Smooth Climbing

Climb walls, cliffs, trees and rocks in Valheim, with hands and feet that actually hold on to what you are climbing.

Smooth Climbing is a fork of ClimbingMod by Rotceh999, which brought climbing (and its animations) to Valheim. This fork reworks how the climber moves on the wall.

Features

• Hands and feet on the surface: every grip is placed on the wall, rock or tree being climbed, and each joint stays within the body's natural range.
• A body with weight: the climber follows the gait of the climbing animation and shifts their weight onto the limb that is moving.
• Climb in any direction: up, down, sideways and into inside corners, on overhangs, trees and rocks.
• Mantling: going over the top edge pulls you up and over the ledge instead of standing up through it.
• Still when still: hanging in place keeps hips and limbs steady.
• Stamina and a climbing skill: climbing drains stamina, and Climbing is a real skill on the skills screen. It rises as you climb, makes you climb faster, is saved with your character and drops on death like every other skill (raiseskill climbing and resetskill climbing work too).

Usage

1. Walk up to a steep surface (wall, cliff, tree, rock).
2. Hold the climb key (default LeftAlt) to grab on. With ToggleClimbKey on, press it once to grab and again to let go.
3. W/S climb up and down, A/D move sideways.
4. Let go of the key to drop.

Configuration

Settings are in BepInEx/config/hansenbansen.smoothclimbing.cfg (or the config editor of your mod manager).

Section	Setting	Default	What it does
General	ClimbKey	LeftAlt	Key to hold (or press) to climb.
General	ClimbKey2	None	Optional second key that must be held along with ClimbKey.
General	ToggleClimbKey	false	Press to grab and let go instead of holding.
Movement	ClimbSpeedUp	1.0	Climb speed upward.
Movement	ClimbSpeedDown	1.0	Climb speed downward and sideways.
Movement	StaminaDrainPerSecond	2.0	Stamina used per second of climbing.
Progression	ClimbSkillGainRate	1.0	How fast the climbing skill rises; at 1 a second of climbing counts like a second of running for the run skill.
Animation	LimbPlacement	true	Place hands and feet on the surface being climbed.
Animation	JointLimits	true	Keep every joint within the body's natural range.
Animation	TorsoSway	true	Shift the weight and turn the body with each hand and foot that moves.
Animation	PhysicsBalance	false	Let the body hang off its grips with weight: sag, sway and shift over the supporting hands and feet.

The Debug section is for development and is off by default.

Coming from ClimbingMod

Smooth Climbing replaces Rotceh999's ClimbingMod: remove ClimbingMod before installing (the two will not load together). Settings do not carry over, since this mod has its own config file.

Multiplayer

Every player who wants to climb needs the mod. Nothing needs to be installed on the server.

Credits and license

Original mod, climbing animations and skill system by Rotceh999. Climbing rig and movement rework by Hansenbansen.

Licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0, like the original. Source and issues: GitHub.