peak-shotgun

Turns PEAK's leftover blowgun into a shotgun.

A blast throws eight pellets in a short cone, about every 0.85 seconds. Scouts who are hit take a heavy Injury and get flipped. Zombies ignore Injury. The first hit flips them and adds Drowsy. The second hit knocks them out, and they stay down until PEAK kills them. See the zombie page.

Requirements

• BepInExPack for PEAK
• PEAKLib Core
• PEAKLib Items

PEAK does not include a shotgun model. The mod builds the gun from the blowgun already in the game, names it Shotgun, and makes it fire on its own. Installing the mod is the whole setup.

Where it spawns

• Roots: every run, at least two random luggage anywhere on the Roots map are forced to contain a shotgun. This always happens; no config turns it off.
• Other biomes: by default the shotgun does not appear in luggage outside Roots.
• Set CanSpawnOnAnyBiome = true under [Shotgun] in BepInEx/config/PeakShotgun.cfg to also allow random shotgun rolls in luggage on any biome. Roots still forces two suitcases either way.

It looks like the blowgun, because that is the model PEAK ships. It does not replace the blowgun.

Configuration

After one launch, edit BepInEx/config/PeakShotgun.cfg:

Install

1. Install the package with r2modman / Gale, or drop PeakShotgun.dll into BepInEx/plugins/PeakShotgun/.
2. Launch PEAK from r2modman. Starting the game from Steam skips BepInEx.

How to test

1. Set EnableDebugMode = true under [Debug] in the PeakShotgun config file (it appears after one launch). Host a run. On the Shore, three zombies appear near you, and a Shotgun is on the ground in front of you. With debug mode off (the default) nothing is force-spawned there; open Roots luggage to find the two guaranteed shotguns.
2. Press primary fire. It shoots a spread of pellets about every 0.85 seconds, plays the shotgun fire sound and pushes you back a little. Each shotgun has 5 shots. Tune Shots, EnableRecoil, and Recoil under [Shotgun] as needed.
3. Shoot another scout. They take a heavy Injury and get flipped. You cannot hit yourself.
4. Reach the Roots (Peak ascent or higher for natural zombies). Open luggage until you find a shotgun, then shoot a zombie. The first blast flips it, and it can get back up. The second blast knocks it out, and it stays down. Or use debug Shore zombies from step 1.

Build

Requires PEAK installed (auto-detected under common Steam paths), or set PEAK_GAME_DIR / -p:PeakGameRootDir=.

dotnet build Peak.Shotgun.slnx -c Release

Optional deploy: -p:DeployToPeak=true -p:PeakPluginsDir="/path/to/BepInEx/plugins/PeakShotgun"
Optional overrides: copy Config.Build.user.props.example → Config.Build.user.props (gitignored).

The DLL is artifacts/bin/Peak.Shotgun/release/PeakShotgun.dll.

Developers

AGENTS.md is the code map: what each type does, where icons and sounds live, and how zombie knockdown and ammo work.

Thunderstore packaging (CI)

Every push to master runs .github/workflows/thunderstore.yml:

1. Builds a Thunderstore ZIP (using FakeGameDevelopers.PEAKGameLibs stripped refs for compile references)
2. Uploads a workflow artifact named FakeGameDevelopers-PeakShotgun

Every push still builds that zip. Thunderstore publish runs when <Version> in src/PeakShotgun/Peak.Shotgun.csproj is not yet the live Thunderstore release, and the organization secret TCLI_AUTH_TOKEN is set. The publish step copies the categories already on the package, so a new version keeps the same tags. A commit that leaves the version matching live only builds the artifact.

Local package build

./build.sh
# or: dotnet build Peak.Shotgun.slnx -c Release -target:PackTS
# zip lands in artifacts/thunderstore/

Credits

• Original author: Arman Ossi Loko
• This mod belongs to Fake Game Developers
• Based on Peak_AKGun by TheCodinPro

Contributors

• bekto

Work based on this mod must credit Arman Ossi Loko and Fake Game Developers. See LICENSE.

Changelog

1.0.8

• Fix [Shootables] Spores: hit real spore bombs (Breakable SporeShroom / ExploShroom / PoisonShroom), not Cloud Fungus

1.0.7

• Host authorizes each shot before it fires, so ammo and hits stay consistent in multiplayer
• Shots, FriendlyFire, and every [Shootables] toggle come from the host for the whole lobby
• Roots picks and the per-biome shotgun cap survive quicksave reloads and host migration (PeakShotgun.loot.json)
• Custom runs that disable the shotgun no longer get forced Roots luggage shotguns
• Remaining ammo updates the correct inventory slot (by gun instance), not just the selected hotbar slot
• Knocked-down zombies stay silenced for late joiners and after host migration
• Require PEAKLib Core 1.7.2

1.0.6

• Add [Shootables] toggles for zombies, mandrake, beetles, spiders, spores, scorpions, and dynamite (only zombies on by default)
• Add [Combat] FriendlyFire (default on): off keeps scout knockback but removes Injury

1.0.5

• Make luggage shotgun spawns much rarer when allowed outside Roots (RidiculouslyRare instead of Common)
• Cap shotgun luggage at 4 per biome per run

1.0.4

• Fix ammo resetting to full when a shotgun is dropped or given to another player
• Remaining shots stay in sync for everyone in the lobby, including late joiners
• Magazine size and remaining shots are host-authoritative (clients use the host's Shots value)

1.0.3

• Changing Shots in the config now applies on a new map without quitting PEAK
• Newly spawned shotguns always use the current Shots value

1.0.2

• CI publish test bump

1.0.1

• Fix README preview images on the Thunderstore package page (absolute GitHub URLs)

1.0.0

• Builds a shotgun from the blowgun already in PEAK, so the mod needs no extra files
• Roots always forces two random luggage to have a shotgun; CanSpawnOnAnyBiome (default false) allows rolls in other biomes
• With EnableDebugMode on, spawns three test zombies and a shotgun near you on the Shore. Off by default
• Each shot pushes the shooter back. EnableRecoil turns it on or off, Recoil sets the strength (0-10)
• Blasts injure scouts and flip them
• Each shotgun holds 5 shots, set by the Shots config entry. The hotbar name and shoot prompt show how many are left
• Knocked-out zombies stop making sounds while the game still has them alive
• Hotbar icon is a shotgun drawing
• Each shot flashes a short light at the barrel
• Shot fire sound is shotgun_fire_01.wav
• Blasts flip zombies harder than a coconut and add Drowsy damage