Changelog

🆕 Added — Fishing Minigame

• Introduced a real-time fishing minigame featuring actual fish entities.
• Added four supported fish species: Cod, Salmon, Tropical Fish, and Pufferfish.
• Added a multi-stage fishing encounter: Settling, Waiting, Approaching, Biting, and Fighting.
• Fish now approach the bait before biting.
• Added directional fish movement during fights, requiring players to counter their movements.
• Added a fishing HUD displaying line tension, fish fatigue, catch progress, and movement direction.
• Added fish escape and fishing line break mechanics.
• Added fish reactions to nearby players through configurable hearing and vision systems.
• Fish AI is temporarily controlled during active fishing encounters and restored afterward.

🌊 Added — Fishing Ecosystem

• Added water volume detection and validation.
• Added minimum water volume and depth requirements.
• Added automatic fish population replenishment.
• Fish spawn discreetly, preferring deeper water and locations outside the player's view.
• Added configurable ecosystem population limits and spawn settings.

🎣 Added — Fish Species Attributes

Each supported species now has individual fight characteristics and progression requirements.

📈 Added — Fishing Skill Progression

• Fish attraction speed increases with Fishing level, reaching up to +150% at level 99.
• Fish fatigue increases by up to +100%.
• Line tension growth is reduced by up to 40%.
• Line recovery speed increases by up to +100%.
• Fishing progression bonuses respect the existing configuration settings.

🎁 Added — Fishing Rewards

• Successful catches reward the actual fish species caught.
• Added bonus loot rolls using the player's fishing rank.
• Prevented duplicate fish-category rewards when the caught fish is already granted as the main reward.
• Added vanilla fishing loot fallback when custom rank-based loot is unavailable or disabled.
• Fishing XP is calculated using the configured catch XP and the caught species' XP multiplier.
• Successful catches consume 1 fishing rod durability point.
• Escaped fish provide no XP or rewards.
• Fishing line breaks apply a configurable durability penalty.

🛠️ Added — Fishing Debugging & Configuration

• Added /simpleskills fishing debug to toggle detailed fishing diagnostics for individual players.
• Added configuration options for fishing fights, fish detection, attraction, fleeing, hearing, vision, fatigue, line tension, recovery, ecosystem requirements, population, bite windows, and species level requirements.
• Added configurable line break durability loss.