Ziplines

Ziplines

Fly from your hilltop to the dock in seconds: build zipline posts, string ropes up to 150 m between them and ride at up to 72 km/h.

At a glance

• Ropes up to 150 m long, up to 4 on each post, so one hilltop post can reach the dock, the farm and the mine.
• Real riding. Gravity speeds you downhill at up to 72 km/h. Uphill you pull yourself along hand over hand, and an automatic brake slows you before the far post.
• Catch a rope in mid-jump. Leap or fall into a rope and you ride on in the direction you were going.
• Only ropes that work. Ropes that would drag a rider through ground, water, trees, rocks or buildings are refused, with the reason.
• Simple to build: 8 Wood, 4 Leather scraps and 2 Iron per post, at a workbench.
• No new hotkeys. The game's own keys only, so nothing clashes with your other mods.

Needs Jotunn. Everyone on the server needs Ziplines, the host included.

Features

• Zipline post. A log post with an iron pulley and a coil of spare rope, in the Hammer's Misc tab.
• Hang on and ride. You hang from a trolley's handle, and the mouse swivels you around. Other players see you ride.
• Pull, slide, brake. Hold forward to pull yourself along, also uphill (it costs stamina). Stop pulling uphill and you slide back. Hold back or block to brake.
• Get on anywhere. Ride from either end, or jump into a rope anywhere along it to catch it.
• Hear the speed. The rope's hum rises in pitch and volume as you go faster.
• Safe logouts. Log out, quit or let the game save mid-ride and you come back on the ground by the nearer post, not in mid-air.

How to use

The Zipline post is in the Hammer's Misc tab and needs a Workbench. It costs 8 Wood, 4 Leather scraps and 2 Iron.

1. Build two posts, up to 150 m apart.
2. Press Shift + E on the first post to take a rope.
3. Look at the second post: the hover text shows the rope's length, or why it cannot be tied (too far, too steep, something in the way). Press Shift + E to tie it.
4. Press E on either post to ride. With several ropes on a post, look along the one you want.

| Key | Action | |---|---| | Shift + E on a post | Take a rope, tie it, or put it back on its first post | | E on a post | Ride | | Hold E for a second | Drop a carried rope (hammer away, not looking at a door, chest or post) | | Hold W (riding) | Pull yourself along, also uphill (uses stamina) | | Hold S or block (riding) | Brake | | Space, E or attack (riding) | Let go; you keep your speed and fall damage applies |

Stop pulling uphill and you slide back, at worst to the post you started from. Out of stamina, hold W to hang on until you catch your breath. Overweight, you cannot pull, but W still keeps you from sliding back.

A carried rope slips back if you walk further than it is long, go through a portal, sit, steer a ship or ride, or if the first post is moved or taken down. You cannot ride with a rope in your hand, or take or tie ropes inside a ward you have no access to. Take down either post and its ropes come down; anyone riding them falls.

Configuration

Settings are in BepInEx/config/anwo.Ziplines.cfg and can be changed in game with a configuration manager.

1 - Rules

| Setting | Default | Scope | Description | |---|---|---|---| | Max rope length | 150 | Server | Longest rope in metres (10-400). Over about 250 m may not show from the far end | | Max slope | 60 | Server | Steepest rope in degrees (10-80) | | Max ropes per post | 4 | Server | Ropes one post can hold (1-8) | | Require clearance | true | Server | Refuses ropes where a rider's feet, at least 2.3 m below the rope, would hit something | | Rope sag | 0.02 | Server | Sag of new ropes as a share of their length (0-0.1; 0.02 = 2 m on 100 m). Tied ropes keep theirs | | Post recipe | Wood:8,LeatherScraps:4,Iron:2 | Server | Cost of a post, as Item:Amount with prefab names (as in the game's files) |

2 - Riding

| Setting | Default | Scope | Description | |---|---|---|---| | Max speed | 20 | Server | Top speed in m/s (4-40; 20 m/s = 72 km/h) | | Gravity | 1 | Server | How strongly downhill ropes speed you up (0.2-3; 1 = real gravity) | | Crawl speed | 0 | Server | Minimum speed towards the far post in m/s (0-6). 0: off, you pull yourself uphill | | Pull speed | 4 | Server | Pulling speed in m/s (0-10) | | Pull stamina per second | 6 | Server | Stamina used while pulling (0-50) | | Brake strength | 10 | Server | Braking in m/s per second (1-40) | | Auto-brake at the end | true | Server | Slows you down before the far post | | Arrival speed | 3 | Server | Speed the auto-brake slows you to, in m/s (0.5-10); a higher Crawl speed wins |

3 - Look and feel

| Setting | Default | Scope | Description | |---|---|---|---| | Ride animation | hang | Client | Pose: hang (arms up), repell, grappling, attach_chair (chairlift) or none | | Hang height | 2.3 | Client | Distance from the rope down to your feet, in metres (1.2-3) | | Rope thickness | 0.05 | Client | Thickness of the drawn rope, in metres (0.01-0.2) | | Messages | Short | Client | Short: a few words top left. All: full help mid-screen. Off: none | | Ride sound | true | Client | Plays the rope sound while riding | | Ride sound volume | 0.7 | Client | Volume of the ride sound (0-1) |

4 - Controls

| Setting | Default | Scope | Description | |---|---|---|---| | Grab the rope in mid-air | true | Client | Jump or fall into a rope to catch it. Off: get on at a post only | | Log back in on the ground | true | Client | Logging out, quitting or a save while you ride puts you back on the ground by a post of the rope. Off: you come back where you hung |

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