BetterGrapplingHook
Removes the Grappling Hook stamina cost, cuts its reload to near-instant, and gives it 50% more rope.
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Better GrapplingHook
Removes the Grappling Hook's stamina cost, cuts its reload to near-instant, and gives it 50% more rope.
The problem
The Grappling Hook arrived with Valheim 1.0, and two things about it get in the way.
The reload is slower than it looks. Valheim splits the delay into two separate fields: a 1.1 second window where the reload cannot even be queued, followed by a 2 second reload. Add the 0.2 seconds the game keeps reserved while you are still attached, and a single shot locks you out for roughly 3.3 seconds. That is a long time when you fired the hook to get away from something.
Most weapons shorten their reload as the matching skill goes up — the game halves it at full skill. The Grappling Hook is registered with no skill type at all, so that halving never applies. It is 3.3 seconds at hour one and 3.3 seconds at hour three hundred.
It costs 15 stamina per shot, on a tool you reach for precisely when stamina is the thing you are short of.
The rope snaps early. 60 units while it pulls you in, 70 while you hang.
What this mod does
| | Vanilla | With this mod |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stamina per shot | 15 | 0 |
| Reload | 2s, after 1.1s of block time | 0.1s, no block time |
| Rope length | 60 pulling / 70 hanging | 90 pulling / 105 hanging |
Nothing else about the hook changes. It still pulls at the same speed, still needs the same materials, and still breaks on the same conditions.
Configuration
Settings live in BepInEx/config/carrome.bettergrapplinghook.cfg, created on first launch.
| Setting | Default | Effect |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Stamina / StaminaCost | 0 | Stamina spent per shot. Set to 15 for vanilla. |
| Reload / ReloadTime | 0.1 | Reload duration in seconds. The 1.1s block window is always removed. |
| Rope / RopeLengthMultiplier | 1.5 | Scales how far the rope stretches before it snaps. 1 is vanilla. |
Every value is adjustable, so you can soften any single change without removing the mod.
A note on reloading while running
Valheim clears your whole pending-action queue every frame you run, which is why a reload never finishes while sprinting — that is vanilla behaviour for every reloadable weapon, not something specific to the hook. This mod does not change it. With the reload at 0.1 seconds the point is close to moot: the reload completes in a single step, so in practice you are loaded again before you notice.
Multiplayer
This is client-side. It changes the item values your own game loads, so every player who wants the effect needs the mod installed, and the server does not need it.
Manual installation
Drop BetterGrapplingHook.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins. Requires BepInEx.
Compatibility
Built and tested against Valheim 1.0.7 with BepInEx 5.4.2350.
The mod reads the hook's real values at startup and scales from those rather than hardcoding them, so a game patch that retunes the hook will be picked up instead of overwritten. If a future update renames the item prefab, the mod logs a warning and changes nothing.
Source
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- 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.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- 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. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: