FlareArrow

Flare Arrow

A craftable arrow for Valheim that rises fast into the air, then ignites and drifts slowly back down under a bright glow — like a flare gun round. Great for lighting up dark nights, marking a spot across the map, or signaling to other players.

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How It Works

• Fire it like a normal arrow. It arcs upward just like any other shot.
• The instant it reaches the top of its arc, it "ignites": most of its forward speed is shed, gravity is cut way down, and it starts glowing and trailing sparks as it drifts back to the ground.
• The glow fades out over a couple of seconds after it lands (or after it's been in the air too long, in case it falls in water or off the map).
• World wind pushes the glowing arrow and its spark trail around as it falls, so a windy day will carry it sideways.

Crafting

Craft at a Workbench (level 2):

| Requirement | Amount | |---|---| | Wood | 8 | | Resin | 8 | | Feathers | 2 | | Greydwarf Eye | 5 |

Yields 20 arrows per craft.

Damage

Low pierce damage (1), high fire damage (28) — this is a utility/light arrow first, a weapon second.

Configuration

Every part of the flight, glow, and spark behavior is tunable via a BepInEx config file (or Configuration Manager in-game), synced for server-wide consistency:

• Arrow physics — how fast it falls after ignition, how much forward speed it sheds, how strongly wind steers it and how quickly it responds to wind changes, and a safety timeout for stray shots.
• Flare — the glow's brightness, range, fade duration, and visible size.
• Spark trail — how the particle trail behaves: lifetime, size, its own independent wind push, gravity, emission rate, and speed.

Requirements

• BepInEx
• Jötunn, the Valheim Library

Compatibility

Built without patching any core Valheim classes — all custom behavior lives on this mod's own cloned prefabs, so it should play nicely alongside other bow/arrow mods and hold up across Valheim updates.

Credits

Author: ZimTown