HappyPeak

Tired of a plain old climb? Spice up every PEAK run with a bunch of toggleable chaos events.

A host-side PEAK mod that randomizes chest loot, scales loot by a configurable multiplier, and adds a handful of independently-toggleable chaos events designed to make co-op runs more unpredictable.

Every event has its own on/off switch and tuning knobs. Don't like banana rain? Turn it off. Want zombies to come out of every chest? Crank ZombieTrapChance. The defaults aim for "noticeable but not run-ruining"; tweak as you like.

Only the host needs to install this mod. Clients see all the effects without installing anything — every spawn / replacement happens host-side and propagates over Photon.

🔥 Strongly recommended companion: ModConfig

Install PEAKModding's ModConfig alongside HappyPeak. It opens an in-game GUI where you can flip any config value live — no need to alt-tab, edit text files, or restart the game. Boolean toggles, sliders, etc. all work out of the box with HappyPeak's settings.

It's a separate mod (one-click install from Thunderstore). Without it, you have to edit BepInEx/config/HappyPeak.cfg by hand and BepInEx hot-reloads it.

⚠️ Upgrading from an older HappyPeak version?

If you had HappyPeak installed and are updating to a newer version that added/removed/renamed config entries, delete BepInEx/config/HappyPeak.cfg before launching. BepInEx never rewrites descriptions or new entries into an existing cfg, so you'll lose new toggles otherwise. Your custom values get reset — back them up first if you'd tuned anything.

If you're unsure whether the version you're updating to changed configs, just delete the cfg. It costs you a 5-second restart and avoids weirdness. (As of 0.12.0 the safe zone, invincibility, chest trap, and tumbleweed sections are recent additions; 0.11.x doesn't have them.)

Features

Events never fire while you're at the airport / lobby — they only run inside an actual mountain run.

Install

Install via the Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman, or drop HappyPeak.dll into <PEAK install>/BepInEx/plugins/ manually.

Requires the BepInExPack for PEAK.
Also recommended: PEAKModding/ModConfig for in-game live configuration.

Configuration

After running the game once with the mod installed, BepInEx generates BepInEx/config/HappyPeak.cfg. Edit it with any text editor — every entry has a bilingual description (English line + Chinese line) right above it.

Or use ModConfig for in-game live editing (see top of this page).

Full config reference

[Randomizer]

[LootScaling]

[Tornado]

[BananaPeel]

[Tumbleweed]

[Dynamite]

[MarkerSpawn]

Behavior is hardcoded (no extra knobs): up to 2 pickaxes per player, auto-cleanup at 60 seconds. New pings past the cap evict the pickaxe farthest from you so a pickaxe in your hand is never destroyed.

[Eruption]

[ChestTraps]

[SafeZones]

Affected events: Tornado, Eruption, BananaPeel, Tumbleweed, Dynamite. Players standing inside the safe radius are skipped by those events.

Tuning recipes

• Default (balanced): leave everything alone. Events fire roughly every 1–2 minutes per type, loot is tripled, traps are rare.
• Chill mode: bump every IntervalMin/IntervalMax to 180–300s, set LootMultiplier = 1, traps at 1–2%.
• Party chaos: drop intervals back to 10–30s across the board.
• Pure loot mode: set every EnableXxx (except EnableItemRandomization and EnableLootScaling) to false.
• All-traps, no events: disable Tornado/BananaPeel/Tumbleweed/Dynamite/Eruption, leave ChestTraps + Randomizer + LootScaling on.
• Demolition mode: LightDynamiteOnSpawn = true, DynamiteForwardDistance = 0, DynamiteDropHeight = 0 — bombs detonate exactly where the player is standing.

Compatibility

• Targets BepInExPack PEAK 5.4.2403.
• Should coexist with most cosmetic / QoL mods.
• Likely conflicts with mods that also patch Spawner.SpawnItems (e.g. ItemMultiplier) — Harmony will let one of them win on each call. Disable LootScaling if you want ItemMultiplier to be authoritative.
• Coexists fine with PeakRandomizedChaos if you turn off the overlapping events on either side.

Build from source

Requires:

• .NET SDK 8 or newer (brew install dotnet on macOS, winget install Microsoft.DotNet.SDK.8 on Windows).
• A local PEAK install — the build pulls game DLLs from <PeakGameRootDir>/PEAK_Data/Managed/. If your install isn't at the default Steam path, you can either copy the Managed/ folder into the project root (auto-detected) or set <PeakGameRootDir> in Config.Build.user.props.

dotnet restore
dotnet build -c Release

DLL ends up at artifacts/bin/HappyPeak/release/HappyPeak.dll.

To produce a Thunderstore package:

dotnet tool restore
dotnet build -c Release -target:PackTS

Recent changes

Full history in CHANGELOG.md. Top-level summary:

• 0.12.0 — Big quality-of-life release.

  • MarkerSpawn now drops a real Mesa pickaxe (鹤嘴锄) instead of a piton, captured instantly via Harmony Postfix, attached precisely to whatever surface the ping crosshair landed on. Spawned pickaxes don't crack. Up to 2 per player, evicts the one farthest from you so the held / freshly-spawned ones are always safe.
  • Dynamite redesigned as a "face-drop": spawns in front of the player's head from head height, default unlit (so the player can pick it up and use it).
  • New events: Tumbleweed rain, Chest traps (Scoutmaster summon + Mushroom Zombies).
  • New SafeZones section: standing near a campfire makes you immune to all hazardous events and (optionally) to all status damage.
  • Fix: bushes no longer get randomized items (was a side effect of patching LootData instead of Spawner.SpawnItems).
  • Fix: held items no longer accidentally destroyed by marker eviction.
  • All networked spawns now properly replicate destroy to clients (no ghost objects).
  • README + cfg descriptions fully bilingual (English + Chinese).

• 0.11.5 — First public Thunderstore release: chest randomization, loot multiplier, Tornado, BananaPeel (trail-style), Dynamite (lit), MarkerSpawn (piton), Eruption.

Credits

Implementation patterns adapted from:

• PeakRandomizedChaos by DoggyDentures — Tornado, BananaPeel, Eruption event templates.
• ItemMultiplier by IceMods — Spawner.SpawnItems patching shape.
• HazardChaos by Bananegame — Dynamite.LightFlare insight.
• TrappedLuggage by tony4twenty — chest trap pattern (Scoutmaster + Zombie spawning, RPC names).
• PeakStranding by lnkr — verified 0_Items/ClimbingSpikeHammered prefab name for embedded pitons.
• BetterPreplacedPitons by Gabriel — confirmed ShittyPiton is PEAK's internal name for the wooden Mesa pickaxe.
• RandomEvents by Wesmania — verified 0_Items/PickAxeHammered_Shitty prefab name for spawning the Mesa pickaxe.
• ItemBrowser by cherrycove — project structure / build setup template.