MountRidingHints

Key hints for riding. The game shows a row of key hints at the bottom right of the screen for combat, building, fishing and the inventory, but nothing at all while you sit on a lox, a horse or an asksvin. This mod adds a row for riding, in the game's own style, that appears when you mount and goes when you get off:

Walk W · Gallop Shift · Stop S · Turn Right mouse · Dismount E

The keys are read from your controls settings, so a rebound key shows as what you bound it to, and on a gamepad the row shows the stick and button glyphs instead (left stick up and down, the run button, the block button, A).

How it works

The row is a copy of the game's combat hints, so it has the same font, the same key boxes and the same place at the right end of the key hints strip, and it switches between keyboard and gamepad the way the game's rows do. It shows while you are riding a saddled animal and the game would show hints at all: not with the inventory, the map or a menu open, not while the chat is open, and not when key hints are turned off in the game's settings. Steering a ship shows nothing, as in the unmodded game.

What the keys do while riding, as the game has them: Forward walks the animal where you look, Run makes it gallop (it tires and slows to a walk when its stamina runs out), Backward stops it, holding Block turns it on the spot to face where you look, and Use dismounts.

Config

BepInEx\config\rhenn.mountridinghints.cfg, written the first time the game starts with the mod. With the ModSettings mod installed (a separate mod by the same author), everything below can be changed in game from the gear button in the inventory screen.

• General.Enabled (true): master switch, read when the game starts.
• Hints.Walk, Hints.Gallop, Hints.Stop, Hints.Turn, Hints.Dismount: the word shown on each hint. Change them to translate the row into your language; leave one empty to hide that hint. The keys beside the words are the game's bindings and are not set here.

Multiplayer

Client-side. Only the player who wants the hints needs the mod; it changes nothing in the world or for other players.

Known limits

• The row shows the keys for a saddle; a ship's hints are not added.
• The row is part of the game's key hints strip: with DraggableUI or another mod that moves that strip, the row moves with it.

Bugs and feedback

Found a bug? Email a screenshot and the steps to reproduce it to [email protected], with the mod version and your BepInEx\LogOutput.log attached. I check that inbox once a week.