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The Menu
The Menu button at the top right: every room of the game on one page, grouped, each with its live badge and its key.
What it is
The Menu button at the top right of the game (key G) opens the Menu: one page over your aquarium with every room of the game on a painted tile. Each tile says what the room is for, wears a badge when something waits there (new notifications, a reward to collect, an upgrade ready) and shows its key. At the top are your level, your coins and quick buttons for full screen and sound.
Pick a tile and its room opens as a normal panel over your aquarium, like the Shop or the Quest Book; closing it takes you back to the water. Escape, the Back to the aquarium button or the Menu button again closes the Menu. It works the same way on a computer and on a phone held sideways.
Where everything is
The tiles sit in six groups, and every room lives in exactly one of them. Someone visiting another aquarium, or out in Open Water, sees only the tiles that make sense there, and a room that opens at a later level shows a lock with the level it opens at.
Fishies on the web (the front page, the wiki, the press page, Discord, Contact, Privacy and Terms) is a row of links at the foot of the Menu.
- My aquarium: My aquariums, My Fish, Breeding, the Pantry, the Workshop and Research.
- Sea: the Map, the Exhibition and the Reef Journal.
- Social: Friends, School, Stall, Community and News.
- Shop: the Shop, the Studio, your Cart and Send a gift.
- Progress: your Level, Quests, Badges, Achievements, Collections and the Daily reward.
- Settings & help: Notifications, Settings, Account, Help and Shortcuts.
Search and keys
Ctrl K (or /) puts you in the search box at the top: type a few letters of any room and Enter opens the first match. Ctrl K from the aquarium opens the Menu on its search box. The arrow keys move between tiles and Enter opens one. Every tile shows its own key, so one press takes you straight there; most are the keys that open the same room from the aquarium, like S for My Fish and V for Friends.
The bell and the gear beside the Menu button open Notifications and Settings straight away. A three-finger tap anywhere but the water opens or closes the Menu, and the Menu row of the right-click menu lists the rooms you use most. Esc in the water opens the Menu. Settings and, in the desktop app, Quit game stand at the top of it.
One notification centre
Everything the game tells you lands in one list: care reports from your aquarium, visits and new followers, gifts to open, finished quests and achievements, a level reward waiting, and news from the team. New rows are marked, and opening the centre reads them. Replies, mentions and answers from the team in the Community land here too.
Each line says what happened and offers at most one button that does something about it: Feed takes you to the hungry fish, Open opens the gift. Lines sit under Today, Yesterday and Earlier, a gold dot marks what is new, and the cross or Clear all puts away what you are done with. This device’s notifications turn on or off at the foot. What you put away stays away, after a reload and on your other devices too.
When the Fishies team gives you a badge, you are told as soon as you are in the game, and the badge keeps its row in the list.
Settings
Settings has six sections, and every option the game has lives in exactly one of them.
In Game, Show my aquarium on the live stream lets your public aquariums appear, with your name, on the Fishies 24/7 stream on Kick. It is on until you turn it off. While your aquarium is on the stream, a Live on Kick line shows at the top of your aquarium: tap it to watch, and your aquarium stays on screen a little longer. A one-time card also shows where to watch the stream, on Kick and on Twitch.
- Game: your language, the Next goal line, quest rail and Simple level-up, sale and change bubbles and Confirm before selling, Auto-incubate eggs, and in Open Water the other keepers’ names and chat bubbles, and who can send you gifts.
- Sound: sound on or off, the music, effects and alerts levels, and the soundtrack.
- Display: full screen, Battery saver, Reduce motion, the graphics engine, shortcut hints, dock labels, Vibration on a phone, and the keyboard shortcuts.
- Notifications: this device, your other devices, Telegram and Discord.
- Account: your account, Discord activity, the keepers you have blocked, and signing out.
- Advanced: the version, Report a bug (the Bugs board in Community or the Fishies Discord), and Restart the game, which reloads the game without signing you out.
In the game: https://fishies.lol/wiki/mechanics/menu · Fishies 0.8.25
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