Wheel of Wuck

Getting tired of picking trinkets and bindings on your own? Need to spice it up a little? Well, not to worry - the mighty Wheel of Wuck is here to save you! Gamble with your run's trinkets and bindings by scrolling through the wheel of names that define your run. Six wheels, one after the other: difficulty, route, how many bindings, which bindings, a trinket and a 1 in 1000 chance for the Chimney.

Everything the mod sets the new game screen can set too, so all wheel runs still count for the leaderboards.

Installing

With r2modman, simply search for WheelOfWuck and install the mod.

Got the zip instead? Go to Settings > Profile > Import local mod.

Manual install: install BepInEx 5, start the game once, unzip the mod into its own folder inside BepInEx/plugins.

How it works

• Go to Campaign, press Play and there will be a Wheel button next to Play on the new game screen (also on the screen after you die)
• Spin through the wheels. Cancel leaves everything as it was, Last roll takes the previous roll again, Reset starts over from the first wheel (and resets the last roll)
• Settings (before the first spin) lets you enable/disable what can land on each wheel. Locked stuff (like shortcuts) is greyed out
• When the last wheel is done, the mod selects all the options you rolled in the in-game menu and you're all good to go
• The route and the Hot Zone are yours to take, the mod only tells you which. Chimney means the run starts in the Chimney first (see below)

Things the mod can't set for you are left off the wheel - this also includes shortcuts and bindings you haven't unlocked yet.

In the run

HUD

A small panel in the top right corner shows your roll. Press F8 to enable/disable the wheel run HUD. Shortcuts turn green when you take them, and red when you take one the wheel didn't pick (off route). If you climb past the entrance of a shortcut the wheel picked, it will turn red too, and 5 seconds later the game kills you. You can disable this via the RestartOnSkip config option.

Some rolls are more than one run! Ladder + Hot Zone means that you have to beat the game in the Ladder first (by either looping once and dying, or exiting through the vent after one loop), then start over and go through the Hot Zone.

Chimney

Chimney starts first with the rolled bindings and trinkets. After every loop a prompt asks whether to keep climbing (F3) or end the run there (F6), which is a normal death so the Chimney's run is properly submitted to the leaderboard. Restart on that screen then starts the campaign run, however dying before the first loop means the Chimney run was not successful.

Restarting the game puts the trinkets and bindings back the way they were before the wheel roll.

Every finished wheel run is written to BepInEx/config/senkodev.whiteknuckle.wheelofwuck.history.json.

Settings

In the BepInEx/config/senkodev.whiteknuckle.wheelofwuck.cfg file and in the Mod Menu the following settings are available: HudKey, ShowHud, HudPosition, HudScale, TickVolume, RestartOnSkip, TrinketPerBinding, ChimneyStayKey, ChimneyGoKey.

TrinketPerBinding is on by default, and can be unticked in the wheel's settings. When it is on, the trinket wheel spins once per rolled binding + 1 free, so 3 bindings give 4 trinkets. Turn it off to always roll a single trinket.

Building

You will need the .NET SDK and the game with BepInEx already installed.

dotnet build src/WheelOfWuck.csproj -c Release

This also copies the mod into your r2modman profile. If your game and/or profile are somewhere else, copy LocalPaths.props.example to LocalPaths.props and put your paths in there. Add -p:Deploy=false if you only want to build the mod.

The wheels are in the src/wheels.json file. It is built into the dll, so always rebuild the mod after changing it.

tools/package.ps1 makes the zip package for the Thunderstore listing.

Dedicated to

This mod is dedicated to Sckurge, who you can find on Twitch and YouTube. He is also the author of the original wheel which was used for this mod! :D

You can find his first playthrough of the mod on YouTube

Credits

• Dark Machine Games for White Knuckle
• The BepInEx and HarmonyX teams for the mod loader and patching
• sinai-dev and yukiaiji for UnityExplorer
• The idea and the wheel options for the mod were taken from the Wheel of Wuck, which was made by Sckurge
• Code, icons, design and testing are by senkodev

If you can design a better icon for the mod, please contact me through Discord (senkodev) or Telegram 🥹