Njord

🆕 New in v2.0.0 — The Shipwright Update

| | What's new | | :--- | :--- | | ⚓ The Harbourmaster | A shipwright takes her post on the shoreline nearest your world spawn. Buy a hull, claim your first one, or have the vessel you're stood on refitted. | | 🎁 Your First Hull, Free | Every player is given one boat, once, for as long as that world exists — named <your name>'s Pride before she touches the water. | | 🪵 Paid For In Timber | Hull prices are lists of materials, per hull, set by the server. No coins involved, and no other trader on your server is touched. | | ⭐ Refits | Stand aboard a hull at the harbour and pay 2×, 3×, then 4× her price to raise her. What a star is worth is entirely the server's business. | | 🪟 The VikingOS Frame | The Harbourmaster's shop wears the same gilt window chrome as the rest of the suite, shared rather than reproduced. | | ⚠️ Everyone Updates Together | 2.0.0 raises the ServerSync floor to 2.0.0, so a 1.x client cannot join a 2.0.0 server. The shipyard's RPCs are new. |

✨ Core Features

⚡ Responsive Steering

• Modernized helm control: Smooth, intuitive turning.
• Adjustable steering multiplier: Your longship finally answers the helm.
• Steering gate: Prevents jitter upon helm acquisition.

💨 Acceleration, Sail Forces & Max Speeds

• Overhauled default physics: Provides a smoother, more realistic sailing curve.
• Configurable forces: Adjust forward/reverse and Base/Half/Full sail behavior to your liking.
• Reverse-kick: Optional quick burst of reverse speed for tight maneuvering out of rocky harbors.
• Custom Max Speeds: Per-boat max speed configuration (Njord vs Vanilla).

🌬️ Dynamic Wind Systems

• Instant Snap HUD: When grabbing the rudder, the Njord HUD instantly displays the true natural wind angle.
• Toggleable Full Wind: Enable "Full Wind Always" if you want to skip the sailing struggle.
• [EXPERIMENTAL] Wind Assists: Advanced opt-in mechanics like Wind_NoDeadZone (nudge out of dead zones) and Wind_BlendToFull (blend toward tailwinds) give you a mythic edge against the sea.
• Grace Period Mechanics: Natural winds are punishing. When the wind shifts against you, Njord enforces a realistic grace period (default 2.5s). You will feel the dead zone before any magical assists kick in to save you.

🪶 Named Vessels

• Alt + Use at the helm opens the christening dialog.
• Stored on the ship's own record — persists across sessions and syncs to every player.
• Appears in the helm hover panel, the crosshair hover label, and the Njord HUD.
• Up to 24 characters.

🧭 Njord HUD

• Clean, minimal, and mythic.
• Displays your vessel's given name alongside her hull type.
• Fully multiplayer-safe.
• Shows steering, speed, waterline, hull integrity, wind blend, and readiness.
• Drag to reposition freely on your screen.
• Toggle visibility instantly with F7.

⭐ Runic Wake VFX

• Optional glowing wake effect behind ships.
• Color-tinted based on your configuration.
• Scales with speed and sail state.
• Fully multiplayer-safe: Zero performance impact on servers and properly displays across all connected clients.

⚓ The Harbourmaster

A shipwright is placed automatically on the shoreline nearest your world spawn, the first time anyone loads that zone. She keeps her post across restarts, and admins can move her.

> [!IMPORTANT] > On an established world she may never appear on her own. A dedicated server loads a zone > only while somebody is standing in it, and on a world where everyone spawns straight into > their own base, nobody has any reason to go back to the world spawn — so the placement never > triggers. This is not a failure and the log will say so plainly rather than going quiet. > Put her where your players actually are with njord.harbour.placeat <x> <y> <z>, or have > someone walk to spawn once. New worlds place her by themselves, because the first thing > anyone does is stand at the spawn.

Use on her opens Njord's own shipyard panel — not Valheim's trader shop. Vanilla's shop can only count coins, and Njord's prices are lists of materials, so Njord draws its own. The consequence worth knowing is the good one: no other trader mod on your server is patched or touched.

| Command | Effect | | :--- | :--- | | njord.harbour.place | Post or move her where you stand; the slipway is re-derived from the water in front of you | | njord.harbour.placeat <x> <y> <z> | The same, at explicit world coordinates | | njord.harbour.find | Print her position and slipway — or, if she has none, why she has none | | njord.harbour.remove | Destroy the Harbourmaster loaded near you and forget the site | | njord.harbour.forget | Forget the recorded site without destroying her | | njord.firstboat.revoke <playerID> | Give one player their free hull back |

Type them in your own game, not at the server console. Placing her is a physical act — the shoreline is found by raycast and she is seated on a settled heightmap — and a dedicated server has no colliders or heightmaps outside the world origin. It decides; it cannot measure. So your machine does the placing, and the server is asked only to authorise it and to record where she went. It checks you against its adminlist.txt before recording anything.

The consequence worth knowing: the ledger half of an answer prints in the server's log. What your own machine can see prints in your console.