Riding Crop

Adds a family of seven craftable one-handed riding crops to Valheim, from the plain leather crop up to the finest crop of the family. Every hit deals blunt damage and makes the target bleed. Each tier hits harder and lasts longer than the one before. The crops use the vanilla Club's attack animations, have no secondary attack, and train their own skill, RidingCrop.

Author: kydldev

Requirements

• BepInEx, Jotunn and KydlCore 1.0.0.
• Every player on a server needs the mod installed, at the same version (see Multiplayer).

Features

The mod has two functionalities. Each has its own switch, and [General] EnableAll switches both.

• Crops: the seven riding crops and the RidingCrop skill.
• Sound: the crops' own swing (whoosh) and hit (slap) sounds.

Usage

Craft a crop at the workbench, forge or black forge (see the tables below), equip it like a club and swing. The skill trains while you hit things. Press F6 to open the KY hub (KydlCore) and pick Riding Crop to change the settings with live checking.

The items, the skill and the sounds are added to the game when it starts, so every setting marked "needs a restart" below takes effect after the next game start. The detailed log switch works at any time.

Configuration

Config file: BepInEx/config/com.kydldev.RidingCrop.cfg (created on first start). All settings are also on the Settings tab of the Riding Crop page in the KY hub (F6).

Section	Setting	Default	Description
General	EnableAll	true	Switches the whole mod on or off. Needs a game restart. While it is off, Riding Crop items are unknown to the game, so keep it on for any world or character that uses them, and use the same value as the server.
Crops	Enable	true	Adds the seven crops and their RidingCrop skill. Needs a restart. Use the same value as the server.
Sound	Enable	true	The crops use their own swing and hit sounds. Off keeps the Club's sounds. Needs a restart.
Sound	WhooshVolume	1	Volume of the swing sound (0 to 1). Needs a restart.
Sound	SlapVolume	1	Volume of the hit sound (0 to 1). Needs a restart.
Sound	ReplaceVanillaSounds	true	true = the crops only make their own sounds. false = the Club's sounds play as well. Needs a restart.
Sound	SlapNormalize	true	true = the quiet build-up (about 47 ms) is cut from the start of the hit sound, so the impact is heard the moment you hit. false = use the sound as it is in the asset bundle. Needs a restart.
DebugLog	Enable	false	Writes extra detail to the BepInEx log: asset bundle contents, every crop's stats, recipes and stations, sound setup, and every whoosh, slap and bleed event. Can be changed while the game runs.

All item stats are set by the mod and are not configurable, so everyone on a server has identical values.

Coming from 1.0.0

The 1.0.0 keys were renamed. On the first start of 2.0.0 the old values are carried over: [General] Enabled becomes [General] EnableAll and [General] DebugLogging becomes [DebugLog] Enable. The Sound settings kept their names.

Multiplayer

The crops are items that exist in the world data, so every player and the server must run the same version of the mod. The mod uses the network check EveryoneMustHaveMod with an exact version match (major.minor.patch): a client with another version is refused. Keep [General] EnableAll and [Crops] Enable the same on the server and all clients. The sound settings only affect your own game.

Crops and recipes (weakest to strongest)

#	Item	Item id	Ingredients
1	Do I boar you?	RidingCrop	10 Leather Scraps, 2 Resin, 5 Wood
2	Dear, oh deer!	RidingCrop_V1	10 Deer Hide, 2 Bronze, 5 Fine Wood
3	Bear with me!	RidingCrop_V3	10 Bear Hide, 2 Surtling Core, 5 Core Wood
4	Howl yeah!	RidingCrop_V4	10 Wolf Pelt, 2 Obsidian, 5 Fine Wood
5	Loxy Poxy	RidingCrop_V6	10 Lox Pelt, 2 Tar, 5 Ancient Bark
6	Askvin worthy	RidingCrop_V2	10 Askvin Hide, 2 Charred Bone, 5 Ashwood
7	Seal the deal!	RidingCrop_V5	10 Moose Hide, 2 Seal Pelt, 5 Timberwood

Item ids also work with the console spawn command (devcommands).

