Rift Magic

Tear the world open. Blink across the battlefield, dissolve whole hillsides straight into your stores, and bind your favourite animals to you across the rift: ride a war boar through the Black Forest, a dire wolf through the mountains, and a moose through the Deep North.

Rift Magic adds two new Eitr staffs, rideable rift companions from any tamed animal, a trinket to call them to your side, and a new elite enemy for the Ashlands.

Features

• Riftwalker's Staff: blink along your line of sight, and open rifts that dissolve a 9×9×9 cube of the world and deliver everything it was worth to an anchor you planted.
• Staff of the Gnarled Root: poison bolts and clouds that rot your foes and mend your allies at the same time.
• Rift Saddles: one per animal, each cut from its own biome's materials, turning a named, tamed animal into a rift companion. Bigger, tougher, glowing-eyed, and rideable, even the ones vanilla never lets you ride.
• Mounted combat: swing your weapon, draw your bow or cast your staff without leaving the saddle.
• Rift Tether: a trinket that pulls your companion through the rift to your side.
• The Riftling: a rare, elite Surtling of the Ashlands that blinks around the fight and blinks you with it.
• Rift Core: the heart of every rift item. Take it from a Riftling or forge it at the Black Forge.
• ...and a new mysterious unrest deep under the thrashing waves...

Riftwalker's Staff

Input	Effect
Primary (tap)	Blink forward along your line of sight. Creatures in the way are thrown aside.
Secondary (hold 5s)	Plant an anchor where you aim, or if you already have one, open a rift where you aim.
Both (hold 5s)	Clear the anchor, so you can plant a new one.

A rift dissolves everything in a 9×9×9 cube and sends it all to your anchor as items, at the most it could ever yield. Every ore face, every log down to the last sub-log, and every pickable are taken, along with the full contents of chests. Creatures drop double their loot and always their trophy, and bosses take a heavy hit instead. Opening a rift costs 120 Eitr and a Surtling Core. A rift that finds nothing costs nothing, and letting go early cancels it for free.

Everyone nearby sees it all: your anchor's glowing sigil stands in the world for every player, with or without a staff, and other players watch your rift's sigil grow and its pillars of light fall.

Rift Mastery. The staff grows with your Rift Magic skill and its upgrade level. A blink starts at 16 m for 8 Eitr; at full skill with a fully upgraded staff it reaches 36 m for 4 Eitr, cast about twice as fast. The staff's tooltip shows your current numbers.

Staff of the Gnarled Root

Input	Effect
Primary	A green bolt. Where it lands, enemies are poisoned and allies gain Regrowth, healing over time.
Secondary	A lingering cloud around you that pulses the same effect.

Players and tamed creatures are healed; everything else is poisoned. Poison resistance and immunity work exactly as they do against a poison arrow.

Rift Companions

Each animal has its own saddle, made of the materials of the biome it comes from, so your mounts keep pace with how far you have travelled. A saddle's recipe appears once you have handled its materials and tamed that animal. Use one on a tamed animal that has a name, and it is bound to you across the rift:

• It grows from its infusion with rift energy, and its eyes glow purple.
• It gains 2.5× health, 1.75× damage, and takes 40% less damage.
• Feed it like a player. Health food raises its health, stamina food its riding stamina and stamina regen (a lot), and Eitr food its damage and toughness.
• The bond grows. Travelling, fighting and eating together earn it up to two stars.
• It cannot die. At zero health a pillar of light carries it home to your spawn point, where it recovers.
• It is yours. Only you can ride, command, feed, rename or unsaddle it. Everyone can pet it.

