FishCues
Two lean fishing audio cues: a plink when a fish bites, a loop while it struggles. Client-side and read-only, no UI, no balance changes, safe on vanilla servers.FishCues
Two fishing audio cues for Valheim, nothing else.
- a plink when a fish bites — the moment you can hook it
- a loop while the hooked fish struggles (
Fish.IsEscaping()); silence means it is calm
No HUD, no panels, no keybinds, no auto-hooking. Client-side and read-only: TryToHook, stamina,
line length and catches are untouched, so fishing plays like vanilla. Works on vanilla servers, and
cues on your own float only (float ownership via the s_rodOwner ZDO).
Demo
37 seconds of gameplay — the cues are the point, so play it with sound.
Install
Copy FishCues.dll into <game>\BepInEx\plugins\. Needs BepInEx 5.4.2350 (BepInExPack_Valheim).
One DLL, no assets, no dependencies. deploy.ps1 -PluginsDir <path> does the copy.
Config
<game>\BepInEx\config\online.buddycloud.fishcues.cfg, created on first launch. Restart after
editing — BepInEx reads config once at startup.
| Key | Default | |
|---|---|---|
Enabled |
true |
|
PlinkClip |
Splash_Water_Small2 |
any vanilla sound name, case-insensitive |
PlinkVolume |
0.15 |
0 mutes the plink |
StruggleClip |
Items_Bathtub_Bubbles_Loop |
21 s long, and only the bathtub plays it |
StruggleVolume |
0.25 |
0 mutes the loop |
StrugglePitch |
1.0 |
0.5–2 |
An unknown sound name leaves that cue silent and logs one line naming the key to
BepInEx\LogOutput.txt. Each cue tries two alternates first, so a typo is not a silent failure.
Build
dotnet build -c Release # .NET SDK + Valheim installed
dotnet build -c Release -p:VALHEIM_INSTALL="D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Valheim"
Non-obvious parts of FishCues.csproj are explained in its own comments.
Limits
- The bite cue hooks
RPC_Nibble, which only fires for a nibble offered the right bait. That matches the vanilla hook window, so there is no plink when the bait is wrong. - Volumes are the author's by-ear levels against the game's mix, not tuned values.
- Untraced: what else plays
Splash_Water_Small2. The bathtub loop's seam is measured from the file (head and tail within 0.0025 RMS), not proven from the prefab.
MIT — see LICENSE. Uses no game assets: it plays whatever sounds the player's own install has.