VALALA Mods

Personal mod built specifically to tune and personalize our dedicated VALALA servers. It is released publicly so other players can reproduce the same setup.

Made with ⚡ by Raja from Madagascar 🇲🇬

Keywords: Valala, Dedicated Server, Mods, Deep North Update, Tweaks

Features

VALALA server tuning

• Selectable element classes: Lightning, Rock, Fire, Poison, Ice.
• In-game radial selection wheel, opened with a configurable key (; by default).
• Per-element visual effect, damage type and native Valheim status effect.
• Five craftable Valala silver rings; the matching ring must be equipped for an element to work. Rings upgrade to quality 4.
• Second trinket slot for every trinket through ExtraSlotsCustomSlots (optional).
• Wind Impulse can be cast without a staff with any Valala ring quality (Alt+F); own charge/jump pipeline, free movement, no charge animation, charge time and jump height scale with quality.
• Thor landing impact and elemental landing impacts from a configurable fall height.
• High-fall lightning landing for Lightning at 20 m or more.
• Damage scales with the vanilla ElementalMagic skill.
• Optional multiplayer sync: other players see your effects.
• Fully configurable, with live config reload (no restart needed).

Mushoku Tensei integration

• Adds elemental classes to the Wind Impulse / Wind Boost dash.
• Each class has its own effect and deals elemental damage to enemies only.
• This is not a fork or copy of Mushoku Tensei. It only hooks an existing behavior in memory and does not modify any file from that mod.

Requirements

Hard dependencies:

• BepInExPack for Valheim 5.4.2351.
• Mushoku Tensei Core (BrayanRF-MushokuTenseiCore) 3.19.27.
• Jotunn (ValheimModding-Jotunn) 2.30.2.
• EpicLoot (RandyKnapp-EpicLoot) 0.14.13.

Optional for the second trinket slot:

• ExtraSlots (shudnal-ExtraSlots) 1.2.21.
• ExtraSlotsCustomSlots (shudnal-ExtraSlotsCustomSlots) 1.0.23.

The plugin has hard BepInDependency entries on mushokutensei.magia, com.jotunn.jotunn and randyknapp.mods.epicloot, and soft dependencies on shudnal.ExtraSlots and shudnal.ExtraSlotsCustomSlots.

Installation

Install through Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman — dependencies are handled automatically.

Dedicated servers and clients must install Valala Mods. The rings are custom items registered through Jotunn, so the server needs the same prefabs and recipes as the clients.

Manual install: place ValalaMods.dll into BepInEx/plugins/.

Configuration

The config file is created automatically on first launch at:

BepInEx/config/odin.valala.raja.mods.cfg

Old SelectedElement=Vent configs are migrated to Roche automatically.

Landing tiers

For Lightning, the high-fall damage pulse replaces the generic landing damage pulse to avoid double-dipping. LandingThunderHeight is clamped at runtime to at least LandingHeight.

Non-Lightning landings reuse the sledge circular shockwave (vfx_sledge_iron_hit), tinted to the element, then add an elemental burst (AOE + sparks) and the shared impact sound. They deliberately spawn no light flash and no vertical lightning; Lightning keeps its existing VFX.

Element classes

Damage targets enemies only; the game's normal immunity and resistance still apply. The landing damage also ignores you, other players, tames and traders/NPCs.

Valala rings

Each element requires its matching ring to be equipped. Without the ring, the cast does nothing and Mode=Replace keeps the vanilla wind VFX.

All rings are crafted at a forge level 2 and are cloned from EpicLoot's SilverRing in memory. No EpicLoot file is modified.

Ring quality

Rings use the vanilla quality scale and can be upgraded to quality 4 at the forge. The forge must reach level 3 for quality 2, level 4 for quality 3, and level 5 for quality 4. Each quality adds damage and improves the staff-free Wind Impulse:

Charge times assume Mushoku Tensei's default Channeling/Speed = 0.4.

