Runic Utilities v1.0.0

Runic Utilities adds progression-friendly utility magic to Valheim before Mistlands. Each biome unlocks a small Eitr food and a set of reusable rune tools for exploration, gathering, building, travel and storage rather than combat.

Requirements

• Valheim 1.0.15
• BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350
• Jotunn 2.30.1
• All multiplayer clients and the server should run the mod.

Eitr progression

Runic foods are intentionally small utility foods. Only one Runic Utilities food is intended to be active at a time, and each biome's food provides enough Eitr for one matching-tier cast.

Runes

Meadows — 5 Eitr

• Rune of Foraging — Gatherer's Sight: reveals nearby wild forageables.
• Rune of Fleetfoot — Fleetfoot: +50% movement speed with reduced running stamina use for 60 seconds.

Black Forest — 10 Eitr

• Rune of Seeking — Miner's Sight: reveals nearby mineable ore deposits.
• Stonebreaker Rune — Rocksplosion: damages natural rocks and ore using the best usable pickaxe in your inventory without consuming its durability.
• Spectral Hatchet — Spectral Axe: applies chopping power using the best usable axe in your inventory.

Swamp — 15 Eitr

• Rune of Reaping — Harvest Wind: harvests mature nearby crops without replanting them.
• Rune of Mending — Runic Repair: repairs a damaged equipped item first, otherwise a damaged durable item.
• Rune of Restoration — Runic Restoration: fully repairs damaged player-built structures within 18 metres.
• Timber Rune — Timberburst: breaks down nearby felled logs using the best usable axe tier in your inventory.

Mountains — 20 Eitr

• Rune of the Gale — Windstep: higher jumps, slower falling and no fall damage for 30 seconds.
• Rune of Warmth — Warding Flame: clears and prevents Cold and Freezing for 3 minutes.
• Rune of Frostpath — Frostwalker: for 40 seconds, temporary Deep North ice forms at the water surface beneath and ahead of you. Individual ice pieces dissolve shortly afterwards.
• Rune of Shelter — Runic Shelter: conjures a temporary open A-frame spectral shelter with a sleepable bed at its centre. The bed does not change your spawn point, and the shelter crumbles without resource drops when you leave.

Plains — 25 Eitr

• Rune of the Forge — Forgefire: doubles the processing speed of nearby compatible smelter-type stations for 60 seconds.
• Rune of Homecoming — Hearth Recall: returns you to your claimed bed/spawn location; non-teleportable items block recall.
• Raven's Eye Rune — Raven's Eye: free-fly scouting for up to 60 seconds within 80 metres while your body remains behind.
• Astral Cache Rune — Astral Cache: opens a persistent personal 20-slot magical storage cache saved with the character.
• Rune of Sorting — Runic Sorting: deposits matching items from your inventory into nearby accessible storage chests that already contain those item types.

Failed spells do not consume Eitr.

Totems

Five buildable Ward-style utility totems are available from the Hammer's Misc category:

• Fleetfoot Totem — Fleetfoot for 60 seconds.
• Windstep Totem — Windstep for 30 seconds.
• Warmth Totem — Warding Flame for 3 minutes.
• Frostwalker Totem — Frostwalker for 40 seconds.
• Sorting Totem — performs the same inventory-to-matching-chest deposit behaviour as Rune of Sorting.

These use the vanilla Ward visual language without creating a PrivateArea/protection field.

Important behaviour

• Vanilla Mistlands combat magic is not modified.
• Frostwalker ice and Runic Shelter geometry are temporary and are not intended to persist as world construction.
• The Runic Shelter bed uses Valheim's normal sleep state and multiplayer sleep rules, but deliberately does not claim or set a spawn point.
• Rune of Sorting only deposits items from the casting player's inventory. It does not redistribute items between chests and does not assign items to completely empty storage.
• Astral Cache contents are personal to the character and persist in character custom data.

Installation

For local development/testing, extract this build-helper package and run build-local.cmd. The script locates Valheim, your Thunderstore profile and Jotunn, builds the net48 DLL, installs it into the detected profile, and creates a Thunderstore-style ZIP under dist.

For a normal packaged installation, install the generated Runic Utilities package alongside BepInExPack and Jotunn. For multiplayer/dedicated-server play, install the same mod version on the server and every client.

v1.0.0 release notes

v1.0.0 closes the final visual seam in the Runic Shelter's two-panel A-frame roof and promotes the current 18-rune / five-totem feature set to the first stable release. No spell balance changes were made from the 0.6.9 release candidate.

Before publishing, run the checks in RELEASE-CHECKLIST-v1.0.0.md, especially the dedicated-server tests for Astral Cache, Sorting, Frostwalker and temporary Shelter cleanup.