RTD BALANCE COMPATIBILITY

EARN YOUR PLACE ON THE OPEN SEA

A later encounter. A longship you still have reason to improve.

RtD Balance Compatibility makes two focused adjustments for worlds running RtDOcean with Longship Upgrades: roaming Belzor waits until the world has defeated the Queen, and Ocean's flat longship health increase no longer replaces the ship's previous base health.

Compatibility / v0.1.0
Requires RtDOcean 2.2.47, Longship Upgrades 1.0.21, Jotunn 2.30.1 and BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350. RtDOcean's version is checked exactly. Install the same helper version on every client and the server. Jotunn enforces its multiplayer requirement.

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THE VOYAGE / TWO CHANGES

Belzor follows your world's progress

RtDOcean's roaming world-spawn entry for Belzor requires the world key defeated_queen. Defeating the Queen in this world satisfies that condition. A visiting character's progress in a different world does not unlock it.

Existing Belzor creatures stay where they are. This does not change camp spawners, summons, combat stats, loot, spawn interval or spawn chance. A world that already has the Queen key already meets the new requirement.

Longship hull progression keeps its purpose

The helper captures the longship prefab's base health before RtDOcean edits boats. If Ocean applies its fixed 1,500 HP value, the helper restores the captured value. In the verified setup this preserved 1,000 HP before hull upgrades; it is not a hardcoded 1,000 HP setting.

Longship Upgrades remains responsible for its hull upgrades. Ocean's raft and karve changes remain in place. This does not repair a damaged ship, edit saved ship health or promise compatibility with every other boat-health mod.

Creature population tuning is separate. This package does not reduce ocean spawn rates, fairies or pixies. It includes no Spawn That configuration and does not require Spawn That or RtDMythics. Your own spawn rules can still apply; avoid giving Belzor a conflicting progression key.

BEFORE YOU SAIL / INSTALLATION

1. Stop the game and server normally.
2. Install RtDBalanceCompatibility with the listed dependencies on the server and on every player's active profile. For a listen server, install it on the host and joining clients.
3. Start the server, then launch the clients and join with matching helper versions.

There is no config file. Both adjustments are enabled together when the compatibility checks pass. No new world or world regeneration is required; the helper changes runtime spawn/prefab definitions and does not rewrite save files.

Manual installation: copy the package's plugins/RtDBalanceCompatibility folder into BepInEx/plugins on each installation after installing the dependencies. Keep only one RtDBalanceCompatibility.dll per installation.

Coming from the local test ZIP? Replace the locally imported helper with the Thunderstore-managed package while the game and manager are closed. Replace the server copy during normal maintenance. The public 0.1.0 package uses the same DLL and plugin ID as the private 0.1.0 build.

Removal: stop the server and clients, then remove this helper from all of them. On the next startup, Ocean's original roaming-spawn and longship edits apply again. Existing world creatures are not deleted. Back up your world before changing a modpack.

SHIP'S LOG / COMPATIBILITY AND CHECKS

Look in BepInEx/LogOutput.log for:

ACTIVE: roaming Belzor requires the world's defeated_queen key; longship base-health preservation armed.

When Ocean applies its health edit, a second message reports the base health preserved. In the verified setup it read:

Preserved longship base health at 1000; Longship Upgrades retains hull progression. Ocean raft/karve changes retained.

After updating RtDOcean: any version other than 2.2.47 causes this release to skip its changes. It also skips activation if the expected boat method or Belzor spawn structure changes, or if Belzor already has a different progression key. Check startup logs after updates. A loaded helper or a successful connection alone does not prove the adjustments activated.

Longship Upgrades 1.0.21 and Jotunn 2.30.1 are the reviewed versions; this helper does not enforce their exact version at runtime. Review changes before updating them. The manifest's dependency list does not prevent later updates.

Validation: on Windows with Valheim 1.0.15, activation was observed on the dedicated server and client, a player joined successfully, the live world-spawn table contained defeated_queen, and the longship base-health log reported 1,000 HP. 12 offline guard checks also passed. An actual Belzor encounter and the full hull-upgrade gameplay sequence have not been independently tested for this release.

For a report, include the game and dependency versions, full BepInEx log and any other spawn/boat mods. Remove private server addresses or passwords before sharing a log.

CREDITS

Created by Vercadi as an independent compatibility add-on. Thanks to Soloredis for RtDOcean, shudnal for Longship Upgrades and ValheimModding for Jotunn. This is not an official release from those authors. Their binaries and Valheim assemblies are not included.

The original code and icon use the included MIT license. Development used AI assistance. The linked Ko-fi button is Ko-fi's brand artwork.

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