ValheimNet Villagers

WORK IN PROGRESS. Built for the private ValheimNet server. Expect rough edges, changing configs and frequent updates. Back up your worlds.

Features

• Villagers: summon Viking villagers who live in your village, take jobs (farming, storage, defense), sleep, and remember each other.
• Talking villagers: chat with villagers in normal chat or by voice; they answer in character (AI when available, canned lines otherwise).
• Boss trash talk: every boss taunts you through the fight with its own lore-based voice and answers what you say.
• Monster trash talk: greydwarfs, greylings, trolls (with the mind of a cranky five-year-old), skeletons, draugr, fulings, dvergr, cultists, seekers, charred and Deep North jotuns heckle you on aggro, hits, kills, low HP, fleeing and death, and answer back. Hildir's quest bosses (Brenna, Geirrhafa, Zil and Thungr) have their own personas.
• Profanity toggle: clean by default; AllowProfanity in [Monsters] unlocks the foul-mouthed lines. Slurs are always filtered.
• Open mic: press Insert to toggle a hands-free mic; what you say is transcribed and said in chat, and nearby villagers, bosses and monsters reply.
• Trophy heads on your walls banter with you.
• Main menu badge shows the ValheimNet version.

Server

Designed for the ValheimNet dedicated server (port 30001). The server needs the same mods; ask the server host for the address and password. Most AI features (LLM replies, Whisper speech-to-text, voices) run on the server host's desk AI (KoboldCpp); without it everything falls back to canned lines.

Install

1. Install ValheimNet_Villagers with r2modman (or the Thunderstore app). Dependencies install automatically.
2. Press Start modded. That's it.

Voices

Nothing extra to install. The server makes each voice line with its effects and sends it to you; your game just plays it.

• Open mic: just talk (no push-to-talk). Your game listens for speech, the server turns it into text, and whoever is near answers. Insert toggles it; the microphone is only used while it is on. Turn it off for good with [OpenMic] Enabled = false.

Commands (server admins)

vv_spawn <name> [count] spawn creatures by friendly name (troll, greyling, brenna, zil...), vn_status, vn_mtaunt <family> <event>, vn_reload.

Speakers vs headset

On speakers set MuteDuringPlayback = true under [OpenMic] in the Villagers.Net config file (BepInEx/config/*villagers.net.cfg) so the mic ignores the game's voices.

0.6.3

• Open mic works for everyone: the game captures your microphone itself (voice activity detection, no push-to-talk) and the server transcribes it, so villagers, bosses, trophies and monsters answer without any extra install
• New config [OpenMic] BuiltInMic (on by default), BuiltInMicDevice and BuiltInMicSensitivity

0.6.2

• Voice helper is no longer included in the package; the server now applies the full voice effects, so every player hears the finished boss and villager voices without installing anything

0.6.1

• Voice helper is now bundled in the package (portable Python + numpy + ffmpeg); no download, no prompt
• Starts hidden with the game, stops with it (including its mic capture); new config [VoiceHelper] Enabled (replaces AutoSetup)
• Config files renamed to valheimnet.villagers.*.cfg (plugin IDs changed to match); old settings are copied over automatically on first launch
• Shorter helper folder names so the install stays under the Windows path-length limit
• Pack now includes OdinPlus Teleport Everything 3.0.9 (dependency)

0.6.0

• One-download setup: the game asks once "Install voice effects?" and installs the voice helper itself, hidden, with a progress message
• Helper auto-starts hidden with the game and stops when it closes; skipped if one is already running
• New config [VoiceHelper] AutoSetup (Ask / Yes / No) and StopOnExit
• A failed install never affects the game; normal voices keep working

0.5.9

• Package text update only (same plugin build as 0.5.8)

0.5.8

• Hildir quest bosses talk (Brenna, Geirrhafa, Zil & Thungr)
• Trolls argue like a five-year-old; slow dumb troll voice
• vv_spawn command
• Mic no longer deafened during constant boss talk (MuteDuringPlayback, default off)
• Bigger main menu badge placed on the Deep North logo
• Greylings talk; head-point fix so greydwarf voices play