# How to Fish PATCH 1.0.4

- Product: How to Fish (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/how-to-fish)
- Vendor: Dazed Games
- Date: 2026-08-21
- Original notes: https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/4001890/view/711158520539513915
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/how-to-fish/releases/2026-08-21-patch-1.0.4

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- **added** — Support for up to 8 player lobbies
- **changed** — Nerfed Pufferfish
- **changed** — Nerfed Whale
- **changed** — Made intended path up to the final island easier to see
- **fixed** — Fixed blackscreen when trying to join lobby
- **fixed** — Fixed grayscreen when starting the game by not trying to force fullscreen-mode
- **fixed** — Fixed permanent boss timer on screen sometimes showing
- **fixed** — Fixed underwater effects in main menu when leaving while underwater
- **fixed** — Fixed permanent revive text when dead player self-revives while being held
- **changed** — No longer allows special characters in server names since it breaks the save file
- **fixed** — Fixed achievement to kill final boss with bare hands for everyone

Hello!

Just a small patch note for fixing a few bugs and doing some balance changes we've been seeing from the bug-report in our Discord from the community (thanks : ))

##### Changes

- Added support for up to 8 player lobbies

- Nerfed Pufferfish

- Nerfed Whale

- Made intended path up to the final island easier to see

##### Fixes

- **(Hopefully!)** Fixed blackscreen when trying to join lobby

- **(Hopefully!) **Fixed grayscreen when starting the game by not trying to force fullscreen-mode

- Fixed permanent boss timer on screen sometimes showing

- Fixed underwater effects in main menu when leaving while underwater

- Fixed permanent revive text when dead player self-revives while being held

- No longer allows special characters in server names since it breaks the save file

- Fixed achievement to kill final boss with bare hands for everyone

**Found any more bugs?**

Let us know in the bug-report in (https://discord.gg/N9bfGzNP4J)

Happy trick shotting

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Carl-Vilhelm

Melvin