HexRowFaster

Row faster going forward and backwards!

Tired of rowing your ship at snail speed when the wind dies?
HexRowFaster boosts the ship's paddle force, making rowing, reversing, and initial movement feel much better.

Compatibility Disclaimer

Any mod that modifies ship movement, ship physics, rowing force, Rigidbody behavior, water physics, or vanilla ship values may conflict with HexRowFaster.

Likewise, HexRowFaster may affect or alter the behavior of other ship-related mods.

Use at your own risk when combining multiple ship or physics mods.

Features

Faster rowing speed
Faster reverse speed
Stronger initial ship acceleration
Faster straight-line paddling
Configurable force multiplier presets

Multiplayer

Have not tested in multiplayer. Back up your world and use at your own risks.

What This Mod Actually Affects

HexRowFaster modifies the ship's internal m_backwardForce value.

This value contributes to various ship propulsion force calculations including:

Initial push from a stop
Forward rowing (Speed.Slow)
Reverse rowing (Speed.Back)
Straight-line paddling acceleration

This mod does NOT directly increase:

Maximum sailing speed
Wind speed
Sail speed
Turning speed

Vanilla steering penalties still apply while rowing.
Turning hard left or right reduces rowing propulsion force, so ships will still slow down while maneuvering.

Configuration

Configuration file:

BepInEx/config/com.hex.rowfaster.cfg

Available presets:

Vanilla = 1x
LittleFaster = 5x
Cruising = 10x
Speeding = 20x
Insane = 40x

Example config:

[General]

## Enables or disables HexRowFaster for newly spawned ships.
# Setting type: Boolean
# Default value: true
Enable = true

## How fast do you want to go?
# Setting type: ForceMultiplier
# Default value: Cruising
Force Multiplier = Cruising

Technical Notes

I modify the m_backwardForce value during Ship.Awake().

This mod does not directly set ship velocity. Instead, it increases force values used in vanilla ship physics calculations.

Dependencies

BepInExPack Valheim
HarmonyX (included with BepInEx)

Installation

Install BepInEx for Valheim
Extract HexRowFaster.dll into:

BepInEx/plugins/HexRowFaster/

Launch the game

Source

Developed by Hex Viking.