MidgardPlus: Megin

An add-on for MidgardPlus. It needs MidgardPlus 1.51.1 or newer, on the server and on every player.

Everything in it starts off. Turn on The Lodge in the F9 panel (group Megin) or in BepInEx/config/midgardplus.lodge.cfg.

What it adds

• Ýdalir, the hall of Ullr's hunters. One stands in every world, in the meadows or the black forest, between 500 and 2500 metres from the centre.
• Hringvörðr, the ring warden. He sets the Raunir, three trials read from the Saga Book: deeds, bounties and one replay boss felled without dying. With the Saga Book off he counts kills and trophies instead.
• Eiðbaugr, the oath ring. Swear on the great ring and it is yours. It cannot be dropped, traded or lost.
• Megin, your inner might: a bar on the HUD and a skill that rises as you spend it. Sit outdoors at night and it returns three times as fast.
• The omen at Mímir's well. Cast a lot twig and the water names your affinity: Styrkr, Hamr, Skot, Smíð, Stjórn, or the rare Óðr. The answer belongs to the character and never changes on a relog.
• Hamskipti, the change of skin. Choose a new affinity at the price of half your Megin levels, all your powers, coin that doubles each time, and a wait of seven real days.
• Oath powers. Build your own powers from shapes, elements and modifiers, and make them cheaper by swearing oaths that bind them.
• Five tiers of Megin: Neisti, Glóð, Logi, Bál and Ásmegin. Your aura burns in the colour of your affinity, and the same power looks stronger at each tier.
• Mastery. Every sworn power grows through use, in five ranks.
• Megin stances, learned in order at the lodge: Hlíf guards, Móðr gathers the next cast, Hljóð hides you, Sjón senses what is near, and a Drengr learns Skjaldborg and Ofrefli.
• Hendr Starkaðar, the masterwork of a Meistari: the many hands of the old giant.
• Lodge quests (a second setting, also off at first). The Raunir become seven staged trials: endurance, the hunt, wit, the marks, judgment, nerve and the hólmganga, each with its own elder and more than one way through. Four rival candidates take them beside you.
• Máldagi, the contract board: tiered, repeatable lodge work with optional vows for better pay, and work for a whole drótt.
• Virðing, lodge standing, which Drengr and Meistari are earned with.
• Callings: Dýrbani, Haugbrjótr, Vargbani, Vegvísir and Þulr, each with its own line of contracts, a title and stars.
• The lodge's saga and the ordeals of Járnviðr.

Languages

English, Russian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. The Old Norse names stay as they are.

Install

Use the MidgardPlus launcher from midgardplus.odinthered.dev, or a mod manager. Server and players need the same version.

Changelog

0.2.3

Where Megin comes from.

Megin grew out of my love for Hunter x Hunter: the idea that power comes from within, that you shape it yourself, and that an oath you swear on it makes it stronger. I gave that idea a Norse home.

Megin is the Old Norse word for might, the strength in Thor's belt Megingjörð, and Ásmegin is the might of the gods themselves. Ullr, the god of the bow and the hunt, keeps his hall at Ýalir, the yew dales, and his hunters are the ones who wake your Megin. Your affinity is read at Mímir's well, where Odin gave an eye to drink from the well of wisdom under the world tree. The masterwork of a Meistari calls up the many hands of Starkaðr, the giant born with eight arms.

• The story of where Megin comes from is now told here and on the MidgardPlus website.
• Nothing in play changes in this version.
• Server and clients must run the same version of the add-on.

0.2.2

• Fixed: handing in a contract or answering a judge on your own world often said "Not yet. Wait a little." and the work had to be reported a second time.
• Fixed: a contract that ran late or failed could stall your other contracts for a moment on the host.
• Fixed: mastery gained in the last half minute was lost when your Megin level rose.
• Fixed: after leaving and rejoining a server, an older copy of your record could be written over a newer rank or power.
• Fixed: on a server that keeps the record, one refused power no longer wipes what you had sworn in that slot.
• Fixed: a coin refund over 999 now arrives in full, and contract pay no longer spills extra coins when your bag is nearly full.
• Contract progress is written to disk only when it changes.
• Server and clients must run the same version of the add-on.

0.2.1

• The lodge's warden and examiners now stand on real bodies, the same as yours, each with their own gear and their own place at Ýdalir.
• Hringvörðr keeps the ring stone in his hooded cloak with the ring staff. Steinarr waits by the lifting stones with a stone maul, Ylfa by the shooting mark with her bow, Fróði sits by the well under his rune staff, Hrafnkell stands at the contract board with a raven on his shoulder, Gunnvör before the door by the law stone, and Bersi at the long fire in a bear hood.
• They turn to you when you speak to them and watch you pass. They do not wander and cannot be hurt.
• A world that already has Ýdalir gets the new places and set pieces the next time it is started.
• Fixed: a sworn power stopped answering after a few casts with "The lodge has not approved that power here", and was forgotten when the game closed. Sworn powers now stay sworn.
• Fixed: Máldagi showed no offered or held work and the contract tracker stayed empty, while the lodge still said "Finish what you hold first". The board and the tracker now show your work, and held work is kept when the world restarts.
• A slot whose power was lost this way can be sworn again once at no fee.
• Server and clients must run the same version of the add-on.

0.2.0

• Megin now grows in five tiers, Neisti, Glóð, Logi, Bál and Ásmegin. The same power looks stronger at each one, and a hunter wears an aura in the colour of the affinity.
• Each sworn power gains its own mastery from use, in five ranks. Each rank gives a few percent of cost, cooldown or reach.
• Six Megin stances, learned in order at the lodge: Hlíf, Móðr, Hljóð, Sjón, Skjaldborg and Ofrefli.
• Two of your own powers cast close together can answer with a small combo.
• Fourteen more shapes can be sworn: Skin, Mist, Lance, Orb, Blades, Stake, Bulwark, Fetter, Shove, Mark, Hush, Echo, Thread and Foresight.
• A Meistari names a masterwork slot, and that slot can hold Hendr Starkaðar.
• New setting Lodge quests, which starts off. With it on, the Raunir become seven staged trials, each judged by its own elder at Ýdalir. Every stage can be passed in more than one way, rival candidates take the trials beside you, and a failed stage can be tried again after a wait.
• Máldagi, the contract board at Ýdalir: hunts, retrievals, exploration, escorts, defences and boss work, new every hour, in tiers that follow your rank and the world. Swear a heit on a contract (no food, by night, alone, deathless, swift, bare chested) for better pay. Drótt work is the same for everyone and shares credit with hunters who stand near.
• Virðing, your standing with the lodge, is earned from contracts. Drengr and Meistari now need it, and spend some of it.
• Five callings with their own contract lines, a small edge each, a title beside your name and up to three stars: Dýrbani, Haugbrjótr, Vargbani, Vegvísir and Þulr.
• The lodge's saga in seven named contracts, and the five ordeals of Járnviðr for a Drengr.
• The oath ring opens the lodge's maps: the warden marks the nearest trader, barrow, cave or camp for a few coins, more of them at higher ranks.
• With Lodge quests on, each Megin stance is taught through a training task on the board.
• Server and clients must run the same version of the add-on.

0.1.0

• First build: the hall of Ýdalir, the ring warden, the three trials, the oath ring, Megin, the omen at the well and hamskipti.