Broadside

Design and build your own ships, from a one-man skiff to a 50 m pirate galleon. Lay a keel on a dry dock, raise ribs, plank the hull, add decks, cabins, masts and sails, then launch it from your hammer and sail. Arm it with ship cannons and fight: shots punch holes, the sea floods in, and wrecked ships sink.

Features

Dry dock: keel block guides and keel blocks to build on; designing is free.
Hull tools: keel, rib, planking, deck, railing, ladder, cabin, masts and sails, bowsprit, post caps, doors and windows, each sized in a small window. Undo with Ctrl + Z, and any part can be edited after it is built.
Meadows and Black Forest woods and fittings, a rudder for each, and raw hide sails.
Blueprint table: save the ship on the dock, build a saved one back onto it, share designs with the server, and see a ship's speed, stability, weight and cost before you build it.
Launch from the hammer: every saved ship is built on the water near a workbench, for what its parts cost.
Real sailing: the ship floats on its own hull; square sails want the wind behind, gaff sails and jibs sail closer to it.
Steering by tiller, or a captain's wheel with working steering gear; anchor windlass, hatches, crow's nests, pennants.
Ship panel: speed, top speed for the wind and sails you have now, explore radius, health and your guns' reloads.
A bronze ship cannon, built on a launched ship (the only piece built aboard), firing stone cannonballs with black powder.
Broadside from the helm: U fires the side you look toward, J shows the shot arcs.
Battle damage: holes through the hull, flooding, bailing, holed sails and falling masts; wooden repair kits patch leaks at sea and the hammer mends the rest.
Edit at sea: railings, ladders, doors, windows, masts and sails can be changed while the ship is afloat.

Ready-made ships

Found in the hammer under "Ship: Ready-made/...":

Black_Gull: 50 m pirate galleon, two gun decks, 40 gunports, three masts.
Little_Gull: half-size galleon, 12 gunports.
Storm_Petrel: two-masted brig-of-war, 18 gunports.
Wayfinder: explorer's schooner with a crow's nest, 6 gunports.
Merchant_Cog: tall-sided trader with a cargo hold.
Hearth_Barge: a floating home with a long deckhouse.
Sea_Raven: a Viking longship.
War_Raven: the longship with three lidded gunports a side.
Fjord_Skiff: a small coastal boat.
Fjord_Wasp: the skiff with two gunports a side.
Skerry_Sprite: a tiny, fast sloop for one.

Gunports come empty: build cannons on the ship once it is launched.

Install

Needed on every client and the server. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put Broadside.dll in BepInEx/plugins.

Configuration

No settings. Saved ships are JSON files in BepInEx/config/Broadside.Ships, sail pictures PNG files in BepInEx/config/Broadside.Sails.

Links

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2sMPGQ4T3

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.