Fish-Easily

Fishing without the fight.

Valheim's fishing loop is a stamina tax wrapped in reaction timing: wait for a nibble, hit a half second window, then hold the button through a tug of war while your green bar drains and the line snaps. Fish-Easily keeps the cast and the wait and removes the rest.

Client-side. Nothing needs to be installed on the server, and nothing is spawned, added or rebalanced. Every change is a patch to vanilla behaviour, and every one of them has its own toggle in BepInEx/config/valheim.fisheasily.cfg.

What it does

One bait fits all Vanilla only lets a fish bite when the bait on your line appears in that fish's own bait table, which is why you end up carrying five bait types for six species. With this on, any bait catches any fish. Plain bait from Haldor is enough for everything.

Bait not consumed The bait goes back into your inventory after every catch. One stack lasts forever.

Fish come to you Half of a fish's swim targets ignore your line entirely by default, because vanilla rolls Random.value < m_baseHookChance before deciding to approach. This removes the coin flip, so the fish you can see are the fish that come to your float.

Auto hook The fish is on the line the instant it nibbles. No reaction window, no missed hooks.

No stamina drain Reeling, and holding a hooked fish, cost nothing. An empty stamina bar can no longer lose you a fish you already hooked.

Fish never escape Skipped entirely: the escape struggle that halves your reel speed and doubles the stamina cost while a fish fights.

Instant land The fish is in your inventory the moment it is hooked. No tug of war, no button hold. Turn this off if you want to keep the fight and only keep the conveniences. Fishing skill only rises while reeling, so with this on it stops leveling.

Line never breaks Neither distance nor a fighting fish can snap the line. The float only goes away when you are done with it.

Config

Everything defaults to on. First launch writes the config file, and most settings take effect on the next cast.

[1 - Bait]      One Bait Fits All, Bait Not Consumed
[2 - The Bite]  Fish Come To You, Auto Hook
[3 - The Fight] No Stamina Drain, Fish Never Escape, Instant Land
[4 - The Line]  Line Never Breaks

Install

Install with r2modman (or any Thunderstore mod manager). BepInExPack is the only dependency and a mod manager will pull it in for you.

Notes

• Built against the Valheim 1.0.16 game assemblies, with BepInEx 5.4.23.5 and HarmonyX.
• Private game members are reached through cached Harmony accessors, and every one is resolved at load. If a future Valheim patch renames something, the log says exactly which member went missing instead of quietly doing nothing.
• The plugin logs every method Harmony patched at startup. If a Valheim update removes a patch target, Harmony refuses to load the plugin and the log names the method.
• The log lines Harmony reports 7 patched method(s) and Fish-Easily 1.0.0 loaded in BepInEx/LogOutput.log mean it is really running.
• Multiplayer: Valheim runs fish behaviour on whichever player's game owns the fish, usually the first player who got near it. One Bait Fits All and Fish Come To You only work when that player has Fish-Easily, and when they do, they also apply to other players' floats nearby. Everything else follows the player holding the rod.