Odin's Tree

Bless a tree so nothing can fell it, and build your tree house on it.

Early build: developed heavily with AI and barely play tested. Expect rough edges.

What it does

• Bless a tree — hammer out, repair tool selected, left click a tree. Lightning strikes it and from then on nothing damages it. Looking at it says Blessed by Odin. Click again to lift the blessing.
• Safe ground — the ground within 3 m of a blessed trunk (TerrainGuardRadius) cannot be dug, raised, levelled or tilled, so the tree never sinks or lifts under your house.
• Pick the tree — right click an unblessed tree with the hammer to turn it into the next kind of its family (Families in the config adds more). A blessed tree never cycles.
• Twerk it up — tap crouch three times in a row beside a sapling or crop. It glows green while you keep it up, and after about fifteen seconds it is grown (TwerkGrowSeconds).

With and without the mod

• The blessing, the new tree kind and the growth are stored the way the game stores any tree. Every player sees them, with or without the mod, and they stay when the mod is removed.
• The safe ground needs the mod. Install it on the dedicated server (or the hosting player's game) and it holds for every player, including those without it. Without the mod on the server, only players who have it are stopped from digging.
• The game gives a player without the mod no way to see that a tree is blessed. Nearly infinite health stays for vanilla clients.

Install

A mod manager (Gale or r2modman), or drop the zip's contents into BepInEx/plugins/rauschekuh-OdinsTree/. Requires the BepInEx pack for Valheim.

Changelog

0.1.0

• Bless a tree with the hammer's repair tool so nothing can fell it; click again to lift the blessing. Hovering a tree with the hammer out shows what a click will do.
• A blessed tree shrugs off every hit like the ancient root: no damage, no shaking, no wood chips. Looking at it says Blessed by Odin.
• Blessing a tree calls down lightning on it, followed by the red burst of a forsaken power and a few seconds of the red flicker of an activated boss stone.
• The ground around a blessed tree cannot be dug, raised, levelled or tilled. With the mod on the server this holds for every player, with or without the mod.
• Right clicking an unblessed tree with the hammer turns it into the next kind of its family.
• Tapping crouch three times in a row beside a sapling makes it glow green and grow; keep twerking and it is a tree in about fifteen seconds.