FishFry 1.2.8 — Changes Since 1.2.7

Guide, Starter Assist, and Route Updates

• Comfortable — 120% is now the default Guide size for new installs and profiles without a saved Guide-scale preference.
• Existing Guide-size preferences remain unchanged.
• Renamed the windowed Guide sizes to Compact — 100% and Comfortable — 120%.
• Corrected Starter Assist progression so a route advances only after both its required Fishing and Cooking thresholds are satisfied.
• Reworked the confirmed Undead 1–75 opening route around the actual Deathknell, Eleanor Shackleton, Brightwater Lake, and Cooking progression.
• Corrected Camping 101: Fishing so it is picked up from Eleanor Shackleton after Fishing training and turned in to Clyde Kellan at Fishing 20 for the Fish Bowl.
• Updated the Undead Brightwater progression target to 75 Fishing and about 60 Raw Brilliant Smallfish before moving into the Cooking-50 portion of the route.
• Clarified the transition from Brilliant Smallfish to Recipe: Longjaw Mud Snapper at Cooking 50.
• Added guidance for Sickly Looking Fish and other catches that do not advance the fish-Cooking route.
• Added Martine Tramblay's confirmed Slitherskin Mackerel recipe to the Undead starter provisioning step.
• Clarified Camping 101 pickup/turn-in sequencing across the Horde Orc/Troll, Tauren, Skyborne, and Undead Starter Assist paths.
• Restored waypoint labels such as Step 1a, Step 1b, and Step 3/4 and corrected duplicated waypoint-prefix text.
• Keeps Plot TomTom Route aligned with the individual Waypoint action column.
• Added Darkshore Zone Info for The Family and the Fishing Pole, including the Darkshore Grouper objective and Blump Family Fishing Pole (+3 Fishing) reward.
• Added Bristle Whisker Catfish to the fishing-utility consumables flyout while retaining its cooked-fish classification and Fishing-bonus metadata.

Character and Minimap Persistence

• Fresh characters no longer inherit another character's manually selected Starter Assist path.
• Minimap-button position is now stored account-wide for Forever.
• Existing saved minimap position is migrated forward where applicable.

Cooking HUD Visuals

• Rebuilt the live Circle-HUD Cooking hearth around a dedicated render surface so normal HUD button visibility/layout refreshes no longer disturb the campfire.
• Converted the main Cooking hearth to a static compositor instead of continuously rewriting its large textures every animation frame.
• Removed the recurring brightness pulsing, breathing, drift, and large-area flicker that could make the Cooking hearth strobe during repeated crafting.
• Repeated Cooking casts can keep the established hearth visible instead of repeatedly tearing down and rebuilding the full visual.
• Cooking hearth geometry now updates deliberately when the HUD changes between 100%, 130%, and 150%.
• The 150% HUD receives an additional 10% Cooking-hearth footprint increase; 100% and 130% retain their established sizing.

Cooking Embers

• Moved Cooking embers into their own isolated particle renderer so ember animation cannot rewrite or destabilize the static hearth.
• Embers launch from the hearth center and travel outward in randomized 360-degree radial directions.
• Increased the ember pool to 9 particles.
• Ember size varies from approximately 15–44 px at 100% HUD scale.
• Individual launches retain randomized travel speed while the final maximum travel-speed factor has been reduced from 100% to 80%.
• Overall ember travel distance has been reduced by 20%.
• Ember launches remain staggered with particle-local fades and constant size during each flight.
• Embers render between the hearth and HUD controls so they remain visible without covering the action buttons.

Collapsed HUD Behavior

• Collapsing the HUD now suppresses the full Cooking hearth, Cooking ember plane, and Fishing Water Pool/swirl.
• Cooking smoke remains available around the central FishFry icon while collapsed.
• Fishing bubbles remain available around the central FishFry icon while collapsed.
• Expanding the HUD restores the normal button-relative visual behavior.

HUD Options and Window Handling

• Renamed the Options setting from Authored HUD animations to HUD animations.
• The existing FishFryDB.bar.authoredHudAnimations saved setting is preserved; no migration is required.
• Added FishFry-owned Escape-key window handling.
• Escape closes FishFry popouts and diagnostic windows before closing the main Guide.
• Only one registered FishFry window closes per Escape press.