MotorMod

MotorMod

Rideable motorcycles for Valheim. Build one with the hammer, feed it Surtling cores, ride it across the land and over the sea, pop wheelies, and leave a trail of fire behind you. Works in single player, on a hosted world and on dedicated servers. Built with BepInEx and Jötunn.

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The bikes

| Bike | Trail | Built with | |---|---|---| | Hel Cycle | Fire on both tyres, thicker at speed; enemies catch fire | A skeleton trophy | | Wraith Cycle | The same fire, burning blue | A wraith trophy | | Draugr Cycle | The same fire, burning green | A draugr trophy |

All three ride the same: fast (65 km/h, 130 km/h with boost), long and heavy. Trails only hurt enemies: never players, tamed animals or buildings.

Riding

| Key | Action | |---|---| | E | Get on / get off (Space also gets off); on the saddlebags: open them | | Shift+E | Fill the tank with Surtling cores (from your bag, then the saddlebags); only while the bike stands still | | 1-8 | Add a Surtling core from the hotbar while looking at the standing bike | | W / S | Throttle / brake, then reverse | | A / D | Steer: the bars and front wheel turn, and the bike leans into turns | | Shift | Boost: double top speed, double fuel use | | Right mouse | Rev the engine | | Left Ctrl | Wheelie: hold to lift the front, ease off to keep it up | | F7 | Sea soundtrack off / on |

• Stopped, the rider puts both feet on the ground; they go back on the

pegs as soon as the bike moves.

• Wheelies: gravity pulls the front back down, so you keep it up by

feathering the key. Hold too long and the front just drops; you never fall off. Wheelies longer than 2 seconds show their time and your best.

• Water: bikes ride on water, but only stay up while planing: at boost

speed (Shift+W) or in a wheelie. Anything slower sinks fast: cruising without boost it is swamped in about 3 seconds, standing still in 1.5, and 1.5 seconds after that it breaks apart. Braking to a stop takes longer than that, so a bike that stops on deep water is lost. Get up to boost speed from the shore. In shallow water it just sits on the bottom.

• Crashes: ramming a creature at speed hurts it, and crashing into a

building damages the building.

Fuel

The bikes run on Surtling cores and nothing else. A full tank holds five cores and goes 6.7 km; new bikes are built with an empty tank.

| | Normal | Boost | |---|---|---| | One core | 1.33 km | 670 m | | A full tank (5 cores) | 6.7 km | 3.3 km | | Full tank at top speed | about 6 minutes | about 1.5 minutes |

• Fuel burns by the distance you drive; boost burns it twice as fast, and

standing still burns nothing. At sea you need boost to stay up, so one tank crosses about 3.3 km of water.

• Filling only works while the bike stands still: Shift+E takes cores from

your bag, then from the saddlebags; a core used from the hotbar (1-8) goes in too. A rolling bike shows no fill prompt and takes nothing.

• Looking at a bike shows its fuel; while riding, the panel a saddled lox

shows becomes the fuel gauge. You are warned at 20 % and 10 %.

• Empty, the engine dies and the bike rolls to a stop. On water that means

it sinks: there is no refuelling at sea, so watch the gauge before you set out.

Flaming skulls

Wear a burning skull instead of your own head (the Ghost Rider look). Made at the workbench, they are only for looks and give no armour:

| Skull | Flames | Materials | |---|---|---| | Hel Skull | orange | Skeleton trophy 1, Surtling core 1, Leather scraps 2 | | Wraith Skull | blue | Skeleton trophy 1, Greydwarf eye 5, Leather scraps 2 | | Draugr Skull | green | Skeleton trophy 1, Guck 5, Leather scraps 2 |

The skull is the game's own skeleton skull; hair and beard are hidden while you wear it. Its size and place can be tuned in the [FlamingSkull] settings.

Saddlebags

Every bike has leather saddlebags with two slots. Look at the bags and press E to open them. They stay shut while someone rides the bike. Shift+E takes cores from them when your own bag has none, so spare fuel can ride along. What is in them does not count toward your carry weight.

Durability

Bikes use the game's own building durability, like boats and carts: