PeakFriendsEdition

A curated PEAK modpack focused on expanding the game with new gameplay mechanics, extra challenges, cosmetics, quality-of-life improvements and technical fixes, while keeping the original spirit of the game.

The pack is designed for multiplayer and can automatically adapts loot to the number of players, helping larger groups maintain a balanced progression.

Recommended: use Gale Mod Manager to install and manage the modpack. Gale supports PEAK and Thunderstore profiles, handles dependencies automatically and makes updating or sharing the pack much easier. Download Gale / GitHub Also work with Thunderstore app and r2modman

📍 Useful information

• Some mod settings are not accessible from the game. They must be changed through Gale's configuration interface or the generated BepInEx configuration files. Every configuration file edited through your modding app will be autoloaded in-game; no need to restart.
• Several potentially game-changing options are disabled by default to keep the experience more accessible and avoid making the game unnecessarily difficult.
• Support and feedback can be sent on the official PEAK Thunderstore discord, here.
• Mod request If you are a Scout or a mod author, you can ask for any mod request on the same Discord channel for an addition or a removal!

🎥 For Streamers and large group!

• PEAK Unlimited — Raises the player limit beyond the vanilla lobby size, allowing larger groups to climb together.
• BingBongTwitch — Let Bingbong speak for your chat! With TTS features!
• ExtraMouths — Scales PEAK forage food for lobbies larger than 4 players (+2 mouths).
• Item Multiplier — Adds item quantity multipliers, including the optional Super Bean mode. OFF, by default
• VacationPlanner — Let your lobby vote for the next map loop!
• PeakImposter — Among-Us style traitor mode for PEAK: a hidden imposter with the ritual dagger, a sheriff who can pass judgement, protection phase, cooldown and campfire re-rolls.
• GhostPossession — Become a ghost after death, possess creatures and props, revive on the spot, spawn entities and items, trigger events, toggle gravity, and teleport players.
• PeakWorkshop — Custom maps and game modes for PEAK, made to play with friends. Lobbies, teams, PvP, King of the Hill, NPC quests and bosses, plus an in-game Workshop and map editor. Vanilla PEAK stays untouched.

🆕 New Features

• PeakSpectatorMode — Better spectator camera: F3 free-fly cam, Q/E switch players, smooth soft-follow, overhead name/altitude labels, x-ray silhouettes.
• Plane Crash — Gives random amount of injuries to players at the start of the game as well as players who join during the crash timer window.
• Green Demon Challenge — A wild Green Demon has appeared! Can you take the challenge and climb all the way to the PEAK?
• ItemKO — Throwing items at your friends harder can have consequences...
• Trapped_Luggage — Loot goblins are going to be dispersed...
• CapybaraDance — Party time!
• Piggyback — Hold back your friends! Now you can take a shit at any moment!
• MoreAscents — Sponsored by your local BDSM club.
• PeakStranding — Climb with unseen allies - Death Stranding–style async multiplayer seeds your world with ropes, pitons, and other structures left by scouts who came before you.
• BetterRagdollEnhanced — An enhanced continuation of BetterRagdoll: ragdoll on demand, hold to stay down, carry your momentum, and physically side-roll on the ground with mouse or controller.
• FullBodyVisible — Now the entire body is visible in the first-person view, not just the arms and legs.
• Better Kick — Kick your friends in normal runs! KEYBIND: V
• FogAndColdControl — Works on both host and client sides. Installed on the host, it can control poison‑fog cold inside rooms and night cold, and display various in‑game data parameters.
• PeakVersionBypass — Skips the game's server version check, restores the offline island timer, and auto-syncs the daily dev message (cached for offline use).
• AutoReload — Automatically reloads plugins by watching BepInEx/plugins/ for file changes. For developers.
• Airport Remixed — Same airport scene, completely new look!
• HeatCooking — Allows players to cook food using.. unconventional heat sources.
• Care Packages — Light a flare and the rescue helictoper will drop you some luggage! Now with more luggage types, real helicopters, parachutes and luggage amounts. Can be used host only to spawn in luggage for others but is much cooler with all clients!
• RescueClawItemPull — Fixes the rescue claw's highlight-through-walls bug and adds a working item pull, including backpacks and attached items.
• BingBong Trading Co — Keeper shops, contracts, recycling and a shared team economy for PEAK.
• RescueClawItemPull — Fixes the rescue claw's highlight-through-walls bug and adds a working item pull, including backpacks and attached items.

