cjaycraft ultimate modpack

ATTN: This is a configuration pack. No mods are hosted or re-uploaded on this page. All dependencies are hosted by Thunderstore.io

Valheim "Hard Mode" Adventure

This modpack is now available to the public. My community is still doing a playthrough test, so there may be regular updates to the configuration files here until we have completed our playthrough.

Game Features

• Insane mob difficulty (up to 10 stars)
• Custom raids (150+) that scale in difficulty
• Custom boss fights (WAY more difficult than vanilla)
• Dedicated multiplayer server, intended for 3+ players
• Repair gear and weapons with gold Coins (like an MMO)

What is cjaycraft?

Shout out to the developers, pack makers, and everyone working on great things! This pack is a configuration of all the great things made by people in the community. Thanks for giving people great content to enjoy!

• A collection of over 70 mods! The difficulty is INSANE and features up to 10-star mobs and bosses. Also includes custom boss fights and raids that attack your base!

• You will need several players. Recommend a minimum of 3. It's not possible by yourself! We tested a kill fight sequence on the 4th boss (Moder) with 3 players and it took 1.5 hours to him! Waves of monsters, it was insane!

• Need to take a break from killing things? No problem! Build your own boat, custom from the ground up! This pack features all the fun creative elements of the game without breaking or making the rest of the game too easy.

• Gold (coin) economy, repair your gear with Coins, and custom loot drops!

• Purchase supplies from Haldor the Merchant for a premium, or sell him your cooked foods to earn Coin!

• It's so hardcore that each player can only build 6 portals (3 linked networks) at the start of the game. Build more portals by acquiring special Portal Fluid from killing bosses or purchasing them from Haldor the Merchant!

• Enemy encounters require tanks, casters, and DPS!

• Since this is a modpack, you will be able to change the settings. Customize it to the experience you want.

Dedicated Server Files

https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack_dedicated_server

It's recommended to run a dedicated server, even if you're playing from the same machine. Plus, you need friends to play this pack!

Note: Load times when launching the game are exceptionally longer than vanilla, especially for the server, because they need to load large files like loot tables. Lots of customization! But all good things.

Controls You Want To Know

Gameplay

• Gear and weapons cost gold Coin to repair
• Wood items are free to repair
• 'Better Wards' will reduce building damage by 20%
• The Merchant Trader can buy/sell items
• Sell cooked food, or trash items to make Coin
• Clicking on the [Craft] tab opens a drop down filter for sorting
• Chests next to machines will have items deposited to them automatically
• Inventory weight inside shoulder backpacks is reduced by 50%
• When you die, keep your equipped armor
• When you die, lose 10% skills
• Build and fight in the water (keep your equip on)
• Carrots in a chest will feed pigs
• PortalFluid can be earned by killing bosses or purchasing from Merchant
• WardIsLove: Wards reduce damage to structures by 50% (3 per player), have minor self healing to structures, and creature pushback

Tips

• Make lots of first-tier potions, they're cheap and will keep you alive.
• The new cooking tables make better food than vanilla
• Build bunkers to hide, survive the raid attacks.
• Enchant slow to your weapons to survive fights.
• Get the healing rune when you can and make lots of them.
• Chaos enemies attack with a random damage type.

Inventory

• Drag item and press Delete to recycle the item into parts
• Split stack of items: Left Shift + Right Click
• Split 1 item: Drag + Right Click
• Left Alt + 1 or 2 or 3 to change quiver arrow slots (only with inventory window closed)

UI

• Press ` (key above tab) to switch hotbars (first 2 rows of your inventory)
• F7 to edit UI 

Config

• F1 to open the configuration manager

Mod list

Are You Ready!?

Valheim mods are not easy to install. Compatibility issues everywhere! So I made a modpack to play with my friends, and offer the best experience for HARDCORE progression. The insane raids and difficulty will give you quite the challenge, testing your skill and might!

Make sure you install this modpack with R2modman for an automated installation process!

https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/ebkr/r2modman/

I've also spent 200+ hours testing the mods, re-writing broken code for mods, customizing config files, balancing economy, balancing fights, and making the game a great experience.

FPS Boost Recommendations

• For high-end PCs: https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/fps_boost_small

• For medium-grade PCs: https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/fps_boost_medium

• For low-end PCs (very potato graphics): https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/fps_boost_high

The game is poorly optimized, so I recommend playing with at least medium-grade settings.

Some tips to reduce lag:

• Don't build too many things in one place.
• Split up your bases.
• Don't make boats that are too big.
• Don't make things with too many player placed objects.
• Don't make your farms too big.
• Basically, if you wanna go big, spread things out so they're not loaded in at the same time.

Updating This Modpack

Using r2modman from valheim.thunderstore.io ONLY UPDATE cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack -- This will also automatically update dependent mods that are SAFE to update.

