Changelog

1.1.0

• Rebalanced primary strikes, shield throws, and Shield Charge to reduce high-deflection shields' attack push more strongly while retaining a larger share of lower-force shields' push. Existing YAML pushFactor settings now multiply the adjusted force; damage, attack ranges, normal blocking, projectile reflection, and Block Charge keep their existing formulas.
• Added the default-On, client-only Prevent Weapon Auto Equip While Shield Only option. Automatically collected weapons stay in the inventory while using only a shield or waiting for a thrown shield to return to empty hands.
• Identified weapons thrown by you retain the game's normal automatic re-equip checks. Existing FearNoSpear and SecondaryAttacks drop markers are recognized; newly found weapons and unmarked drops receive no recovery exception.
• Manual pickup, equipment choices, inventory capacity checks, and existing shield returns remain unchanged. Recovery markers stay on world drops rather than inventory item data.
• Update CaptainValheim on the server and participating clients together to satisfy the existing version check.

1.0.13

• Thrown shields now retain their equipped appearance and style, including appearances applied by Armoire, through ricochets and the return flight.
• Synchronize the launch-time appearance separately from the real shield. Damage, durability, inventory returns, and dropped item identity remain unchanged; reflected arrows and spells are excluded.
• Apply the selected mesh once during visual creation, handle late appearance data, and fall back to the original shield when a cosmetic prefab is unavailable. Unchanged appearances and repeated asset failures do not trigger per-frame mesh recreation.
• Armoire remains optional, with no required dependency or exact-version restriction. Compatibility uses the game's resolved equipment appearance rather than Armoire's private settings or save format.

1.0.12

• Reduced shield key-hint UI work by preventing the game's combat hints and CaptainValheim's hints from repeatedly toggling each other every frame. Preserved normal weapon hints when using a shield with a melee weapon and cleaned up owned hints when the HUD is destroyed.
• Improved automatic re-equipping after direct shield returns and marked ground pickups. Re-equipping now waits for temporary attack, dodge, or swimming restrictions to end instead of expiring after one second.
• A new hand equipment choice cancels pending re-equipping. Other mods' equipment restrictions remain authoritative; a rejected equip leaves the shield in the inventory without repeated attempts or extra item drops.
• Added thrower identity metadata to dropped thrown shields for optional FearNoSpear integration. Compatible FearNoSpear versions can restrict automatic pickup to the thrower while retaining manual pickup; metadata failures after a successful drop do not trigger a duplicate drop.

1.0.11

• Added server-synchronized options for using shield charge, block-charge counterattacks, and projectile reflection with a one-handed melee weapon. Charge defaults to Off; block charge and reflection default to On.
• When enabled, Block + Secondary Attack uses shield charge while ordinary weapon attacks remain available. A failed or held charge input cannot fall back to a weapon attack.
• Block-charge accumulation and counterattacks now respect the equipment policy and YAML enable setting without changing other players' shields; entering disallowed equipment clears stored charges.
• Prevented direct shield charge from starting during attacks, dodges, knockback, stagger, or other restricted actions.
• Updated shield hints, tooltips, and the Compendium to explain weapon compatibility while retaining normal weapon hints.
• Updated the required BepInExPack version to 5.4.2351.

1.0.10

• Updated CaptainValheim for Valheim 1.0.7, including the new shield tooltip signature and original game assembly access boundaries.
• Updated the bundled ServerSync compatibility build for Valheim 1.0.7, fixing configuration initialization and preserving connection-time player, history, administrator, and network-time messages.
• Preserved Valheim 1.0 damage channels, attack resource effects, and status-effect variants through shield hits and the versioned projectile reflection protocol.
• Prevented new mid-flight projectile template behavior from bypassing shield throw hit ownership and duplicate-hit handling.
• Updated the required BepInExPack version to 5.4.2350.

1.0.9

• Reorganized shield throw and charge state alongside their runtime code and removed redundant attack setup forwarding without changing combat rules.
• Removed an unnecessary ObjectDB snapshot pass while retaining capture-before-write and conditional restoration of modified shield data.
• Avoided allocating reflection block contexts for characters and shields that do not use projectile reflection.
• Added DeployToGame support for automatic local DLL updates after Debug builds, plus options to skip game copies or release packaging during validation.

1.0.8

• Added the client-only Show Shield Tooltip setting, enabled by default, so each player can hide CaptainValheim guidance from shield item tooltips without changing server behavior.
• Removed the shield reflection debug logging option and its diagnostic-only logging and data plumbing.

1.0.7

• Added localized shield key hints, contextual shield tooltip guidance, and a new Compendium page explaining Shield Strike, Throw, Charge, Projectile Reflection, and Block Charge.
• Added built-in English and Korean text plus client-side CaptainValheim.<Language>.yml overrides; Thunderstore packages now include CaptainValheim.English.yml as a translation template.
• Simplified the shield-only configuration and runtime structure by removing unused inherited SecondaryAttacks paths and consolidating code that changes together.
• Hardened live configuration reload and synchronization, ObjectDB restoration and reapplication, runtime cleanup, and shield state handling while preserving existing combat behavior.

1.0.6

• Rebuilt dedicated-server projectile reflection around owner-authoritative HitData and projectile snapshots with exact, one-shot target correlation, allowing multiple shield players in the same loaded zone to reflect independently.
• Removed pending queues, TTL pruning, fuzzy matching, and string payload workarounds while preserving the original sender, validating ownership, and marking reflected projectiles across ownership transfers.

1.0.5

• Reduced inherited SecondaryAttacks infrastructure to CaptainValheim's shield-only configuration, definition, and runtime pipeline, removing duplicate version RPC and unused generic paths.
• Hardened shield primary, throw, charge, and reflection context cleanup with scoped Harmony finalizers and simplified projectile visual and return handling.

1.0.4

• Fixed dedicated-server shield reflection for multiple players in the same loaded zone by correlating remote projectile and block contexts through player ZDOIDs.
• Added bounded ordered fallback matching and now creates reflected projectiles from their registered source prefabs.

1.0.3

• Improved dedicated-server shield reflect reliability by keeping successful blocks briefly pending so late projectile ownership/context RPCs can still trigger reflection.

1.0.2

• Improved multiplayer shield reflect reliability on dedicated servers by sending projectile fallback payloads for remote block contexts.
• Relaxed remote shield reflect context matching so valid blocks can reflect even when projectile hit context timing or hit points differ between clients.

1.0.1

• Added multiplayer shield reflect ownership handoff so remote projectile hits can be reflected by the blocking player on dedicated servers.
• Added optional shield reflect diagnostics.
• Fixed generated key hint separator font/style copying.

1.0.0

• Initial Release.