Elite Creatures Reborn

Creatures spawn with more stars and with mutations, named traits that change how a fight goes. Bosses take an aspect instead.

Features

• Mutations: thirteen, shown on the nameplate, such as Mad, Bloated, Devouring and Thieving.
• Stars: beyond vanilla's two, counted in fives; chances are set per biome.
• Boss aspects: one modifier per fight (Twin, Phantom and eleven more), shown at the altar; harder ones pay more.
• World tiers: each boss's first defeat makes stars and mutations more common everywhere.
• Breeding: tamed creatures pass a mutation and stars on to their young.
• Loot: Vanilla, Scaled, Rolled or Curated drops, and drop rules per creature.
• Boss damage board: who hurt the boss and how much; /damage shows it again.
• Respawning: cleared camps, dungeons and dungeon chests can refill (off by default).
• Works with PackPanel, GrindstoneSkills' Husbandry and Elite Creatures Pack.

Install

Needed on the server and every client. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put EliteCreaturesReborn.dll in BepInEx/plugins. Remove any other creature star mod and its configs first: this mod reads neither.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/gglasgow.elitecreaturesreborn.cfg (each player's display) and BepInEx/config/creature_rules.yml (the rules, an off switch per feature). Both apply without a restart; the server's rules bind every player. Console: elite tier and damage for everyone, the other elite commands for admins. Every mutation, aspect, rule field and command in detail: reference.

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

3.14.0

• New difficulty: line at the top of the rule file: Easy, Medium, Hard, Very Hard or Extreme.
• On a difficulty, the biome you enter starts gentle and cleared biomes harden with every later boss.
• Extreme allows up to 8 stars; star power lines have nine entries.
• New rule files start on Medium; existing files keep today's rules (Custom).
• elite tier shows the difficulty and what it gives the biome you stand in.

3.13.4

• A new install's rule file has short comments; the full reference is linked at its top.
• Shorter store page; the reference (mutations, aspects, rule fields, commands) is on GitHub.

3.13.3

• Warding no longer draws particles: a reflect is marked by sound alone, the Staff of Protection's shield at 30% volume.
• The Reflective boss aspect's tell changes the same way.
• Devouring no longer draws a burst when it eats; the sound is unchanged.

3.13.2

• The world tier boxes show only with PackPanel; without it the inventory and HUD stay as the game draws them.

3.13.1

• Fixed: the inventory broke with Jewelcrafting, CurrencyPocket, OttoPay, TrashItems or Quick Stack Store Sort Trash Restock installed.
• Those mods' boxes join the stat column; TrashItems' trash can takes dragged stacks there.
• OpenKeep 1.8.0 to 1.9.0 and PackPanel 0.1.0 to 0.2.0 have the same column: update them too.

3.13.0

• Devouring eats only creatures with at most 125% of its current health (max prey health, 0 lifts the limit).
• Devouring eats one creature per star, at least one (min meals), then is sated and acts like its kind.
• A devourer's nameplate shows what it ate (Show devoured creatures, Devoured creature icon size); so does elite inspect.
• The devour flash is a fifth of its size, and its screen shake is felt only close by.
• Bloated's fuse is 1.7 seconds; an older creature_rules.yml keeps its own delay: 2.0.

3.12.0

• New box with the world tier under the minimap (Show world tier under minimap).
• The tier reads as one number ("3"); hovering it shows the total.
• The inventory's stat plates are square boxes in a column.
• Thieving steals only with melee hits, never on a parry or dodge, and with PackPanel never from its slots.
• On a grid wider than eight, thieves no longer spare the top-row cells right of the hotbar.
• Elite Creatures Pack: a sleeping mimic hides its traits; the kraken never rolls Twin or Phantom.
• Warding's max reflect now caps everything reflected to you per second, not per hit.
• Rule changes reach loaded creatures' mutations at once.

3.11.0

• elite purge 30 removes marked creatures within 30 m only; without a number it still removes every loaded one.

3.10.0

• With GrindstoneSkills 0.7.0 or later, Husbandry's "Better offspring" can give a newborn one more star.

3.9.1

• Starred creatures wear the game's own one-star and two-star looks again (a two-star Neck is purple).