📱 User Interface

• PEAK Lobby Browser — Browse available multiplayer lobbies.
• PEAK Map — Provides an additional map/reference for navigating PEAK.
• Time Theme — Adds additional visual/theme customization.
• FollowMe — Adds tools for players to follow each other more easily.
• CustomMessages — Replace the new text bubble on the main menu with useful information
• PEAK Presence — Adds enhanced Discord presence integration.
• Photon Ping GUI — Displays network/ping information through the UI.
• Enhanced Ping — Improves the game's ping functionality.
• My Prevision — Adds additional gameplay information/prediction features.
• Peak Stats EX — Expands player statistics.
• Item Stats — Displays additional information about items.
• Passport Pagination — Adds pagination to passport-related interfaces.
• NoUpdateScreen — Remove the screen asking to update during your ascent
• Ultrawide HUD — Improves HUD positioning on ultrawide displays.
• ClimbInfoTracker — Track the local player's PEAK climb history.
• Split Stats Speedrunning Timer — Track your runs and additional stats with this speedrunning timer automatically!
• BetterAmuletUI — Dynamic preview of petrification costs for all amulets.
• Moved Voice Indicator — Lets you move the voice indicator, check config!

📖 Auto translation

• XUnity AutoTranslator — You can activate auto-translation for all mods into your own language, but that needs a small configuration step: open AutoTranslatorConfig.ini and edit lines 6 and 7. This mod is OFF by default.

🕹️ Control, command and interaction

• PEAK Packs — Hold a pack to open it, stash from pockets, dump loot in from the ground or your hands, and open the pack on your back. Works for backpacks, fanny packs, and jetpacks!
• Rope Swinging Mod — Adds swinging mechanics to ropes.
• Better Cannon — Improves cannon functionality.
• Reloadable Hand Cannons — Makes hand cannons reloadable.
• Catch Players — Allows players to catch and pull a nearby falling teammate to safety.
• PEAK_Skygear — Previously 'Enhanced Balloon and Parasol Control' but now includes parachutes, rocketpacks and jetpacks! Change speeds, fuels, stamina, and more!
• Item Scroller — Improves item scrolling and inventory interaction.
• BalloonMerger — Add the ability to merge individual balloon with V
• PushMod — Push your friends with the a key!
• HardcoreParkour — Press a key while in the air to do flips! Landing a flip will restore your stamina.
• KickThings — Adds new kick interactions for a wide variety of in-game objects.
• IForgorPassport — Lets you drop and throw your passport.
• FrogQTE — Mash Space to escape the frog.
• PeakStance — A simple mod that allows you to set your idle stance.
• AntiZookaPreview — When holding the anti-gravity cannon, a preview of the AntiSphere’s spawn location is displayed, showing the final state directly, with no animation or sound effects.
• CloudAndBounceFungusPrediction — Predicts the final location where Cloud Mushrooms will form a cloud cluster, as well as the landing position and orientation of Bouncy Mushrooms: displays an instant prediction whilst charging; holds down the preview key (default: right mouse button) to show the precise landing point using real-time physics simulation; releasing the key cancels the prediction immediately; displays a preview of the cloud cluster alongside the item after it lands; automatically clears the preview when the cloud cluster bursts.* EndingSkip — Host-only ending skip mod. The host can press Space or ESC to skip the ending scene.