I do not recommend auto-updating the OTHER mods included in this pack automatically, unless you know what you are doing. There are some mods that break things with newer versions. For example, there is currently a bug with BetterUI and its latest version. It conflicts with the mods in this pack, so we'll need to wait for them to fix it before upgrading.

Only update the main pack files "cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack" because these are the main configuration files for the modpack. When other mods get updated, I'll run tests, and include the newer versions as dependencies.

Please use R2modman to install, update, and run this modpack.

Quick Connect

Add your favorite server to the QuickConnect file so that you can connect quickly from the opening game screen.

config/quick_connect_servers.cfg Put one server per line

name:addr:port:password Example: Awesome Server:127.0.0.1:2456:smellysocks

Changelog

1.5.21

• Emergency fix for raid spawning to early: custom_raids.supplemental.CJAYRIDE.IcyHell.cfg

1.5.20

• Raid Event Update: Updated alert messages: custom_raids.supplemental.CJAYRIDE.IcyHell.cfg

• Raid Event Update: Updated allowed biomes: custom_raids.supplemental.CJAYRIDE.DivinePresence.cfg

1.5.19

• Enhanced Vitality in favor of players, making it so that a higher vitality will more greatly increase certain stats like HP, Carry Weight, Run Speed, Swim Speed, Jump Height, Stamina, Stamina Regen, HP Regen from Food. The higher your Vitality, the higher all of these stats will become. In light of the higher difficulty of monsters, this seemed more appropriate.

• Custom loot drops were missing from about 5 of the 6 total different types of skeletons, making it seem like sometimes BoneFragments would never drop. Proper loot drops are now added.

• Increased the drop rate of freeze glands from 20% to 49% -- minor scaling based on star levels. They only drop from drakes (hatchling).

• IceOfTheNorth (rk_moochi food part) now drops off of all mobs in the Mountains (10% chance), in addition to the Deep North mobs (20% chance). It also drops off all serpents (10% chance). It no longer drops off Poison Skeletons. (not sure why it ever did).

• Updated raid events that were missing names and were using default "Raid Start" -- with no clue as to what raid was actually starting. Gave them custom names.

• Updated raids events with flying monsters, specifically when over deep areas of the ocean. There used to be problems with flying mobs spawning in oceans, because they required land to spawn. Now, the flying monsters can spawn under the water, and they will fly up and out to attack those unsuspecting! Build a custom raft, make a safe room on it!

1.5.18

• Correctly, this time, removed the possibility of Throwable and Recall enchants from items where it doesn't make sense. The new possibilities are: "AllowedItemTypes" : ["OneHandedWeapon", "TwoHandedWeapon", "Tool", "Torch"]

1.5.17

• Forgot to actually include the raid event updates form 1.5.16. Getting tired making mistakes sorry! We (player team) did a lot of testing and tweaking tonight. Good stuff.

1.5.16

• Reversed the updates in 1.5.15 and 1.5.14 because it gave errors with gear and enchants, especially with the UI.

• Updated raid events in water biomes to hopefully allow for better spawns.

1.5.15

• Removed RecallWeapon as a possible enchant for armor, shoulder, and utility.

1.5.14

• Removed Spears from the NOT "Throwable" EpicLoot magiceffects.json because it was also in the OK "Throwable" (both sections). Added Armor to NOT "Throwable" because you can't throw your armor.

1.5.13

• Updated events / raids for balancing, scale, and difficulty.

• Re-enabled enemy HP text numbers on their HP bar

1.5.12

• Readme file update.

1.5.11

• Recycling items now breaks down items to get not only their parts, but also the enchanted resources. This is now enabled because of the higher cost to enchant and augment after the Epic Valheim patch.

• Temporarily turned off the WardIsLove bubble mechanic because it's a little bit OP. Once things are fine-tuned and balanced, can re-enable it. The Wards will still reduce damage to buildingds inside the range by 50% and self-heal a little bit.

1.5.10

• Removed the quickconnect servers file from the pack, so that it doesn't overwrite your own after you add servers to the file. If you don't have the file, one will be generated for you.

1.5.9

• The attempted fix for Death Tweaks to remove backpack and put in Tombstone just wasn't working. Something is buggy, probably with the special equip slots, because we noticed the quick equip slots also have item loss on death. Since I can't fix it, and had multiple failed attempts, we will just allow players to keep their equipped backpack on themselves when they die, if it's equipped.

Changing mod dependencies to the regular DeathTweaks mod.

• Reduced price for YmirFlesh to 30 Coins as the Merchant Trader.

1.5.8

• Dependency update for: cjayride-death_tweaks_jotunn_backpacks_cjaycraft_fix-0.8.4

1.5.7

• Fix for the 'Simple Backpack' from Judes Equipment. Because we 'downgraded' the version of the mod to 1.4.0 due to the newer versions conflicting with other mods, it auto-generated a new config file that contained a value to auto-destroy simple backpacks when they lose durability. Backpacks will no longer auto-destroy.

