Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

Yes, when traveling across rivers or ocean I die frequently due to fish biting me through the boat. This includes eel, lamprey, and piranhas.

Describe the solution you'd like

If a player is in a boat, the fish should not aggro.

Describe alternatives you've considered

N/A

Additional context

In real life, fish cannot chew through the hull of a boat. If they try to bite a boat, they do not succeed. Why can the fish bite through my boat :(

It may make sense to allow fish to damage the boat instead of the player? once the boat runs out of health, it will drop- leaving the player vulnerable temporarily.

@mattthw Big thalassophobic Valheim/Subnautica vibes, great suggestion. Also has the great side-effect of adding balance by creating serious sunken-loot risk for the quite powerful benefits added by the "chest on a boat" mod.

I would love to turn off the biting entirely, as they kill everything in vicinity and have been spawning quickly and in high numbers.

I would love to turn off the biting entirely, as they kill everything in vicinity and have been spawning quickly and in high numbers.

Same, I'm fine if the bite the player but not the wild fish

Fixed in f14ff7d

I would love to turn off the biting entirely, as they kill everything in vicinity and have been spawning quickly and in high numbers.

Our solution to this was the hunger system, meaning they only really attack when they spawn and then every 5 minutes or so after