WORKING AGAIN!

Description

In short, this modpack adds a ton of enemies, weapons, armor, locations, finishes the last 2 biomes, and adds QoL things, as well as new quests. It is designed to also give incentive for people to re-fight the bosses. The game really opens up after Yagluth, as yes the last two biomes have content now, but there are awesome new enemies, events, drops, and quests that start to happen once you finish the "traditional" vanilla game.

The intention for this server was to make it much harder than vanilla. I’ve spent so much time making it, and testing its compatibility, I’m not sure how hard it actually is. Use at your own risk! Furthermore, I intended this mod to be for a NO PORTAL PLAYTHROUGH. It's meant to be a sail-centric playthrough. The last thing I highyly suggest is the use of Mofo's Random Player Spawn Locations. Since this is meant to be a no-portal playthrough, I thought that with 10 people spawning in 10 different locations, and also with the use of the Server-Side Map mod, you'd have people make 10 little settlements, as they would be forced to before they got the materials to craft a ship and sail away. Thus, by the time you all were ready to fight the Elder, everyone would have made a little settlement, and you all could have met up at the middle of the map to start work on a village. I did add ValheimRaft as a dependency, and since the raft requires no bronze to craft, you could theoretically start sailing right at the beginning of the game, but I'll leave that up to you guys to decide if you would prefer to "pretend" it wasn't an option. The only reason I didn't add Mofo's Random Player Spawn Locations in this pack, is because my wife is playing with me, and I know if she had to do all the work on her own she'd lose interest quite quickly, she prefers to forage and kill things haha.

Yes the game is hard to start, but as soon as you get a lucky drop from the Epic Loot mod, it gets a lot easier. Without the really hard beginning, it would be too easy. My wife and I were stuck running around non-stop trying to pick up sticks and stones in the early games as so many things are trying to kill you. And yes, you will have a really tough time collecting wood, as RTD biomes makes the wood very scarce. However, we found, that upon finally making just a little shack, it felt so satisfying and made us vikings feel quite accomplished. There are many different types of trees that say "too hard" when you try to cut them. As you get more technologies, and once you get a cultivator and can plant seeds, this will get a lot easier, but until then you gotta work for it. I have already released patch 1.0.4, which made the game much easier, and I haven't played it myself too much since. However, I still feel that this modpack still creates a huge challenge. On top of it all there is insentive for you to actually get a couple of your skills to 100 (contact me on discord if you want me to spoil that for you), and so its even harder when you want to NOT DIE.... considering my wife and I have probably both died 15 times each in our first 6-8 hours of playing.

I keep adding to this READme as my wife and I play through this. Some survivability tips here: A decent armor set that doesn't require too much risk would be the horse set. Eikthyrs retibution set is also quite strong. So far, my wife and I have found the game is quite hard without a valheim legends class, and almost too easy with one. Almost... I cannot stress this enough, if you want any chance of surviving the early game, go and get yourself a class! Read the mod page for valheim legends

Please, please don't just try this modpack and decide it's too hard/too easy. I'm desperately trying to balance it but I'm IN DESPERATE NEED OF FEEDBACK. Right now it's just my wife helping me with it, but I really need a larger sample size. I EMPLORE you to visit the discord link at the top of this page and let me know what changes I should make.

In order to make forsakenmod work, you'll have to visit the mod page and follow the instructions there. If you can't be bothered, thats fine, the red text wont hurt the game, themod just won't load. However I must say, you'd be missing out on some really cool weapons.

I am quite proud of this. It was a TON of trial and error. Many, many hours went into this. I have made a couple of my own config files for Spawn that, Drop that, and Custom raids and they are included as well.

Note, Magical Mounts is almost completely disabled. The only part enabled is the summon part. Summons drop from Moder and Yagluth. I set it up so the cosmic versions are slightly faster, have a 2% drop chance, and only drop from Yagluth. All other versions have a 5% chance. The non-flying mounts drop from Moder, amd the flying ones drop from Yagluth.

