Riding Crop

Adds a family of seven craftable one-handed riding crops to Valheim, from the plain leather crop up to the finest crop of the family. Every hit deals blunt damage and makes the target bleed. Each tier hits harder and lasts longer than the one before. The crops use the vanilla Club's attack animations, have no secondary attack, and train their own skill, RidingCrop.

Author: kydldev

Requirements

• BepInEx, Jotunn and KydlCore 1.0.0.
• Every player on a server needs the mod installed, at the same version (see Multiplayer).

Features

The mod has two functionalities. Each has its own switch, and [General] EnableAll switches both.

• Crops: the seven riding crops and the RidingCrop skill.
• Sound: the crops' own swing (whoosh) and hit (slap) sounds.

Usage

Craft a crop at the workbench, forge or black forge (see the tables below), equip it like a club and swing. The skill trains while you hit things. Press F6 to open the KY hub (KydlCore) and pick Riding Crop to change the settings with live checking.

The items, the skill and the sounds are added to the game when it starts, so every setting marked "needs a restart" below takes effect after the next game start. The detailed log switch works at any time.

Configuration

Config file: BepInEx/config/com.kydldev.RidingCrop.cfg (created on first start). All settings are also on the Settings tab of the Riding Crop page in the KY hub (F6).

All item stats are set by the mod and are not configurable, so everyone on a server has identical values.

Coming from 1.0.0

The 1.0.0 keys were renamed. On the first start of 2.0.0 the old values are carried over: [General] Enabled becomes [General] EnableAll and [General] DebugLogging becomes [DebugLog] Enable. The Sound settings kept their names.

Multiplayer

The crops are items that exist in the world data, so every player and the server must run the same version of the mod. The mod uses the network check EveryoneMustHaveMod with an exact version match (major.minor.patch): a client with another version is refused. Keep [General] EnableAll and [Crops] Enable the same on the server and all clients. The sound settings only affect your own game.

Crops and recipes (weakest to strongest)

Item ids also work with the console spawn command (devcommands).

Crafting stations

Each upgrade needs one station level more than the previous quality (same station).

Stats

Blunt damage grows by 40% per tier and the bleed by 25% per tier, each on top of the previous tier. The bleed deals its damage once per second for 5 seconds and ignores armor and resistances. A target that is already bleeding cannot be made to bleed again (not by the same crop and not by another one) until the running bleed has finished. Values are at skill level 0, quality 1.

Combat stats

No secondary attack. The last hit of the attack chain deals 2x damage. Block armor and parry block armor are shown at skill 0 / 100. Parry block armor is block armor x 2 (parry bonus 2x).

Upgrading

Every crop can be upgraded at its crafting station (see above) up to quality 4 (three upgrades). Each upgrade costs half of each recipe amount (rounded up).

Every upgrade adds a flat +6 blunt damage and a flat +40 durability on every crop. The bleed does not change with upgrades.

(Blunt damage at skill level 0.)

Skill

All crops train the RidingCrop skill (shown in the Skills window). Dev-command test:

devcommands
raiseskill ridingcrop 50

Sounds

• The slap sound starts immediately and is not affected by distance, so it is not drowned out by loud sounds such as a tree breaking.
• The swing (whoosh) and slap sounds are boosted by 50% on the sound data itself, because Unity cannot play a sound above full volume; peaks that would go past full scale are softly limited instead of clipping.
• A swing that hits several targets plays the slap sound only once.

Troubleshooting

Set [DebugLog] Enable to true (it can be changed while the game runs) and check the BepInEx log (BepInEx/LogOutput.log). It then lists the asset bundle contents, each crop's stats, recipe and station, the sound setup, and every whoosh, slap and bleed event.

Changelog

2.0.0

• Tested in game with the full TestLab suite (9 tests): 3 green runs in a row on 2026-11-05, plus the ecosystem run with all 12 KydlDev mods loaded together.
• Ported to the KydlDev layout (KydlCore feature switches, new source layout, TestLab suites). No gameplay change. Checked in game on 2026-11-04 (clean start and quit with all mods loaded, no errors from this mod).
• Network check is now EveryoneMustHaveMod with exact version match (Patch level; it was Minor).
• Breaking: RidingCrop now needs the KydlCore mod (hard dependency). Install KydlCore as well.
• The settings are a tab in the KY hub window of KydlCore (F6).
• Config changes: [General] Enabled is now [General] EnableAll and [General] DebugLogging is now [DebugLog] Enable (your old values are carried over on the first start). New switches [Crops] Enable and [Sound] Enable. The Sound volume settings are unchanged.
• The items, the skill and the sounds are still added when the game starts: restart the game after changing a switch.

1.0.0

Initial release.

• Seven craftable one-handed Riding Crops, from the plain leather crop to the finest of the family, using the Club's attack animations.
• Every hit deals blunt damage and makes the target bleed (5 seconds, ignores armor; bleeds do not stack).
• Per-crop damage, bleed, durability, stagger, knockback, stamina, block armor, parry and block force; no secondary attack; last hit of the chain deals 2x damage.
• Upgradeable to quality 4 at the crafting station of each crop (Workbench, Forge or Black Forge, one station level higher per upgrade).
• Own skill: RidingCrop.
• Own swing (whoosh) and hit (slap) sounds.
• Inventory icons for every crop.
• Configuration: General > Enabled (master switch), General > DebugLogging (extra detail in the BepInEx log), and sound options under Sound.