Bark Menu Explained – Gestures, Safe Use and the Quest Port

If you’ve installed Bark and you’re standing in a lobby wondering what to do next, this page is for you. It covers using the menu, not the full module list. For that, plus install steps, see our main Bark page.

Getting the menu up

Bark has no button binding. You open it with a gesture: in a modded lobby, beat your chest four times, alternating hands (L-R-L-R or R-L-R-L). Too slow or same-hand twice and nothing happens. To close it, grab the panel and throw it. If the gesture isn’t working at all, you’re most likely in an unmodded room. Bark stays off there by design.

Which modules other players see

Most of Bark is local: you fly, you wall run, everyone else just sees a gorilla moving oddly. A few modules are marked networked in KyleTheScientist’s README, meaning other Bark users see the effect:

• Bubble, which floats you around inside a bubble
• Potions, which change your size

The multiplayer group (Boxing, Fireflies, Piggyback, Telekinesis, X-Ray) is built around interacting with other players in the lobby.

Multiplayer etiquette Bark builds in

• Piggyback needs consent. The other player has to give a thumbs-up before you can ride them, and a thumbs-down kicks you off.
• Boxing can’t knock you around while you’re touching the ground.
• Kyle states plainly the modules aren’t meant for harassing people, and doing that can get you banned.

Gestures worth practising

• Teleport: make a triangle with both thumbs and index fingers and look through it. Fine-aim with your head.
• Airplane: arms out, steer with your wrists.
• Checkpoint: hold left trigger to place a banana, right trigger to warp back.

Bark on Quest

The real Bark is a PC BepInEx mod. Quest players sometimes find “BARK ❷” on mod.io. That’s an unofficial port by Silvaz_ that runs as a Virtual Stump gamemode. It’s a separate project, so behaviour may differ from the PC version.

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