Bikings

A craftable, fully animated bicycle for Valheim.

Ride across the world, perform ridiculous stunts, smash through the environment, send enemies flying and listen to your own music through the built in bicycle radio.

Bikings is designed around fun arcade style handling rather than realistic bicycle simulation.

Features

Fully Animated Bicycle

Craft and place your own Viking bicycle.

The bicycle includes animated wheels, pedals and cranks.

Your character properly rides the bicycle with their feet attached to the pedals and their hands positioned on the handlebars.

The rider also leans while steering and changes posture while sprinting.

Bowl Your Enemies

Hit enemies at full speed and send them flying.

Most collisions knock enemies away normally, but approximately one in five successful hits can trigger a much stronger launch.

Increase Enemy Launch Power in the configuration if you want even more ridiculous results.

Friendly players and tamed animals are protected from this system.

Smash Mode

Smash Mode is enabled by default.

The bicycle can plow through many objects without being stopped.

This includes

Trees

Rocks

Bushes

Saplings

Structures

Player buildings

Trees can fall.

Rocks can break.

Resources still drop where objects are destroyed.

This also means you can accidentally destroy your own base.

Ride responsibly.

Or do not.

Bunny Hopping

Hold the jump button to charge a bunny hop.

A quick press gives you a small jump.

Holding the button longer increases the height.

The maximum bunny hop height can be changed in the configuration.

With extreme settings you can jump over walls, buildings and even onto Fuling huts.

Wheelies And Stoppies

Lean backwards while moving quickly to perform a wheelie.

Lean forward while braking to perform a stoppie.

The same controls also work while airborne.

You can pitch the bicycle forwards and backwards while jumping to control your landing.

Mid Air Control

The bicycle remains controllable after leaving the ground.

You can

Steer in the air

Pitch forwards

Pitch backwards

Pedal while airborne

Correct bad landings

Launch yourself from hills and try to land the bicycle properly.

One Hand Cruising

Hold the left mouse button to automatically pedal while steering towards the direction your camera is facing.

This allows relaxed riding without constantly holding movement controls.

Rapidly tap W or hold Shift to sprint pedal.

While sprinting, your character stands on the pedals and the bicycle rocks underneath the rider.

Building The Bicycle

Equip your Hammer.

Open the Misc category.

Find Bicycle.

The default recipe is

10 Wood

10 Bronze Nails

1 Bronze

Place the bicycle like any other build piece.

Press E to ride.

Press E again to get off.

The bicycle persists through relogs and server restarts and can be removed using the Hammer.

Keyboard Controls

Riding

E

Mount or dismount the bicycle

W Hold

Pedal at normal cruising speed

W Rapid Tap

Sprint pedal

Shift Hold

Sprint pedal

S

Brake and reverse

A

Steer left

D

Steer right

Left Mouse Hold

Automatically pedal and steer towards the camera direction

Stunts

Space Hold And Release

Charge and perform a bunny hop

Numpad 8

Lean forwards

Perform a stoppie on the ground

Pitch the bicycle nose down while airborne

Numpad 2

Lean backwards

Perform a wheelie on the ground

Pitch the bicycle nose up while airborne

Radio

N

Next track

B

Turn radio off

Left Bracket

Decrease radio volume

Right Bracket

Increase radio volume

All controls can be changed through the configuration.

Gamepad Controls

B Hold Or Rapid Tap

Pedal and sprint pedal

Right Trigger

Sprint pedal

A

Brake and reverse

Left Trigger

Brake and reverse

X Hold And Release

Charge and perform a bunny hop

Y

Dismount the bicycle

Right Bumper

Next radio track

Left Bumper

Turn radio off

Left Stick

Steer

The left stick also controls leaning while airborne.

All gamepad controls can be rebound.

Your Own Bicycle Radio

Bikings includes a radio system that plays your own music while riding.

Supported formats include

MP3

WAV

OGG

Open your Valheim installation.

Open BepInEx.

Open plugins.

Open Bikings.

Open Radio.

Place your music files inside the Radio folder.

The mod automatically detects them.

Mount the bicycle and use the radio controls to play through your music.

The radio also includes a Now Playing display.

Configuration

Most Bikings settings can be changed while the game is running.

If you use a Configuration Manager plugin, such as shudnal's Configuration Manager, press F1 and find Bikings.

Changes can be applied without restarting Valheim.

Speed

Configure

Top speed

Sprint speed multiplier

Acceleration

Braking

Handling

Configure

Turn rate

Obstacle handling

Small objects that the bicycle should ignore

Destruction

Destruction Mode controls whether the bicycle can smash through objects and structures.

Disable it if you would rather keep your base intact.

Enemy Launching

Send Enemies Flying

Enables enemy launching

Enemy Launch Power

Controls how strongly enemies are launched

Very high values can create extreme launches

Enemy Hit Damage

Controls collision damage

Set this to zero if you want enemies to be launched without taking damage

Damage can be increased up to 500

Falling

Fall Off Bike is disabled by default.

This means the rider normally remains attached to the bicycle regardless of crashes.

Enable it if you want crashes to be more punishing.

Bunny Hopping

Configure bunny hop strength and maximum jump height.

Extreme settings allow jumps up to approximately 50 metres.

Wheelies

Wheelie behaviour can be adjusted through the configuration.

Camera

Camera Auto Follow can be enabled or disabled depending on how you prefer the bicycle camera to behave.

Animation

Configure

Pedal cadence

Rider hip height

These settings can help compensate for different character setups or animation preferences.

Configuration File

Advanced users can edit the Bikings configuration file directly.

File name

com.marcthetruthwithin.valheimbike.cfg

The file can be found inside the BepInEx config folder.

Most settings update while the game is running.

Multiplayer

Bikings supports multiplayer.

Every player should have the mod installed.

The world host should always have Bikings installed.

Only one player can ride each bicycle at a time.

Other players can see the rider pedalling and moving with the bicycle.

Other players can also hear the bicycle chain.

The player currently riding the bicycle controls its movement for everyone.

Bicycles persist through relogs and server restarts like normal build pieces.

Important

Do not intentionally load a world containing Bikings bicycles without the mod installed.

Missing modded build pieces can be removed from the world when the game is loaded without the mod.

Installation

Thunderstore Mod Manager

Install Bikings from Thunderstore.

Launch Valheim through your mod manager.

R2Modman

Search for Bikings.

Install the mod.

Launch the modded game.

Manual Installation

Install BepInExPack Valheim by denikson.

Download Bikings.

Open the downloaded package.

Copy the Bikings folder into your BepInEx plugins folder.

Launch Valheim.

Requirements

BepInExPack Valheim

Every multiplayer player should have Bikings installed.

Compatibility

Bikings was built and tested against the current Valheim version available at the time of release.

The bicycle behaves as a custom build piece and can be used in existing worlds and with existing characters.

A Note From The Maker

I make music too.

If cruising through the Meadows at sunset with the bicycle radio playing sounds like your kind of thing, I also make Celtic inspired music.

My album is called

Way Of The Wind

You can listen to it on Bandcamp here

https://designersofsleep.bandcamp.com/album/way-of-the-wind

Bikings is free and always will be.

If the mod made you smile and you would like to support the person behind it, picking up the album would genuinely make my day.

Sharing Bikings with another Valheim player helps too.

Ride fast.

Bowl often.

Smash responsibly.