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it doesn't it uses old background fish sprties

So does this edit the existing background fish in any way or spawn new monsters using their sprites and animations?

Do we have a map for fishing?

wait the background fish are getting fishier?

Yeah i know, I put a backup in the files to swap it over to.

Great mod, just heads up that the spring update will probably break the image files used for this mod, the fish are getting a “facelift”

I would also love if there was a hungry Europans patch. Would be nice to eat the fruits of our labor

You should do a hugry europeanss patch to cook the fish, that'd be pretty cool

It should be, I'm unsure about the Europan Swimsuit however, I'd advise against using it if you believe it might not work.

is this compatible with immersive diving gear?

Sounds good.

Well I already got around to doing that, I can pass you the code, I also changed the number around since everyone starts between 5-10 helm (execpt captain which is 40-50) so I made changed the number slightly so normal crew can't instantly unlock tuna cans, they can make baked flounder.

I also made fishing give you helm skill.

You know, you make a pretty compelling point to make it helm actually. Next time i get around to updating this mod, i might swap out the skill req's to helm.

I really don't think it should be there, like maybe with Hungry Europeans, I can undestand it as Food is a very integral mechanic but fishing, akin to gardening, isn't that important and shouldn't be that important.

At it's very best it's a way to get crafting resources when you really need them and can't get them, say you are playing with a mod that removes any outposts.

BUT I think if we strictly are using Vanilla game + Better Collection, I really don't think Fishing is that important to have it's own dedicated skill, especially when you say it's meant to make it more worth it, I think it should be worth it by default because let's be real.

Variation of Protein Bars that give more or less hyper activity and healing isn't that powerful to require a fishing skill, it should be Helm skill or medical skill, since Helm already is used for crafting cigarettes and rum, makes sense and would give captain something more interesting than just watching the sonar or get black out drunk.

Solid crticism, I might reach out to a spriter i know to make a better sprite for the swimsuit. However i usually throw together my own. But tbh i agree it can stand to look alot better.

As for the fishing skill, its just there for making it so you've got to put a bit of time in at the start to make fishing really worth it time wise.

I'm also planning on making a better agriculture in the future, ironically.

Edit: found it, it's Barotrauma Extended Wet suit

But other than that, this is a very good mod and aside from some aesthetics improvements, mostly the swimsuit and the harpoon gun, I think it's perfectly good and I'd say should be an addition to vanilla.

I think this mod is great! It adds another way to spend time when the horrors aren't assaulting your ship or you are at an outpost. I do like the concept of being an alternative to gardening for getting resources, and slightly more "active" way to get them.

I do have a complaint: I wish there was a version without "fishing skill" I feel it's rather unnecessary for such a background task, personally I think it just adds unnecesary bloat, like there isn't a "Gardening" skill for a reason, it's not that the devs forgot, it's that gardening isn't that big of an aspect that giving it skills would be adding more bloat.

Also minor nitpick but the swimsuit looks a bit meh, maybe ask for permission from Barutrauma Extended team for their swimsuit because it looks very good or EK if they had something like that.