BetterLadders

BetterLadders

Features

• Change climbing speed and sprint-climbing speed
• The climbing animation speed can be scaled accordingly
• Change the speed of the animation to enter/exit a ladder
• Use ladders while holding a two-handed item
• Hide the held item while climbing a ladder
• Visibility is synced with other clients, as long as the host has this mod
• Change how long extension ladders stay extended (or make them permanent)
• Require holding the interact button to pick up an extended extension ladder
• Hold time can be adjusted or disabled

Config

General

entry — default — description — synced with host

ClimbSpeedMultiplier — 1.0 — Ladder climb speed multiplier — ✓

SprintingClimbSpeedMultiplier — 1.5 — Additional climb speed multiplier while sprinting — ✓

TransitionSpeedMultiplier — 1.0 — Ladder enter/exit animation speed multiplier — ✓

AllowTwoHanded — true — Whether ladders can be climbed while carrying a two-handed object — ✓

ScaleAnimationSpeed — true — Whether the climbing animation is scaled to the climbing speed — ✓

HideOneHanded — true — Whether one-handed items should be hidden while climbing a ladder — ✗

HideTwoHanded — true — Whether two-handed items should be hidden while climbing a ladder — ✗

Extension Ladders

entry — default — description — synced with host

ExtensionTime — 0.0 — How long extension ladders should stay extended, in seconds (0 for permanent) (20 in vanilla) — ✓

ExtensionSpeedMultiplier — 1.0 — Multiplies how fast the ladder extends once activated — ✓

ExtensionDelay — 1.0 — How long before the ladder begins to extend once activated, in seconds (1 in vanilla) — ✓

FallSpeedMultiplier — 1.0 — Multiplies how fast the ladder falls once fully extended — ✓

FallDelay — 0.4 — How long before the ladder begins to fall once fully extended, in seconds (0.4 in vanilla) — ✓

EnableKillTrigger — true — Whether extension ladders should kill players they land on — ✓

HoldToPickup — true — Whether the interact key needs to be held to pick up an activated extension ladder — ✗

HoldTime — 0.5 — How long the interact key must be held if holdToPickup is true, in seconds — ✗

Debug

entry — default — description

DebugMode — false — Whether to display debug messages in the BepInEx console

Building

NetcodePatcher must be installed with dotnet tool install -g Evaisa.NetcodePatcher.Cli To create a release zip in BetterLadders/artifacts, run dotnet publish -c Release This also generates a thunderstore.toml file to allow publishing from tcli

Publishing to Thunderstore can be done automatically via GitHub Actions:

1. Set Namespace, Product, Version, and RepositoryUrl in BetterLadders.csproj
2. Set TS_API_KEY in the repository's secrets
3. Run the Build and Publish workflow from the Actions page in GitHub