Njord

⚓ NJORD: Master of the Sea 🌊

A mythic overhaul of Valheim’s ship handling, steering, acceleration, and sea-faring experience.

Njord makes boats feel powerful, responsive, and alive — without breaking Valheim’s soul. It introduces modernized helm control, configurable sail and acceleration forces, dynamic wind blending mechanics, a custom HUD, and an optional multiplayer-safe runic wake VFX.

🆕 New in v2.0.0 — The Shipwright Update

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| ⚓ The Harbourmaster | A shipwright takes her post on the shoreline nearest your world spawn. Buy a hull, claim your first one, or have the vessel you're stood on refitted. |

| 🎁 Your First Hull, Free | Every player is given one boat, once, for as long as that world exists — named 's Pride before she touches the water. |

| 🪵 Paid For In Timber | Hull prices are lists of materials, per hull, set by the server. No coins involved, and no other trader on your server is touched. |

| ⭐ Refits | Stand aboard a hull at the harbour and pay 2×, 3×, then 4× her price to raise her. What a star is worth is entirely the server's business. |

| 🪟 The VikingOS Frame | The Harbourmaster's shop wears the same gilt window chrome as the rest of the suite, shared rather than reproduced. |

| ⚠️ Everyone Updates Together | 2.0.0 raises the ServerSync floor to 2.0.0, so a 1.x client cannot join a 2.0.0 server. The shipyard's RPCs are new. |

✨ Core Features

⚡ Responsive Steering

• Modernized helm control: Smooth, intuitive turning.
• Adjustable steering multiplier: Your longship finally answers the helm.
• Steering gate: Prevents jitter upon helm acquisition.

💨 Acceleration, Sail Forces & Max Speeds

• Overhauled default physics: Provides a smoother, more realistic sailing curve.
• Configurable forces: Adjust forward/reverse and Base/Half/Full sail behavior to your liking.
• Reverse-kick: Optional quick burst of reverse speed for tight maneuvering out of rocky harbors.
• Custom Max Speeds: Per-boat max speed configuration (Njord vs Vanilla).

🌬️ Dynamic Wind Systems

• Instant Snap HUD: When grabbing the rudder, the Njord HUD instantly displays the true natural wind angle.
• Toggleable Full Wind: Enable "Full Wind Always" if you want to skip the sailing struggle.
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Wind Assists: Advanced opt-in mechanics like Wind_NoDeadZone (nudge out of dead zones) and Wind_BlendToFull (blend toward tailwinds) give you a mythic edge against the sea.
• Grace Period Mechanics: Natural winds are punishing. When the wind shifts against you, Njord enforces a realistic grace period (default 2.5s). You will feel the dead zone before any magical assists kick in to save you.

🪶 Named Vessels

• Alt + Use at the helm opens the christening dialog.
• Stored on the ship's own record — persists across sessions and syncs to every player.
• Appears in the helm hover panel, the crosshair hover label, and the Njord HUD.
• Up to 24 characters.

🧭 Njord HUD

• Clean, minimal, and mythic.
• Displays your vessel's given name alongside her hull type.
• Fully multiplayer-safe.
• Shows steering, speed, waterline, hull integrity, wind blend, and readiness.
• Drag to reposition freely on your screen.
• Toggle visibility instantly with F7.

⭐ Runic Wake VFX

• Optional glowing wake effect behind ships.
• Color-tinted based on your configuration.
• Scales with speed and sail state.
• Fully multiplayer-safe: Zero performance impact on servers and properly displays across all connected clients.

⚓ The Harbourmaster

A shipwright is placed automatically on the shoreline nearest your world spawn, the first

time anyone loads that zone. She keeps her post across restarts, and admins can move her.

[!IMPORTANT]

On an established world she may never appear on her own. A dedicated server loads a zone

only while somebody is standing in it, and on a world where everyone spawns straight into

their own base, nobody has any reason to go back to the world spawn — so the placement never

triggers. This is not a failure and the log will say so pla