🎰 Exotic Upgrades

Feed drip fish to the Reel of Fortune for a chance to unlock absurd new powers for your guns, Knife, and Knuckles. Exotic rewards coexist with regular skins and follow each island's native item pool, so you will not unlock upgrades for gear from later islands.

✨ Exotic upgrade pool

Identity	Upgrade	What it does
🟣 🧲	Homing Bullets	Steers projectiles toward nearby living creatures.
🟠 💥	Explosive Bullets	Adds a native-style explosion on impact.
🔴 ↩️	Ricochet	Reflects projectiles from level and boat surfaces.
🔵 🐌	Slow-Mo Bullets	Gives every affected weapon the same clearly visible projectile speed.
🟡 🔱	Split Shot	Turns each original shot into a horizontal projectile spread.
🟢 ⚔️	Cleave	Knife and Knuckles strikes damage nearby extra targets.
🟥 💪	Heavy Hitter	Gives Knuckles much stronger knockback without adding damage.
🍷 🩸	Bleed	Knife hits make enemy players bleed over time.
🟨 1-2	One-Two	Knuckles automatically follow a landed punch with a weaker second punch.
🟦 🎯	CoD-Like	Holding Knife attack pursues the nearest visible target inside your current FOV and strikes once.

Pools by weapon type

Weapon type	Available exotic upgrades
Firearms	Homing Bullets, Explosive Bullets, Ricochet, Slow-Mo Bullets, Split Shot
Knife	Cleave, Bleed, CoD-Like
Knuckles	Cleave, Heavy Hitter, One-Two

All values can be changed in the generated BepInEx configuration file.

🎮 Controls

Hold the inspection key while using the normal skin/reload controls:

Action	Default keyboard input
Inspect the held item and show exotic upgrades	F
Select the previous unlocked upgrade	Hold F + press Z
Select the next unlocked upgrade	Hold F + press C
Enable or disable the selected upgrade	Hold F + press R

The in-game instructions use your current bindings, so rebinding these actions is supported.

🔓 Unlocks and loadouts

• Unlocks are permanent for the local player and apply to a specific item model.
• Multiple compatible exotic upgrades can be active on the same item.
• Each unlocked upgrade can be enabled or disabled independently.
• Firearms, Knife, and Knuckles each receive only their compatible upgrade pool.
• Native sights, suppressors, magazines, damage upgrades, lasers, and weapon skins continue to work normally.

🌐 Multiplayer

The mod is required for every player in the lobby. Projectile effects and melee hit metadata are synchronized; the server applies explosions, cleave damage, and player bleeding. Bleeding uses NativeStatusUI for its timed wine-red droplet indicator.

⚙️ Configuration

After launching the game once, edit BepInEx/config/ArceDev.ExoticUpgrades.cfg to tune gacha chance and every firearm or melee effect.

AI Disclosure

This mod was developed with assistance from generative AI for programming, documentation, and promotional artwork. The author reviewed, tested, and approved the final implementation and assets.