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How to Fish Patch Notes

Steam news facts through 1.0.10. Inner hub pages that may need a recheck are listed in each summary.

Patch 1.0.10 — gear cleaning, ground items persist

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2026-08-27

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, and quest items. Dazed Games also opened a fanart channel in the community Discord. Our synced copy of the Steam post is truncated after the ground-items line, so the rest of the 1.0.10 list is not published here — read the official post.

May need a recheck: How to Fish Game Guide, All Islands in How to Fish

Patch 1.0.9 — Easy / Hard difficulty

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2026-08-24

Easy: creatures −25% HP, −50% damage. Hard: +25% HP, +25% damage. Steam connection debug in main menu. Attempted save-corruption fix.

May need a recheck: How to Fish Game Guide

Patch 1.0.8 — PlayStation glyphs

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2026-08-24

PlayStation controller glyphs. Fire sizzle tied to FX volume.

May need a recheck: How to Fish Game Guide

Patch 1.0.6 — save checks

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2026-08-23

Save-file check before load. No save on crash. Save on Save / Main Menu / Quit. Autosave every minute.

May need a recheck: How to Fish Game Guide

Patch 1.0.5 — private lobbies, island-skip fix, Bean notes break

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2026-08-22

Invert look axes. Private invite-only lobby. Change session type in-game (restart required). Min FPS lock 50 → 30. Fixed traveling to locked islands. 4K slot-machine skin bug. Found-all-drip-creatures achievement off-by-one. Griefers can no longer instantly end the game. Steam Bean hour-run guides marked outdated after this patch.

May need a recheck: How to Fish Multiplayer Guide, How to Fish Steam Achievements List, How to Fish Game Guide, All Islands in How to Fish

Patch 1.0.4 — 8-player lobbies, puffer and whale nerfs

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2026-08-21

Lobbies up to 8 (store still 1–4). Pufferfish and whale nerfs. Clearer path to the final island. Lobby blackscreen / grayscreen fixes. Griefers could not instantly end the game (more in 1.0.5). Handyman-related bare-hands final-boss achievement fix. No special characters in server names (save corruption).

May need a recheck: How to Fish Multiplayer Guide, All Islands in How to Fish, How to Fish Steam Achievements List