Rideable Boars

Because every Viking deserves a slightly stubborn mount.

Craft a saddle, choose a favourite boar and ride across Valheim. Version 1.0.4 adds persistent mount progression, a command wheel, map tracking and configurable free-camera steering.

Built and verified against Valheim 1.0.16 (network version 40).

Features

Saddled and bareback riding for tamed boars, plus short risky rides on wild boars.
Visible reusable saddles with separate models for normal, one-star and two-star boars.
A Valheim-style command wheel with Follow, Wait, Recall, Free Roam, target selection and rider ejection.
One favourite boar per world or server, retained across restarts and shown on the map and minimap.
A persistent death marker at the favourite boar's final position.
Independent boar levels, experience and health progression; higher-level wild boars can spawn but become increasingly rare.
Stronger health progression for starred boars.
Favourite-boar health regeneration and Riding-skill-based mount stamina regeneration.
Mounted portal travel with automatic remounting.
Configurable movement-key steering, free camera movement and mounted camera stabilization.
Configurable controls, command ranges, speed, saddle position and rider position.
English, German and Russian localization.
Multiplayer and dedicated-server support.

Default controls

E on a saddle: mount.
E on the back of an unsaddled boar: ride bareback.
E while mounted and not targeting another usable object: dismount.
Left Shift + E directly on the saddle: remove and recover it.
B: open or close the command wheel.
Escape: close the command wheel.
Mouse movement and left click: select and execute a command.
W, A and D: move and steer when movement-key steering is enabled.
Space: jump.

Saddle recipe

Craft the Boar Saddle at a level 2 Workbench using 5 Leather Scraps, 2 Deer Hide and 4 Bronze Nails.

Installation

Install with Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman. For manual installation, install BepInExPack for Valheim and copy this package's BepInEx directory into the Valheim directory.

Keep the DLL, saddle AssetBundle and complete icons directory together inside BepInEx/plugins/RideableBoars.

Configuration

Settings are generated in BepInEx/config/xneliox.rideableboars.cfg. The former valheim.boarriding.cfg is migrated automatically.

Movement-Key Steering separates steering from the camera. Camera Shake Multiplier accepts values from 0 (stabilized) to 1 (original Valheim movement).

Multiplayer

Install the same version on the host or dedicated server and every connecting client. Matching configuration files are recommended.

Updating and safe removal

Delete obsolete or duplicate BoarRiding.dll and RideableBoars.dll copies before updating. Keep only the DLL supplied in BepInEx/plugins/RideableBoars.

Back up worlds and characters. Before permanently removing the mod, remove custom Boar Saddles from inventories, containers and the world.

AI disclosure

Generative AI was used as a development assistant for parts of the code, visual assets and publication materials. The mod was assembled, tested and published by xneliox.