Current version: 1.1.0; historical 1.0.12 notes below
The Islet Update released September 28. Its new small islands, euro tasks and achievements are covered separately. The fixes below belong to 1.0.12 and must not be read as confirmation that new Fishipedia or modded-shop reports are solved.
Dazed Games published Patch 1.0.12 on September 4 in the Steam feed, or just after midnight September 5 in Asia/Shanghai. Restart Steam to receive the update.
Steam Cloud is synchronization, not a guaranteed undelete tool. Preserve the correct local campaign until it opens on the destination; the announcement does not publish conflict-merging behavior or a cloud rollback browser.
What Patch 1.0.12 changed
| Area | Official change | Practical meaning |
|---|---|---|
| Steam Cloud | Saves are now stored through Steam Cloud; existing saves upload after one launch and exit on their source PC | Start on the device with the wanted campaign and wait for synchronization before switching |
| Piranha | Rebalanced Piranha | No direction, health, damage, spawn or co-op scaling value is published |
| Tuna | Slightly nerfed Tuna | Retest the Island 4 encounter; no numerical change is published |
| Loose items | Limited item velocity, hopefully making items harder to lose | This is cautious mitigation wording, not a guarantee that every missing item is fixed |
| Voice chat | Updated MetaVoice to 4.3, hopefully fixing some voice-chat bugs | Retest voice capture separately from inverted or distorted game audio |
| Multiplayer FPS cap | FishNet no longer overrides Max FPS when joining a lobby | The specific join-time cap reset is fixed; no universal GPU or stutter fix is claimed |
| Radio | Music now preloads to prevent the lag spike when buying the first Radio | Retest that first-purchase hitch on 1.0.12 |
| Final boss | Explosives should now damage the boss even when landing on its tail | The fix is location-specific and does not publish weapon damage values |
Two changes still use cautious official wording
Dazed Games says the item-velocity limit will “hopefully” make items harder to lose and that MetaVoice 4.3 will “hopefully” fix some voice-chat bugs. Treat both as changes to retest, not a promise that every item-loss or audio report is closed.
Official patch timeline
| Version | Date in Steam feed | Changes most relevant to this wiki |
|---|---|---|
| 1.1.0 | September 28 | First content update: mini islands, weapon, creatures, mini-boss, bait, NPC, outfit and achievements; island-spacing and sound-volume changes |
| 1.0.12 | September 4 | Steam Cloud; Piranha and Tuna balance; item velocity; MetaVoice; multiplayer FPS cap, Radio and final-boss fixes |
| 1.0.11 | September 1 | Steam Deck Verified; GeForce NOW; save backups; new controls; explosives, attachments, selling and join/cooking fixes |
| 1.0.10 | August 27 | Water cleans cooked gear; up to 64 ground items persist; Anglerfish nerf; roulette, connection, Radar and item-loss changes |
| 1.0.9 | August 24 | Easy/Normal/Hard difficulty; exact creature health and damage modifiers; Steam Relay debug; attempted save-corruption fix |
| 1.0.8 | August 24 | PlayStation controller glyph correction; fire sizzling sound connected to the FX volume control |
| 1.0.6 | August 23 | Checks a save before loading; no crash-time save; writes on Save, Main Menu and Quit; autosaves every minute |
| 1.0.5 | August 22 | Invite-only lobbies; session-type restart rule; 30 FPS minimum lock option; progression and 4K slot-machine fixes |
| 1.0.4 | August 21 | Up to 8-player lobbies; boss nerfs; clearer final-island route; attempted black/gray-screen fixes |
Difficulty and Steam Relay still come from 1.0.9
Patch 1.0.12 does not replace the difficulty rules. Easy keeps creatures at 75% of Normal health and 50% damage; Hard keeps both at 125%. The main-menu Steam Relay status also remains the first official signal to check when connection initialization fails.
Save triggers still come from 1.0.6
Use Save after an expensive purchase, boss trophy or island unlock, then leave through Main Menu or Quit when possible. The one-minute autosave remains a fallback. Patch 1.0.10 changes which dropped objects persist; it does not add a public previous-save browser.
Current player-reported issues and questions
The September 5 scan found immediate Cloud-migration questions, several difficult post-patch Piranha reports and a separate inverted-audio report. These community observations show current demand; they do not add unpublished patch values or causes.
Content update shipped; later plans remain unannounced
The September 4 plan to work on content was followed by 1.1.0 on September 28. The updated roadmap separates that released content from any later schedule. No later content-update date was found in the September 29 official-feed check.
