ComboBrawler

An AI-built, hand-tuned animation mod that gives every fist weapon a fighting style of its own.

Valheim's fist weapons all share the bare-hand punches: two jabs and a kick. ComboBrawler gives each kind of fist weapon its own combo, its own finishers and its own special chain. Every clip in this mod is authored for these weapons; none of them is a vanilla animation with its timings nudged.

What you get

Three fighting styles, each with a three-hit combo, a finisher after every hit (press special during the combo) and a three-move special chain (press special from neutral).

• The Bear - Paws of the Bear and Vilebone Maulclaws. Heavy and slow: paw swipes and double-paw rakes, a crush, a cross-rip, an X-slash into a back leap, and a special chain that pounces 3 m, sweeps flat and ends in an overhead slam.
• The Wolf - Flesh Rippers. Nimble and fast: clean slicing cuts, a twin cut that glides in and springs back, and Phantom Fang - a dash straight through your target with the claws locked in a pierce, a snap turn behind it and an X-slash under a glowing claw outline.
• The Brawler - Knucklechains (all three kinds). A brutal Viking brawler with nine moves of its own: every punch steps in with the whole body behind it - a breaker-step cross, a rib-splitter hook, a long iron uppercut, a joined-fist skullbreaker, a double-fist anvil drive, a warlord's overhand, a berserker ram, a wrecker's hook and a two-fist overhead smash.
• Gloves stay gloves - the hand stays closed in a proper fist while a style weapon is equipped, idle included.
• True damage numbers - the floating number shows the damage a hit really deals (when ComboSpear is installed, it does this for both mods).

Bare fists stay vanilla.

Balanced for fair play

Bigger moves hit harder, and they cost the time and stamina to match. The styles are tuned for fair play, which makes ComboBrawler a great fit for challenge runs.

Compatibility

Mod	Status
ComboSpear	Recommended - works together
ValheimWeaponClasses Continued	Recommended
Any other mod that changes fist-weapon attacks or animations	Incompatible - both change the same attacks; pick one

Block and parry are untouched.

Config

One setting, in BepInEx/config/andythedemon.combobrawler.cfg (created on first launch):

[General]
Enabled = true

Set it to false to play with vanilla fist weapons. It takes effect the next time the game starts.

Installation

Use a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager), or install by hand:

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Copy this package's BepInEx folder into your Valheim folder. It holds one file, BepInEx/plugins/ComboBrawler.dll: the whole mod, animations included.

When it runs, the log shows Combo Brawler 1.0.2 loaded.

Notes

• Every player should install ComboBrawler. Your attacks are sent to other players under the mod's own names: players with the mod see your moves, players without it see no attack animation - the hits you deal still land.
• If a game update moves the attack states the mod borrows, it logs a warning instead of breaking your game.

Fists deserve more than two jabs.

Mod family

These companion mods are optional.

• Combo Axe — Raider and Executioner axe combos.
• Combo Spear — spear combos, defense and throws.
• ValheimWeaponClasses Continued — recommended weapon-class progression.