WolfStars

Makes high-star creatures look the part and keeps their drops sane. Built for servers that breed tames past the vanilla 2-star limit (for example with BreedingTweaks).

What it does

Looks. Vanilla Valheim only has a look for 1-star and 2-star creatures; anything higher looks like a plain 0-star animal. WolfStars gives every star above 2:

• a little more size (+5% per star, up to 1.5x), and
• a colour band: 3 blue, 5 teal, 7 green, 9 yellow, 11 red, 13 magenta, 15 purple, 17 silver, and orange at 19 stars (level 20).

Drops. Vanilla doubles a creature's drops with every star, so a 19-star wolf would drop the 100-per-stack maximum of everything. WolfStars makes anything above 3 stars drop like a 3-star creature (hens, lox and bears: above 1 star, since they already drop a lot).

It applies to every tameable creature, each with its own on/off switch in the config: the vanilla tames Wolf, Boar, Lox, Hen (chicken), Asksvin, plus Deer, Neck, Bjorn, Hare, which LetMeTameYou makes tameable. All are on by default. Creatures from other mods can be added by prefab name.

The drop cap works for every listed creature. The new looks need the creature to have the game's 1-2 star look to build on; creatures without one (some small animals) only get the drop cap.

Install

Install on the server and every client (drops are rolled by the player's game that owns the creature, and the looks are drawn by each player's game). Requires BepInExPack Valheim.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/wick.wolfstars.cfg:

Use the same config on the server and every client so everyone sees the same colours.

Testing

wolfstars_level <level> (a cheat command - single-player or self-hosted only) sets the level of the nearest listed creature, because the vanilla spawn command caps creatures at level 9.

Changelog

• 1.8.16 - Tamed creatures no longer damage build pieces ([Tames] NoStructureDamage, on). Hens, lox and bears drop like a 1-star creature at most (default MaxDropStars 1; was 3 = 8x). Existing configs keep their old value - set it by hand. Not published: 1.8.13-1.8.15.
• 1.8.12 - Egg handling split into two settings: ChestsKeepQualities (on) and DrawersKeepQualities (off by default = BetrValheim's own drawers).
• 1.8.11 - Release of the 1.8.2-1.8.10 work without the test tracing.
• 1.8.10 - Fix: eggs taken out of (or dropped by) a drawer now really keep the drawer's quality; the drawer's name shows it. Test build, still traces. Not published.
• 1.8.9 - Test build: traces drawer egg handling in the log. Not published.
• 1.8.8 - BetrValheim drawers take starred eggs again: each drawer remembers its egg quality (an empty drawer takes any, a filled one only the same), eggs taken out or dropped keep it, and the hover text shows it. Auto-collect skips a drawer of another quality and moves on to chests. Restock never pulls eggs from drawers. Not published: 1.8.6, 1.8.7.
• 1.8.7 - Loads after BetrValheim (soft dependency) and logs which BetrValheim methods the egg handling patched. Not published: 1.8.6.
• 1.8.6 - With BetrValheim: its drawers refuse starred eggs (a drawer keeps no quality, so they came out as plain eggs) and its auto-collect only puts an egg into a chest that already holds that egg at the same quality ([Eggs] SeparateQualities). Not published: 1.8.5.
• 1.8.5 - The lox (which the game gave no star looks at all) now grows and gets star colours like the others ([Looks] AddMissingLooks; lox TintStyle Fur). Drop capping is named once per creature in the log. Not published: 1.8.4.
• 1.8.4 - Bears get their star colour on the fur itself (per-creature TintStyle = Glow or Fur, bear default Fur; FurHue, FurSaturation) - bear fur can't glow, so the 1.8.3 glow tint never showed on bears. Not published: 1.8.3.
• 1.8.3 - Bears (and any creature whose body is several meshes) now get the star colour on every part, not one small piece ([Looks] TintAllParts). LetMeTameYou babies (MiniDeer, MiniNeck...) use their adult's settings. Not published: 1.8.2.
• 1.8.2 - Fix: starred hens shrank to about half size (the hen model is built at 2x and the game's star sizes replaced that; [Looks] KeepModelSize). Butcher knife now kills a tame in one hit ([ButcherKnife] OneHitKill, on) and is recognised more reliably. The egg fixes leave DragonEgg alone ([Eggs] ExcludeItems). Tamed creatures WolfStars does not cover are named once in the log.
• 1.8.1 - Fix: plain eggs with quality 0 showed in recipes (e.g. Cooked Egg 1/139) but crafting refused them. [Eggs] FixZeroQualityEggs turns them into normal quality-1 eggs when they load, and new eggs never get quality 0.
• 1.8.0 - Fix: eggs laid by high-star animals (quality above the egg's max) were ignored by recipes. [Eggs] raises the max quality of every hatching item. Optional built-in breeding control ([Breeding] ControlBreeding, off by default) like BreedingTweaks.
• 1.6.0 - Longer names for tamed creatures ([Names], on by default, 30 characters).
• 1.5.1 - ValheimRadar compatibility (optional): its minimap pins show 5+ stars as 19x★ instead of 19 star characters ([ValheimRadar] settings).
• 1.4.0 - Butcher knife does extra damage to tamed creatures ([ButcherKnife], default 2x and scaled by the tame's level). Optional per-creature star limit ([Breeding] LimitStars, off by default; MaxStars per creature).
• 1.3.0 - Settings per creature: each listed creature has its own [<name>] section with GrowWithStars (size on/off), ScalePerStar, MaxScale and MaxDropStars. The [Looks] size values and [Drops] MaxDropStars now only apply to ExtraCreatures.
• 1.1.0 - Every tameable creature with its own on/off switch (adds Lox, Hen, Asksvin and LetMeTameYou's Deer, Neck, Bjorn, Hare). The old [General] Creatures list is replaced by [Creatures] switches + ExtraCreatures.
• 1.0.6 - Wolf and Boar.