MountedArchery
Shoot bows, crossbows, spears and staffs from the saddle without being thrown off. Client-side, vanilla content only.
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About this mod Author’s original text
MountedArchery
Draw, aim, loose, cast spells, all in the saddle. Bows, crossbows, thrown spears and the staffs that shoot something
all work while you ride a Lox, Asksvin or Moose.
Note: this is mounted archery, not mounted melee. Swords, axes, clubs and other melee weapons still get you off
the animal when you swing, just like vanilla.
How to Use
- Get on your animal.
- Ready your bow, crossbow, spear or staff and shoot while riding.
- Keep steering, you won't be unmounted.
- Ride over your thrown spear, or loot, to pick it up.
Jumping, dodging or pressing E still gets you off, just like vanilla.
How Things Behave
- Charging speeds your shots up. Your mount's speed carries into the shot: a spear or bomb thrown ahead at a
gallop flies faster and farther instead of falling behind you, and arrows fly flatter.
- Firing back while fleeing slows them down. A shot or throw behind you leaves slower and falls shorter, more so
the faster you ride. Shots to the side stay vanilla.
- Ride over loot to pick it up. Auto-pickup works from the saddle, just like vanilla.
Multiplayer
Client-side only. It reuses the game's own riding and shooting animations, so friends without the mod see you fire
from the saddle, and their own attacks still throw them off their mount.
Compatibility
- Built and tested for Valheim 1.0 (Deep North), on Linux; no OS-specific code.
- It only changes what happens when you shoot from a saddle, so it shouldn't clash with other mods, except ones that
also change riding or mounted combat.
Uninstalling
Nothing is saved, so just remove it.
Links
- Source and bug reports: (issues welcome)
- Changes: the Changelog tab
- Made with AI assistance.
- Built with BepInEx and HarmonyX. MIT license.
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: