DvergrForHire

Got a pile of coins and nothing to spend it on? Hire some muscle. Pay a peaceful Dvergr and it follows you as your mercenary: it fights for you, never turns on you, and leaves your base standing. Or build a hiring post at home and pick exactly the Dvergr you want, Deep North included. Nothing to install on the server.

⚠️ It's highly recommended that everyone on the server has this mod, same version.

In multiplayer, one player's game controls each creature. While a friend's game without the mod controls your hired Dvergr (nobody with the mod nearby, or for 30 seconds after you enter an area that friend loaded first), they stay hired and friendly, but:

• their shots and spells can damage your buildings,
• they don't follow you, and E does nothing.

Friends without the mod can always hurt your hired Dvergr.

Quick Start

1. Install with a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager, Gale).
2. Look at a Dvergr you haven't angered: it tells you its price.
3. Press E with enough coins. It's yours and follows you right away.

Prices

Each star costs 50% more. You pay once: no wages, no food, and they heal on their own.

Ashlands and Deep North Dvergr look the same in the game, but the Deep North one has better stats.

Deep North Dvergr only live in the Mørkhalla dungeon and won't follow you out, which is why they're cheap. For one that follows you around the world, build a Deep North hiring post.

Hiring Posts

Rather hire at home? Build a hiring post (hammer, Defence section, next to a black forge): a Dvergr lantern pole with a recruiter by it. It costs the pole's usual materials plus the extras below.

• E on the post picks the stars for your next hire.
• E on the recruiter hires: the new Dvergr appears next to you and follows you. Hire as many as you can pay for.
• The recruiter guards its post. If it dies, the post breaks and drops the pole's materials. Remove a post with the hammer and its recruiter disappears with it.
• Friends without the mod see a lantern pole with a Dvergr next to it.

Pick Your Dvergr

There's a post for every kind of Dvergr, so you choose exactly who you hire. Build them side by side and mix your crew.

Features

• Every Dvergr is for hire (except the ones you've angered): crossbow rogues, fire, frost and support mages, and the tough Ashlands and Deep North Dvergr.
• Follow, stay and rename like tamed animals.
• They fight for you. Support mages heal and buff you.
• They never attack players or damage your buildings and ships.
• Your weapons don't hurt them (only PvP and the butcher knife do, like with tamed animals).

How Things Behave

• A new hire follows you right away, so hiring one while you flee means it flees with you. Press E to make it stay.
• Angry Dvergr won't work for you, and they stay angry until they die, like in vanilla.
• Hiring a Dvergr leaves its camp spot empty while your hire is alive.
• They get along with peaceful Dvergr and fight angry ones.
• Like tamed animals, they don't follow you through portals or dungeon doors.

Why It Works This Way

• Cheap enough to lose. A hire costs about what a dozen Dvergr drop. Tougher Dvergr and stars cost more.
• Posts cost 20% more than camps: you pay for not walking to a camp.
• Dvergr from a post drop no loot, so posts can't turn coins into gemstones or trophies. Camp hires keep their loot.
• The post is the game's own lantern pole: friends without the mod can't see custom models, so this way everyone sees the same post. Build any hut you like around it.
• No settings file: everyone with the mod sees the same prices.

Multiplayer

Your mercenaries are the game's own Dvergr, so friends without the mod still see them (green health bar, names). When a friend's game without the mod controls your hired Dvergr, your game takes control of the ones near you so they follow you again. The first time, this takes up to 30 seconds; until then, see the warning at the top.

Compatibility

• Built and tested for Valheim 1.0 (Deep North), on Linux; no OS-specific code.
• If another mod already makes Dvergr tameable, this one steps aside and says so in BepInEx/LogOutput.log.
• Mods that change tamed animals' hover text or E might clash. Please open an issue if Dvergr act strangely.
• The mod's few texts are in English.

Uninstalling

Hired Dvergr stay in your world, friendly and named, but stop following, so tell them to stay at home first. Any weapon can hurt them again. The hiring posts disappear from the building menu; posts you already built stay as lantern poles with a friendly Dvergr next to them. Reinstalling picks up where you left off.

Links

• Source and bug reports: https://github.com/algo7/DvergrForHire (issues welcome)
• Changes: the Changelog tab
• Made with AI assistance.
• Built with BepInEx and HarmonyX. MIT license.