Fast Travel

Fast Travel

Summon a Valkyrie to fly you to any discovered runestone on the map. Food, status effects, and time advance during the journey.

Fast Travel adds Valkyrie-powered fast travel to Valheim. Open your map, hover over a discovered runestone pin, and press the hotkey. A confirmation popup shows the destination and estimated travel time. Accept, and a Valkyrie swoops in, picks you up, flies you across the world at altitude, and drops you at your destination.

Time passes during the journey. Food timers drain, status effects advance, and buffs expire — just as if you'd walked the distance yourself. No free rides.

Runestones are automatically pinned to your map when you interact with them in the world. Each pin becomes a valid fast travel destination.

Discover Runestones

Walk up to any runestone in the world and interact with it (E). A map pin is automatically placed at that location. This pin becomes a fast travel destination.

Open the Map

Press M to open the full map. Hover your cursor over a runestone pin you want to travel to.

Initiate Travel

Press F10 (configurable) to start fast travel. A confirmation popup shows the destination name and estimated travel time.

The Journey

Accept the popup. A Valkyrie flies in from behind you, picks you up, carries you at altitude across the world, descends as you approach the destination, and drops you off. Your character sits on the Valkyrie's back with a riding animation during the flight.

Controller Support

On gamepad, hold Y / Triangle for 1 second while the map is open to initiate fast travel to the pin nearest the map crosshair.

Fast travel isn't free. The mod calculates how long the journey would take on foot and advances your character's timers accordingly.

• Food timers drain by the travel duration — food that would have expired mid-journey is removed
• Status effects advance by the travel duration — buffs and debuffs tick down as if time had passed
• Health, stamina, and eitr are recalculated based on remaining food bonuses

The assumed overland speed is configurable. Lower values = more time passes per journey. The default (2.5 m/s) represents roughly half walking speed, accounting for terrain, obstacles, and enemies along the way.

A brief message tells you how much time passed after landing.

Runestones are automatically pinned to your map when you interact with them. Each pin uses a custom runestone icon on the minimap and shows the runestone's name.

• Auto-pin on interact — walk up to any runestone and press E, the pin is placed automatically
• Duplicate detection — if a runestone is already pinned within 10m, no duplicate is created
• Custom icon — runestone pins use a unique stone-with-runes icon to distinguish them from other map markers
• Only runestone pins work — fast travel only targets pins with the [Runestone] prefix, so your other map pins are unaffected

During flight and for 3 seconds after landing:

• Full damage immunity — the player cannot take damage from any source
• Fall damage prevention — the short drop from the Valkyrie on landing is safe
• Ground contact faked — the game thinks you're on solid ground during flight, preventing the falling animation from overriding the riding pose

If the Valkyrie is somehow destroyed mid-flight, emergency cleanup detaches the player safely and resets all state.

If Offline Companions is installed, your companions ride along on the Valkyrie automatically. No configuration needed.

How It Works

• Auto-detection — the mod detects Offline Companions at runtime via reflection. No hard dependency, no compile-time reference
• Gather on pickup — when the Valkyrie picks you up, all owned companions within 30m that are set to Follow are attached
• Ride together — companions are positioned behind you on the Valkyrie's back, frozen in a sitting animation
• Safe landing — at the destination, companions are placed on the ground near you with fall damage prevention, and their AI resumes following you

During Flight

• Companion