How to Fish Patch Notes

Patch 1.0.12 September 4, 2026

  • Save files are now stored through Steam Cloud . Play and exit How to Fish on the pc you've saved them on once to upload them to the cloud
  • Rebalanced piranha
  • Nerfed tuna slightly
  • Limited velocity on items, hopefully making items harder to lose
  • Updated MetaVoice to 4.3, hopefully fixing some bugs in voice chat (Thank you Connor Myers (Metater)!)
  • FishNet no longer overrides your max fps when joining a lobby
  • Now preloads music so that it doesn't lagspike when buying the first radio
  • Final boss should now take damage from explosives even when landing on its tail
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Patch 1.0.11 September 1, 2026

  • How to Fish is now playable through Geforce NOW
  • How to Fish is now fully Steam Deck Verified
  • Added option to use toggle for aiming
  • Added option to use toggle for sprinting
  • Added option to hold to attack
  • Added option to toggle nametags
  • Save files are now always checked that they're not corrupt before loading
  • Save files now have backups in case of becoming corrupt
  • Slightly moved roulette table on island 6 as it was a bit annoying to bet in that position
  • Changed color for item dots to make dropped weapons easier to find (weapons are now orange and dead players are turquoise)
  • You will now die from your own explosives even with friendly fire disabled
  • Removed iron sight as a purchasable since players only ever bought them by mistake, removing their expensive attachments
  • You can no longer downgrade from suppressor to compensator
  • Hopefully fixed inventory bug on join, making players invisible
  • Fixed so that items need to have been held once before selling
  • Fixed drip parrotfish not being cooked
  • Fixed hands sometimes teleporting instead of moving smoothly to a picked up item
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Patch 1.0.10 August 27, 2026

  • Created a new channel just for fanart in the community discord . You are very welcome to post any fanart of How to Fish, we'd love to see it! (props to borgus18 for patch splash art)
  • Weapons and tools now get cleaned from cooking when dipped in water
  • Items dropped on the ground are now saved between sessions (up to 64 total items, prioritizing weapons, tools, quest items and creatures)
  • Nerfed anglerfish slightly since it was too annoying with a lot of health
  • Fixed beer bleeding when punched
  • Fixed a bug where you could die by tuna, spawn albatross and become unable to respawn
  • "Last played" saved in UTC but didnt convert to localtime, displaying the wrong time.
  • No more rich text in chat since griefers were exploiting it
  • Limited max velocity on explosions so items don't fly so far that they dissapear
  • Fixed a bug where things broke if a player and a seagull picked up an item at the same time
  • Fixed infinite ticking on roulette table when at high values
  • Roulette ball should hopefully not clip through the wheel anymore
  • Now prints game version number in player.log for easier debugging
  • Increased time allowed to connect, hopefully lowering risk of being disconnected instantly
  • Fixed a bug where if you left while playing roulette it broke for the next session
  • Hopefully fixed items spawning far away when equipping one from the inventory
  • No longer shows item dots while in end game screen
  • Removed X marker on the radar (it was the position where you last died, but was just confusing)
  • Hopefully fixed items falling through the level when loading a game or joining a lobby
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Patch 1.0.9 August 24, 2026

  • Added option to change difficulty both in the main menu and in-game. Default setting is same as previous, but now also has easy and hard mode.
  • Easy mode: All creatures have 25% less health and does 50% less damage.
  • Hard mode: All creatures have 25% more health and does 25% more damage.
  • Added a short Steam connection debug in the main menu to show if connection fails when initializing. If the Steam relay text becomes red, check the #common-bugs channel in the Community Discord for guides on how to fix it.
  • Hopefully fixed save files being corrupted. If you're still having problems with loading saves or game crashing when equipping weapons, you can head to the Community Discord to see how to remove them.
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Patch 1.0.8 August 24, 2026

  • Should now display playstation controller glyphs correctly
  • Also linked fire sizzling sound to FX volume slider so it actually changes when changing FX volume
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