Seagull Digestion

Seagulls that steal your food now actually eat it. After a random delay the stolen item turns into a poop: randomised sell price, and a bad idea to eat.

• Host-authoritative, matching how the game already simulates birds.
• The timer cancels if you shoot the bird or grab the fish back.
• Seagulls ignore poop, and rest for a while after a meal.
• Procedurally generated poop mesh, no asset bundle.
• Poop syncs to every client and survives save/reload.

Eating it

The hunger cost is paid out of your stomach first. Whatever your stomach cannot cover is dealt as direct damage, so eating poop on an empty stomach takes the full hit to your health. Poison lands either way, exactly like raw pufferfish.

With HungerCost = 25:

Fullness before	Fullness after	Damage
100	75	0
25	0	0
10	0	15
0	0	25

Food-effect mods are blocked from rewarding you for it. With Fish Effects installed, poop grants no timed effect, no Drip luck, and no effect line on the inspection card. Those are ordinary Harmony patches applied from this mod; no other mod's files are touched, and they are skipped when the mod is absent.

Settings

In Mod Settings (Mod Menu) or BepInEx/config/erwins.seagulldigestion.cfg. Changes apply immediately.

Setting	Default	What
Enabled	true	Master switch
OnlyFish	false	Restrict digestion to fish
NeverDigest	(empty)	Comma separated prefab names, display names, or item ids that are never digested, even if OnlyFish is off
MinSeconds / MaxSeconds	8 / 25	Random hold time before eating
CooldownAfterEating	30	Seconds a seagull refuses to hunt after a meal. 0 = none, a huge value = never again
MinWorth / MaxWorth	-60 / 20	Sell price is rolled in this range, either end negative or positive
ClampBalance	true	Hold the balance between $0 and the $2,147,483,647 limit. Leave it on — see 1.5.1 below
HungerCost	25	Fullness a mouthful costs
DamageOnEmptyStomach	true	Unpayable fullness becomes direct damage
Poison	true	Apply the game's own poison
BlockOtherFoodEffects	true	Deny poop any positive effect from food-effect mods
DropNearPlayer	true	Teleport the poop near a player instead of dropping wherever the bird is flying
TargetVictim	true	Aim for the robbed player first, falling back to whoever is nearest the bird
DropRadius	6	Random horizontal spread from the target player, in metres
DropHeight	6	Height above the target it drops from before gravity finishes the job, in metres
Name	Seagull Poop	Display name
ReplaceModel	true	Procedural poop mesh; off = original model, recoloured
Scale	1.0	Size multiplier, relative to the item the poop replaced
Colour	4A2E17	RRGGBB hex
Cookness	0.85	Feeds the game's own cookness shader input
PlaySound	true	Squawk on digestion
SwapToRealItem	true	Digest a weapon or tool by replacing it with a fresh ordinary item rather than disguising it, so the poop was never a weapon. Fish are always transformed in place; quest and boss items are never swapped
ChassisItem	(empty)	Which item the replacement is built from. Empty picks the lowest numbered ordinary fish automatically and logs the choice
DisarmWeapons	true	Safety net for anything still transformed in place: it stops being a weapon, so no firing, reloading, aiming or swinging, and its HUD dot goes from weapon orange to ordinary white

Multiplayer

The host needs the mod. Clients without it lose the money either way, but will still see the original fish model.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md, or the Changelog tab on the Thunderstore page.

Most recent: 1.7.1 fixes poop dropping at the world origin — hundreds of metres out in open water — instead of next to you, and folds in 1.7.0's inert digested weapons.