Olympian Arsenal

Weapons, a tool, a shield and armor inspired by God of War, rebuilt for Valheim's look: original low-poly models, textures and effects. Every item grows through four upgrade levels, each with its own look and new abilities.

1.0.1: change the mod's keys in the Esc menu (Olympian Keys). Fan-made and not affiliated with or endorsed by Sony Interactive Entertainment or Santa Monica Studio.

What is in it:

• Four weapons: Blade of Olympus, Blades of Chaos, Leviathan Axe, Mjolnir
• One tool: Huldra Pick
• One shield: Guardian Shield
• One armor set: Valkyrie armor (breastplate, legguards, helm)

Installation

1. Install Olympian Arsenal with a mod manager (Thunderstore Mod Manager, r2modman). It also installs BepInEx and Jotunn for you.
2. For the in-game settings window (F1), also install a Configuration Manager mod such as shudnal-ConfigurationManager. Without one, edit BepInEx/config/com.olympianarsenal.valheim.cfg with the game closed (the file appears the first time the game starts with the mod). The keys don't need it: they are in the Esc menu, under Olympian Keys.
3. If you installed an earlier hand-made zip of this mod, uninstall it first.
4. On a dedicated server, install the whole package there too (the models and textures are part of it).

Multiplayer and saves

• Everyone who joins, and the host or server, needs the mod on the same version, 1.0.x. A player on another version number (0.7.x, for example) is refused when joining.
• Never load a character, chest or world that holds these items while the mod is removed, disabled or too old to have the item. Valheim deletes items it does not know, and they stay gone once the game saves. Back up your characters and worlds first, and empty the items out of your world and character before you uninstall.

Controls (read this once)

To change a key: press Esc, click Olympian Keys, click Change next to the key, then press the new key or mouse button. It works at once (no restart) and is saved. Esc cancels a change; Default puts a key back. Under each key the window says when the same button also does something else: one of Valheim's controls (as you have them set), another Olympian key, or an EpicLoot ability hotkey.

Special 1 starts on middle click, which is also Valheim's default Secondary attack key. On the game's default keys the two clash: your level 2 special does nothing and the game says so on screen. Fix it once: Esc > Olympian Keys > Change next to Special 1, then press a free button, for example the Forward side button of the mouse or a letter key. Or move Secondary attack in Valheim's own settings and leave Special 1 on middle click.

The keys:

• Special 1: middle click. The drawn weapon's level 2 special (Judgment, Plume of Prometheus, Hel's Touch, Gale).
• Special 2: the Back side button of the mouse (Mouse4). The level 4 special. No side button? Pick another key.
• Mjolnir throw / pull: G. Recall: H (calls back a thrown Leviathan Axe or Mjolnir). Leviathan throw: off by default (the axe is thrown with the Secondary attack); give it a key to throw with that key too, or Clear it again.
• With Mjolnir drawn, G only throws it and doesn't also open Valheim's radial menu. The switch for that is in the same window.
• A special key that is also your Attack, Secondary attack or Block key, or another key of this mod, does nothing and says so on screen.
• Keyboard keys and mouse buttons only: there are no gamepad bindings.
• EpicLoot's ability hotkeys default to G, H and J, the same as Mjolnir's throw and the recall key. The game tells you once on screen when you enter a world, and the Olympian Keys window shows it under the key; change one of them.
• The same keys are also under F1 > Controls (with a Configuration Manager mod) and in the config file under [Controls] (edit it with the game closed).

Weapons

As in vanilla, each upgrade needs a crafting station one level higher than the last. Each level's materials can be changed in F1 (see Configuration).

Blade of Olympus (two-handed sword)

• Greatsword moveset, slash + lightning damage, glows blue-white.
• Normal hits have a chance to unleash chain lightning onto nearby enemies. The secondary attack, Divine Reckoning, is an overhead slam with a lightning strike, and it always sets off chain lightning; it hits creatures only, never buildings, carts or ships.
• Crafted at the Black Forge: Black Metal, Refined Eitr, Thunder Stones and Eikthyr's trophy. Upgrades to level 4: level 2 with Mistlands materials and coins, level 3 with Ashlands flametal, level 4 with Fader's Kindled ribs and an Iolite.
• Level abilities: chain lightning forks to one more enemy (level 2), Storm strike (level 3, Divine Reckoning also calls a sky bolt onto the strongest enemy it hits), Wrath of Olympus (level 4, a wider Divine Reckoning that staggers every enemy it hits; bosses only if you turn that on in F1).
• Specials: Judgment (level 2, Special 1, held: after a wind-up of about a second, sky bolts strike up to 8 enemies within 8 m, 95 lightning each at level 2 before your Swords skill; 40 stamina, 30 s cooldown; let go early and nothing is spent) and Lightning dash (level 4, Special 2: a quick shove, then you dash 7 m along your view straight through your enemies, striking each once with chain lightning and flinging it aside; 30 stamina, 8 s cooldown; ground starts only, and it stops short of walls, drops, water, ships and carts).

