🔧 How to Fish 모드 & 모딩 가이드

There is no Steam Workshop support, but a real modding scene exists: Thunderstore hosts a How to Fish section (over 120 packages as of early September 2026, led by the official BepInEx pack) and NexusMods has a growing howtofish category. Mods load through BepInEx, installable manually or with the r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager one-click flow. Back up your saves before installing anything.

💡 Save files live in %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Dazed Games\How to Fish\Saves — copy that folder before your first mod, and again before every game update.

All of this is community-driven — Dazed Games has not shipped official mod support, so everything on this page describes third-party tooling that works today.

• Steam → right-click How to Fish → Manage → Browse local files — this opens the game folder.
• Download BepInEx from the Thunderstore How to Fish section (the pinned BepInExPack) and extract it into the game folder so that plugins/ and doorstop files sit next to HowToFish.exe.
• Drop each mod's .dll (or its whole folder) into BepInEx/plugins/.
• Launch the game once — BepInEx generates its config files, then restart to apply settings.
• Easier route: install r2modman (Thunderstore Mod Manager), pick How to Fish as the profile game, and click Install on each mod — it handles the folder layout for you.

💡 If a modded game suddenly fails to launch after a patch, delete the BepInEx folder and re-extract a fresh loader — game updates break old loaders regularly.

Saves are plain .txt files (single-line JSON) under %USERPROFILE%\AppData\LocalLow\Dazed Games\How to Fish\Saves. Copy the whole folder somewhere safe before modding, and again before verifying game files — the full save-editing walkthrough, including restoring a backup, is on the save troubleshooting page.

• Steam's "Verify integrity of game files" will strip modified game files including BepInEx — re-install the loader afterwards, your saves survive.
• For inventory-level tinkering without mods at all, see the item IDs page — editing the save file directly needs no loader.

What the community is actually downloading, by category — names and availability change weekly, so treat this as a starting map rather than a catalog:

• Training / cheat menus: in-game debug-style menus (e.g. the BoomThisHowToFish trainer) for spawning items and testing.
• Lobby-size unlockers: raise co-op beyond the official 8-player cap — use at your own risk, and only with players running the same mod.
• Quality-of-life tweaks: weather and day-night control, blood-color and visual changes.
• Frameworks: NPC and scripting frameworks that bigger mods build on.

💡 In multiplayer, every player needs the same mod set — one modded client desyncs the lobby.