PEAK Ticks 🕷️

Version 1.1.0 — Customize how ticks attach, grow, and affect players across a run.

Walking through whitelisted vegetation can attach ticks. The mod scans each biome segment after you progress (e.g. lighting campfires) to register plants for touch detection — setup is spread across frames to limit FPS spikes. Only 1 tick will attach at a time unless you hit a tick bomb, so pick them off as soon as you get them!

Everyone in the lobby should install this mod so tick rules stay consistent. The host’s config is synced to clients in multiplayer via PEAKLib host handshake + PhotonCustomPropsUtils room properties. If the host does not have the mod, clients disable PEAK Ticks gameplay for that lobby (prevents tick exploits when rules do not match).

Works with Toss a Tick (optional): when both mods are installed and authorized, thrown ticks follow the same attach limits, bodyparts, growth, and status rules as everything else. No Toss a Tick update required for 1.1.0. Should also work with PEAK Blow Darts for the Tick Blow Gun.

• 🗣️ Find the mod in the Peak Modding Discord under #mod-releases to discuss mod related topics like issues/reports/appreciation

🛠️ Features

Attach

• 🎯 Attach ticks to random eligible bodyparts (configurable list; one tick per bodypart)
• 🔢 Support multiple ticks per player (vanilla is 1; configurable up to 18)
• 🌿 Vegetation attach — walking through whitelisted plants in Shore, Tropics, Roots, Alpine, Mesa, and Gloom (Swamp) can attach ticks
• 🌑 Gloom foliage — cattails, Venus leaves, and vines in the Swamp Props folders
• 💣 Tick bomb — rare bursts that attach several ticks at once
• 🧹 Retires vanilla map TickTrigger spawns when the mod is active (uses mod attach logic instead)

Growth

• ⏱️ Configurable time to reach full size (vanilla: 300 seconds)
• 📏 Configurable max scale, or uncapped growth for ever-growing ticks

Poison / Injury

• ☠️ Configurable pulse interval, flat poison per pulse, and per-tick poison cap
• 📈 Size-based poison — stronger pulses as ticks grow
• 🩸 Injury mode — apply Injury instead of Poison while keeping the same pulse tuning
• ♾️ Optional uncapped status per tick

Removal

• 👇 Look down at ground to pick ticks off! Easier than raycasting onto the tick!

Multiplayer

• 🤝 Host must have PEAK Ticks (PEAKLib plugin GUID handshake)
• 🔄 Host config syncs to joining clients
• 🚫 Clients cannot use mod tick gameplay when the host lacks the mod

⚙️ Config Options

You can change these in the mod's config file at:
BepInEx/config/tony4twentys.PEAK_Ticks.cfg

Attach

Default AttachBodyparts:
Knee_R,Knee_L,Hip_R,Hip_L,Hip,Torso,Shoulder_R,Shoulder_L,Elbow_R,Elbow_L,Arm_L,Arm_R,Foot_R,Foot_L,Neck,Head,Hand_R,Hand_L

Vegetation

Poison

Extras

📦 Installation

1. Download via Thunderstore
2. Place the .dll file in: /PEAK/BepInEx/plugins/
3. Launch game to generate config
   🕷️ or use a Mod Manager 🕷️

Recommended: add PEAK Ticks to shared mod profiles so everyone runs the same tick rules.

📦 Dependencies

• BepInExPack_PEAK
• PEAKLib Core
• PhotonCustomPropsUtils

Optional companion: Toss a Tick — host-only throw-to-attach; uses PEAK Ticks rules when both are installed.

📣 Feedback

Suggestions, ideas, or issues?
Reach out via the PEAK Modding Discord

👨‍🍳 Credits

Author tony4twenty
My Other Mods tony4twenty

🕷️ Configure the crawl. Survive the swarm.

Changelog

[1.1.0] - 2026-08-26

Gloom / Swamp

• Swamp setup targets only the three Props folders (Cattails, VenusLeaves, Vines) instead of scanning the entire segment hierarchy

Vegetation (all biomes)

• Bounds-based touch detection for spread foliage (grass, ferns, vines, cattails, etc.) for better performance
• Now spreads out scan of vegetation over time rather than all at once reducing the intensity of the FPS spikes when lighting fires and going to next segmen

[1.0.0] - 2026-07-28

• Initial release
• Multi-tick attach with random bodypart selection (configurable bodypart list; one tick per bodypart)
• Vegetation attach for whitelisted plants in Shore, Tropics, Roots, Alpine, and Mesa
• Tick bomb bursts (configurable chance and tick count range)
• Configurable tick growth duration, max scale, and uncapped growth
• Configurable poison/injury pulses: flat or size-based, caps, and injury mode toggle
• Look-down removal targets the lowest attached tick on your body
• Retires vanilla map TickTrigger spawns when mod gameplay is active
• Host handshake via PEAKLib Core — clients disable mod tick gameplay when the host lacks PEAK Ticks
• Host config sync via PhotonCustomPropsUtils room properties
• Public PeakticksInterop API for optional integration with Toss a Tick