I no longer have access to a server, so the following is no longer verified to be true: After extensive testing I can confirm this all works on a server!
In order to make this work, here is a list of plugins that DO need to be installed server-side (as for configs it might be easiest to just copy your whole config folder, except for the KeyManager folder, Bepinex.cfg, and org.bepinex.valheim.displayinfo.cfg):

CustomRaids

DropThat

SpawnThat

AzuContainerSizes

Mjolnir

WhereYouAt

MissingPieces

RenegadeVikings

ChebsMythicalWeapons

Birds

MagicalMounts

Wagon

BetterNetworking

Bounties

Forsaken

Valharvest

NoAFKEvents

DedsArmy

DoDMonsters

FancyFoods

FantasyArmoury

FantasyCreatures

FarmyardAnimals

FeeFiFoFum

FruitTrees

Minotaurs

SkitteringMadness

SupplyCrates

Wildlife

EpicValheimAdditions

ServerDevCommands

OdinShip

ValheimArmory

MonsterLabz

ItemHopper

MultiUserChest

ServerSideMap

BeeQueen

GoodestBoy

OdinArchitect

OdknBear

OdinHorse

HoneyPlus

EpicLoot

RtDBiomes

BoneAppetit

BuildItCastle

CreaturelevelAndLootControl

Resurrection

EikthyrsRetribution

Raft

JtvBiomes

Armory

Monstrum (all of them)

Warfare

WarfareFireAndIce

Outsiders

ValheimModding-Jotunn

XrayVision

Herbalist

TameableNeck

Legendary Weapons

Magic Plugin

Magic Bows

Boat Additions

If you and your friends had fun playing this, I'd really love to hear about it via my discord link. If I can't get my friends to stick with it, and I get busy with life or whatever, and then a Valheim patch breaks this creating an insane amount of work again, I may never get the chance to have enjoyed it and only have done the work to make it. I'd really like feedback on balancing as well.

CHANGELOG

1.0.0

• Initial Release

1.0.1

• Updated READme

1.0.2

• Updated READme

1.0.3

• Deleted Anticheat mod, as it was stopping my friends from connecting to the server.

1.0.4

• Fixed excessive bear spawning. Bears now spawn in the mountains (at least mainly?) Also changed minimum star level to 0, decided that drops were too plentiful. Overall made playing a bit easier.

1.0.5

• Updated READme

1.1.0

• First big Fix. Also updated READme

• MOVE ITEMS OUT OF THE LAST TWO ROWS OF YOUR INVENTORY AND UNEQUIP YOUR ARMOR BEFORE INSTALLING THIS UPDATE!!!!!

• Deleted More Slots as it was preventing losing anything on death.

• Added AzuExtendedPlayerInventory and RandyKnapp's EquipmentAndQuickSlots to do the job MoreSlots did better. NOW YOU ACTUALLY LOSE YOUR STUFF WHEN YOU DIE (you just get a gravestone like vanilla) These two mods already come with configs to work in tandem with one another.

• Fixed an issue where a certain mob's prefab was written wrong and this not spawning

• Added auto zoom to bows before hoes

• Increased area that crafting benches will look for materials in chests from 15 to 25

• Added extra raids to custom Raids

• Re-added vanilla raids, didn't realize they were disabled

• Increased level up chance of all creatures(this was on in version 1.0.0-1.0.4, however a setting for all mobs to be a minimum level of 1 star was on as well. This time it's not)

• Increased creature size per star from 10% to 13% because cool

• Lowered chance for additional loot per star for all creatures (not bosses) from 50% to 25% (will be considering lowering all drops in general by 20% in the future if this still feels too plentiful)

• Changed days needed to level up world (creature level and loot control) to reflect the time it will take players to get through all the extra content. This will give more time before each level up, but not too much more than the vanilla settings for this mod.

• Still having issues with bears.. bears (at least from the OdinBear mod) will only spawn in the day now.

• Black bear (monstrum mod) will now only spawn in the mountains, and after bonemass is killed.

