Rodnarok

Name: Rodnarok
Availability: InStock
Author: isimp

Fishing you can read: the bait decides the fish in any water, each fish shows its own sign coming in, bites and struggles show on the float, line and crosshair, a heave lifts a resting fish, fish from a seat, and a trophy calms the waves.

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Downloads: 35
Version: 0.3.1
Updated: 2026-11-05
Author: isimp
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Runs on: Client & Server

Description

Rodnarök

Rodnarök makes fishing in Valheim something you can read and enjoy. The bait on your hook decides which fish comes, in any water deep enough.

The crosshair ring through a fight: white as it drains after the bite, red filling as a held struggle strains the line, red emptying as the line is eased off, yellow while the resting fish is reeled in

AI notice

Most of Rodnarök was written by Claude Code (Anthropic), which did the heavy lifting on implementation and design. Heads-up so you can judge for yourself.

Fishing

Each bait brings its own fish anywhere, and plain Fishing Bait also brings the fish that live where the float lands. Cast out over deep water and keep still. A school swims in from out of sight, each kind showing its own sign on the water, brighter on calm water and fainter in a swell. A deeper fish's sign shows broader and fainter. The signs go quiet while the school waits at your float, then follow the one fish that goes for the bait, and the crosshair ring grows stronger as it comes closer.

Noise and quick reels scare the fish, and a line at the top left says why a school left.

You can fish sitting on a chair, a bench or the ground. A Serpent trophy on an Item stand calms the waves around it once you tap the use key on that stand.

The fight

When a fish bites, the float goes under and the crosshair ring drains. Hold block before it empties to hook the fish. A missed bite may cost your bait.

A hooked fish takes turns struggling and resting. While it struggles the ring is red, and holding block strains the line until it snaps, so ease off and let the fish run. While it rests the ring is yellow, and holding block reels it in. A still float means the rest goes on a while yet, and a restless float and a line drawn taut mean the fish is about to bolt.

In a rest your secondary attack heaves the fish toward you and leaves slack on the line, which holding block winds in quickly. Slack still out when the fish bolts jolts the line, so wind it in before the next struggle. You can only heave again once the slack is in, which the ring shows as it fills back up, and every heave makes the fish bolt sooner. Once the float grows restless, stop: a heave then makes the fish bolt at once.

Difficulty

Difficulty picks one of five levels, from VeryEasy to VeryHard, with Normal by default. Picking a level fills in the settings it sets, and changing one of them yourself makes it Custom.

Multiplayer

Install Rodnarök on every player and on a dedicated server. The server's settings apply to everyone on it, and only an admin changes them in game.

Settings

All settings are in BepInEx/config/isimp.Rodnarok.cfg, and /rodnarok in the chat tells where. CastHints, SeatedMotions and FloatWisp are your own, never the server's.

Other mods

The fish a bait brings can only be caught with the rod, so a spear, harpoon, arrow or bolt from Spearfishing that hits one catches nothing and scares the school away. Fish of the world's own are left to Spearfishing as before.

Thanks

Several ideas come from ChillFishing by Lenson, above all calming the water where you fish.

Technical notes and build instructions are on GitHub at https://github.com/isimp/Rodnarok

Changelog

0.3.1 Latest

A heave must be wound in before the next, and each one brings the fish's next struggle sooner, never so soon that the warning is missed; a heave once the float is restless makes the fish bolt at once. Only the heave's own slack holds the next one back, the ring fills back up as you wind it in, and a heave pressed too soon twitches the rod and shakes the ring. Without the stamina for a heave the stamina bar flashes, as for any attack.

A fish's sign on the water shows how deep it swims, broader and fainter the deeper it is, sharpening as the fish going for your bait rises to the hook.

0.3.0

A hooked fish warns of its next struggle: the float grows restless and the line goes taut just before it bolts. Server setting StruggleWarning.

In a rest the rod's secondary attack heaves the fish toward you and leaves slack to wind in quickly, but slack still out when the fish bolts jolts the line. Server setting Heave.

The signs of a coming school follow its way in, go quiet while it waits at your float and then follow the fish that goes for the bait. The Trollfish shows as a surging hump of water.

The signs take the light of the hour, ride the waves and drift with the wind, and read best on calm water. How strongly they show is a server setting, SignContrast.

Before the bite the crosshair ring grows stronger as the fish comes closer, and your float twitches toward it at the last. Once a fish is hooked the rest of the school darts away.

Only the fish your float's sign follows takes your bait, and a Wisplight's wisp guarding your float comes home once the school has left.

0.2.1

Five difficulty levels from VeryEasy to VeryHard, Normal playing as before. Picking a level fills in the settings it sets, and changing one of them yourself makes it Custom. Server setting Difficulty.

A school scared away for good tells you why: your steps or another player's, reeling through it, shyness close in or in shallow water, or a shot.

A bite no longer dips the float a second time while it can still be hooked.

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