EliteCrafting

Work in progress: significant changes will come, including to the config, the YAML files and item data.

Runes and magic gear: creatures and chests drop both, and a rune clicked onto an item changes its rarity or inscriptions.

Features

• Three rarities: Normal, Magic (1-2 inscriptions) and Rare (3-6).
• 162 inscriptions for every kind of gear, stronger the later the item's biome.
• Seven runes, clicked onto items: Awakening (Normal to Magic), Shaping (one more on Magic), Recasting (rerolls a Magic item), Ascension (Magic to Rare), Consecrated (one more on Rare), Cleansing (back to Normal) and the Serpent (seals the item after a gamble).
• Drops from kills, bosses and world chests.
• Elite Creatures Reborn: Synergy (off by default) lets elite stars raise drops.
• Epic Loot: when installed, the runes work on Epic Loot's own magic items (not Cleansing) and only Epic Loot drops magic gear.
• Every rune, inscription, command and file: CLAUDE.md.

Install

Needed on the server and every client, same version. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put EliteCrafting.dll in BepInEx/plugins. Uninstalling deletes every rune; magic gear turns plain until reinstalled. Mods that make weapons or armor stackable can merge magic items and lose inscriptions.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.EliteCrafting.cfg and the EliteCrafting_*.yml files. Every setting is described in the file and applies without a restart; the server's values bind every player (Lock Configuration). Console: ecraft help.

Links

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

• The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
• Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
• Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
• The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
• Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.

Changelog

0.2.0

• Recasting Rune, the seventh rune: rerolls every inscription on a Magic item, which stays Magic. Drops everywhere.
• Epic Loot: Recasting rerolls every effect of an Epic Loot Magic item; sockets stay.
• Existing EliteCrafting_economy.yml files get the new rune and its drops without editing.
• Sealed items show just "Sealed" in the tooltip (was "Sealed: Corrupted").
• Less work every frame keeping the config in sync.

0.1.0

• First release, a work in progress: significant changes will come.
• Three rarities: Normal, Magic (1-2 inscriptions) and Rare (3-6); 162 inscriptions, tiers by biome.
• Six runes clicked onto items: Awakening, Shaping, Ascension, Consecrated, Cleansing and the sealing Serpent.
• Kills and world chests drop runes and magic gear.
• Rarity-colored names, inscription tooltips and a ground glow on magic items.
• Elite Creatures Reborn Synergy: elite stars raise drops.
• Epic Loot: runes work on its magic items, and EliteCrafting drops no magic gear of its own.
• YAML rules over built-in defaults, server synced and reloaded live; console command ecraft.