What changed on this wiki for September 16
Save help now separates missing skin unlocks and Fishipedia entries from inventory and campaign loss after a reported laptop session. The skin and Cloud guides explain preserving both devices before recovery, without treating the report as a confirmed Cloud fault.
Reel help now distinguishes an ordinary-fish input, a completed cosmetic reward and a machine that rejects a confirmed Drip. The latest official patch remains 1.0.12.
September 15 update
Drip collection now includes Goby and Goldfish community chance estimates, with bait links from the fish tracker and sprint-fishing guide. Average hooks are not guaranteed catch counts.
Leech help separates hidden pickups from no spawns after a boss death, including mixed results for an older save-reload workaround. Multiplayer help now explains Driftwood’s third-party dedicated-server option. The latest official patch remains 1.0.12.
September 14 update
Boat-loading help explains the older Singleplayer workaround alongside a player who stalls only in that mode. Steam Cloud help covers an upload that never starts before a laptop switch, without assuming save loss.
Rod-input help separates a weak Island 2 cast from a stationary hook, and cooked-weapon help explains the shallow-water action without a death step. These are guide clarifications; the latest official patch remains 1.0.12.
September 13 update
The skin guide now separates wooden appearance resets, missing unlocks and hats changing after restart. Missing-item help covers guns disappearing after a teammate revives the player, while multiplayer help distinguishes a boat-start crash from an active lobby freeze.
The fish database explains its 50 entries and the 49-versus-50 Collector question. These are community-reported issues, not new official fixes; the latest official patch remains 1.0.12.
September 12 update
Joining a friend’s save now distinguishes a community answer about items, cash and skins from unanswered reconnect and quest-progress cases. Save recovery and Steam Cloud help separate an entirely empty inventory from loose-item loss and cross-device synchronization.
The controls troubleshooting and 360 No Scope guide now cover a community report of shots drifting after turns. No official hip-fire fix or universal inventory recovery is announced; the latest official patch remains 1.0.12.
September 11 update
The platform guide now answers Android, iPhone and APK questions and distinguishes the separate Roblox experience from Dazed Games’ Steam release. No native mobile release has been announced.
The Albatross guide and multiplayer help distinguish a bird that is invisible to some players during battle from a failed spawn trigger. Island progression separates locked coordinates from a destination that remains absent on arrival. These community reports do not establish a cause or working fix. The latest official patch remains 1.0.12.
September 10 update
The new sensitivity converter matches hip-fire mouse travel, handles different DPI values and converts vertical or horizontal FOV. Controls help now separates ADS feel and reported FOV resets from stuttering.
The September 10 v1.0.11+ Solo snapshot lists 100% at 1:25:49.667 by Klob and No Gambling at 15:59.933 by balllight. The player-count answer clarifies official eight-player support, and mod-manager help explains current Steam Workshop availability.
September 9 update
The new HowToFishXR guide covers Windows PCVR setup, Quest connections, casting, reeling, multiplayer and returning to flat-screen play. The skin guide now explains shared local unlocks and their separate cross-device sync question.
Multiplayer help now separates Connection Failed at startup from lobby joins and version mismatches. Audio help adds a wired-USB comparison for stacking sound on wireless headsets, keeping the reported result specific to one player. Those reports were documented before the September 28 Islet Update; its notes do not confirm their resolution.
September 8 update
The v1.0.11+ Solo speedrun snapshot now lists Any% at 12:30.067 by spenceuh and No Dynamite at 16:16.167 by Habbie. The other three category leaders are unchanged. Boss health guidance now covers the community player-count example alongside the official difficulty modifiers.
Missing-item help now separates a Drip Seahorse lost after a screenshot from weapons lost after death. The Radar guide adds the Piranha-island shop-post check, and the weapons guide covers accidental sales and the limits of the reported buy-back tip.
September 7 update
The new skin checklist lets you filter equipment, rarity and island, compare community normal-spin chances, and save checkmarks in your browser. It distinguishes 114 normal rewards, nine defaults and four entries outside normal drops. The Reel guide now covers SMG Rainbow islands and Knife Rainbow’s Rare classification.
The existing controls help now separates text-chat rebinding, Reload stuck on R and bindings that reset after restart. Those controls reports predate 1.1.0; the September 28 Islet Update does not name a fix for them.
September 6 update
- Added sprint-fishing and reel-release controls for Drip and Fishipedia collection, including the Professional Lure route for Drip Dripper.
- Updated v1.0.11+ Solo No Dynamite to 17:29.717 by Twicemas and No Gambling to 53:29.033 by Goldenpuppy192.
- Expanded the tracker from 44 to 50 entries with Brown Crab, Goby, Bowlfish, Dripper, Sunfish and Bing Bong; existing checkmarks are preserved.
