🔮 EnderBuoy

Enderpearl-style buoy teleportation for Big Walk.

Turn on any buoy, throw it across the island, and instantly blink to where it lands.

✨ What it does

Buoys in Big Walk are bright, bouncy, and throwable. EnderBuoy transforms lit buoys into high-speed traversal tools:

• Throw to Blink: Toss any lit buoy to teleport instantly to its first point of impact.
• AutoRetrieve (Optional): Automatically snaps the thrown buoy right back into your hands upon landing for rapid, continuous chain-blinking across the island (configurable, off by default).
• Sparkling Flight Trail: Emits a luminous, shimmering comet tail of sparkling embers and trailing wisps dynamically tinted to your outfit's palette while the buoy is airborne.
• Smart Landings: Automatic slope alignment, wall clearance, and ground probing prevent getting stuck in cliffs, rocks, or geometry.
• Departure & Arrival DoublePuff: Unmodded vanilla clients across the lobby now see you vanish in a colorful DoublePuff (Torso + Legs) in random colors, and materialize at the destination with another random-colored double burst!
• Outfit-Matching VFX: Mod users continue to see your high-fidelity 3.0s billowing smoke clouds and 35 directional spark bursts matching your exact clothing colors.
• Dual 3D Spatial Audio: Plays atmospheric throw whoosh sounds at both departure and arrival points.
• Multiplayer Buoy Caching: Periodic 5.0s buoy scan eliminates 99% of loop overhead and string allocations across 500+ island props.
• Safe by Default: By default, only lit buoys teleport you (RequireLit = true). Turn the buoy's lamp off to toss it around normally.

You can toggle the teleport effect on and off at any time using F7 (configurable).

✨ How It Works

🆕 1.1.1 Changes

• No settings-mod dependency: EnderBuoy no longer references or requires ModSettingsMenu. On Big Walk 1.6, MSM 1.1.2 fails to build its own settings panel (it hard-codes native menu row names the game renamed), and the old hard dependency meant a broken settings menu could take EnderBuoy down with it. EnderBuoy now loads on its own and shows its rows in whichever settings menu you have installed.
• Big Walk 1.6 compatibility: rebuilt and verified against the 1.6 interop assemblies.

🆕 1.1.0 Changes

• AutoRetrieve Setting: Automatically snaps the buoy back into your hands upon landing for continuous chain teleporting.
• Sparkling Flight Trail: Continuous trailing embers and wisps following the buoy in flight keyed to player outfit colors.
• Departure & Arrival DoublePuff: Vanilla clients across the lobby see you vanish in a random-colored double burst (Torso + Legs) and explode into view at the destination with another random double burst.
• Dual Spatial Audio: Throw whoosh sounds now play at both takeoff and landing coordinates.
• Multiplayer Tracking Optimization: Periodic 5-second buoy caching cuts 99% of loop overhead across 500+ props during multiplayer distance checks.

⚙️ Settings

Configurable in game with any settings-menu mod you have installed, or by editing BepInEx/config/walker.enderbuoy.cfg:

Blink

Effects

General & Input

🚀 Installation

1. Install this package with your Thunderstore mod manager.
2. Make sure BepInEx 6 IL2CPP is installed. No other mod is required — a settings menu (ModSettingsMenu, cfgMenu, …) is optional and only needed to change settings in game.
3. Launch Big Walk.
4. Pick up a buoy, turn its lamp ON, and throw!

Big Walk 1.6 note: ModSettingsMenu 1.1.2 itself no longer builds its settings panel on 1.6 (an MSM bug — it looks up native menu rows the game renamed). EnderBuoy is unaffected; use cfgMenu or edit BepInEx/config/walker.enderbuoy.cfg until MSM updates.

🙏 Special thanks

Special thanks to Dexter.