SledgeMajsterLateFix

SledgeMajsterLateFix

A lightweight companion patch for balrond_sledgemajster that extends its battleaxe-swing attack swap to sledge weapons registered by late-loading mods like balrond_arsenal_reborn.

The Problem

If you run both balrond_sledgemajster and balrond_arsenal_reborn, you'll notice that only vanilla sledges (Stagbreaker, Iron Sledge, Demolisher) get the attack swap. Arsenal Reborn's sledges — SledgeStone, SledgeBlackmetal, SledgeSilver, SledgeFlametal, SledgeFrosteel, SledgeDarksteel, SledgeStagbreakerNEW, and SledgeAwakened — are left untouched.

This happens because of a load-order timing issue:

• balrond_sledgemajster scans for sledge weapons at ZNetScene.Awake (an early Unity lifecycle event)
• balrond_arsenal_reborn registers its weapons later via Jotunn's item system
• By the time Arsenal Reborn's sledges exist in the prefab database, sledgemajster's scan has already finished

The weapons have the correct naming (SledgeStone_bal, etc.) and would pass the detection check — they simply don't exist yet when the check runs.

The Fix

This plugin waits for the world to fully initialize, then performs a second scan that catches everything sledgemajster missed:

• Uses SledgeIron (already processed by sledgemajster) as a reference template
• Scans both m_prefabs and m_namedPrefabs for any sledge-named weapon that wasn't processed
• Moves the original AoE ground slam to the secondary attack (middle click)
• Clones the battleaxe-style swing as the new primary attack (left click)
• Logs each patched weapon to BepInEx/LogOutput.log for verification

After installation, check your log for:

[Info] SledgeMajster Late Fix complete: patched 8 additional sledge(s)

Installation

• Install Mod Manager (recommended) or manually place SledgeMajsterLateFix.dll into BepInEx/plugins/
• Required on both server AND all clients — attack definitions are loaded locally on each machine. This is now hard-enforced: the mod uses Jötunn's NetworkCompatibility (EveryoneMustHaveMod, Minor strictness), so any client missing the mod or on a mismatched major.minor version is rejected at the connection handshake with an error screen.
• No configuration needed — the plugin is fully automatic

Compatibility

• Required: BepInEx 5.4+, balrond_sledgemajster 1.0.3+
• Designed for: balrond_arsenal_reborn (but works with any mod that registers sledge weapons with "Sledge" in the prefab name via Jotunn or late registration)
• Skips weapons already processed by sledgemajster — no double-processing, no conflicts
• Does not modify sledgemajster's code or behavior in any way

Technical Details

• Hooks: None (uses a delayed coroutine, not Harmony patches)
• Timing: Waits 8 seconds after ZNetScene initialization for all mods to finish registering items
• Detection: Matches prefab names containing "Sledge" (case-sensitive, excluding "Anchor"), same logic as sledgemajster
• Attack cloning: Uses MemberwiseClone on the reference attack for a faithful shallow copy

Attributions

• balrond_sledgemajster by Balrond — the original sledge attack-swap mod that this patch extends
• balrond_arsenal_reborn by Balrond — adds the Arsenal Reborn sledge weapons that this fix targets
• BepInEx by BepInEx Team — the modding framework
• Jotunn by ValheimModding — the Valheim library framework used by Arsenal Reborn for item registration

Source Code

GitHub Repository

Licensed for free use. If Balrond updates sledgemajster to scan at a later lifecycle event, this patch becomes unnecessary and can be safely removed.