StopBitingMyBoat
Boars and Necks have been reminded that boats are not food.
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Stop Biting My Boat
Boars and Necks have been reminded that boats are not food.
Stop Biting My Boat is a lightweight Valheim mod that prevents shoreline wildlife from treating boats like prey. Boars and Necks will ignore boats as static targets, and their boat damage is blocked as a fallback.
Features
- Boars and Necks no longer select boats as static targets
- Blocks Boar and Neck boat damage as a narrow fallback
- Optional setting to only protect empty boats
- Keeps real threats like skeletons, draugr, trolls, and serpents unchanged
- Lightweight and vanilla-friendly
- Optional debug logging for testing
Installation
Install with a mod manager, or manually place the DLL into your BepInEx plugins folder:
BepInEx/plugins/
Configuration
After launching the game once, the config file will be generated here:
BepInEx/config/petri.valheim.stopbitingmyboat.cfg
| Setting | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Enabled | true | Enables or disables the mod. |
| DebugLogging | false | Enables extra log output for testing. Leave disabled for normal play. |
| OnlyIgnoreEmptyBoats | false | If enabled, Boars and Necks only ignore boats when no player is onboard. |
| PreventBoatDamage | true | Prevents Boars and Necks from damaging boats if they still manage to attack. |
Compatibility
This mod only changes Boar and Neck behavior toward boats. Other enemies and sea threats are intentionally left unchanged.
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: