Carturs Sailing
A Sailing skill: faster ships under your command, tougher ships you build, a wider map reveal at sea, and a ladder nudge for beached ships. Inspired by Smoothbrain's Sailing.
About this mod Author’s original text
Cartur's Sailing
A Sailing skill for Valheim. Steer a ship under sail to level it, and the better a sailor you are,
the faster your ships go, the tougher the ones you build, and the more of the map you see from the
deck.
Inspired by Smoothbrain's Sailing
(deprecated in 2026) - credit to Smoothbrain for the idea. This is a separate mod, written from
scratch for Valheim 1.0; it shares no code with theirs.
What it does
The game has no sailing skill, so this adds one, listed with your other skills. It rises while you
hold the helm of a moving ship under half or full sail - faster at full sail.
| At Sailing 100 | You get |
| --- | --- |
| Speed | Ships you steer sail half again as fast. It's the helmsman's level that counts. |
| Hull | Ships you build have double hull health. It's the builder's level when the ship was built. |
| Exploring | The map reveals twice as far around you while you're aboard. |
Every bonus scales with level - at 50 you get half of it.
Hold Left Shift while using a ship's ladder to push the ship away from you instead of climbing
aboard - for getting a ship off a beach. It only works when nobody is at the helm.
Settings
BepInEx/config/com.jekkle.valheim.cartursailing.cfg
| Setting | Default | What it does |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SpeedBonus | 0.5 | Extra speed at level 100. 0.5 = half again as fast, 0 = vanilla. |
| HealthBonus | 1 | Extra hull health for ships built at level 100. 1 = double, 0 = vanilla. |
| ExploreBonus | 1 | Extra map reveal radius aboard at level 100. 1 = twice as far, 0 = vanilla. |
| ShipSpeeds | empty | Speed per ship by prefab name, on top of everything else, e.g. Raft=1.2, Karve=1, VikingShip=0.9. Works for ships from other mods too. |
| HalfSailLevel | 0 | Level needed for half sail. Below it, half sail catches no wind and the ship coasts - row instead. 0 = no lock. |
| FullSailLevel | 0 | Level needed for full sail. Below it, full sail works as half. 0 = no lock. |
| NudgeSpeed | 2 | How hard the ladder nudge pushes, in metres per second. |
| EnforceVersion | true | On a server, refuse clients on a different version. |
| NudgeKey | Left Shift | Hold while using a ladder to nudge the ship. |
Install it on the server too and its numbers apply to everyone. The key stays your own.
Ships built before you installed it keep vanilla hull health - the builder's level is recorded when
a ship is placed.
Install
r2modman or Mod Manager. Needs BepInEx and Jotunn (which registers the new skill).
Free, and always will be. If it improved your game you can tip me on Patreon.
Discord — bug reports, install help, and mod requests.
Bug reports get their own thread so nothing is lost in a chat scroll, and requests are voted on.
More from Cartur:
Map Pins ·
HD Blood ·
Compass and Clock ·
Safe Stamina ·
Follow Command ·
Flooring ·
UI ·
Waste Management ·
Feeding Trough ·
Build Camera ·
Combat Text ·
Farming ·
Mining
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: