MoreFish

More Fish

1,166 fish variants for How to Fish — 22 morphs applied across all 53

species, ten of them brand new, with abilities, armed fish that shoot back, a

variant journal and trophy mounting.

No new art assets, no asset bundles, no Unity install. Everything is generated at

runtime from what the game already ships.

Requires BepInEx 5.

What it adds

Variants

Every fish can turn up as one of 22 morphs — Albino, Melanistic, Ember,

Tidal, Coral, Tiger, Spotted, Marbled, Camo, Harlequin, Hazard, Polka, Golden,

Chrome, Verdant, Ruby, Glacial, Molten, Spectral, Prismatic, Armed and Outlaw.

They use the game's own skin system, so a Marbled fish gets real wood-grain

banding and a Tiger fish real stripes, rather than a colour wash. Prismatic is

the rarest at 1 in 556 catches.

Abilities, and value that follows them

Each morph changes what a fish does, and its sale price is derived from

that rather than set by hand — a fish is worth what it can actually do.

| Axis | Effect |

|---|---|

| Heal | Health restored when eaten |

| Food | Hunger restored |

| HP | How much killing it takes |

| Hazard | Poisons or burns whoever eats it |

Values run from 1.7× (Tender Albino) to 8.9× (Fabled Prismatic). Toxic

and Scalding fish pay well precisely because eating them is a bad idea.

Fish that shoot back

Armed and Outlaw variants carry a real weapon — a pistol or an SMG,

sized to the fish and mounted on its head. They hunt you in short lunges, hold a

stand-off distance, check line of sight, and fire: single shots from the pistol,

four-round bursts from the SMG, with spread and misses you can see go wide.

Turn them off with General / HostileVariants.

Ten new species

Modelled procedurally in code and generated at load:

Dolphin · Orca · Narwhal · Hammerhead · Swordfish · Manta Ray · Sea Turtle ·

Giant Squid · Moon Jelly · Sea Serpent

Each is built on a donor creature chosen for how it moves — the turtle walks

like a crab, the serpent and squid swim like eels — and every one has googly

eyes. They inherit all 22 morphs, so there is a Golden Narwhal and an Outlaw Sea

Serpent out there somewhere.

Size that means something

The game already rolls a weight for every fish, between 0.25× and 1.75×, and does

nothing with it but change the number on the label. Fish now render at a size

matching their weight — vanilla fish included — so a record catch is visibly

bigger.

Variant journal

Press Tab, then click any species to page through its morphs and see which

you have caught. Right-click to go back. Base-game achievement progress still

counts only the base game's creatures, so "catch them all" stays achievable.

Trophies

Hold a dead fish, aim at a wall and press T to mount it on a wooden board

with a nail. Aim at a mounted fish with empty hands and press T to take it

down — it comes back with its original weight and morph.

Trophies keep their size, colour and species, and save per world.

Install

With a mod manager — install through Mod Manager or r2modman.

BepInEx comes as a dependency.

Manually — install BepInExPack,

then drop MoreFish.dll into How to Fish/BepInEx/plugins/MoreFish.

Run once to generate the config at

BepInEx/config/com.scarletttech.howtofish.morefish.cfg.

Configuration

| Setting | Default | Meaning |

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

| General / VariantChance | 0.22 | Odds any fish is a variant |

| General / RarityMultiplier | 1.0 | Scales that. 0 disables variants entirely |

| General / HostileVariants | true | Armed fish carry weapons and shoot |

| General / CustomSpeciesRarity | 0.12 | How often the ten new species appear |

| Individuals / SizeVariation | true | Render size tracks individual weight |

| Morphs / | true | One toggle per morph |

| Journal / VariantBrowser | true | Click a species to browse its variants |

| Trophies / * | | Mount key, reach, scale, plaque, labels, walls-only |

| Debug / Enabled | false | In-game panel (F8) to spawn any variant or force catches |

Multiplayer

The mod is client-optional. Variants are carrie