Lyngbakr
One huge leviathan per world roams the whole ocean, with real land on its back. Dig, farm and build a base on it, moor your boat alongside, and let it carry you around the world. Nothing hostile spawns on it.Lyngbakr
A leviathan so old that forests grow on its back. Find it, moor your boat, and build a home that swims the world.
What it does
Every world gets one Lyngbakr: a vast, unsinkable leviathan that roams the open ocean at walking pace. His back is real land. You can dig and build on it, farm it and live there while he carries you around the world.
- A living island. His back is real, editable ground copied from a patch of your own world. Each world gets its own Lyngbakr with 2 to 3 neighbouring biomes from Meadows, Black Forest, Mountains, Plains and Mistlands. Trees, rocks, ore and grass are placed by the game's own rules, so it looks like vanilla Valheim.
- Dig, level and farm. Pickaxe, hoe and cultivator all work. Crops grow and your edits are saved. You can dig down, but never through him.
- Build anything. Everything you build rides along, with no jitter, and structural support works as usual. Doors, workbenches, beds and fires all work.
- Peaceful. Nothing hostile lives on Lyngbakr. Creatures don't spawn on or around him, and fish stay out of his way.
- He roams the whole world. He picks far destinations across open sea and follows real sea routes around islands and coasts. If he's ever in a landlocked sea, he hauls himself across the shallows to get out. Sleeping through the night doesn't fling him across the map.
- Moor your boat. Bring a boat alongside him (within 20 m) and step off the helm. The boat is moored and holds its spot loosely, riding the swell like at any dock. It travels with him even when nobody is near. Take the helm to cast off.
- Hidden until found. He doesn't show on the map until you've been within 150 m of him. After that, his own map icon follows him wherever he swims. This is per character and per world.
- Beds and logging out. Set your spawn point in a bed on his back and you wake up on him, wherever he's gone. Log out on him and you log back in on him.
How to find him
He appears in deep, open ocean, 2.5 to 8 km from the world centre, the first time a world is loaded with the mod. He's big and slow, so sail the open sea and look for a forest on the horizon that moves. Once you've found him, lyngbakr in the console tells you how far away he is and in which direction.
Installation
Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager; BepInExPack Valheim is installed automatically as a dependency. No Jötunn needed.
Manual install: put Lyngbakr.dll and the lyngbakr file (his shaders) together in Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\Lyngbakr\.
Multiplayer: every player and the dedicated server need the mod, all on the same version. His speed and deck settings come from the server, so all players see the same Lyngbakr.
Removing the mod: anything built on Lyngbakr's back belongs to him and is lost without the mod. Empty your chests first.
Like other mods, this marks your game as modded, as Iron Gate asks of mod authors.
Settings
BepInEx\config\com.chase.lyngbakr.cfg (r2modman: Config editor)
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Lyngbakr / Speed | 1 | How fast he swims, in m/s (the server's value is used) |
| Lyngbakr / DiscoverRadius | 150 | How close you must come to find him, in metres |
| Lyngbakr / WakeDistance | 20 | Boats this close to his body, with nobody at the helm, are moored to him |
| Spawn / Min/MaxDistanceFromCenter | 2500 / 8000 | Where he first appears, in metres from the world centre |
| Deck / Biome | Patchwork | Patchwork = 2 to 3 biomes copied from the world, or a single biome for all of him |
| Deck / Biomes | Meadows, BlackForest, Mountain, Plains, Mistlands | The biomes Patchwork picks from (Swamp is also allowed) |
| Deck / Seed | 1 | Change it for a different Lyngbakr in the same world |
| Look / SkinTint | Recolour his skin, e.g. #4A5A3A |
Console commands
Press F5 (start the game with -console).
lyngbakr how far away he is and which way (after you've found him)
lyngbakr_reveal (cheat) mark him as found for your character
lyng_tp (cheat) teleport onto his back (turn on god mode or fly first)
lyng_seed <n> (cheat) reshape his back with a new seed, for everyone; builds and plantings are kept
lyng_scenery (cheat) scatter his trees and rocks again
Known limitations
- One Lyngbakr per world.
- Tested in single player. Multiplayer and dedicated servers are supported but haven't had much testing yet, so bug reports are welcome.
- Mods that change building, terrain editing or ship physics haven't been tested alongside it.