- Added the exact Thunderstore missing-game-folder recovery sequence and expanded the existing solo-play advice.
- 1.1.0 released September 28; no later content-update date was found in the September 29 check.
September 5 update
- Previously updated the 1.0.12 answers across the site; the September 29 revision adds the 1.1.0 release link while preserving those historical fix details.
- Added a complete Steam Cloud migration guide for uploading an existing save and protecting divergent Deck and PC progress.
- Published only the official Piranha rebalance and current difficulty reports; no health, damage, spawn or co-op scaling value was invented.
- Marked the multiplayer FPS-cap, first-Radio lag spike and final-boss tail explosive issues with their exact shipped fixes.
- Refreshed Crab% to 1:10.433 while keeping the leaderboard community-owned and date-stamped.
September 4 update
- Rebuilt the speedrun snapshot around the current v1.0.11+ board, added No Gambling and replaced the obsolete v1.0.5+ grouping.
- Expanded the existing killscore guide with current community-reported modifier values while keeping the official 5x achievement and unpublished formula boundary clear.
- Updated the platforms guide with the official Dazed Games statement that console and Mac ports are planned, without inventing a date or specific console list.
- Held Sprint Fishing as a single-guide technique because it was not independently reproduced during this run; no thin standalone page was created.
September 3 update
- Added the exact Friendly Fire off and TNT answer to weapons, Bean and speedrun guidance, backed by the official 1.0.11 rule and the fresh player question.
- Added a Version Mismatch recovery sequence to multiplayer help: restart Steam and install the pending update on every PC before rebuilding the lobby.
- Rejected a full Steam reinstall as the first response because the reporting player said it removed the installed game library.
- Kept boss regressions, version-error recovery and player search language community-labeled while preserving official patch facts separately.
September 2 update
- Published every official Patch 1.0.11 platform, save, control, explosive, attachment and fix entry without inventing backup filenames or restore behavior.
- Updated Steam Deck status from Playable to Verified and added GeForce NOW while keeping Steam Cloud as a separate, unadvertised feature.
- Updated save, controls, multiplayer, weapons, boss and collection guidance on existing pages instead of creating thin patch-fragment URLs.
- Added the Spider Crab and Pufferfish reports with community labels; the first has a reported hotfix and the second has no confirmed recovery.
September 1 update
- Added a backup-first Game Name slot recovery route to the existing save guide, with the public 1.0.6 validation rule kept separate from one player’s Discord-assisted recovery.
- Added host-crash, join-freeze and Steam Deck invite branches to the existing multiplayer guide without creating duplicate thin pages.
- Added a reversible another-PC or friend save-transfer test while leaving Steam-account and host-world compatibility unconfirmed.
- Recorded the Drippy Seahorse demand but did not publish a special bait, odds or guaranteed catch route because the checked thread supplies none.
August 31 update
- Added roulette help for green whale rewards that cannot be sold and x35 negative-wallet reports, alongside the narrower official fixes.
- Added a Steam Error 51 guide with separate routes for Unity and Windows policy failures.
- Expanded the save guide with accidental-deletion precautions and the reported limits of a backup-file attempt.
- Added sprint and crouch keybind-reset reporting to the existing performance and settings guide.
Earlier August updates
- Updated the existing Bing Bong guide for the cross-supported Drip variant without inventing an odds percentage or pity system.
- Added current Steam Cloud and Steam Deck-to-PC save-sync status to the platforms and save guides; no duplicate thin guide was created.
- Refreshed Speedrun.com snapshots to Any% 15:03.867 and No Dynamite 20:29.850, and added the new Crab% 1:17.800 reference.
- Added a dedicated speedrun hub with dated v1.0.5+ Solo Any%, No Dynamite and 100% verified references.
- Added a dedicated Unity 6000.4.4f1 red-exclamation startup-crash guide from two independent reports.
- Expanded save help for fresh post-1.0.10 loss reports and clarified that weapon priority is not unlimited storage.
- Added weapon-storage guidance and an unconfirmed Sniper-nerf status answer without inventing damage numbers.
- Replaced the obsolete “weapons cannot be uncooked” answer with the official water-cleaning route.
- Rebuilt save guidance around the 64-ground-item rule while keeping inventory loss, map fall-through and missing boats separate.
- Added the two current missing-boat cases to both save troubleshooting and island progression.
- Added the Spider Crab duplicate-result report to the Reel page without inventing changed odds.
- Added the Radar X removal and Anglerfish health change to their existing pages instead of creating thin new URLs.
- Updated current-version references across performance, audio, multiplayer, Windows launch help, navigation, search and site summaries.
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