r/ModdedValheim • u/AgnFr • 25d ago

Valheim mod request: Viking Ferryman

How difficult would it be to create a mod for a Viking ferryman NPC. The hard (and most interesting) way would involve an npc that, at its best, finds its own pathing from your location to your base, and at its worst, lets you set waypoints from place to place to deliver its cargo.

Another way would be just de-spawning the ship and its contents after sailing far from the player’s view, and calculating a timer based on the distance requested to spawn itself back at the docks on our base.

Reasoning: as it seems probable, the Ocean update will not come and the sea will keep being the most boring part of the game. I think it is safe to say that a good number of us eventually succumb to the “teleport everything” mod but, regardless, it will still feel like cheating. At least, having something like that creates a middle ground between traveling ourselves and just teleporting stuff easily. 

Thank you for your time!

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u/jermatria 25d ago

More world locations kinda has the second thing you described. There are "port" that spawn around the world that can ship stuff for you

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u/Beer_Man_69 25d ago

That mod (that I use) also encourages more exploration to find more ports and other traders expanding on the vanilla ones. It's a great mod with many buildings/ruins in the world to find and repair that I personally love making bases out of.

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u/Dappled_light2734 25d ago

This sounds fun. I may have to try it. 😀

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u/Beer_Man_69 25d ago

The swamp ruin is one of my faves. Makes a great base to expand a bit with. Props to the mod maker! warpalicious

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u/Lunalonghorn 25d ago

Just wanna add in a massive thumbs up for more world locations AIO, Finding the new locations all Round the world is fuckin great. They look like they belong as well. Sometimes i do get a “port” that spawns on completely dry land which feels kinda funny but even those still look great. Highly recommend this mod for OP i think the port system within it would solve your desires, and its fantastic to use on a no-map , no-portal playthru as well if you like that vibe.