🎮 Gameplay

• Full Belly — Expands the food/fullness mechanics.
• Warming Lava — Adds additional interaction with lava and temperature.
• PEAK Farts — Adds fart-related gameplay effects.
• Getting Yolked — Adds egg/yolk-related gameplay mechanics.
• Poop — Adds an additional humorous gameplay mechanic.
• Better Snowball — Improves snowball behaviour.
• Rarity Roulette — Adds randomized item rarity mechanics.
• Safe Beehive Looting — Makes beehive looting safer.
• Unlit Dynamite — Adds an unlit dynamite variant.
• Parachuted — Start your ascent parachuted after your plane crash
• More Badges / Community Badges / Bonk Badge — Adds additional badges and achievements.
• Fair_SnowStorm_Winds — No more excuses! Use your environment to stay warm or alive...
• Transform — The mod currently includes 12 playable forms: Zombie, Player Zombie, Scoutmaster, Ghost, Tumbleweed, Tornado, Statue, Frog, Beetle, Scorpion, Coconut and Bomb.
• StatueLife — Petrification is not the end. Stay alive as a frozen statue, wait for a friend to cure you with a blowgun, or press Y to shatter and give up. Voice chat goes silent while petrified. Only you need the mod.

🍲 New Item

• PeakSoup — New way to cook!
• Scouting4Food — Adds more food items and utility items that fit well within the peak style
• PiggyBank — Adds a piggy-bank mechanic for storing or interacting with money.
• Pain Killers — Adds painkiller-related gameplay effects.
• Watering_Can — All scouts love plants! And fruits...
• MysticalBackpack — Adds a mystical backpack with 6 slots.
• Colored Marshmallows — Adds 3 new different marshmallow variants!
• StrawberryMilk — My friend wanted Chocolate Milk, he got Chocolate Milk, someone else (Donut) wanted petrify to curse item, he got strawberry milk! Adds strawberry Milk to PEAK. Drinking it turns your petrify into curse.
• ChocolateMilk — My friend wanted Chocolate Milk, he will get Chocolate Milk. Adds Chocolate Milk to PEAK. Drinking it makes you weightless for 2 minutes.
• Scout Cookies Randomizer — Scout cookie boxes will be randomized between thick mints (original) and vanilla wafers (unused)
• Bridge Launcher — Create a walkable shore-style bridge from a Chain Launcher! Pairs with Reloadable Hand Cannons. Good for low stamina!
• Self to Shelf — Shelf Shrooms and Cloud Fungus can roll Warp variants that teleport you like Warp Fungus. Host-synced, huddle-up to teleport friends with you!.

🎨 Cosmetics

• PEAK Visuals — Expands visual and graphical options.
• Ghost Hats — Adds ghost-themed hats.
• Too Many Hats — Expands the number of available hat options.
• RasenDan's Hat Pack — Additional hats.
• Peak Dream Hats — Additional dream-themed hats.
• Dream Fits — Additional cosmetic outfits.
• Boba's Hats — Additional hats.
• Twerk Emote — Adds a twerk emote.
• Middle Finger Emote — Adds a middle-finger emote.
• Face Customization Plus — Expands face customization.
• More Customizations — Adds additional character customization options.
• Skin Color Sliders — Adds more precise skin-color controls.
• Skin Color Slider Mimic Patch — Compatibility patch for skin-color customization with Mimic.
• ...And many more!

🛠️ Quality of Life

• WaitForMEak — Improves waiting/ready-up behaviour.
• Get Off Cacti — Improves cactus interactions.
• Better Bugphobia — Improves bug-related gameplay interactions.
• Settings Extender — Expands available configuration options.
• Stable Third Person Camera — Provides a more stable third-person camera.
• Better Mod Verifier — Improves mod compatibility/version checking.
• DisableClientSideTimeout — No more disconnections because you took a shit for too long!
• Vertigone — For those who fear heights! OFF
• XUnity_AutoTranslator — Translation made easier!
• Rope cut — Don't waste your rope!
• Campfire Refuel — Now, lighting a campfire automatically fills your lantern's fuel.
• HangingOn — Customise the length of the death timer, or disable it completely!
• Splice Spools — Splice full or partial spools of rope together. Works for Anti-Grav Rope as well. Length or rope shown in item name. Weight affliction adjusts for rope length!
• BetterQuicksave — A mod that extends the quicksave feature in the game.
• peakReconnect — Press a configurable key or controller button to reconnect to the last server you were in.
• ScoutCannonHelper — Scout Cannon Assistant: Press V to display the cannon muzzle aiming indicator and open a small aiming window in the corner of the screen showing the view from the muzzle; aim the cannon and hold down X to enter the cannon directly; whilst inside the cannon, hold down E to fire. These three functions can be toggled on and off independently, and only require local installation.
• PeakAchiever — Pin badges from the pause menu and track, during your run, which ones you can still earn: progress bars, green checks and red crosses.

