PropHunt

A prop-hunt gamemode for STRAFTAT. Some players are seekers; everyone else is a prop who disguises as an ordinary world object and tries not to be found. The seekers are held blind and frozen through a short hide phase, then the hunt begins.

Every player in the lobby must run the same version of this mod — the host can't start the mode otherwise (see Requirements).

The gamemode

Each take runs in two phases:

• Hide. The seekers are frozen in place and given a blackout overlay while the props scatter. A prop presses the disguise key while looking at a nearby object to become that object — a crate, a sign, a light fixture, whatever they're aiming at. Props can rotate the disguise to line it up, and (by default) re-pick a different object on a short cooldown.
• Hunt. The seekers are released and go looking. Props stay disguised and run when spotted.

Winning a take:

• Seekers win by finding and eliminating every prop before the hunt timer runs out.
• Props win if the hunt timer expires with a prop still alive — the seekers go down and the props take it. After a props win, the map change is held for a few extra seconds so the eliminated seekers can see where the props were hiding.

Roles rotate: seeker duty passes round-robin through the players from one take to the next, so everyone gets turns hiding and seeking.

What each side experiences (all tunable — see Config):

• Props get a health boost when the hunt starts so a discovered prop can survive the first burst and run, can rotate and (optionally) re-pick their disguise, and are forced to auto-taunt on a timer during the hunt — the vanilla taunt sound, played louder, so hiding isn't perfectly silent.
• Seekers are blinded and frozen during the hide phase, then take a small amount of self-damage for every shot that misses a prop (so blind-firing the room has a cost), with a short window after each shot in which a hit on a prop cancels the penalty.
• A disguised prop is solid by default — the seeker can stand on it, jump off it, wall-jump against it — but it never blocks bullets; shots always resolve against the prop's real hitbox.

The mod flags itself as not vanilla-compatible, so the game's matchmaking keeps PropHunt lobbies separate from vanilla ones. This is deliberate: it stops a player without the mod from joining a public game mid-match, where they'd see every disguised prop as a plain player model and wreck the take.

Requirements

• BepInEx pack (listed as a dependency; a mod manager installs it for you).
• Every player in the lobby needs PropHunt, on the same version. The mod performs a handshake with each player before it will arm. If someone is missing the mod or is on a different version, the host's attempt to start the mode is refused, and the mod logs exactly who is missing or mismatched. This is by design — the gamemode only works when everyone is running it.

How to use

1. Everyone in the lobby installs PropHunt (same version).
2. The host selects Prop Hunt in the lobby's gamemode dropdown. (A host-only in-map hotkey, F6 by default, arms/disarms it as a fallback.)
3. Play. Roles, phases and timers are handled automatically.

Default keys (all rebindable in the config):

Config

All settings live in BepInEx/config/landa.straftat.prophunt.cfg (created on first run). Values are read live, so most edits take effect without a restart.

PropHunt.General

PropHunt.Rules

PropHunt.Visuals

PropHunt.Diagnostics

Troubleshooting

• The host can't start the mode / it says someone is missing. That's the handshake working — every player in the lobby needs PropHunt on the same version. The log names who is missing or mismatched.
• To gather info for a bug report: set LogActivity = true in the config and reproduce the issue. The BepInEx log is at BepInEx/LogOutput.log in your game folder (and appears live in the BepInEx console if you have it enabled).

Credits

Made by cl. Built with BepInEx and HarmonyX.