Saddle	Station	Materials	Becomes
Bronzebound	Workbench 2	Leather Scraps ×25, Deer Hide ×12, Bronze ×10, Surtling Core ×8, Boar Trophy ×2	War Boar — quick and sturdy, faster than you can run
Silverbound	Forge 2	Wolf Pelt ×12, Silver ×20, Iron ×10, Surtling Core ×12, Wolf Trophy ×2	Dire Wolf — quicker still, with a stronger jump
Blackmetal	Forge 3	Lox Pelt ×12, Black Metal ×25, Jute ×8, Surtling Core ×16, Lox Trophy ×2	Titan Lox — keeps its own saddle, rift-shaded, and gains a jump
Flameforged	Black Forge 2	Ash Hide ×20, Flametal ×15, Charred Bone ×20, Rift Core ×2, Asksvin Trophy ×2	Rift Strider — as the Lox, and swift with it
Auroral	Black Forge 3	Moose Hide ×15, Moose Sinew ×12, Celestial Feather ×8, Rift Core ×3	Deep North Monarch — sprints at 15 m/s and tramples what it runs over
Rift Saddle	Galdr Table 3	Yggdrasil Wood ×30, Eitr ×40, Carapace ×20, Linen Thread ×20, Rift Core ×4	Fits anything tamed and named, modded creatures included

Every saddle upgrades four levels, dearly. Each level makes the companion stronger and tougher, and its riding stamina, speed and jump better.

Riding

Every rift mount can jump; crouch to get off. Boars, wolves and hens get riding speeds of their own:

Mount	Run	Sprint	Jump
(you, on foot)	4	7	1×
War Boar	4.5	7.7	1.1×
Dire Wolf	4.5	8.4	1.3×

Speeds in metres per second, before the saddle's upgrades. Attack from the saddle on any rift mount, Lox and Asksvin included. Swords, axes and fists swing, and bows, crossbows and staffs fire where you look. Your hits never land on your own mount.

Your stable

• One of each kind: one boar, one wolf, one lox, and so on.
• One follower at a time: tell one to follow and the others go home through the rift to wait at your spawn point.
• Never left behind: if your follower ends up more than 100 m away, for example on the other side of a portal, it is pulled through the rift to you.

Rift Tether

A trinket that calls your companion to your side from anywhere in the world. Putting it on is the call. Middle-click it in your inventory to choose which companion it calls. It answers only if the companion is healthy (at half health or more), and then needs 10 minutes before it can call again.

The Riftling

A Surtling the rift got into: a third bigger, dark purple, and far deadlier, with 700 health. It blinks around the fight and throws blink bolts that hurt and throw you several metres in a random direction. Rare: it spawns only in the Ashlands, one at a time. Every Riftling drops a Rift Core, along with Surtling Cores, often Eitr, and sometimes its trophy.

Crafting

Item	Station	Materials
Rift Core	Black Forge	Surtling Core ×10
Riftwalker's Staff	Galdr Table 3	Yggdrasil Wood ×20, Eitr ×40, Rift Core ×1, Black Metal ×15
Staff of the Gnarled Root	Galdr Table 2	Elder Bark ×20, Guck ×10, Root ×8, Eitr ×20
Rift Tether	Forge	Bronze ×4, Rift Core ×1, Leather Scraps ×4

The saddles are in their own table above.

Upgrades, per level: Riftwalker's Staff +10 Yggdrasil Wood, +20 Eitr, +1 Rift Core, +10 Black Metal; Staff of the Gnarled Root +10 Elder Bark, +5 Guck, +4 Root, +10 Eitr.

Installation

Install with a mod manager (Thunderstore Mod Manager, r2modman) and the requirements come with it. To install by hand, install BepInExPack Valheim and Jötunn, then put ValheimRiftMagic.dll in BepInEx/plugins.

Multiplayer: every player and the server need the mod. Gameplay settings are admin-only and synced from the server.

Configuration

Almost everything is configurable in BepInEx/config/tmana.riftmagic.cfg, including costs, ranges, damage, companion buffs, bond rates, spawn rates, and each species' riding speeds and looks. Server admins may want to check the [Rift Harvest] section. Rifts take build pieces apart for their full cost by default (HarvestBuildPieces). Stripping other players' inventories is off by default (HarvestOtherPlayers).

With devcommands on, rift_summon [species] calls your companion of that kind to you, like the Tether without the health check or the wait.