Grappling Hook

The problem

A good limit gives you a choice. Stamina asks how to spend it. Ammo asks whether this shot is worth it. You play differently because the limit is there, and that is what makes it design rather than friction.

The grappling gun's cooldown asks nothing. You wait. There is nothing else to do while you wait, and at the end of it you fire the gun anyway, because firing the gun is how you get up there. It does not change what you do — it only decides when you are allowed to do it.

No choice in it. Twelve seconds, on the gun you unlock at level 12.

I have fired that thing well over a thousand times this playthrough.

The fix

The cooldown is removed, on every tier.

One second rather than zero, because at zero the game glitches. One second is roughly how long the hook takes to come home anyway, so nothing is actually spent waiting.

Nothing else is touched. Range, hook speed, how fast you are dragged: exactly as the game shipped them. The better gun is still the better gun, it just no longer buys you the privilege of waiting less. You do not become Spider-Man — that is the other version, at the bottom.

Installing

Create a GrapplingHook folder in Palworld\Mods\NativeMods\UE4SS\Mods\ and lay the files out like this:

GrapplingHook\enabled.txt

GrapplingHook\Scripts\main.lua

enabled.txt is what tells UE4SS to load the mod, so do not leave it out. Its contents do not matter.

Restart the game afterwards. Mods are only read at startup.

Requires UE4SS Experimental (Palworld) by Oak.

Settings

None, and no config file. Nothing here can be set to a number that breaks the game.

If you want a different number there is exactly one, at the top of Scripts\main.lua:

local COOLDOWN_SECONDS = 1. 0

Change it and restart. Editing that is fine; handing everyone a settings file to fill in is not.

Notes

The mod changes one number in memory and that is all it does. No save data, no game files. It finds grappling guns by class rather than by a list of names, so a tier added by a future update is covered without an update here.

Tested in singleplayer.

For multiplayer, the mod must be installed on both the server and all clients.

Multiplayer behavior is based on user reports, since I do not run a server myself.

If nothing happens

Restart the game first — mods are only loaded at startup, so installing while it is running does nothing for that session.

If it still does not work, search UE4SS.log for lines beginning with . If "Mod loaded successfully!" is missing, the folder layout or a file name is wrong. The first time each tier of gun is drawn, the mod writes one line saying what its cooldown was and what it set instead.

"Could not read CoolDownTime. Wrong game version?" most likely means a game update renamed what the mod writes. Nothing to do on your end.

The other one

Grappling Hook! - Absolute Freedom

Made while testing this one. Too much for a QOL, too much fun to throw away, so it went up separately. Ten times the reach, four times the speed.

This version stays roughly inside vanilla. That one does not.