MeleeFixes

v1.5.1·Updated 2026-05-16

Fixes several gamebreaking bugs with shovels and knives.

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Melee Fixes

Fixes bugs with the shovel, kitchen knife, and shotgun:

  • Fixed shovel sometimes becoming unusable if a player died while holding it mid-swing.
  • Fixed hit effects (shovel bounce, knife blood spray) sometimes playing even if your swing misses, providing poor feedback.
  • Shovels and knives no longer collide with dead enemies.
  • Before v80, enemies would still play their "impact sound" when their corpse was attacked, however this is no longer the case.
  • However, hit effects (the aforementioned bounce/blood spray) will still play which seems unintended.
  • This is a bigger deal for the knife, which is only allowed to damage one target per swing - now that damage can no longer be wasted on a corpse in proximity to the enemy you are targeting.
  • Whenever a melee weapon plays a hit sound, it calls an expensive search function that can cause lag or frame drops on less powerful computers.
  • It now references a cached instance of the required object, which should help combat remain more smooth and fluid.
  • Damage should now be handled more consistently when firing the shotgun at multiple enemies
  • Fixed duration of ear-ringing effect when a shotgun is shot in point-blank range (usually, because you are the one holding it)
  • Shovels and knives now play hit effects when colliding with trees, as was the case before v55.

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.

Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

BepInEx-BepInExPack

File & checksum

Filename
MeleeFixes-1.5.1.zip
File size
42.3 KiB