• Grizzly bear (monstrum mod) will now only spawn in mountains, and after bonemass has been killed

• Greatly increased crafting cost of Rune of Fehu and Rune of Hagalez

• Enabled more Raids

• Added custom container sizes mod by azumatt (seems there is just so many damned drops that you are filling up your little shack with chests like crazy, wood is already so scarce in this modpack, and the chests everywhere is rather messy. The amount of drops are plenty and the storage in the game should reflect that. This config will just change the first chest, to help get you up and running.

1.1.1

• Updated Readme

1.1.2

• Updated Readme

1.1.3

• Updated Readme (Im new to this okay)

1.1.4

• Updated Readme (Still)

1.1.5

• Updated Readme (Spelling/Punctuation)

2.0.0

• Complete redo of the modpack after Hilder's Update. START A NEW R2MM PROFILE.

2.0.1

• Just some mod updates

2.0.2

• Some more mod updates

2.0.3

• Lowered spawn chances of all renegade vikings and now they will only show up after the boss of that biome has been defeated

2.0.4

• Removed Renegade Vikings mod due to unlimited ammo and no wind up time when using the bow and arrow. Intention to add it back in when it is patched.

2.0.5

• Added NoDropsFromMonsterKill. We decided that the mobs were dropping too much loot. Also added SeedTotem, as it has been patched. Significantly increased the chance of enemies spawning with higher stars.

2.0.6

• Changes to Creature level and Loot Control to actually enable changes made from last patch.

2.0.7

• Removed SeedTotem as a dependency as it was causing an insane amount of in-game issues. You will have to MANUALLY UNINSTALL it if you aren't making an R2MM Profile. General Mod Updates

2.0.8

• Nerfed chance to retrieve arrows from 50% to 20%. Nerfed parts of the Endurance and Agility mods to make your character a lot less athletic (was starting to get way too fast and have an atack speed that was way too fast. I still fear this will have to be further nerfed.

2.0.9

• Mod Updates

2.0.10

• Mod Updates, Removed Herbalist from Modpack, as it created issues for trying to select some classes in Valheim Legends. At least the Dandilion. If this is not a problem for you, feel free to keep Herbalist installed/install it yourself.

2.0.11

• Removed SnowDay mod as its build pieces had no cost.

2.0.12

• Removed Wildlife as a dependency as some of my friends are reporting issues with fps drops and game freezing. Trying to reduce the load bu removing unecessary mods. Feel free to keep it, however, if you want it gone, you will have to manually uninstall it AFTER updating this modpack. Nerfed Agility mod again as people were just too damn athletic. On our current playtrhrough, we havent even defeated Eikthyr and yet with these skills at lvl 35 we are just way way too fast. This is the second nerf to the Agility mod, and it should hit much harder. Also fixed an issue where a couple of the Magical Mounts items were still craftable at a workbench. Now, as intended, the only way you can get the drops from the mod is by killing Moder/Yagluth.

2.0.13

• Drastically increased Raid chances and Frequency.

2.0.14

• Put Raid Check Frequency back to 46 (from 23), and left Raid Chances at 40% (from 20%)

2.0.15

• Mod Updates

2.0.16

• Deleted some Raids that were empty, as well as fixed recipes for MagicalMounts. DELETE YOUR SUPPLEMENTAL RAIDS FOLDER (inside Bepinex/config) FIRST, THEN DOWNLOAD THIS UPDATE

2.0.17

• Fixed recipes for MagicalMounts that were meant to be rolled out in 2.0.16

2.0.18

• Fixed issue with super strong Warefare items meant to cost 10000 coins showing up in the trader store for 1 coin. Now they should show up as 9999 coins. Thanks again to Einfitter for finding this issue.

2.0.19

• Changed chance for bosses to spawn with mending affect to 0

2.0.20

• Nerfs to Agility, Endurance, and Speedy Paths. Reduced Epic Loot drop rates for items from Judes Equipment, MagicPlugin, and Hugos Armory. Loot in dungeons now resets every 100 in game days. Not 1. Creatures in dungeons/camps respawn every 10 in game days. Reduced spawn chance of bees in meadows from 50% to 20%

2.0.21

• Made changes to Epic Loot, including changing the ratio of Epic Loot crafting item drops to crafting material drops from 1:0 to 0.8:0.2. Changed the way the Bounties work so now you only get bounties from the biome after the last killed boss. Added new Raid to the Ocean that is harmless but makes bouts of bad weather that last 9999 seconds.

