ValheimRAFT Lite SP v5.3.1

ValheimRAFT Lite (Single Player) — Fixed various issues and expanded features. Design and construct custom navigable vessels and movable bases in Valheim. ship bed, improved physics, drop anchor, recruit Greydwarf deckhands, and take to the skies in flight!

⚠️ Single Player Focus: Not tested for multiplayer. For multiplayer support, please use the original zolantris/ValheimMods. This version has reworked material costs to build parts, to build freely without cost enable "hammer mode" in world modifiers setting on world/save selection screen.

ValheimRAFT Lite is a streamlined edition of ValheimRAFT aiming to improve progression, expand on missing features, enhance simulation stability and nautical immersion. new material costs to build parts can be toggled in the mechanism toggle options menu.

Build Menu & Nautical Progression: Reorganized the Boat Hammer into clean, tiered progression tabs (Resined, Nailed, Iron, and Misc), with authentic seafaring terminology and balanced material costs. Removed land vehicle pieces, unrelated additional plugins packaged into the original version. removed inverted parts.
Helm & Rudder: Sailing now requires a rudder, with authentic clamped turn angles. If the steering wheel or rudder is destroyed while underway, the vessel automatically halts safely instead of sailing away.
simple propulsion: rudder determines rowing speed, sails determine sail speed. no weight calculations, you can fly a stone castle now if you like.
Water Wake & Waterline Controls: Water wake foam and trailing rudder spray dynamically track the water surface, with customizable float height controls (Max, Base, and Min sliders) and dedicated toggles.
Physics & Flight Stability: Automatic anchoring when leaving the ship, kinematic locking (preventing vessels from drifting or falling off the map), rock impact damping physics (no bulldozing terrain with the boat), simplified sail/rowing speed scaling, responsive flight controls, and improved ship water physics.
Quality of Life: Working bed, portal and map pin tracking that accurately follow moving vessels, locked wheel hand IK and activation responsiveness, automatically deploying and retracting rope ladders and anchor, enable/disable boat damage to fit your playstyle, various other fixes.
No jittering on movement: Moving the boat no longer causes jittering back and forth of the boat, also snow overlay on parts are off by default to fix the visual glitch when flying the boat/airship.
Greydwarf Sailors (optional, enable in mechanism toggle menu): Hire friendly Greydwarf crewmembers that throw rocks to defend your vessel against hostiles. sailors respect closed doors so you can keep them to areas you want them otherwise will walk around the boat. sailors consume 1 resin from any container every few minutes, and will also pickup items dropped on the boat and place them into chests for you. sailors will mutiny if there is not enough resin to consume. 19 hats to choose for your sailors.
Persistent ZDOID Architecture: Migrated vehicle piece tracking to persistent ZDOIDs, fixing disappearing parts, sector transition desyncs, and save issues.

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⚠️ Important "As-Is" Disclaimer

Core features have been tested primarily for SINGLE-PLAYER.
ValheimRAFT is a massive and complex codebase containing advanced mechanics. Not all extended features or edge-case interactions have been exhaustively tested.
Offered "As-Is": Provided freely and without warranty. Always back up your character and world saves before testing! Players and modders are warmly invited to report issues, bugs, submit suggestions or Pull Requests, and help maintain this mod at the GitHub repository: 👉 https://github.com/JNDEV0/ValheimRAFT-Lite

📜 Attribution & Open Source History

Original Creator: Sarcen created the original ValheimRAFT mod that defined ship building in Valheim, and generously released it as open source in 2023 under the GPLv3 license.
Modern Rewrite & Architecture: Zolantris (zolantris/ValheimMods) completely overhauled the mod's architecture, adding modular vehicle systems, convex hull boundary physics, and expansive features.

📦 Requirements & Dependencies

To use this mod, ensure you have the following required dependencies installed:

🔧 Installation

Option A: Thunderstore / r2modman / Gale (Recommended)

Install via your mod manager of choice.
Dependencies are automatically resolved and installed.

Option B: NexusMods / Vortex / Manual Installation

If using Vortex, install and enable the zip archive directly.

If installing manually, extract ValheimRAFT into your Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ directory:

Valheim/
└── BepInEx/
    └── plugins/
        └── ValheimRAFT/
            ├── ValheimRAFT.dll
            ├── ValheimVehicles.dll
            ├── Zolantris.Shared.dll
            ├── ZdoWatcher.dll
            ├── DynamicLocations.dll
            ├── ServerSync.dll
            └── Assets/
                └── Translations/
                    └── English/
                        └── valheimraft.json

💻 Source Code

GitHub Repository: https://github.com/JNDEV0/ValheimRAFT-Lite
Upstream Repository: https://github.com/zolantris/ValheimMods
Original Mod: ValheimRAFT by Sarcen
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