How to Fish Mod Guide: Best Mods and How to Install

Thunderstore hosts The How to Fish Mod Database, the larger of the two hubs, with 63 mods listed at research time. Its category filters split uploads into Mods, Modpacks, Tools, Libraries, Audio, Misc, and AI Generated, plus separate Deprecated and NSFW filters, so you can hide outdated or adult uploads while browsing.

Nexus Mods runs a smaller How to Fish section with the same idea: individual mods, a few modpacks, and per-mod download counts and endorsements. Both hubs were only days old at research time, since How to Fish launched on Steam on Aug 20, 2026, and new uploads were arriving daily. Some mods, such as Stackable Items and Check My Stats, are published on both platforms, so check both sites before assuming a mod is missing.

Nearly every How to Fish mod is built on BepInEx. The BepInExPack on Thunderstore is a preconfigured, ready-to-use BepInEx pack for Mono Unity games, and it is the foundation the rest of the scene assumes you have installed first.

From there you have two routes:

1. Mod manager: Gale Mod Manager is a modern, lightweight alternative mod manager for Thunderstore that handles downloading and updating mods for you.
2. Manual install: many mods ship as a single DLL you copy into the game yourself. The 16-player mod, for example, describes itself as install the DLL and play, with no configuration required.

Follow the install instructions on each mod page for the exact BepInEx folder path, and since the game has 28 achievements, check whether mods affect them before modding a save you care about.

One smart early pick is ModMenu, which adds a native mod settings menu to the main menu and the in-game pause screen, with automatic controls for BepInEx mod configs.

Most of the catalog is quality-of-life work, meaning small HUD, inventory, and information fixes that leave the vanilla balance alone. The standouts from both hubs:

A few more deserve a mention. WashCookedItems lets you wash items you cooked by accident, and True First Person shows your arms and a fully animated body in first person. Fishydex pairs nicely with our Fish Guide, and BossHP makes our boss guides easier to follow when you can see exact health. If you want several tweaks at once, the Enhanced HowToFish modpack bundles quality-of-life mods into a single download.

A second cluster of mods changes how the game actually plays, from new weather to new movement:

• WeatherExpansion (beta): dynamic weather, a 24-hour day/night cycle, starry skies and meteors, ocean waves and wind, a boat radar glow, and a headlamp flashlight.
• Day and Night Cycle: a simpler take where the sun moves across the sky and fog and lighting shift with the time of day. The clock runs off the server tick, so co-op players see the same time.
• SuperCreatures: configure drop rates for Super (Drip) fish, slot machine item filters like Knives and Snipers, skin IDs, and fishing multipliers.
• Fish Magnet: attracts large amounts of fish from a distance, pitched by its author as useful for dynamite fishing.
• GreedySeagulls: seagulls steal from your hands, your rod, and the ground. A stolen gun fires as they fly, angered flocks swarm, and sometimes they just take the whole boat.
• FishSlapper: slap your catch to raise its sale price, but every smack after the first might cost you the lot.
• HTFSlide: sliding, a sprint toggle, and a launch boost when you slide off a ledge. Client-side.
• HTF DoubleJump: a second jump after each landing with mid-air turning, pitched as a way to dodge flying fish.
• GrenadeShotgun: turns the shotgun into a grenade launcher.
• Skyboat Bomber: press F6 to fly your boat with mouse controls and unleash dynamite carpet-bombing.
• How To Enchant: adds Minecraft-style enchantments to How to Fish.
• How To Armor: adds consumable armor levels to each island.
• HowToFishDroppedPersistence: the server host saves and restores items players pick up and then drop, keeping their enhancement attributes.
• HowToFishUnified: separate gold-coin calculation plus common console functions, with Chinese and English support.

Vanilla online co-op supports up to 8 players per lobby, a cap set by Patch 1.0.4. The How to Fish More Players mod raises that to 16 by expanding the Steam lobby and network client limits, and it is a lightweight BepInEx DLL with no configuration required. We cover it in detail on the multiplayer mod page, and the base co-op system in our multiplayer guide.

Two uploads matter for organized modded sessions. CheckMyStats is a read-only multiplayer HUD tracking damage, money, catches, revives, teammate kills, and deaths, with reliable host-client stat sync. HowtoFishIdentityAPI is a shared identity-verification library that gives server-authoritative mods a stable, verified player key, so it is a developer dependency rather than something you will notice in play.

The scene also has outright cheats. Complete Cheat Menu packs god mode, flight, ESP, a free camera, aimbot, zero recoil, and infinite ammo, plus teleporting anywhere, spawning any fish, boss, boat, gun, or item, unlocking every skin, editing money, items, and kill scores, and a rigged roulette. The GUARANTEED-HIT AIMBOT promises headshots from any range, toggled with F8, and was the most-downloaded single upload on Nexus Mods at research time with 1.8k downloads.

How to Fish is patched often, with Patch 1.0.9 live as of Aug 25, 2026, and every patch can change the game code that mods hook into. Check your mod pages after each patch to confirm the author has updated; our updates page tracks what each one changes.

The ModUpdateChecker mod automates part of this chore by checking your installed How to Fish mods against their latest versions on Thunderstore. In co-op, also agree on a shared mod list before you sail: several uploads are explicitly client-side, like HTFSlide, while others are server-driven, like the Day and Night Cycle clock running off the server tick and DroppedPersistence saving through the host.