WKSR: White Knuckle SpeedRun

Race other people up the same White Knuckle climb. Everyone gets the exact same seeded world, you see each other's splits as you go, and the other racers climb next to you as ghosts.

Players cant interact with each other with this mod, during a match each game sends coordinates where their character is to the server, that way you can see each other as ghosts.

It's made with fun in mind but there's a solo q mode for those who want it.

You can launch the game via r2/thunderstore or via the client that comes with the mod (launch game within the client launches it via steam with bepinex launch commands).

What it do

• Ranked races: 1v1 against whoever is searching, with a rating.
• Lobbies: send your friends a code. Race them 1v1, or in a party mode of up to 15 players. The host picks the modifiers for everyone.
• Practice: solo runs on any seed, with the modifiers you choose. Your best run on each seed comes back as a ghost to beat.
• Chat: in lobbies and races: press T in the game, or type in WKSR.
• WKSR:, a small app that sits next to the game. It finds matches and shows your splits, standings and results. It comes with this package and opens when the game starts.
• Proximity voice: funny

Installation / launching first time

1. Install this package with your mod manager. BepInExPack comes with it.
2. Press Start modded. WKSR opens next to the game.
3. The first time, WKSR asks for a username. Other players will see it.
4. For ranked races, press LINK STEAM once. Steam's own page opens in your browser to confirm the account. WKSR gets your Steam account number and no other data. This is used to make a profile based on your steam id.
5. Press FIND GAME, CREATE LOBBY, or SOLO to practice.

Starting a race

Press F9 on the game's menu to load the race world. Once everyone's world has loaded, there's a ready check: press F9 again (or READY in WKSR) within 60 seconds. The countdown starts when everyone is ready.

If you don't ready up in time: in a ranked race you forfeit, a friendly 1v1 is called off, and a party race starts without waiting for you.

The rules

• One run each. No restarts during a race.
• 1v1: first to the top wins. If you die, you lose, even if you were miles ahead. If someone's game or connection drops, the race pauses for up to 60 seconds.
• Party races: one life. Die and you're out, and the race carries on without you. Nobody waits for anyone who drops out. The race ends when everyone has finished or is out, or 5 minutes after the first finish (subject to change if intrusive). Finishers are placed by time. Everyone else is placed by how far they got, and on different routes, by who survived longer. On a shortcut your place shows as "?" until you're back on the main route.

Modifiers

Ranked races always use all of them. In lobbies the host picks them, and in practice you do.

• Artifact bans (1v1 only): each player bans one artifact before the race.
• Curated seeds, so early-game luck doesn't decide the race. Each part can be picked on its own:
  • Deep Storage food: every Deep Storage level that can have them gets at least one food bar and one pill bottle.
  • Perks: the Safe Room's experimental console offers Conditioned Polyphagia or Metabolic Overdrive, the Silo to Pipeworks interlude offers Metabolic Stasis, and the interlude consoles before the Habitation and the Nest offer Rabbit DNA or Pulse Organ.
  • Items: the Silo to Pipeworks interlude always has a slug grub, and a Blink Eye is for sale in the Safe Room or that interlude.

Whatever the modifiers, every racer gets identical levels, items, spawns and perk cards, and everyone counts as having everything unlocked.

Keys

F9	Start your run, then ready up (in practice: twice for a fresh run)
F10	Twice to forfeit
F7 / F6	Hide the splits / the ghosts
T	Chat (Enter sends, Esc cancels)

WKSR's GHOST OPACITY slider sets how solid the ghosts look.

Something wrong?

Press REPORT BUG in WKSR, add a screenshot, and it comes straight to us.

You can use this for feature requests, if you have any.

Privacy

WKSR connects to our race server in the EU. It keeps your racer name, rating and 1v1 race results, and nothing is sold or shared. Chat is passed on to the other players and never stored. The i button in WKSR shows exactly what is stored, and how to get a copy or have it deleted.

Made with AI

This mod and WKSR were built with an AI assistant: the code was generated with Claude, by Anthropic, directed and play-tested by a human. It has been tested in real races and practice runs, and backed by over 200 automated tests. If you find something that slipped through, REPORT BUG is the fastest way to tell us.

Most of the current features can be changed/added if people want, not a lot here is set in stone.

Client UI made by floor7 aka Spilled, thanks!