Rider

Ride tamed boars, wolves and deer with a craftable saddle, smooth mounted camera, controller-friendly movement, and up to three mounted attacks.

Saddle recipe

Craft a Saddle at a Level 2 Workbench:

• 5 Leather Scraps
• 2 Deer Hide
• 4 Bronze Nails

Equip the saddle to your hotbar and use it on a tamed boar, wolf or deer. Deer require a separate taming mod.

Controls

Attack buttons follow your in-game bindings. Available attacks depend on the creature; no additional attacks are created. Some controls can differ if you remap the game inputs.

Installation

Requires BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn (see manifest.json). Install the full package on the host/server and on every player in multiplayer. Remove previous RideableTames/Fai versions before installing; do not use alongside PackBeasts or Rideable Boars.

The game's original saddle item, recipe and configuration identity are retained for compatibility with existing worlds. Walking sensitivity is configurable under BepInEx/config/fai.rideabletames.controls.cfg (Movement / AnalogWalkThreshold, default 0.80).

Credits

Based on RideableTames by Qua8ion, with mounted-behavior reference from PackBeasts by Einherjer / Anwo91. Rider integration by Fai.

1.0.7

• Double the base swim speed of Rider mounts while ridden. Swimming still costs 4 stamina per second before the Riding skill reduction.

1.0.6

• Set wolf base mounted running speed to 9 m/s and apply it to existing configurations once.
• Multiply base mounted stamina costs by 0.7 and round the base values before applying Riding skill. Running costs 2 per second, swimming 4, jumping 3% of maximum stamina, and attacks 4% or 8%.
• Upgrade the previous 4% jump default once and keep the existing Riding skill calculation.

1.0.5

• Move boar and deer seats back by 0.10 model metres from 1.0.4 while retaining the same height and cached saddle alignment.
• Set wolf base mounted run speed to 8 m/s, reaching 10 m/s at Riding skill 100. Automatically update the previous speed setting once.
• Retain all other 1.0.4 code, wolf seat, saddle/handle/collar, camera, jumping, attacks and the 60-degree sliding threshold.

1.0.4

• Align boar and deer seats to a cached saddle-relative anchor, shifted forward by 0.06 model metres, while retaining their existing grip fits and poses.
• Keep camera sampling on the same cached seat coordinate and avoid accumulating movement from repeated player/camera callbacks.
• Reduce wolf base mounted run speed from 9.5 to 7.5 m/s. Apply this once to existing configurations; preserve later administrator edits. Riding skill still adds up to 25%.
• Retain the accepted wolf seat, original saddle/handle/collar, other creature speeds, camera, jumping, controls and the 1.0.3 60-degree sliding threshold. The 1.0.2 normal correction remains excluded.

1.0.3

• Build directly on Rider 1.0.1 and set the mounted sliding threshold to 60 degrees for Rider saddles with an active rider.
• Exclude the 1.0.2 ground-normal correction; keep the original ground-angle calculation.
• Preserve all existing 1.0.1 extension methods and the exact main/control DLLs and icon. Mounted jumping, attacks, movement, seat, handle/collar and camera are retained.

1.0.1

• Enable the existing PackBeasts-style mounted jump with a one-time jump-only defaults migration: enabled, 4% stamina cost and minimum impulse 8.
• Retry jump RPC registration when the mount's network object becomes ready after saddle initialization, including the owning peer without a local rider.
• Initialize jumping for existing saddles during startup and prioritize mounted jump input before vanilla dismount handling.
• Preserve the uploaded 1.0.0 package's visuals, saddle/seat, camera, movement and attacks. No PackBeasts installation is required.