Quads Jet Skis

v0.3.1·Updated 2026-10-12

Jet ski (jetski) for a rider and a passenger: a fast motorboat pushed by a surtling core, not the wind. Steer it like a speedboat with WASD; saddlebag storage, paint colours, engine sound and spray. B

About this mod Machine translation

🌊 Quad's Jet Skis

A jet ski for Valheim: a fast little boat for one (and a friend), pushed along by a surtling core's fire instead of the wind.

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✨ Features

Riding it

  • Build it with the hammer on the water, near a workbench, like the raft: 12 Fine Wood, 30 Bronze Nails, 2 Surtling Cores and 4 Deer Hide.
  • Press E on its handlebars from the water or the shore and you climb onto the saddle and take them.
  • Hold W to go, Shift+W for full speed, S to back up; let go and it coasts to a stop. The wind doesn't matter.
  • A and D steer: the handlebars turn and come back to the middle by themselves. It turns slower when barely moving, and stays level in a hard turn.
  • Jump to get off.
  • Leave it at the shore: with nobody aboard it stays where you left it, and the waves don't wear it down.
  • You ride it like a jet ski: leaning over the bars, hands on the grips, feet on the pads, your head turning where you steer, bobbing over the waves. Everyone sees it.
  • A gauge at the bottom right shows your speed and throttle, in place of the boat's wheel in the middle of the screen.
  • Running into a friend at speed doesn't hurt them, and hopping waves barely scratches the hull.

Room for two, and their things

  • A passenger seat behind the rider (E on the back of the saddle): the passenger holds on round the rider's waist.
  • Saddlebags on the back corners hold 8 stacks: E on them, or Tab while riding. If the jet ski breaks, what's in them floats away in a cargo crate, as from a Karve.

The look and the sound

  • A dark wooden hull with a band of red-stained wood and bronze rivets, a rub rail, a round shield on each side, a curled prow like a longship's, a leather saddle, a cowl up to iron handlebars, and a surtling core in an iron cage feeding the jet nozzle.
  • Paint it: E on the cowl in front of the handlebars gives the next colour (red, blue, green, teal, purple, black, bare wood). Everyone sees it.
  • An engine that burbles at idle and screams at full speed, spray thrown up behind it and off the side in hard turns, and a core that glows brighter (and lights the water further) as you open the throttle.
  • It is the game's raft underneath, so it floats, wears, breaks, saves and changes hands in multiplayer as the game's boats do.

Everyone in the world needs it installed.

📸 Screenshots

Full speed along the shore: hands on the grips, spray off the nozzle

From the side at dusk: the painted band's bronze rivets, a round shield, the saddle and the caged surtling core

From behind: the core glowing in its cage and the jet's spray on the water

Stopped on a misty morning: the curled prow, the painted cowl and the iron handlebars

🎮 How to use

| Key | What it does |

|---|---|

| E on a jet ski | Climb on (from the water or the shore) and take the handlebars |

| W / Shift+W / S | Go / full speed / back up (let go to coast); A / D steer, Jump gets off |

| E on a jet ski's cowl / saddlebags | Paint it the next colour / open the saddlebags (Tab while riding opens them too) |

🧩 Other mods

Known clashes: none known.

Found a clash with another mod? Tell us which one and what happened.

👥 Multiplayer

Who needs it: Everyone, and the host above all: a game without the mod deletes the pieces when their area loads. Restart after installing or updating them.

🌍 Languages

English, Русский (Russian), Deutsch (German), 简体中文 (Chinese), Português do Brasil (Portuguese), Español (Spanish), Français (French), Polski (Polish), Türkçe (Turkish). It follows the game's own language setting.

The translations were made with AI, so a few words may be off. To correct one, or to add your language, put a file in BepInEx/config/translations/com.quad.jetskis/ named after the game's name for the language (German.json, Italian.json, Japanese.json...) with only the lines you change, copied from English.json (it wins over the built-in one). Or tell us the better words and we'll put them in for everyone.

⚙️ Settings

In BepInEx/config/com.quad.jetskis

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. 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.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. 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.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim

File & checksum

Filename
Quads_Jet_Skis-0.3.1.zip
File size
270.0 KiB