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Sundial

Sundials for Valheim's honest sun: a stone dial, a great sun circle for your base (granite, black marble or grausten) and a pocket ring dial. Real shadows tell the hour; align them by eye or the old way with chalk.

By ZAP

CHANGELOG

Changelog

1.0.0

  • First release: a buildable stone sundial with an engraved bronze plate. Readings to the quarter hour with the Old Norse day marks, a moon shadow at night, and no shadow under clouds, at dusk or in the shade.
  • The sun circle: a paved stone circle almost ten metres across with a standing stone and thirteen hour stones, as the centrepiece of a base. Its hour stones are raised once north is found. On open ground it levels and clears the earth beneath it.
  • Each dial is made for the sky of its biome (45° in most biomes, 30° in the Mistlands, 55° in the Ashlands).
  • Alignment, once, by the equal-shadow method: chalk marks before and after noon. The dial tells you when the shadow nears the chalk circle, a chime calls you, and it says how precisely the alignment came out. Shared in multiplayer.
  • The quick way: Shift + mouse wheel turns a dial by hand, to be aligned by eye. A chalk layout on the sun circle shows where its stones will stand.
  • The sundial and the sun circle in three kinds of stone: granite, black marble (with gilded numerals on the sun circle) and grausten.
  • The ring dial (Bauernring): a pocket dial from the forge. Held up against the sun, a spot of light through its hole falls on the engraved hours. No north needed; one mark for morning and afternoon, vague at noon, like the real thing.