Special thanks to Madmansam for finding this issue and reporting it to us on discord.gg/cjayride

[Simple backpack]

Setting type: Boolean Default value: true Destroy broken = false

1.5.6

• Reagent recipes re-added after accidental removal.

Recipe_ReagentRareUpgrade Recipe_ReagentEpicUpgrade Recipe_ReagentLegendaryUpgrade

found in EpicLoot's recipes.json

• Magic rune abilities tldr: So now that this modpack uses the Epic Valheim scaling for damage with runes and upgrades, runes are no longer infinite use (they use durability). My group was previously using the OG mod runes where they don't use durability. So we'll try playing with these new changes and see how it goes. It will just take getting used to not having infinite heals on cooldown.

• Added legendary drops to certain bosses.

• Added DustLegendary drops to T6, T7, T8 mobs.

• Added drops for RRRM_ElderSurtling

• Added FenrirsHeart drop for ElderSurtling, SwollenBody, BurnedBones

1.5.5

• Repair with coins now works on dedicated servers as intended.

Epic Loot: recipes.json

Updated this recipe to have Coins. Because the Repair with Coins mod reads this recipe. Unfortunately, on dedicated servers only, the recipes.json would overwrite the CustomeRecipe file. So I'm now removing the custom recipe file and just requiring a direct update to the file of recipes.json in the EpicLoot plugins folder.

{
  "name": "Recipe_GoldRubyRing",
  "item": "GoldRubyRing",
  "craftingStation": "forge",
 "resources": [
{ "item": "Coins", "amount": 100 },
    { "item": "Bronze", "amount": 4 },
    { "item": "Ruby", "amount": 2 }
  ]
},

• Base carry weight per character increased from 300 to 400.

valheim_plus.cfg ; The base amount of carry weight of your character. baseMaximumWeight = 400

• Players can now use equipment in water. (Originally intended but previous mod removed by Thunderstore admins.)

LVH-IT-UseEquipmentInWater-0.2.2

• Updated depedency: ASharpPen-This_Goes_Here-2.0.0

1.5.4

• Dependency update for mod: ASharpPen-Spawn_That-1.0.3 -- looks to include many bug fixes for how mobs spawn

1.5.3

• Critical fix for tooltips. There is an issue with the mod MK_BetterUI when it has custom tooltips enabled. The enchants on armor / weapon / gear isn't shown. To fix this, showCustomTooltips has been set to false in MK_BetterUI.cfg. Please update cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack to receive the update automatically.

1.5.2

• Removed Configurable Fires

• Another update today. The Thunderstore admin removed a dependency mod called Configurable Fires. This mod allowed fire sources to contain more fuel and burn longer. Getting pretty upset at how Thunderstore, Nexus Mods, and the community around it reacts to people using and uploading mods that are publicly posted on GitHub. How am I going to track down a guy who wrote the code to modify a fireplace in a kids game, and re-upload it to Thunderstore for us? This modpack started out as something fun for me and 3 friends to play, and Thunderstore became an easier way for me to share updates, rather than distributing Zip files. But I gotta say, I'm never modding or contributing to this community ever again, because I've only been met with outlash and harassment after making something fun for me and my friends to play. Not to mention the Valheim Modding discord raided my community's discord with hateful comments and messages. It hasn't been worth it, and the community can continue on without us when we're done with our play-through. For now, I'll continue to make the tweaks and updates here for my friends to play until we're done next month. Peace valheim, and peace modders, foreal -- it has not been cool. We were just making something fun and others took it as a personal attack.

1.5.1

• Found out that the newer versions of Jude's Equipment cause a conflict with Terraheim causing the items to not be found, like armor and belts. We need to downgrade to version 1.4.0 of Jude's Equipment so that the mods play nicely together. This is a very important update!

• Removed no longer needed file: config/blumaye.indestructibleportals.cfg

1.5.0

• Added script to remove unused mods / files (for removing BetterWards)

1.4.9

• Added WardIsLove, in place of BetterWards.

1.4.8

• Minor dependency update.

• Please do not update BetterUI Reforged to version 2.1.0 -- There is a bug with the HUD near bosses that causes errors to spam console.

1.4.7

• Removed dependency cjayride-AssimpLibaries-0.1.0 -- no longer needed

1.4.6

• Updated lines of code in Valheim.ThisGoesHere.cjaycraft.yml -- to remove redundant files and folders for RRR mods and supplemental raids

1.4.5

• Playable! Install with R2modman, run a dedicated server, enjoy.

1.4.4

• Sorry I've had so many uploads! Getting my community's configuration posted on Thundersetore has been a nightmare with depedencies. I've been testing it non-stop the past few days. I can't say yet if this iteration is directly playable, but I'll post here in the changelog when I know it's good to go. This is intended to be played with R2modman and using the server version of the pack as well, because it's too difficult to play alone. https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack_dedicated_server

Contact

Twitter: twitter.com/cjayride

Discord: discord.gg/cjayride

IRL: twitch.tv/cjayride

Gaming: twitch.tv/cjaywalk