⚡ Performance

• PEAK Fast Startup — Reduces startup time.
• WhySoLaggy — Addresses several sources of unnecessary lag. OFF
• Tumbleweed Throttle — Limits excessive tumbleweed-related processing.
• PEAK Visuals — Provides additional graphics controls, allowing visual settings to be tuned to the hardware.
• My Banana Don't Hurt Me — Improve performance.

🔧 Fixes & Optimization

• Tornado Fix — Fixes issues related to tornadoes.
• Peak Lobby Join Fix — Fixes multiplayer lobby joining issues.
• Better Peak Voice Fix — Fixes/improves voice communication behaviour.
• Peak General Improvements — Collection of general gameplay and technical improvements.
• Soft Dependency Fix — Improves handling of optional mod dependencies.
• DetourContext Dispose Fix — Fixes detour cleanup/disposal issues.
• AutoHookGenPatcher — Provides required runtime patching functionality.
• MonoDetour — Runtime detouring framework used by several mods.
• PEAKModding libraries — Provide shared functionality used by multiple mods.
• LavaCookingFix — Fixes cooking with lava being weird and seemingly random in vanilla game.
• WedgeProtection — Fix a rare case where you can die from wedges.
• PeakAudioFix — Fixes PEAK audio dropouts by parking silent looping sounds and prioritizing voice, global, and nearby audio.
• PeakOptimizer — A performance and stability mod for PEAK. Reduces CPU stutter, fixes vanilla bugs, and smooths frame rates.
• CrossplayStutterFix — Fixes the crossplay integration related gameplay stutters, introduced in the v2.4.a update.
• TimelinePerformanceFix — Fixes FPS drops and stuttering caused by player-history compression and excessive snapshot updates in PEAK. Reduces timeline CPU overhead and preserves player history. No configuration required.
• SpongePEAKOptimized — Fixes and optimizations in one mod, each individually toggleable. Includes disconnected-player persistence and rejoin handling.
• StackTraceStutterFix — Fixes stutters on late-game levels by disabling stack tracing for logs.
• PeakRunSettingsFix — Fixes the Continue button doing nothing when loading a save that contains run settings from removed or updated mods. Safely skips unknown settings entries during save loading.
• TimelinePerformanceFix — Fixes FPS drops and stuttering caused by player-history compression and excessive snapshot updates in PEAK. Reduces timeline CPU overhead and preserves player history. No configuration required.
• RoomFix — Fixes the infinite room joining bug
• RecentlyPlayedWithFix — Automatically adds players you play with in PEAK to Steam’s Recently Played With list.
• PeakClawStallFix — Fixes rescue claw range-edge misfires by rechecking a very recent valid surface before the claw enters a no-pull stall.

📦 Dependencies & Libraries

These packages mainly provide frameworks or shared functionality required by other mods:

• BepInExPack PEAK — Modding framework and plugin loader.
• UniTask — Async programming library.
• Everest — Shared modding functionality.
• MonoDetour / MonoDetour BepInEx 5 — Runtime method detouring.
• PEAKLib Core — Core PEAK modding library.
• PEAKLib UI — Shared UI framework.
• PEAKLib Items — Shared item-related functionality.
• PEAKLib Stats — Shared statistics functionality.
• PEAKMod Config — Mod configuration framework.
• Photon Custom Props Utils — Photon networking utilities.
• Soft Dependency Fix — Dependency compatibility layer.
• AutoHookGenPatcher — Runtime patching dependency.
• Settings Extender — Configuration framework used by compatible mods.

These should generally not be disabled individually, as other mods may depend on them.

⚙️ Default configuration philosophy

The pack intentionally ships with some optional or more intrusive features disabled. The goal is to provide more content and functionality without making the base game unnecessarily harder.

❎ Mod disabled by default

• Conchversations: OFF, logs report a lot of errors
• Mimic: OFF, disabled by default because it can't be preconfigured
• SkinColorSliderMimicPatch: OFF
• WhySoLaggy: OFF, clean UI