She Wolf — become a she-wolf in Valheim (preview)

Preview (0.x). Everything below works and has been tested in game, but the mod is still evolving, and settings or balance may change. Languages: in-game texts are in English, or in French if your game is set to French.

Hunt wolves, collect their pheromones and brew an essence at the mead cauldron. Drink it, and answer the call of the pack: you become a she-wolf for 45 minutes.

How it works

1. Wolf Pheromone Drops: wolves you kill have a 50 % chance to drop 1 to 5 of them.
2. The essence: 50 drops make a Wolf Pheromone Essence at the mead cauldron.
3. The transformation: drinking the essence turns you into a she-wolf for 45 minutes. There is no way back early. Logging out does not end it, and neither does dying: you respawn as a she-wolf and can still recover your tombstone.

As a she-wolf

• Body and marking: you get the wolf's own model and animations, with a brown lock of hair on the forehead so friends can tell you from wild wolves.
• Fighting: all your damage is multiplied by 1.5, and your attacks are quicker than a wild wolf's.
  • Left mouse button: a three-strike combo, like the game's weapons: bite left, bite right, then she rears up and rakes with her claws (stronger, wider, staggers).
  • Middle mouse button (secondary attack): a hunting pounce. She leaps up to 4.5 m onto the nearest enemy in front of her and bites as she lands (double damage).
  • Dodge: the game's dodge keys (block + jump, crouch + jump, or the dodge key) make her leap aside. She is invulnerable at the start of the leap, just like the game's roll, and it uses the same stamina and Dodge skill.
• Speed: you run 40 % faster.
• Instinct: living creatures glow within 45 m. Red means hostile, orange means animal, and blue means player or tamed creature.
• Howl: press H for a long howl that every player hears from far away. You raise your head to the sky and open your jaws.
• Food: you can eat raw meat.
• Wolf interface: your vision is framed with fur and turns red as your health drops. The round emblem shows your remaining time as a ring of chevrons, a line above it reminds you of your pounce, dodge and howl keys, and windows get a black and gold look.
• Pups: stay close to a tamed, fed and calm wolf, and hearts appear now and then. A litter is then on the way, and after 3 minutes 1 or 2 tamed wolf cubs are born at your feet. If the transformation ends first, they are born just before you turn back.
• Collar and leash: another player can put a collar and leash on you with the Use key. They lead the way and you follow, and the same key removes it. If they go through a portal, you go with them. The leather leash hangs in a gentle curve between the collar and their hand.
• Paws, not hands: you can't equip anything or use weapons, tools, workbenches, forges or cooking stations, and you can't handle objects. You can still open doors, sleep, recover your tombstone, pick items up, and pet or call a tamed animal so it follows you.

Screenshots

The next two, like the one at the top, show the game set to French.

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Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.Azura.shewolf.cfg is created at the first launch, with all settings in the [Louve] section. Each setting is described in English and in French. The main ones:

Installation

• Who needs it: install the mod for every player and on the server. Other players need it to see you as a she-wolf, and the server needs it to keep the new items.
• With a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager): click Install. BepInExPack Valheim is installed with it.
• By hand: install BepInExPack Valheim, then put SheWolf.dll in Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/.

Tested with Valheim 1.0.16 and BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350.

En français

Préversion. Tuez des loups pour récolter leurs phéromones, distillez-en une essence au chaudron à hydromel, buvez-la : vous voilà louve pour 45 minutes. Le mod est en français si votre jeu est réglé en français.

• Butin : chaque loup tué a 50 % de chance de laisser 1 à 5 Gouttes de phéromones de louve. Il en faut 50 pour une Essence de phéromones de louve.
• Transformation : 45 minutes, sans retour possible. Ni la déconnexion ni la mort n'y mettent fin.
• Sous forme de louve :
  • modèle et animations du loup, avec une mèche brune pour vous distinguer des loups sauvages ;
  • clic gauche : enchaînement de trois coups (morsure à gauche, à droite, puis griffes dressée) ;
  • clic milieu (attaque secondaire) : bond de chasse jusqu'à 4,5 m sur l'ennemi visé, morsure à l'arrivée ;
  • esquive avec les touches du jeu (parade + saut, accroupie + saut ou touche d'esquive) : bond de côté, invulnérable au début ;
  • dégâts x1,5 ;
  • +40 % de vitesse ;
  • instinct qui fait briller les êtres vivants à 45 m ;
  • hurlement avec la touche H ;
  • interface louve.
• Portée : près d'un loup apprivoisé, 1 ou 2 louveteaux naissent après 3 minutes.
• Collier et laisse : un autre joueur peut vous les passer avec la touche Utiliser. La laisse fait une petite courbe entre le collier et sa main.
• Réglages dans BepInEx/config/com.Azura.shewolf.cfg, section [Louve].
• Installation : chez tous les joueurs et sur le serveur.

Changelog

0.3.0

• In-game texts in 35 languages: your game's own language, English otherwise (they were English or French). Fonts for every alphabet.
• Tested with Valheim 1.0.17.

0.2.0

Fighting

• Left click is now a three-strike combo, like the game's weapons: bite left, bite right, then a rearing claw rake (x1.6 damage, wider arc, strong stagger).
• New secondary attack (middle click): a hunting pounce. The she-wolf leaps up to 4.5 m onto the nearest enemy in front of her and bites as she lands (x2 damage, heavy stagger). Before, the middle click was a claw strike on the spot.
• Dodge: the game's dodge keys (block + jump, crouch + jump, or the dodge key) now make her leap aside, with an invulnerability window like the game's roll, the same stamina cost and the Dodge skill.
• Attacks are 25 % quicker than a wild wolf's.

Leash

• The leash now hangs in a gentle curve and never goes into the ground. Before, it sagged about 2 m and sank into the ground when the she-wolf walked close to her master.

Interface

• A reminder of the pounce, dodge and howl keys above the emblem, using your own key bindings.
• The she-wolf interface has its own canvas, so it no longer makes the whole game interface redraw every frame. The blood veil is not drawn at all while it is invisible, textures take less memory, and all its texts share one material.

Performance

• Instinct: creatures are still found twice per second, but their glow now pulses smoothly, and their meshes are no longer scanned again at every refresh.
• No more memory allocated every frame by the leash or by hiding the human body.
• Network state is read with precomputed keys.
• Other players' she-wolves are only animated while they are on screen.

Settings

• New VitesseAttaques (attack speed, 1.25) and DistanceBond (pounce length, 4.5 m).

0.1.0 — preview

• First public preview.
• Wolf Pheromone Drops (50 % chance, 1–5 per wolf) and the Wolf Pheromone Essence at the mead cauldron (50 drops).
• 45-minute she-wolf transformation that survives logout and death.
• Wolf model with a brown lock, bite and leap, +40 % speed, damage x1.5, instinct, raw meat.
• Howl (H), wolf interface, pups with tamed wolves, collar and leash.
• In-game texts in English, or in French when the game is set to French.
• Settings in com.Azura.shewolf.cfg, section [Louve], described in English and French.