Changelog

1.3.0

The harpoon now hooks all sorts of things, as asked for by Horny Car on Discord:
- Dropped items, on the ground, sunk to the bottom of the water or lying in lava: the line reels them up to your hand and they go into your inventory (inventory full: the game tells you, and the item waits on the line). Until now the harpoon flew through items lying on the ground.
- Fish: harpoon one and reel it in, it lands in your inventory. On its own, the game's harpoon does nothing to fish.
- Tombstones, yours or a friend's: pull one out of the water, the lava or a hole. It stays where the line leaves it (the game puts a tombstone back where it fell once it is 4 m away).
- Carts nobody is pulling, without damaging them.
No need to hit a small item exactly: where the harpoon lands (ground, bottom of the water, lava), it grabs the closest of these things within 1 m (new setting GrabRadius).
On land, the line now carries most of the weight of what it tows, so a log lying lengthwise, a tombstone or a cart slides to you. Before, only a log that could roll followed you on land.
The harpoon no longer knocks a log away when it hits it.
Each new kind of catch has its own switch: HookItems, HookFish, HookTombstones, HookCarts (new section Things). Ships are never hooked, and creatures stay the game's own business.
New messages in 35 languages.

Tested with Valheim 1.0.20 (15 October 2026 update): nothing needed changing. Rebuilt against the new version of the game.

The mod no longer makes the game load its translations while mods are loading. This could make other mods show raw keys such as [some_name] instead of their texts, and for players who have never chosen a language in the settings it could write an error to the log at startup. The harpoon itself is unchanged.
Now also available on Nexus Mods.

Renamed Tamed+Logs Harpoon (was Tamed Harpoon): it hooks both tamed animals and logs: same mod, same settings file, your settings are kept. Remove Tamed Harpoon (or TamedHarpoon.dll) when you install it.
Towing a log is 17.5% easier: at the end of the line the log behaves as if it were 17.5% lighter, with less stamina and a stronger pull (new setting TowingEase).
Messages in 35 languages: your game's own language, English otherwise.
New icon: the harpoon with two badges, a green heart (tamed animals) and a log.
Tested with Valheim 1.0.17.

Logs: calm towing. The line now sets the log's speed instead of yanking it: it slows the log down as it arrives and stops it a step away from you, never pushes it, and keeps it on the ground or in the water. No more log flung into your face or wrestling with your character.

The harpoon also hooks felled tree logs: they follow you on the line, which slowly reels in (settings HookLogs, ReelSpeed, StaminaPerSecond).

First release (as Tamed Harpoon).
The Abyssal Harpoon now hooks tamed animals too, so you can pull them like wild ones.
It deals no damage and no knockback to tamed animals (setting NoDamage).
Other weapons and arrows still ignore tamed animals.
Only the player throwing the harpoon needs the mod.