Ice Sniper Staff

A focusing rune mounted on a crossbow-stock. It draws like an arbalest and looses a single ice bolt in a dead-straight line — slow to load, devastating on a hit. Built for players who want a precise, high-impact magic weapon rather than a spray of projectiles.

Features

• Crossbow-style magic staff — arbalest draw/grip animation, single fast frost bolt, flat trajectory (no projectile drop).
• Scales with Elemental Magic — hits level the Elemental Magic skill and damage grows with it.
• Eitr-powered — no ammo/bolts to carry; each shot costs Eitr.
• Custom reload sound — a dedicated reload SFX plays the moment the weapon finishes loading.
• Two balance modes, picked automatically at game start:
  • With Wizardry installed — crafts at the Wizard Table using Wizardry materials, balanced against that mod's progression.
  • Standalone (no Wizardry) — crafts at the Galdr Table (level 1) with a frost-staff recipe, and comes tuned noticeably stronger (~+35%) with a faster reload to stand on its own.

Standalone recipe (Galdr Table, lvl 1)

• 10× Yggdrasil Wood
• 6× Freeze Gland
• 12× Refined Eitr
• 4× Iron

Upgradeable to quality 4; each level adds extra pierce and frost damage.

Configuration

All stats are exposed in the BepInEx config file (dots.icesniperstaff.cfg):

• [Sniper] — shared / Wizardry-mode baseline: damage, per-level growth, velocity, accuracy, Eitr cost, reload time, projectile scale, flat-shot and no-explosion toggles, reload-sound volume.
• [Sniper.NoWizardry] — overrides used only when Wizardry is not installed (higher damage/velocity, shorter reload).

The balance mode is decided once at game start based on whether Wizardry is present. Installing or removing Wizardry requires a restart to switch recipe/stats.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn
• (Optional) Wizardry — if present, the staff integrates with its crafting station and materials. Not required.

Installation

Use a mod manager (r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager), or install manually by dropping the plugin DLL into BepInEx/plugins.

Changelog

1.0.0

New: standalone mode. When Wizardry is not installed, the staff now crafts at the Galdr Table (level 1) with its own frost-staff recipe (10 Yggdrasil Wood, 6 Freeze Gland, 12 Refined Eitr, 4 Iron) and comes tuned noticeably stronger (~+35% damage/velocity, faster reload) so it holds up on its own. With Wizardry installed, behaviour is unchanged — same Wizard Table recipe and baseline stats as before.

New config section [Sniper.NoWizardry]. Separate, fully configurable stats used only in standalone mode (pierce/frost damage and per-level growth, velocity, Eitr cost, reload time).

Fixed: first shot not firing. The very first shot after loading into a world spent Eitr but produced no bolt (an internal "object to instantiate is null" error). The projectile is now assigned to the weapon on the loading screen and re-confirmed at fire time, so the first shot fires correctly in both modes.

Cleanup. Removed dead projectile-setup code that ran before the game's prefabs existed and never had any effect.

Note for existing users

A new [Sniper.NoWizardry] section is written to your config with default values on first launch. If you previously tuned [Sniper] for a game without Wizardry, review the new section — your standalone balance is now driven by those values.