3.9.0

• New mutations: Gilded (rare, flees, pays triple loot), Blinking (reappears behind you), Relentless (follows you to 150 m).
• New boss aspects: Adaptive, Fixated, Stormbound, Gravitic and Colossal; one fight in five stays plain.
• Mutation rules per creature under creatures:; two entries for one creature merge.
• Cloaked shows at 10 m (was 6), at 15 m on trolls and lox, and never on drakes.
• Warding reflects only damage taken, at most max reflect (7.5%) of your health; smaller flashes.
• Bloated: a two-second fuse; the corpse vanishes in a smaller blast and drops its loot there.
• Thieving carries one item per star; max items is the minimum, 8 the most.
• Tamed Splintering creatures split into tamed copies.
• Boss damage board moved left; /damage shows it again; damage to Phantom copies counts.
• Fixed: smoke left after a Bloated blast, effects drawn twice, and stolen goods duplicated at dawn.
• Update the server and every player. An older rule file keeps its old numbers until you delete it.
• Gilded ignores mutation chance: stop it with mutations enabled or mutation chances.

3.8.0

• Phantom splits off one copy per player online at 66% and 33% health (split at, per player, health per tier).
• An older rule file's Phantom copies and health are ignored; replace that line to tune it.
• Fixed: Bloated, Warding, Devouring, Thieving, Summoner and Phantom effects drew nothing; Bloated's blast has a sound (blast sound).
• World tier plate in the inventory under the weight (Show world tier).
• Update the server and every player.

3.7.1

• Fixed: with mods that raise creature health (such as Path of Valheim), creatures spawned with 10-15% health.

3.7.0

• Boss damage board: when a boss dies, everyone sees who hurt it and how much.
• Boss damage board and Boss damage board seconds in the .cfg.
• Update the server and every player.

3.6.1

• Fixed: admins on a dedicated server's adminlist.txt were refused the elite admin commands.
• A refusal names the ID to add to adminlist.txt, which is read again within 10 seconds.
• A mistyped elite subcommand lists the subcommands.
• Update the server and every player.

3.6.0

• World tiers: each boss's first defeat makes stars and mutations more common; bosses are unaffected.
• A world that defeated bosses before starts at that tier. elite tier shows it to any player.
• Breeding: young take a parent's mutation and up to the stronger parent's stars, and keep them when grown.
• Eggs keep their traits, say what they will hatch, and stack only with eggs of the same stars.
• elite inspect shows the tier a creature rolled at.
• New world tiers: and breeding: blocks; an older rule file takes their defaults.

3.5.0

• Boss aspects: Reflective, Shielded, Mending, Summoner, Elementalist, Enraged, Twin or Phantom, or a plain fight.
• Hover the altar's offering bowl to see the aspect; it shifts every in-game hour.
• Harder aspects multiply the boss's loot, in Vanilla loot mode too.
• Boss stars show under the boss health bar.
• New aspects: block under bosses:; stars: false now turns off only boss stars.
• elite spawn Bonemass 2 Twin spawns a boss with an aspect; elite inspect reports it.

3.4.0

• Loot modes in a new loot: block: Vanilla, Scaled, Rolled (default) or Curated.
• extra roll chance, max extra rolls, global multiplier and boss multiplier.
• Trophies are multiplied only with multiply trophies.
• Loot rules per creature under creatures:: drops, drop overrides and extra drops.
• elite reference writes creature_reference.yml: every creature with its drop table.
• Drops added by other loot mods pass through untouched.

3.3.0

• Devouring toned down: devour cooldown 60 (was 10), absorb health 50 and absorb damage 25 (were 100).
• New Devouring move field: its base speed.
• An older rule file keeps the old Devouring numbers; edit that line or delete it.
• Fixed: joining a busy server no longer refuses a correct client.

3.2.0

• New mutation, Thieving: it steals an unequipped stack when it hits and drops everything when it dies.
• A message names what was stolen, and its nameplate shows it.
• Stolen items are never multiplied or destroyed; elite purge drops them too.
• max items sets how many it carries (1 by default, 8 at most).

3.1.0

• New mutations enabled switch turns any mutation off everywhere.
• Shorter rule file comments; the mutation power field reference moved to the README.
• Leeching weaker: regen 0.5% (was 2%), pausing after damage (combat cooldown), capped by regen cap; lifesteal 10% (was 30%).
• Plated's armour is now a damage reduction percent, capped by max reduction; revisit a custom value.
• large star power defaults to 1 (was 2), and five-star health is lower.
• Fewer 4 and 5 star creatures in the Ash Lands and Deep North.
• Fixed: starred and Mad creatures' attacks sped up out of control.

3.0.0

• Rebuilt from scratch: not an update to earlier versions, and none of the old code remains.
• Nine mutations: Mad, Bloated, Cloaked, Splintering, Leeching, Warding, Plated, Miasmic and Devouring.
• Stars beyond vanilla's two, counted in fives on the nameplate.
• A settings file and a YAML rule file, both hot reloaded; chances and strength set per biome.
• Servers can bind connected players to their rules; every player sees the same creature.
• Console: elite spawn, elite inspect, elite purge, elite effects.