The angler
Damage, heal, poison, set on fire, empty or fill the stomach… or «Kill», which drops the angler on the spot.
Getting started Automatic mod
How to Fish
Your chat goes fishing with you: they drop creatures and sea bosses on you, send the boat away, switch islands, arm you with whatever they like and decide who ends up broke.
5Steps
8Effect types
5Answered questions
A GIFT'S JOURNEY
How a gift reaches the game
Four stops, in under a second.
A viewer sends a gift
From TikTok, Twitch, Kick, YouTube or Starvios: a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.
OverInteractive
Receives the event, checks your active profile for the matching effect and sends it.
How to Fish mod
A mod the app installs in the game folder, together with BepInEx, that runs every effect in the game you host.
How to Fish · your game
The creature, the weapon or the island change shows up instantly, for you and for anyone playing with you.
STEP BY STEP
Getting started
Everything happens from the game's status bar, at the bottom of the app.
- 1
The app finds your game
It detects How to Fish in your Steam library. If it lives somewhere else, press «Set path» in the «Game» step of the bar below; either the game folder or the one with the same name inside it works.
- 2
Install the mod in one click
Press «Install mod» with the game closed. The app puts BepInEx, in the version for modern Unity games like How to Fish, and the OverInteractive mod in the game folder.
If the game is open, the app asks you to close it before installing.
- 3
Open the game and create your game
Open it from Steam or with «Launch game» and create a solo game or host one. The mod starts with the game.
- 4
Wait for «Connected»
The bar below switches to «Running · Connected». From then on every gift reaches the game.
- 5
Choose what each gift does
In «Profiles» create an example one in a click or build your own: each gift, follow or chat command fires the effect you pick.
EFFECTS
What your chat can do
Each effect is assigned to a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.
Rules
God mode, «One Shot» (everything dies in one hit, creatures and you included) or hard mode, with tougher creatures, for a while.
Creatures and bosses
A random creature, a swarm, the rare colourful variant or anything from the bestiary (Pufferfish, Blue Shark, Giant Piranha…), plus bosses with their health bar and music.
Weapons
A random weapon or the one chat picks (assault rifle, shotgun, sniper rifle, dynamite, brass knuckles…), in your hand or dropped on the ground.
Money
Put money into the shared pot, steal it or instantly sell whatever you are holding.
Islands and boat
Drag everyone to the next or previous island, send the boat far away so you swim back, or bring it right in front of you.
Movement
Launch you into the air, teleport you to a random spot nearby or a camera earthquake.
Gear
«Butterfingers» dumps your whole inventory and «Mystery Bait» swaps your bait for a random one.
IMPORTANT
Before you go live
In co-op, you must be the host
The game gives the final say to whoever creates the game. If you join someone else's, effects that change the world (creatures, money, islands, weapons) are not applied. Solo, you are always the host.
Some effects hurt a lot
«Kill» drops you instantly, «One Shot» applies to you too, bosses have thousands of health points and «Butterfingers» dumps your inventory on the ground. Put them on expensive gifts.
It hits the whole group
Creatures, island changes and the boat are seen and felt by every player in the game.
FAQ
Yes, as long as you create the game. The game gives the final say to the host, so effects that spawn creatures or change the world only work from there.
It adds BepInEx and the OverInteractive mod to the game folder without touching original files. Money and items chat gives or takes count in the game like any others.
Wait a few seconds with the game open. If it still won't connect, close the game, press «Reinstall mod» in the ⋯ menu of the «Mod» step and open it again.
Yes. Effects are the same whichever platform the event comes from; you decide in «Profiles» what triggers each one.
From the ⋯ menu of the «Mod» step in the bar below, «Uninstall mod». The mod stops loading; the BepInEx loader stays in the folder, but without the mod it changes nothing in your game.
Ready for your chat to play with you?
Download OverInteractive for free: this same guide is waiting inside the app, in the game's «Start» tab.
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