Rapiers of Valheim

Rapiers of Valheim

Twelve craftable rapiers spanning the Meadows through the Deep North. Fight with two precise thrusts followed by a descending slash, with custom fencing poses, advancing footwork, and a different hilt and blade for each weapon.

Features

• Twelve weapons using Valheim's Swords skill, with crafting recipes and four quality levels.
• Two thrusts and a third slash by default. Heavy attacks play at 1.2× native speed. A successful parry while wielding a rapier unlocks one 2× heavy attack within four seconds. Both heavy attacks lunge about 2.5 metres.
• A fencing guard with the free left fist braced against the hip. Legs retain Valheim's normal blocking pose and movement animations. Native blocking is retained when using a shield or other offhand item.
• Piercing damage on thrusts; the third slash converts the physical damage to slashing while retaining elemental damage.
• Veilneedle: an iridescent blade, reflective silvery-black guard and pommel, black leather grip, and Mistwalker-style blade mist that clears nearby Mistlands fog while equipped.
• Aurora Needle: northern colors and an open silver guard, with damage based on the native Frostfire sword.
• Golden Rune Rapier: dark forged steel, a green leather grip, a gilded guard, and gold runes along roughly the lower half of the blade, with damage based on the native Thunderblood sword.
• Corrected right-facing guards on Aurora Needle and Golden Rune Rapier.
• Configurable damage, stamina, reach, attack styles, and footwork.

Requirements

Prepared and checked on Valheim 1.0.16 for Windows with:

• BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2333
• Jotunn 2.30.2

The Deep North weapons require game content from this version. Older Valheim versions are not supported by this release. Other operating systems and later dependency versions have not been verified.

Installation

Mod manager — recommended

1. Select Valheim and your preferred profile in Gale, r2modman, or Thunderstore Mod Manager.
2. Install Rapiers of Valheim and its listed dependencies.
3. Launch the game through that profile's modded launch option.
4. Reach the main menu once to generate the configuration file.

For a local release ZIP before publication, use your manager's local-mod import feature if available. Otherwise, open the profile folder and copy the ZIP's BepInEx/plugins/AlternatingRapier folder into the profile's BepInEx/plugins directory. Install the two dependencies separately in that profile.

Manual installation — Windows

1. Close Valheim. Back up your characters, worlds, and existing mod configuration before updating a modded installation.
2. Install BepInExPack Valheim using the instructions on its package page. The contents of its BepInExPack_Valheim folder belong beside valheim.exe.
3. Install Jotunn in BepInEx/plugins/Jotunn according to its package instructions.
4. Extract this ZIP and merge its BepInEx folder into the Valheim installation directory.
5. Check that this file exists:

Valheim/
  valheim.exe
  BepInEx/
    plugins/
      Jotunn/
        Jotunn.dll
      AlternatingRapier/
        AlternatingRapier.dll

1. Launch Valheim and reach the main menu. Check BepInEx/LogOutput.log for Loading [Rapiers of Valheim 1.0.4] and the weapon registration messages.

The mod's models, textures, and inventory icons are embedded in its DLL. No Blender files or separate asset installation is required. BepInEx and Jotunn are downloaded separately.

Updating from Alternating Rapier

This is the renamed release of Alternating Rapier. The plugin ID, item IDs, DLL name, and configuration filename are preserved for existing items and settings.

Close the game, then replace your previous AlternatingRapier.dll. Keep only one copy in the active profile or manual installation. If an older test build is directly inside BepInEx/plugins, remove that old DLL after backing it up; do not leave it alongside the new subfolder copy. In a manager, disable or remove the old Alternating Rapier package before enabling this one.

Keep your existing configuration if you want to retain your settings. To restore release defaults, move the old configuration file to a backup location while the game is closed, then launch once to generate a fresh file.

Weapons and crafting

These are the initial crafting costs with the default recipes. Discover the materials and use the required crafting station to see a recipe.

| Weapon | Station | Initial ingredients | Additional damage / effect | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Wood Rapier | Workbench 1 | Wood ×12, Leather scraps ×2 | Physical | | Bronze Rapier | Forge 1 | Bronze ×8, Fine wood ×4, Leather scraps ×2 | Physical | | Iron Rapier | Forge 2 | Iron ×15, Fine wood ×4, Leather scraps ×2 | Physical | | Silver Rapier | Forge 3 | Silver ×30, Fine wood ×4, Wolf pelt ×2 | Spirit | | Needle Rapier | Forge 4 | Black metal ×20, Needle ×3, Linen thread ×5, Fine wood ×4 | Physical; deathsquito needle blade | | Seeker Warden | Black forge 1 | Carapace ×20, Mandible ×2, Iron ×10, Yggdrasil wood ×5 | Physical | | Dvergr Lantern Rapier | Black forge 1 | Copper ×15, Iron ×10, Refined eitr ×10, Linen thread ×5 | Frost | | Veilneedle | Black forge 2 | Refined eitr ×25, Carapace ×10, Silver ×10, Yggdrasil wood ×5 | Lightning; mist and fog clearing | | Broken Halo | Black forge 3 | Flametal ×20, Charred bone ×20, Refined eitr ×10 | Spirit | | Embercoil | Black forge 3 | Flametal ×20, Charred bone ×10, Surtling core ×5, Linen thread ×5 | Fire | | Aurora Needle | Black forge 4 | Nord sword ×1, Bloodgold ×20, Frostfire Essence ×1 | Frost and fire |