Blades of Chaos (dual blades on chains)

• Fire blades on chains with long reach, burning hits and a 360° spin. Their fire keeps you warm (no cold or freezing) and scares fire-fearing creatures.
• Crafted at the Forge (level 2) with Iron, Chain, Surtling cores and Leather scraps (Swamp). Level 3 with Silver and Obsidian (Mountains), level 4 with Black metal (Plains).
• Level abilities: Hotter flames (level 2), Ember burst (level 3, every few hits on one enemy set off a small fire explosion), Cyclone of Chaos (level 4, the spin flings the blades out on their chains).
• Specials: Plume of Prometheus (level 2, Special 1, a ring of fire around you) and Chain grab (level 4, Special 2, a blade flies out on its chain: small enemies are yanked to you, big ones pull you to them).

Leviathan Axe (one-handed axe)

• A frost axe you can throw (Secondary attack) and call back (H). Hits build up ice, and enough of it freezes an enemy.
• Crafted at the Forge (level 3) with Silver, Iron, Freeze glands and Dragon tears (Mountains). Level 3 with Black metal (Plains), level 4 with Refined eitr (Mistlands).
• Level abilities: Frozen return (level 2), Frost burst on catch (level 3), Instant freeze (level 4, a thrown axe freezes what it hits, bosses excepted).
• Specials: Hel's Touch (level 2, Special 1, a frost ring around you) and Glacial Rake (level 4, Special 2, a lane of ice crystals ahead of you).

Mjolnir (one-handed hammer)

• A thunder hammer that never breaks. G throws it, H calls it back, and from level 3 G pulls you through the air to it. The secondary attack is a ground-slam Shockwave. It does not mine, and it never harms what you built.
• Crafted at the Forge (level 4) with Black metal, Iron, Thunder stones and Linen thread (Plains). Level 3 with Refined eitr (Mistlands), level 4 with the Queen's drop (end of the Mistlands).
• Level abilities: Stronger shockwave (level 2), Pull to hammer (level 3), Bigger shockwave (level 4).
• Specials: Gale (level 2, Special 1, a wind blast that shoves enemies away) and Eye of the Storm (level 4, Special 2, the hammer stands as a 4 s storm, then claps).

Tool

Huldra Pick (two-handed pickaxe)

• A mining tool that grows with you. It mines stone, copper, tin and muddy scrap piles from level 1, adds silver and obsidian at level 3, and the Mistlands' black marble and soft tissue and the Ashlands' flametal ore at level 4, so you never need another pickaxe.
• Crafted and upgraded at the Workbench: level 1 with Meadows materials and Eikthyr's Hard antler, level 2 with Bronze (Black Forest), level 3 with Iron and a Wishbone (Swamp), level 4 with Black metal (Plains).
• Pickaxe and pierce damage 18 to 60, durability 150 to 360, stamina 6 to 12 per swing, weight 2. Digs the ground like any pickaxe, wears down and is repaired at the Workbench. No specials.
• Silver sense from level 3: with the pick in your hands it pings like a Wishbone when a silver vein is buried nearby (within 50 m), and its runes flash with each ping.

