Big Battles

Spawn two armies of up to 80 NPCs each and watch them fight. Press K to open the battle menu.

Features

• 8 NPC types: Viking Warrior, Viking Archer, Dverger, Dverger Mage, Goblin Brute, Goblin, Troll, Neck
• Pick NPC types, army size, and equipment per side
• Click-to-place grid formations
• Equal damage mode for fair fights
• Persistent battlefield bodies
• START, PAUSE, RESUME, RESET, and DANGER mode
• Arrows with ballistic trajectories that stick in targets
• Weapon VFX stripping for clean visuals

Controls

• K to open/close menu
• Left Click to place formation
• Right Click to cancel placement

Installation

1. Install BepInEx for Valheim
2. Drop BigBattles.dll into BepInEx/plugins/
3. Launch Valheim, press K

Changelog

1.1.0 — Arrow Overhaul

Arrow Flight

• Replaced per-frame gravity counteraction with direct m_gravity on projectiles (zero overhead, no floating-point drift)
• Ballistic trajectory now computed from actual projectile speed and gravity in Projectile.Setup, not guessed beforehand
• Lead targeting: arrows predict target movement using Character.GetVelocity()
• Zeroed projectile accuracy spread for reliable NPC archer hits
• Full ballistic formula with height compensation and 25-degree max angle cap

Arrow Sticking

• Arrows embed in targets on hit and transfer to ragdolls on death
• Deterministic bone-name matching between character and ragdoll skeletons
• Scale correction for ragdoll prefabs with different scales

Bug Fixes

• Fixed SharedData deep clone — m_attack and m_secondaryAttack reference types are now properly cloned, preventing corruption of global bow prefab data
• Simplified archer aim: flat aim at target center, Projectile.Setup adds the arc
• Widened volley stagger to spread SphereCast load across frames
• Weapon VFX stripping removes particle effects, trail renderers, and lights from equipped weapons

1.0.0

• Initial release