HexRareScanner

Automatically adds minimap pins and plays a sound when selected rare creatures spawn. I hunt sea serpents and this mod helps track them.

Features

• Automatically adds pins to the minimap and world map when tracked creatures spawn
• Optional sound notification when a tracked creature is detected
• Pins are automatically removed when the creature dies
• Supports rare creature tracking, including selected Deep North creatures
• Supports star-level filtering for creatures such as 2-star Wolves, Boars, Deer, Asksvin, and Frozen Greydwarfs
• Configurable through BepInEx configuration settings

Tracked Creatures

Current supported creatures include:

• Sea Serpent
• Bonemaw Serpent
• Troll
• Black Forest Bear
• Vile Bear
• Abomination
• Stone Golem
• Morgen
• 2-star Wolf
• 2-star Boar
• 2-star Deer
• 2-star Asksvin
• Fallen Valkyrie
• Writhan
• Barka
• Shadow Person
• Deep North Skeleton
• 2-star Frozen Greydwarf

Writhan

Writhan is an extremely rare Swamp spawn.

Spawn requirements include:

• Swamp biome
• Median biome area
• 5,000 to 8,000 meters from the world center
• Altitude between -2 and 10 meters
• Terrain slope between 0 and 35 degrees
• Can spawn during the day or night
• 5% spawn chance
• Spawn interval of 8,000 seconds
• Maximum nearby active Writhans: 1
• Can spawn at levels 1 through 3
• Cannot spawn inside a player base
• No boss, global key, environment, or event requirement

Configuration

Configuration file:

BepInEx/config/com.hex.rarescanner.cfg

Links

• Discord Support
• GitHub

Changelog

v1.3.1

Added

• Added a map pin option to use either creature trophy icons or the vanilla Valheim ping icon. Changes require a game restart.

Fixed

• Improved creature tracking performance by:
  • removing the delayed tracking coroutine
  • skipping processing for creatures that are not being tracked
  • reducing duplicate creature prefab lookups
• Fixed tracked creature spawn sounds causing Double ZNetview warnings.

v1.3.0

Added

• Added creature trophy icons to tracked creature map pins.
• Added support for manually removing tracked creature map pins by right-clicking them.
• Added a configuration option to enable or disable manual map pin removal.
• Added tracking for Gammeltrolls.
• Added tracking for Moose.
• Added tracking for Fallen Warriors.
• Added tracking for Eyeless Ones.
• Added tracking for Elaking.
• Added tracking for White Deer.
• Added tracking for Seeker Soldiers.
• Added tracking for 1-star or higher Seekers.
• Added tracking for Gjalls.

Changed

• Organized tracked creature configuration settings by biome.

v1.2.0

Added

• Added support for Valheim's Deep North update.
• Added tracking for Writhan (good luck.)
• Added tracking for Barka.
• Added tracking for Shadow Person.
• Added tracking for Deep North Skeletons.
• Added tracking for 2-star Frozen Greydwarfs.

v1.0.2

Added

• Valheim 1.0 update.

v1.0.1

Fixed

• Fixed missing spawn sound effect for Fallen Valkyries.

v1.0.0

• Initial release.