Broadside

Design and build your own ships, from a one-man skiff to a 50 m pirate galleon. Lay a keel on a dry dock, raise ribs, plank the hull, add decks, cabins, masts and sails, then launch it from your hammer and sail. Arm it with ship cannons and fight: shots punch holes, the sea floods in, and wrecked ships sink.

Features

• Dry dock: keel block guides and keel blocks to build on; designing is free.
• Hull tools: keel, rib, planking, deck, railing, ladder, cabin, masts and sails, bowsprit, post caps, doors and windows, each sized in a small window. Undo with Ctrl + Z, and any part can be edited after it is built.
• Meadows and Black Forest woods and fittings, a rudder for each, and raw hide sails.
• Blueprint table: save the ship on the dock, build a saved one back onto it, share designs with the server, and see a ship's speed, stability, weight and cost before you build it.
• Launch from the hammer: every saved ship is built on the water near a workbench, for what its parts cost.
• Real sailing: the ship floats on its own hull; square sails want the wind behind, gaff sails and jibs sail closer to it.
• Steering by tiller, or a captain's wheel with working steering gear; anchor windlass, hatches, crow's nests, pennants.
• Ship panel: speed, top speed for the wind and sails you have now, explore radius, health and your guns' reloads.
• Log off aboard a ship and you log back in on the same spot on deck.
• A bronze ship cannon, built on a launched ship (the only piece built aboard), firing stone cannonballs with black powder.
• Broadside from the helm: U fires the side you look toward, J shows the shot arcs.
• Battle damage: holes through the hull, flooding, bailing, holed sails and falling masts; wooden repair kits patch leaks at sea and the hammer mends the rest.
• Edit at sea: railings, ladders, doors, windows, masts and sails can be changed while the ship is afloat.

Ready-made ships

Found in the hammer under "Ship: Ready-made/...":

• Black_Gull: 50 m pirate galleon, two gun decks, 40 gunports, three masts.
• Little_Gull: half-size galleon, 12 gunports.
• Storm_Petrel: two-masted brig-of-war, 18 gunports.
• Wayfinder: explorer's schooner with a crow's nest, 6 gunports.
• Merchant_Cog: tall-sided trader with a cargo hold.
• Hearth_Barge: a floating home with a long deckhouse.
• Sea_Raven: a Viking longship.
• War_Raven: the longship with three lidded gunports a side.
• Fjord_Skiff: a small coastal boat.
• Fjord_Wasp: the skiff with two gunports a side.
• Skerry_Sprite: a tiny, fast sloop for one.

Gunports come empty: build cannons on the ship once it is launched.

Install

Needed on every client and the server. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put Broadside.dll in BepInEx/plugins.

Configuration

No settings. Saved ships are JSON files in BepInEx/config/Broadside.Ships, sail pictures PNG files in BepInEx/config/Broadside.Sails.

Links

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2sMPGQ4T3

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

• The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
• Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
• Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
• The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
• Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.

Changelog

0.2.0

• Logging off aboard a ship puts you back on the same spot when you log in, not inside the hull.
• A mast shot through high up drops only what is above the break; the sails below stay set.
• A shot-down mast takes twice as long to fall.
• Fixed: lag spikes when taking up the hammer, previewing a saved ship and launching or loading ships.
• Fixed: the broadside key (U) did nothing after using the console.

0.1.1

• Fixed: climbing a ladder onto a cabin roof no longer drags you back down to the deck.
• Fixed: climbing masts and boarding ladders no longer pulls you back toward where you started the climb.

0.1.0

• First release.
• Dry dock and hull tools: design a ship part by part, edit and undo it, in Meadows and Black Forest woods.
• Blueprint table: save, build back and share ships, with speed, stability and cost figures.
• Saved ships built on the water from the hammer: they float, sail by the wind and steer by tiller or wheel.
• A bronze ship cannon, stone cannonballs and black powder; the broadside on U, shot arcs on J.
• Hull holes, flooding, rig damage, wooden repair kits and editing at sea.
• Ship panel: speed, top speed, explore radius, health and reloads.
• 11 ready-made ships.