About Keel
From ThunderstoreMeadworks ships: tune every ship, grow a Sailing skill with Wind Call and Lookout, and build fast, cargo and livestock ships from vanilla hulls. Required on all peers.
Keel
Tune ship handling and durability, earn Sailing perks, and build eight ships adapted from vanilla hulls. Cargo vessels and livestock pens give longer voyages more carrying options.
Features
- Adjust health, sail and paddle force, turning, drag, incoming damage, weather wear and build costs globally or per ship.
- Earn Sailing experience at the helm, with a share for crew aboard; levels improve built-ship health, sailing speed and sea exploration.
- At Sailing 25, Wind Call turns the wind toward your viewing direction while steering; bind your own key or gamepad chord.
- At Sailing 50, Lookout briefly reveals nearby creature name tags with a pulse from your ship.
- Build Fast Karve, Fast Longship, Knarr, Busse, Big Busse and three Byrding livestock variants.
- Set each new ship's recipe, size, hold capacity, sail and hull colors, stripes and visibility in the hammer menu.
- Carry animals inside Byrding pens with rails and side gate ramps; Shepherd can use each pen's capacity as its herd limit.
- Read speed in the ship panel, pull the boat camera farther back, see through your own sails and name vanilla ships; Mantle adds a wind indicator.
- Ship immunity, invulnerability, constant tailwind and Fast Sailing cheats default off and require server permission in multiplayer.
- Preview imports from ShipConfig, GrindstoneSkills Sailing and TheGreatestShips; overlapping modules step aside while the rest of Keel keeps working.
Install and settings
Install with a Valheim mod manager to resolve dependencies automatically. Settings: F8 or Esc > Meadworks; Almanac is optional. File: BepInEx/config/com.meadworks.keel.cfg. Version 0.1.21. Required on the server and every client; use matching versions. Dependencies: BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2360, Jotunn 2.30.2, Crucible 0.3.39.
Changes · Source · Support Licenses; bundled third-party notices remain applicable.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 2d ago.
Keel on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Optional on the server
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 0.1.21, released 2026-11-02
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 9 recorded builds of Keel.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.21 | 2026-11-02 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.20 | 2026-10-29 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.19 | 2026-10-29 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.18 | 2026-10-29 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.17 | 2026-10-28 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.16 | 2026-10-27 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: Jotunn
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
- Required: Crucible
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogVehicles & ships
Cars, boats, aircraft, ships and other things to drive or fly.
Works on a server
From source side supportThunderstore lists server-side support for Keel as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-11-02Open ↗
- ✓AuthorexpDARE, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
