HiredHands

Post contracts on a Hiring Board to hire wandering vikings who chop, mine, farm, cook, look after and guard your base, or follow you into the field.

This mod requires the following mods to function

denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim

BepInEx pack for Valheim. Preconfigured with the correct entry point for mods and preferred defaults for the community.

Preferred version: 5.4.2350

Jötunn (/ˈjɔːtʊn/, 'giant'), the Valheim Library was created with the goal of making the lives of mod developers easier. It enables you to create mods for Valheim using an abstracted API so you can focus on the actual content creation.

Preferred version: 2.30.1

ValheimModding-YamlDotNet

Shared version 16.3.0 of YamlDotNet from Antoine Aubry and contributors, net47 package for use in Valheim mods. Maintained by the ValheimModding team.

Preferred version: 16.3.1

README

Hired Hands

Build a Hiring Board at your base and post contracts to hire wandering vikings. They chop wood, mine, farm, cook, keep your animals, look after your base (fires, smelters, beehives, repairs and more) and guard it. Hire them for coins (level 1 for food) and feed them every day. Upgrade the board with boss trophies to hire better vikings and more of them. Craft a Command Stone to take them out with you: they follow you through portals and dungeons and aboard ships, gather and fight on your orders, and find their own way home.

Works in single-player and on dedicated servers. Every client and the server need the mod.

📖 Full documentation: tmac1973.github.io/HiredHands

In active development. New versions come out often, and some change how hirelings behave or what the data file holds. Read the changelog when you update, and update the server and every player together.

About balance. Hirelings are tuned for games made harder by mods such as Creature Level and Loot Control. On a normal game, guards may make fights too easy: turn down GuardMeleeDamage / GuardRangedDamage, set CombatSkill to Green, or turn CombatHirelings off for workers only.

Requirements

BepInExPack Valheim
Jotunn 2.30+
YamlDotNet (ValheimModding)
Optional: AzuAutoStore, AzuCraftyBoxes, PetPantry, Torches Eternal, PlantEverything, PlantEasily, Therzie's Wizardry (how they work together).

Quick start

Build a base: a workbench, a bed and 40 built pieces within 20 m.
Build the Hiring Board with the hammer (Wood 45, Stone 20, Deer hide 10, Leather scraps 10, Resin 10).
Stock it with cooked food and coins (its Funds tab).
Post a contract under Manage → Contracts; a viking walks in a few minutes later.
Feed them: upkeep is paid in food from the board every in-game day. Unpaid for 2 days, a hireling quits.

More in Getting started: costs, warnings, deaths.

Jobs

Job	Does	Board level
Woodcutter	Fells trees and clears logs; plants tree patches	1
Miner	Mines ore, rocks and boulders, never near your buildings	2
Steward	Fires, beehives, smelters, mills, repairs, fermenters, the board's food	1
Farmer	Plants and harvests your field to the board's orders	2
Cook	Spits, oven, cauldron, prep table, mead ketill, to the board's orders	2
Rancher	Feeds your tame animals, collects eggs, slaughters above a breeding pool	2
Guard, archer	Patrol and fight by stance; block, parry and dodge	1
Wizard	Casts a staff's spell from range	6 (2 with Wizardry)

Each hireling picks one of two enhancements at every level from 2 to 8.

Documentation

Bug reports

Open an issue on GitHub with what happened and your BepInEx/HiredHands.log. See Bug reports and commands.

License

MIT; see LICENSE.

Last updated	11 hours ago
Total downloads	49
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Categories	Server-side Client-side NPCs AI Generated Deep North Update
Dependency string	Spronglehump-HiredHands-0.12.1
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