Rift Magic

Your animals, bound to you across the rift. Ride a war boar through the Black Forest, a dire wolf through the mountains and a giant moose through the Deep North - companions that fight beside you, grow with you, and never die.

Rift Magic is a suite of new content built to sit inside Valheim's own progression: rideable companions, new Eitr magic, quality-of-life builds and a few surprises. Everything is gated by the biomes you have reached and costed like the vanilla gear around it, so it fits a first playthrough as well as a hundredth.

Rift Companions

Tame an animal, name it, and bind it with a Rift Saddle. From then on it is yours:

• Ride it - even the animals vanilla never lets you ride. Every rift mount can sprint and jump, and you can swing, shoot or cast from the saddle while it attacks beside you.
• It never dies. At zero health the rift catches it in a pillar of light and carries it home to recover. No more losing the boar you raised from a piglet to one bad fight.
• It grows with you. Travel, fight and eat together and your bond earns it stars: it gets bigger, faster to ride, and unlocks a special attack - a boar's charge, a wolf's pounce, a lox's earthquake, a moose's lightning.
• Feed it like a player. Health food raises its health, stamina food how far it can carry you, Eitr food its damage and toughness.
• Upgrade its saddle four levels deep for more strength, toughness, speed and stamina.
• It finds you. Fall far behind - through a portal, across the sea - and it is pulled through the rift to your side. It is marked on your map wherever it is, and a trinket, the Rift Tether, calls it to you from anywhere.
• A home of your own. Companions you send home wait at the world's spawn - or at your Rift Stable Beacon, wherever you build it. Make them a nice stable.

A mount for every biome

Each animal has its own saddle, made from its biome's materials, and its recipe appears once you have tamed one - so your mounts keep pace with how far you have come.

Controls: look at your companion and press E to ride, Block + E to have it follow or stay, hold E to switch its stance, Shift + E to take its saddle off and Block + Shift + E to rename it. Throw a harpoon at your own mount to be pulled into the saddle.

Magic and items

• Riftwalker's Staff - blink along your line of sight, and open rifts that dissolve a whole cube of the world and deliver everything it held to an anchor you planted. It grows with your new Rift Magic skill.
• Staff of the Gnarled Root - bolts and clouds of rot that poison your enemies and heal your allies at once.
• Rift Sorting Chest - put things in, and they fly off to the nearby chests that already hold them.
• Garden Beds - raised beds of cultivated soil you can build on any floor, crops growing under a roof.
• Blueberry Pie and Rotten Meat Pie - hearty meals, and the way to a bear's heart.
• The Riftling - a rare, elite Surtling of the Ashlands that blinks around the fight, and blinks you with it. It drops the Rift Core the late-game rift gear is made from.
• Rift Aegis - an admin-only trinket that turns aside a killing blow.
• ...and a new mysterious unrest deep under the thrashing waves...

Installation

Install with a mod manager (Thunderstore Mod Manager, r2modman); the requirements come with it. To install by hand, install BepInExPack Valheim and Jötunn, then put ValheimRiftMagic.dll in BepInEx/plugins.

Multiplayer: every player and the server need the mod, on the same version. Gameplay settings are synced from the server.

Configuration: nearly everything - costs, damage, companion strength, bond rates, riding speeds, spawn rates - can be tuned in BepInEx/config/tmana.riftmagic.cfg. Server admins may want to look at the [Rift Harvest] section, which decides whether rifts take build pieces and other players' belongings.

Dev telemetry: servers and hosted worlds running the mod send the author basic server info every 5 minutes (server name, how to join, player count and character names, versions). Single player and players' own games send nothing. Turn it off with [Telemetry] ShareServer = false.

Just want the sorting chest and the Aegis? They are also on their own as Rift Relics.