Crafting stations

Each upgrade needs one station level more than the previous quality (same station).

#	Item	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
1	Do I boar you?	Workbench 1	Workbench 2	Workbench 3	Workbench 4
2	Dear, oh deer!	Workbench 2	Workbench 3	Workbench 4	Workbench 5
3	Bear with me!	Forge 1	Forge 2	Forge 3	Forge 4
4	Howl yeah!	Forge 2	Forge 3	Forge 4	Forge 5
5	Loxy Poxy	Forge 3	Forge 4	Forge 5	Forge 6
6	Askvin worthy	Black Forge 1	Black Forge 2	Black Forge 3	Black Forge 4
7	Seal the deal!	Black Forge 2	Black Forge 3	Black Forge 4	Black Forge 5

Stats

Blunt damage grows by 40% per tier and the bleed by 25% per tier, each on top of the previous tier. The bleed deals its damage once per second for 5 seconds and ignores armor and resistances. A target that is already bleeding cannot be made to bleed again (not by the same crop and not by another one) until the running bleed has finished. Values are at skill level 0, quality 1.

#	Item	Blunt	Bleed per second	Bleed in total (5 s)	Durability
1	Do I boar you?	20	10	50	200
2	Dear, oh deer!	28	12.5	62.5	250
3	Bear with me!	39.2	15.6	78	300
4	Howl yeah!	54.9	19.5	98	350
5	Loxy Poxy	76.8	24.4	122	400
6	Askvin worthy	107.6	30.5	153	450
7	Seal the deal!	150.6	38.1	191	500

Combat stats

No secondary attack. The last hit of the attack chain deals 2x damage. Block armor and parry block armor are shown at skill 0 / 100. Parry block armor is block armor x 2 (parry bonus 2x).

#	Item	Stagger	Knockback	Stamina	Block armor	Parry block armor	Block force
1	Do I boar you?	12	30	6	3 / 4.5	6 / 9	20
2	Dear, oh deer!	25	60	8	12 / 18	24 / 36	30
3	Bear with me!	35	80	10	21 / 31.5	42 / 63	30
4	Howl yeah!	55	100	12	30 / 45	60 / 90	30
5	Loxy Poxy	95	100	14	39 / 58.5	78 / 117	30
6	Askvin worthy	125	100	16	57 / 85.5	114 / 171	30
7	Seal the deal!	150	100	18	66 / 99	132 / 198	30

Upgrading

Every crop can be upgraded at its crafting station (see above) up to quality 4 (three upgrades). Each upgrade costs half of each recipe amount (rounded up).

Every upgrade adds a flat +6 blunt damage and a flat +40 durability on every crop. The bleed does not change with upgrades.

#	Item	Blunt Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Durability Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4
1	Do I boar you?	20	26	32	38	200	240	280	320
2	Dear, oh deer!	28	34	40	46	250	290	330	370
3	Bear with me!	39.2	45.2	51.2	57.2	300	340	380	420
4	Howl yeah!	54.9	60.9	66.9	72.9	350	390	430	470
5	Loxy Poxy	76.8	82.8	88.8	94.8	400	440	480	520
6	Askvin worthy	107.6	113.6	119.6	125.6	450	490	530	570
7	Seal the deal!	150.6	156.6	162.6	168.6	500	540	580	620

(Blunt damage at skill level 0.)

Skill

All crops train the RidingCrop skill (shown in the Skills window). Dev-command test:

devcommands
raiseskill ridingcrop 50

Sounds

• The slap sound starts immediately and is not affected by distance, so it is not drowned out by loud sounds such as a tree breaking.
• The swing (whoosh) and slap sounds are boosted by 50% on the sound data itself, because Unity cannot play a sound above full volume; peaks that would go past full scale are softly limited instead of clipping.
• A swing that hits several targets plays the slap sound only once.

Troubleshooting

Set [DebugLog] Enable to true (it can be changed while the game runs) and check the BepInEx log (BepInEx/LogOutput.log). It then lists the asset bundle contents, each crop's stats, recipe and station, the sound setup, and every whoosh, slap and bleed event.