Rider

Ride tamed boars, wolves and deer with a craftable saddle, smooth mounted camera, controller-friendly movement, mounted jumping, 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.

Mounted jumping

Jump uses the game's normal Jump binding and keeps you mounted. The base jump cost is 3% of maximum mount stamina. The mount must be grounded and able to act; rejected jumps do not dismount the rider. A creature with a stronger native jump keeps it.

Existing 4% jump settings upgrade to 3% once. Custom values other than 4% remain in use for existing Rider jump presets. Multiplayer registration retries when a mount's network object is not ready immediately.

Mounted sliding threshold

Version 1.0.3 is based directly on 1.0.1 and sets the sliding threshold to 60 degrees while riding a Rider mount. Players, unridden animals and other mods' saddles retain their existing thresholds.

This trial uses the game's existing ground-angle calculation and does not include the 1.0.2 normal correction. The 60-degree limit applies to the angle calculated by the game. No configuration reset is required.

Seat fit and wolf speed

Version 1.0.5 moves boar and deer seats back by 0.10 model metres relative to 1.0.4, using a local offset of -0.04 from the native saddle anchor. Seat height is unchanged. The position is cached once and follows the saddle during movement. The existing wolf seat, riding poses, handle/collar and camera settings are retained.

The wolf's base mounted running speed is 9 m/s at Riding skill 0, reaching 11.25 m/s at skill 100. The update applies the new wolf speed once when upgrading. Boar and deer retain their existing speeds.

Mounted swimming

Ridden boars, wolves and deer swim at twice their normal base swim speed with the Rider saddle. The usual acceleration and movement modifiers still apply.

Mount stamina costs

The following base values apply to Rider mounts at Riding skill 0. Each old value was multiplied by 0.7 and rounded to the nearest whole number. Riding skill still reduces these costs by up to half.

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.