BreakAnkles

Break Ankles 🦵💨

A silly Gang Beasts mod: press Right Shift (keyboard) or RT (gamepad) to do

a quick backdash with a whoosh + a random meme sound effect. While

backdashing you take 0 damage, so you can zip backwards right through a

swinging punch. The dash has a 3 second cooldown for balance.

Local play only. The mod is fully disabled in online matches (can't be used

to cheat / desync), and controls are read per-player from the game's own input

system (Unity Input System) so it works for each local controller.

Requirements

• MelonLoader 0.7.x installed for Gang Beasts (needed for IL2CPP games)
• Grab it Gang Beasts page
• Run Gang Beasts once after installing MelonLoader so it generates the

game's proxy assemblies

• The mod is standalone — no other mods required (Cement is not needed)

Install

Option A — Mod manager (r2modman Mod Manager):

• Download BreakAnkles-1.0.0.zip
• Drag it onto your manager / import the zip
• Enable it in the profile (make sure MelonLoader is in the same profile)

Option B — Manual:

• Copy Mods/BreakAnkles.dll into Steam\steamapps\common\Gang Beasts\Mods\
• Copy the UserData/BreakAnkles folder into

Steam\steamapps\common\Gang Beasts\UserData\

• Launch the game

Usage

| Input | Action |

|-------|--------|

| Right Shift (keyboard) | Backdash |

| RT / Right Trigger (gamepad) | Backdash |

• Each press = a quick backward step (slight hop) + whoosh sound +

a random meme sound from your BreakAnkles folder.

• 3s cooldown between backdashes (shown by simply not triggering).
• Attacks that land while you are backdashing deal 0 damage.
• Backdashing just before a real attack hits logs BREAK ANKLES! in the

MelonLoader console.

Settings (UserData/MelonPreferences.cfg or MelonLoader's settings)

• Enabled — master switch
• RequireIncomingAttack — false by default: you can always backdash; set

true to only allow it when an attack is actually incoming

• LocalOnly — true: disables the mod online
• CooldownSeconds — time between backdashes (default 3)
• DashSpeed / HopSpeed — backdash strength & hop height (defaults 7 / 1.5

= a clean quick step, not a launch)

• IFrameSeconds — 0-damage window during a backdash (default 0.8)
• AttackRange — how close an attacker must be to count as "incoming" (meters)
• KeyboardButton / GamepadButton — Unity Input System control paths

(defaults rightShift / rightTrigger)

Sounds play through Windows audio (system volume), not the game's volume

slider — the mod bypasses the game's audio system entirely, since Gang Beasts

strips Unity's web-audio decoder. This is what makes playback 100% reliable.

Adding your own sounds 🎵 — the meme folder

Drop any.wav,.ogg or.mp3 files into:

UserData/BreakAnkles/Sounds/Weave/ Format note:.wav files decode natively and always work..mp3 (and

most other media) is played directly through Windows — no conversion

needed, even if the file has a misleading.wav extension (common with

YouTube "download as.wav" tools — those are usually MP3s and still work).

The one thing Windows can't decode out of the box on some PCs is.m4a

(AAC) and.ogg — if one of those is skipped, convert it to.wav and it'll

play. Sounds go through your PC's audio at system volume.

Building from source

Requires the.NET SDK (the mod targets net6.0 — the runtime MelonLoader

0.7.x runs on).

Edit GameDir in BreakAnkles.csproj if your game is elsewhere, then:.\build.ps1

This builds BreakAnkles.dll straight into Gang Beasts\Mods\, installs the

sample sounds (without overwriting custom ones), and produces a ready-to-upload

BreakAnkles-1.0.0.zip.

How it works (for the curious)

• Hooks Femur.StatusHandeler.AddDamage with a Harmony prefix: while the local

player is inside the backdash 0-damage window, incoming damage is skipped —

the attack does 0 damage.

• Watches each local actor's InputUser.pairedDevices for the rightTrigger /

rightShift control (Unity Input System) — edge-triggered, per player, with a

configurable cooldown.

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