2.0.22

• Nerfs to Speedypaths, has no affect on dirt. Increased speed by 20% on wood and 40% on stone paths (includes marble). Decreased stamina cost by 10% on wood and 20% on stone paths (includes marble). These weren't far off the default or maybe even are the default settings. I changed them a couple times but alas it should feel like a net-nerf. Big changes to loot as it continues to be too plentiful. Changed loot system from Creature Level and Loot Control from Caclulate Chance to Linear and set it so we have a 4% for extra loot per star. This should hopefully drastically reduce drops. Again with the continued nerfs. I am being told that it is too hard to start, and too easy once you get going so expect more changes in the very near future.

2.0.23

• Changed Ocean Raid to only last 1000 seconds, but will pause when you leave it. This will create areas with choppy seas as you play the game. Removed Eikthyrs Retribution as a dependency as its been reported to me that using/consuming some parts of the mod completely crash the game. YOU WILL HAVE TO MANUALLY UNINSTALL. Future updates I'm looking into will be a reduction to the frequency of epic loot drops, and the spawn rates of all creatures in the game. Epic Loot changes are more likely, creature spawn rates will be based on feedback. You would still have the same variety of enemies, just less of them. I have yet to play the game passed the black forest, but I worry that after more progression is made, the amount of enemies currently spawning around you will just become more of a nuicance, like the greylings in the vanilla game x1000. To the point where playing the game is offputting because you just wanna get wood for your build but youre sick of enemies. Of course, there would be ways around that, like making an enclosed tree farm, but you get the idea. Once again this will be based on feedback, so I'd definitely appreciate some messages!

2.0.24

• Added Shawesome Divine Armaments and Legendary Weapons (late game stuff). Nerfed run speed on both wood and stone from SpeedyPaths.

2.0.25

• Cleaned up the config files a bit, you wouldnt notice this unless you started a new modpack, and yes, you would still have to do the valheimraft and forsaken mod fixes. This will mainly affect future downloaders, having them not download broken config files.

2.0.26

• Just general mod updates.

2.0.27

• Reduced spawn rates of bears. Massive changes to Creature Level and Loot Control, including more mobs needed to be killed before a sector level up, sector levels only lasting an in game day, star chances now scale based on age of world and not boss progression anymore (Progress fast ! ;) just kidding there is still ample time before stuff starts getting harder). You should see the difficulty more forgiving to start with, and it should scale better as you play now. Again, the more feedback the better. Huge shoutout to those who have already been giving me feedback, and my awesome wife for helping me with parabolic math and charts :P That Epic Loot update should be coming soon, as it stands right now, it will contain a nerf to total amount of Epic Loot items dropped, but a buff to the percentage of those drops being Epic or Legendary.

2.0.30

• Made it easier to progress through sector levels, Also fixed an error that had thunderstorm raids crashing games.

2.0.31

• Updated all mods, added Legendary Weapons to the list of mods that need to be installed on your server.

2.0.32

• Removed Starvation as a dependency. It was brought to my attention how silly it is that the modpack has a mod that prevents afk raids, but then you starve to death when you go afk. Also edited some raid duration times, notably the Deathsquito Season, which someone pointed out to me lasted an hour.

2.0.33

• updated to work with Valheim Patch 217.22

2.1.0

• Actually Updated and Working again as of patch 217.25. Also changed spawn rate of Minotaur in Meadows from "1" to 0.20. I am not sure if the 1 meant 1% or 100% in the config but I have been told it spawns too much. So I am cutting it down here to see if it makes a difference. Thank you to Discord user Backlash for pointing this out.

2.1.1

• FINALLY confirmed to be working on server and client as of patch 217.25. Added Boat Additions to list of mods that need to be installed on the server.

3.0.1

• Made it so Wendigo raid only occurs after beating Elder. Updated to finally work with most recent patch (0.217.38). I don't have access to a server, so can't test connectivity. Working at least in single player.