At quality 3 and 4, releasing Wind Impulse uses the landing damage pulse at the caster's position instead of the small default cast pulse. It uses LandingRadius, the matching element and the same enemy-only filtering as a real landing.

Second trinket slot

The extra slot is provided by ExtraSlotsCustomSlots, then extended to every item whose type is Trinket (not only Valala rings). Configure the profile once:

BepInEx/config/shudnal.ExtraSlotsCustomSlots.cfg

[General]
Lock Configuration = false

[User defined - Custom slot 1]
Enabled = true
Name = Trinket
Global keys =
Item list =
Item is visible = false

Valala Mods replaces the custom slot predicate at runtime to accept all trinkets. The vanilla trinket slot remains available for a second trinket. No other ExtraSlots setting needs to be changed. Without ExtraSlotsCustomSlots, the second slot stays disabled and the rest of the mod works normally.

Staff-free Wind Impulse

With any Valala ring equipped, no staff, and Wind Impulse learned:

• Alt+F starts the charge;
• hold Alt+F to charge;
• release to cast.

The charge is owned by Valala Mods, not by the Mushoku Tensei cast pipeline:

• the HUD is independent and appears immediately;
• there is no charge animation or posture;
• you can charge while walking, running, attacking or blocking;
• the charge is cancelled and mana refunded on death, stagger, swim, encumbered, dodge, menus/chat/console/inventory, ring removal, staff equip or another MT cast;
• the jump uses the Valala quality scaling directly (2.5/3.0/3.5/4.0×);
• q3/q4 cast damage uses the landing pulse once, without double-dipping;
• the elemental Valala VFX is used, without the Mushoku Tensei wind lines;
• Mushoku Tensei's no-fall-damage status and 6 s speed/jump buff are kept.

The staff Wind Impulse cast remains unchanged.

Alt+F is used because plain F is Mushoku Tensei's Tōki Step. While Alt+F is held for Wind Impulse, Tōki Step is suppressed; pressing F alone still dashes.

The charge can be held indefinitely at its maximum; the spell no longer fires by itself. Charge time and jump power follow the ring quality table above. A small bar appears at the bottom center of the screen while charging: the fill is the current charge and the gold marker is the current ring's limit.

The normal cooldown, mana cost, range and elemental effects still apply. If mana runs out during the charge, the charge stops advancing instead of being cancelled; releasing still requires enough mana to pay for the spell. The shortcut is configurable in the config editor; plain E is available but conflicts with Valheim's interact key. The spell does not need to be the selected spell. The magic wheel still requires a staff; this shortcut is deliberately limited to Wind Impulse.

Damage

• A single elemental hit per cast at quality 1–2.
• Quality 3–4 replaces it with the landing-style enemy-only damage pulse at cast time.
• Native status effects are applied by the damage type itself.
• Landing adds one enemy-only damage pulse.
• The matching ring adds +15% damage by default.
• Damage is dynamic, based on the vanilla ElementalMagic skill.

Multiplayer

• The mod must be installed on the server and all clients.
• All peers must use the same Valala Mods version; the landing RPC signature changed in 1.1.0.
• With SyncToOthers=true (default), effects are broadcast so other players see them.
• A headless dedicated server skips client input, the element wheel and the charge HUD; rings, recipes, damage and RPC handlers remain active.
• A headless dedicated server does not render VFX, but it still registers the custom rings, recipes and RPC handlers.

Uninstall

1. Delete the mod's plugin folder under BepInEx/plugins/.
2. Delete BepInEx/config/odin.valala.raja.mods.cfg.

Fully reversible.

Notes

• Requires Mushoku Tensei Core, Jotunn and EpicLoot. If one of those mods renames internal types, a future update of Valala Mods may be needed; it will not crash the game.
• Uses the game's existing visual effects; no extra assets are shipped.
• Uses EpicLoot's SilverRing only as an in-memory clone base.