TarCoating

Tar Coating

Equip Tar and coat wood so rain and standing water stop wearing it down. Same Tar from the tar pits. Nothing new to craft.

What you get

• Tar coating: equip Tar, look at a piece, left-click. Costs 1 Tar.
• Scrape tar: equip a knife, hold right-click, then left-click. You get 1 Tar back, and the swing doesn't hurt the piece.
• Tarred look: a dark, slightly glossy tint. On by default. Sails stay untinted, and a tarred Raft matches a tarred Karve.
• Support and durability: off unless the server turns them on. Tarred pieces can lose less support and take less damage.

Wood, hardwood, timberwood, and wood iron poles and beams can be tarred. Crafting stations, their upgrades, beehives, and bird pieces can't. If Beeswax is already on a piece, tar won't go on.

How to use

• Equip Tar from your inventory or hotbar.
• Look at a wood, hardwood, or wood iron piece.
• Left-click to apply tar.
• To take it off, equip a knife, hold right-click, then left-click. You get 1 Tar back.

Install with Gale

• Install Gale.
• Select Valheim and choose or create a profile.
• Search for Tar Coating and click Install. BepInExPack Valheim is installed with it automatically,

or go to Import → Local mod and pick the zip.

• Click Launch game.

Manual install (BepInEx)

• Install BepInExPack Valheim if you do not already have it.
• Copy TarCoating.dll into BepInEx\plugins\ModdedWolf-TarCoating\.
• Launch Valheim through BepInEx.

Configuration

After the first launch, settings are created at:

Valheim\BepInEx\config\ModdedWolf.TarCoating.cfg

Synced settings follow the server when LockConfiguration is on. In the config menu those end with *.

1 - General

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---------|---------|--------------|

| LockConfiguration | true | Server only. Server values override clients for synced settings |

2 - Tar Effects (synced)

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---------|---------|--------------|

| EnableDurabilityBonus | false | Tarred pieces and boats take less damage |

| DamageReductionPercent | 0 | How much less damage, 0 to 50% |

| EnableSupportBonus | false | Tarred pieces lose less structural support |

| SupportBonusPercent | 0 | How much less support is lost, 0 to 50% |

3 - Coating (synced)

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---------|---------|--------------|

| TarPerPiece | 1 | Tar used to coat one piece |

| AllowScrape | true | Allow scraping tar off with a knife |

Tarred Visuals (local)

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---------|---------|--------------|

| ShowTarredVisuals | true | Dark tar look on tarred wood |

| ShowHoverTextWithVisuals | false | Also show hover labels while the tar look is on |

Hover Text (local)

Only shows when the tar look is off, or when ShowHoverTextWithVisuals is on.

| Setting | Default | What it does |

|---------|---------|--------------|

| ShowTarredLabel | false | Show "Tarred" without tar equipped |

| ShowAlreadyTarredLabel | true | Show "Already tarred" while holding tar |

| ShowApplyLabel | false | Show the apply hint on bare wood |

Multiplayer

The server and every player need the mod, on the same version. A mismatch can't join.

Support

Questions or bugs? Discord

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