Rope Physics Rewrite

I ended up rewriting most of White Knuckle's rope movement because the original ropes could feel awkward and unpredictable.

Swinging now carries your momentum properly, climbing behaves more like the normal handholds, and releasing a rope should not launch you across the map. Fast swings also keep the rope inside your hand's grip instead of dropping it because the rope briefly moved outside the game's normal reach check. Ropes can be carried while slack, wrap around corners, collide with the environment, and settle on floors and ledges.

How It Works

• Hold sprint while using a rope to enter swing mode.
• Walk without sprinting to enter climb mode, including at high angles.
• Move forward and backward while swinging to pump gradually.
• Grab anywhere on the rope without losing your incoming momentum.
• Hold two ropes at the same time.
• Walk with a loose rope while standing on the ground.
• Jump while holding a rope to loosen it until tension returns.
• Grab a solid ledge while holding a rope to climb normally while the rope follows behind you.

The rewrite also cleans up hand jitter, extreme release speed, repeated rope boosting, unstable loose ends, wall clipping, and erratic corner deflections.

Important

Leaderboard submissions are disabled while this plugin is installed.

Do not combine this with another mod that replaces rope movement or rope physics.

Installation

Mod Manager

Install with r2modman, Gale, or the Thunderstore Mod Manager and launch the game through your selected profile.

Manual

1. Install BepInEx 5 for White Knuckle.
2. Place WhiteKnuckleRopeRewrite.dll in BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Restart the game.

Configuration

The first launch creates:

BepInEx/config/com.wk.ropephysicsrewrite.cfg

Available settings:

• Enabled
• PumpPower
• Gravity
• Damping

There is no menu or hotkey.

Source and Issues

Source code and issue tracking are available on GitHub.

Documentation Note

The release documentation was drafted with AI assistance and reviewed and edited by the author.