BenBalanceMod

v1.8.0·Updated 2025-08-08

A lightweight health balance mod with config. Now updated for SOTS!

About this mod Author’s original text

Overview

Just a little mod I cooked up that focuses on effective health instead on rapid burst healing. This is to prevent health going from 100 to 0 instantly sometimes, even with one-shot protection on.

Should be compatible with most things but I'm not the best coder lol, there could be some conflicts with other mods that change these items.

Everything is configurable!

Changes (Default):

  • Personal Shield Generator is now based on 10% health (instead of 8%).
  • Medkit now only heals based 3.3% of max health (instead of 5.0%).
  • Harvester's Scythe now gives 5 healh per crit at start, and stacks at +2 health (instead of 8 and 4 respectively).
  • Rose Buckler now gives 25 armor all the time (plus another 10 while running for a total of 35).
  • Red Whip now also gives 7 armor. Can be changed to only activate on the Red Whip boost.
  • Happiest Mask now has a 12% chance to spawn a ghost on kill (instead of 7%).
  • Aegis now gives a flat 40 armor in addition to its previous effect.

Install:

Recommended to use the ModManager. Or put the.dll file in the BepInEx folder like all other mods.

If something is wrong or not working correctly, ping me @Ben_Jammin on the Risk of Rain 2 Modding Discord server in the ideas or general channels.

Ver. History:

  • 1.8.0 Red Whip and Rose Buckler now have vanilla descriptions if both config values are set to 0
  • 1.7.0 Updated for SOTS Patch
  • 1.6.1 Updated for SOTV Patch
  • 1.6.0 Fixed allies' Rose Bucklers affecting your Rose Buckler armor, resulting in negative armor. Special thanks to Tea for helping me diagnose this. Added Aegis config and Red Whip toggle.
  • 1.5.2 Actually Fixed NRE this time. Special thanks to GreyHound for helping me find the issue.
  • 1.5.1 Fixed log spam and NRE (hopefully)
  • 1.5.0 Updated to SOTV DLC1. Special thanks to RandomlyAwesome and iDeathHD for helping me update the project references.
  • 1.4.0 Updated to new R2API, added changes to Medkit and Happiest Mask. Apologies for being deprecated for like 2 months.
  • 1.3.0 Cleaned up some code and updated for anniversary update.
  • 1.2.2 Added Rose Buckler visual config.
  • 1.2.1 Added Rose Buckler sprint armor config option.
  • 1.2.0 Added config options. Changed PSG, Rose Buckler, and Red Whip values from 15%, 15, and 10 respectively.
  • 1.1.0 Added Changes to Rose Buckler and Red Whip. Removed old example code changing crowbar to work until 50%.
  • 1.0.0 Released

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:

tristanmcpherson-R2APIbbepis-BepInExPack

File & checksum

Filename
BenBalanceMod-1.8.0.zip
File size
67.6 KiB