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How to Fish Patch Notes

What changed in each build, and which pages here it makes stale. Patch numbers matter in this game more than most — several fixes are behaviour changes rather than bug fixes.

Current version

The latest build is Patch 1.1.3. Boss, fish and island pages were last checked against 1.0.12 and say where the 1.1 Islet Update changes things. If you are on an older build, co-op will refuse to match you with players on a newer one — that is the most common cause of a lobby that will not connect.

The two changes worth knowing

  • Patch 1.0.6 stopped the game saving on crash. That was deliberate, not a regression. Use the Save button at clean stopping points —how saving works now.
  • Patch 1.0.9 added difficulty settings. Easy and Hard sit either side of the original tuning, which stayed as the default. Boss advice here assumes default.

History

Patch 1.1.3CurrentSeptember 29, 2026

  • The fishipedia now shows which bait catches a fish, once you have killed it once — aimed at hunting drip creatures.

Affects: Rare variants

Patch 1.1.2September 29, 2026

  • Reload can be rebound.
  • Two new bow skins.
  • New bait spawns on the new mini island raised from two to three.
  • Wishbone upgrade prices adjusted.
  • Mini island dots on the Radar made bigger.
  • Option to downgrade back to iron sights.
  • Fixed Tench not spawning from the new bait.

Affects: Bow

Patch 1.1.0September 28, 2026

  • The Islet Update, the first content update.
  • A new weapon — the bow.
  • Multiple mini islands, and the distance between islands adjusted.
  • More creatures, a new mini-boss, a new bait, more items and a new NPC.
  • New achievements and a new outfit.
  • A bundle with PEAK.

Affects: Bow, Weapons

Patch 1.0.12

  • Steam Cloud saves added.
  • Piranha rebalanced; Tuna slightly nerfed.
  • Item velocity capped.
  • Voice chat updated.
  • Fixed the multiplayer frame rate cap.

Affects: Boss guides, Fixes

Patch 1.0.11

  • Steam Deck Verified.
  • GeForce NOW support added.
  • Saves are now checked before loading, and a backup is written when corruption is found.

Affects: Fixes — saves

Patch 1.0.10

  • Released between 1.0.9 and 1.0.11. We have not found a published change list for it.

Patch 1.0.9August 24, 2026

  • Difficulty settings added — Easy and Hard, alongside the original tuning as the default.

Affects: Boss guides

Patch 1.0.6

  • The game no longer saves when it crashes. Saves are written on the Save button, on returning to the Main Menu, on Quit, and by an autosave roughly every minute.

Affects: Fixes — saves

Patch 1.0.5

  • Private lobbies, joinable by invite only.
  • Session type can be changed in server settings.
  • Invert axis options for X and Y look.
  • Fixed slot machine skins being invisible while rolling at 4K.
  • Fixed the all-drip-creatures achievement not unlocking until the next drip was found.

Affects: Fixes — co-op, Rare variants

Patch 1.0.4

  • Lobby size raised from four players to eight.

Affects: Fixes — co-op

Gaps in this list

Patches 1.0.1 to 1.0.3, 1.0.7, 1.0.8 and 1.0.10 shipped but we have not found published change lists for them, so they are not invented here. Release dates are only shown where a source gave one.

Compiled from published patch write-ups rather than read off the in-game changelog. Spotted a change we have wrong or missing? Send it over.