Shield

Guardian Shield (left hand)

• A round parry shield of dark steel and bronze that grows with you. It works with the one-handed Leviathan Axe and Mjolnir (two-handed weapons put it away, like any shield).
• It folds. It is worn on the back of your forearm as a small bar, with no grip or straps, snaps open the moment you raise it to block and folds again when you lower it. When you put your weapons away it stays folded on your forearm (F1 "Stay on forearm when put away"; off = it hangs folded on your back). Every player sees it. F1 "Folding shield" off shows the plain round shield instead (it blocks the same).
• Sits wrong on your sleeve? Three settings fit it to your arm, your own view, live: Arm gap (default -0.008 m), Arm gap extra with chest armour (default +0.016 m) and Elbow tilt (default 6 degrees). Raise them if it sinks into your arm or sleeve.
• Crafted and upgraded at the Workbench: level 1 with Meadows materials (Wood, Flint, Leather scraps, Resin), level 2 with Iron (Swamp), level 3 with Black metal (Plains), level 4 with Flametal (Ashlands).
• Block 12 to 88, parry bonus 2x (2.5x at level 4), weight 4, movement -5%. Weaker than a big round shield for holding a block, made for parrying.
• Level abilities: Folded stride (level 2, no slowdown while it is folded) and Shield bash (level 3, a clean parry of a melee hit strikes back with blunt damage and a hard push).
• From old grimy teal-grey steel at level 1 to near-black polished steel with glowing gold runes at level 4.

Armor

Valkyrie armor (breastplate, legguards, helm)

• Light armor that grows with you: crafted at the Forge (level 2) in the Mountains, each upgrade with the next biome's materials (Plains, Mistlands, Ashlands). Armor 20 to 38 per piece, weight 5, 5 and 1. Green bronze at level 1, polished to gold by level 4. The breastplate keeps the cold away. The helm hides your hair, not your beard.
• It moves with you: the breastplate bends smoothly with your body, and the belt, tabards, boots and bracers follow your hips, legs and arms.
• Metal shine: F1 "Valkyrie Armor / Armor shine" (default 0.7; 0 = matte, 2 = mirror-like), your own view, live.
• Set bonus Valkyrie's Blessing with all three pieces worn; it grows with your lowest piece: less fall damage (25% at level 1, 90% at level 4), stronger parries (+10% to +40%, plus stamina back on a clean parry from level 2), and faster stamina regeneration (+10% to +20%).

Configuration

• Every number and chance can be changed in F1 or in BepInEx/config/com.olympianarsenal.valheim.cfg. Settings marked Advanced (model fitting and debugging) only show when your Configuration Manager's advanced-settings option is on.
• F1 "Upgrades / Upgrade pathing": CrossBiome (default: each weapon is crafted with its home biome's materials, and each further level needs the next biome's) or Classic (each upgrade asks for a fixed amount of plain materials instead of the next biome's, mostly more of the crafting materials; the Huldra Pick's ask for Bronze and Iron, the shield's for Iron; the armor's set bonus then stays at level 1, and the pick's Silver sense and the shield's level abilities are off). Each item also has a "- Costs" section to change the materials (needs a restart).
• F1 "Looks / Upgrade looks" (on by default) gives each level its own look; every item also has an icon per level.
• In multiplayer, gameplay values read during play (unlock levels, radii, and the damage of the specials and level abilities) follow the server's settings. Settings marked "restart required" (a weapon's own damage among them) are applied when the game starts and are your own. Keys and looks are always your own.

Console (cheats on: devcommands)

• Spawn an item: spawn OLY_BladeOfOlympus, OLY_BladesOfChaos, OLY_LeviathanAxe, OLY_Mjolnir, OLY_HuldraPick, OLY_GuardianShield, OLY_ValkyrieChest, OLY_ValkyrieLegs, OLY_ValkyrieHelmet. For a level 3 pick in your inventory: spawn OLY_HuldraPick 1 3 p (the second number is the level).
• oly_tune [olympus|leviathan|mjolnir|huldra|shield|chaosR|chaosL] pos x y z | rot x y z | scale s | show: fit a model in the hand.
• oly_tune shield fold <0..1|auto>: hold your Guardian Shield open (0), half open (0.5) or folded (1) while you fit it; auto follows blocking again.
• oly_fx pickping [near|med|far] and oly_fx guardparry: preview the Huldra Pick's ping and the Guardian Shield's parry flash.
• oly_dump: write debug information to BepInEx/olympus-dumps/.

Known issues

• Tested on Valheim 1.0.16, and it starts cleanly on 1.0.17. Dedicated servers have not been tested yet.
• Special 1 and middle click: see Controls above. This is the first thing to check if a level 2 special does nothing.
• The Valkyrie armor is fitted to the male character model. It may gap or clip on the female one (not tested).
• No gamepad bindings for the special, throw and recall keys.
• If something breaks, please report it with your BepInEx/LogOutput.log (it names the mod version and what went wrong).

License

All rights reserved; may be included in mod packs and profile codes.