WindlessSailing
Steady sailing without waiting for the wind. Keeps normal rowing, steering, and boat handling. Install on every player's client for consistent multiplayer sailing.
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Windless Sailing
Sail where you want to go, without waiting for the wind to turn.
Windless Sailing gives your boat steady forward thrust at half and full sail, whatever the weather is doing. It leaves the world's wind alone, so two players can sail in opposite directions without fighting over it.
How it feels
Use the usual sailing controls. Forward rowing and reverse work as before. Half sail gives you half thrust, and full sail gives you full thrust, with the same gradual acceleration and coasting.
Thrust is tuned around favorable vanilla sailing conditions. Each boat keeps its own handling and power, and waves, turns, and water resistance still affect your speed. This isn't a fixed-speed cruise control.
The wind indicator and sail visuals still follow the real wind. You can ignore them when choosing a heading.
Multiplayer
Everyone playing together should install the mod. Installing it only on the server won't do the job.
Valheim lets a player's client handle a boat's physics, and that player isn't always the one at the rudder. If an unmodded player takes over that job, the boat goes back to using normal wind physics. Keep everyone on the same mod version for consistent sailing.
Installation
Install through your mod manager and launch your modded profile. The BepInEx dependency will be installed with it.
For a manual install, install BepInExPack Valheim first, then put WindlessSailing.dll in BepInEx/plugins/WindlessSailing/ inside your Valheim folder.
That's it. There are no settings, hotkeys, or commands to turn on.
Compatibility
Built and checked against Valheim 1.0.15. Runtime checks passed, but a full dedicated-server sailing test hasn't been completed.
Other mods that change sailing forces may conflict. Custom boats that use the game's normal sailing code should pick up the change, but boats with their own physics may not.
To uninstall, disable the mod in your mod manager or remove its DLL with the game closed. It doesn't change your save format.
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: