MeleeBuff

Melee Buff (Outward BepInEx Plugin)

While your player has the vanilla boon Rage or Rage Amplified (same names as in the game’s status lists), this plugin adds:

• +100% to each line on the weapon WeaponDamage.BuildDamage damage list (typed Harmony postfix while Rage is active on the attacker).
• +1 HP/s while Raging (same reflection-based health writes as before), plus +25% stamina regen.
• On Rage start: clears burnt health (CharacterStats.BurntHealth — the grey “injured max HP” chunk) so your effective max returns to the real cap.

Mana: during Rage, current and burnt mana are forced to 0 every frame (fields + SetMana attempts). You cannot “save” mana while the boon is up.

There is no SideLoader fake status, no IMGUI overlay, no config: eligibility is only those two status identifier strings.

What this project contains

• Plugin.cs: BepInEx + Harmony plugin with runtime patching and reflection-based checks.
• MeleeBuff.csproj: project file for building MeleeBuff.dll.
• assets/logo.svg: mod logo you can use in release pages/manifests.
• icon.png: icon (must be 256×256 PNG).
• resize-icon.ps1: rescales icon.png to 256×256 (run after swapping in a larger image).
• package-.ps1: build + normalize icon + zip upload.

icon (256×256)

requires icon.png to be exactly 256×256. If you drop in a larger image:

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File.\resize-icon.ps1

package-.ps1 also resizes icon.png to 256×256 automatically before zipping.

If you still get a GDI+ error, close anything that has icon.png open (preview tab, image editor), then run the script again.

Build

• Install the.NET SDK (7+ is fine for building this project).
• From this folder, run (replace path with your install location):

dotnet restore

dotnet build -c Release -p:OutwardDir="C:\Games\Outward"

Output DLL will be at:

bin\Release\net472\MeleeBuff.dll

Install in Outward

• Install BepInEx and SideLoader for Outward (r2modman will pull both).
• Copy MeleeBuff.dll and the Icons folder (with MeleeBuff_Status.png) into the same BepInEx\plugins\ tree as the DLL (the png must be at...\plugins\Icons\MeleeBuff_Status.png relative to the DLL directory). zips already lay this out under plugins\.

• Launch the game once.
• Check logs:

\BepInEx\LogOutput.log

You should see Melee Buff initialization and patch counts.

Notes

• Outward updates/mod stacks can rename internal methods and members. This plugin is implemented with defensive reflection to reduce breakage.
• If your specific game version uses different method names for damage paths, the plugin may need small patch-target adjustments in Plugin.cs.