Grappling

Aim. Hook. Swing. Find your next foothold.

Turn Valheim's grappling hook into a companion for climbing, swinging between trees and reaching your next rooftop. Keep the original item and recipe, with gravity, momentum and ordinary body collisions shaping your movement.

French / English

🎯 Line up your next anchor

Hold right mouse to shoulder the crossbow and aim. A green distance shows a reachable surface at your crosshair; aiming gives you 30% more range. Release aim to lower the weapon.

Left mouse fires immediately when ready. The hook reloads automatically in one second.

🪝 Keep moving between anchors

• Swing under gravity. Slack rope lets you fall; a taut rope limits your distance from the anchor while preserving your swing.
• Transfer while attached. Fire at another surface without releasing your current anchor. A successful hit changes the attachment; a missed shot keeps the old one.
• Stay connected on landing. Touching the ground, passing above the anchor or bringing the cable against an obstacle keeps your attachment.
• Build momentum. Departure assistance helps you leave the ground toward a higher anchor. Hold Space after a jump to pull toward it, with assistance for nearby ledges.
• Release when you choose. Middle mouse detaches the rope and keeps your momentum. Ordinary fall damage applies after release.

🧗 Climb and rappel

Hold Space to climb. Hold E to descend. Release the key to stop changing the rope length. Gravity and swinging continue while the length is locked.

A short E press pays out 20% of the player-to-anchor distance measured when you attached. That reference stays fixed for the current anchor, so repeated taps add equal steps. Landing stops descent and keeps you attached.

A short Space press keeps the ordinary jump. Holding both E and Space pauses the winch. Menus pause rope movement; release held controls before resuming.

🎮 Main controls

Equip your grappling hook. These defaults follow Valheim's remappable actions.

Control	Action
Left mouse	Fire, or shoot a replacement anchor while attached
Hold right mouse	Shoulder aim and extended range
Middle mouse	Detach and cancel a shot in flight
Tap Space	Ordinary jump
Hold Space while attached	Reel in and climb
Tap E while attached	Descend one rappel step
Hold E while attached	Pay out rope continuously until released

E keeps ordinary interaction while unattached. While attached, the rope command takes priority. Climbing or continuous descent begins after a 0.25-second hold.

⚙️ Make it your own

The configuration file is created on first launch at BepInEx/config/Zephyrfit.Grappling.cfg. Restart Valheim after editing it.

Setting	Default
Shot stamina	5
Climbing stamina	5 per second
Resting or descending stamina	0
Stamina regeneration while attached	Enabled
Maximum climb speed	20 m/s
Descent speed	6 m/s
Rappel step	20% of the original attachment distance
Stop distance	1.5 m, or earlier at an obstacle
Nearby ledge assistance	Enabled; 5 stamina per successful assist
HUD language	Game language, with French and English available

You can adjust the hold threshold, range bonus, movement assistance, stamina costs and rope speeds. Commands can follow a game action or use a separate keyboard or mouse shortcut. Departure and ledge assistance can be disabled.

📦 Installation

With a mod manager

1. Open Gale, r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager and select Valheim.
2. Install Grappling by Zephyrfit. Allow the manager to install BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351 if needed.
3. Disable other mods that change grappling behaviour in that profile.
4. Launch Valheim through your manager and equip your grappling hook.

Manual installation

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351.
2. Extract this package's BepInEx folder into your Valheim installation. The plugin belongs at BepInEx/plugins/Zephyrfit-Grappling/ZephyrfitGrappling.dll.
3. Start Valheim and equip your grappling hook.

To uninstall, remove ZephyrfitGrappling.dll from that folder. The original item and recipe remain available.

💬 Help, bug reports and suggestions

Discord: zephyrfit
User ID: 251341133085540352

Help is available in English and French for installation, bug reports and suggestions. Contributions are welcome. To report a problem, send the game and mod versions, reproduction steps and BepInEx/LogOutput.log. A screenshot or short video can help explain a visual issue.

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Created by Zephyrfit · Independent community mod for Valheim.

Logo created with AI assistance.

Project: Zephyrfit / ValheimMods.