Smooth Sailing

Smooth Sailing is a lightweight, configurable sailing quality-of-life mod for Valheim 1.0, built for BepInEx + Jotunn.

It improves sailing without changing the core ship experience, with configurable favorable wind, faster rowing, and increased map exploration while traveling by ship.

Features

Favorable Wind

• Forces favorable tailwind while controlling a ship at Half or Full sail.
• Wind direction automatically follows the direction of the ship while sailing.
• Designed to eliminate situations where unfavorable wind brings sailing to a crawl.

Improved Rowing

• Configurable forward rowing speed multiplier.
• Configurable reverse rowing speed multiplier.
• Forward and reverse speeds can be tuned independently.

Ship Exploration

• Configurable map exploration radius multiplier while aboard a ship.
• Makes ocean exploration and coastline mapping significantly more convenient.

Multiplayer Configuration

• Gameplay settings use Jotunn synchronized AdminOnly configuration.
• Server administrators control the gameplay settings.
• Changes can be synchronized to connected clients.

Requirements

• Valheim 1.0.x
• BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350+
• Jotunn 2.30.0+
• Smooth Sailing must be installed on the server and all participating clients for multiplayer use.

Installation

Thunderstore

Install Smooth Sailing through a compatible Thunderstore mod manager along with its required dependencies.

Manual Installation

Place:

SmoothSailing.dll

inside:

BepInEx/plugins/SmoothSailing/

The mod will generate its configuration file after the game is launched.

Default Configuration

[General]
Enabled = true

[Tailwind]
Lock Tailwind = true
Update Wind Indicator = true

[Exploration]
Ship Exploration Radius Multiplier = 2

[Rowing]
Forward Row Speed Multiplier = 1.5
Backward Row Speed Multiplier = 2

Configuration

General

Enabled

Enables or disables Smooth Sailing.

Default: true

Tailwind

Lock Tailwind

Forces favorable tailwind while controlling a ship at Half or Full sail.

Default: true

Update Wind Indicator

Controls the wind-indicator behavior associated with Smooth Sailing.

Default: true

Exploration

Ship Exploration Radius Multiplier

Multiplies the normal map exploration radius while aboard a ship.

Default: 2

Rowing

Forward Row Speed Multiplier

Multiplier applied while rowing forward.

Default: 1.5

Backward Row Speed Multiplier

Multiplier applied while rowing in reverse.

Default: 2

Multiplayer

Smooth Sailing is intended to support both single-player and multiplayer.

For multiplayer, install the mod on:

• The dedicated server, if one is being used.
• Every player connecting to the server.

Gameplay configuration is synchronized using Jotunn. Server administrators control the synchronized settings.

Some Smooth Sailing functionality is necessarily performed client-side, including map exploration and local wind-related behavior.

Reporting Bugs

Found a problem with Smooth Sailing?

Please report it through the Issues section of the Smooth Sailing GitHub repository:

https://github.com/P377Y/Smooth-Sailing/issues

When reporting a multiplayer or sailing issue, please include:

• Smooth Sailing version
• Valheim version
• BepInEx and Jotunn versions
• Single-player or multiplayer
• Dedicated server or locally hosted game
• Number of players
• Whether you were the ship captain when the problem occurred
• Ship type and sail setting
• Steps to reproduce the problem
• Your BepInEx LogOutput.log when possible

Building from Source

Smooth Sailing targets .NET Framework 4.7.2.

Open:

SmoothSailing.slnx

in Visual Studio and build using the Release configuration.

The compiled mod will be generated at:

bin/Release/net472/SmoothSailing.dll

The project requires references to the Valheim, BepInEx, Harmony, and Jotunn assemblies.

License

Smooth Sailing is released under the MIT License.

See License.txt for details.