movement transfo