SixVikings Cartel

Mjöð Cartel (BETA)

Brew, mix and deal mead to Valheim's creatures… and get lost in full-on hallucinated trips.

Inspired by Schedule I: brew seven "products", mix ingredients into them for stacking effects, sell them to Greydwarfs, Fulings, Draugr and worse, get your customers hooked, launder your dirty coins, keep Odin's Gaze off your back, and grow a server-wide cartel with goblin workers. Drink your own stuff and the world melts: five trip stages, biome visions and an adaptive techno soundtrack that builds dose after dose.

> This is a beta. We play it on our own server and we are looking for feedback, bug reports and balance ideas. Please report anything weird on our Discord: https://discord.gg/4vejaEdNrP (forum #bugs, with your BepInEx LogOutput.log if you can). > > Unofficial mod, not made or supported by Iron Gate. Free, and it will stay free.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn (installed automatically by your mod manager).
• Install it on the server AND on every client, same version. Jotunn refuses the connection otherwise.
• Text: English and French (follows your game language).

How it plays

1. Brew. At the vanilla cauldron, one base per biome; in a fermenter, each base gives 6 doses of the product. The later the biome, the more it sells for.

| Product | Base (cauldron) | Base price | Customers | |---|---|---|---| | Heather Mjöð | 1 honey, 3 raspberries, 2 dandelions | 5 | Greydwarfs, Fulings, Draugr | | Troll's Dream | 2 yellow mushrooms, 2 thistles, 2 greydwarf eyes | 15 | Greydwarfs, Fulings | | The Guck | 2 guck, 2 ooze, 1 bloodbag | 30 | Draugr, Cultists | | Blue Crystal | 2 crystals, 2 freeze glands, 2 obsidian | 80 | Cultists | | Yggdrasil Sap | 2 sap, 1 royal jelly, 2 magecaps | 150 | Seekers, Charred Warlocks, Hexen | | Muspel Ember | 2 sulfur, 2 charred bones, 2 vineberries | 300 | Charred | | Fimbul | 1 frostcore, 2 frostwood, 2 seal fat | 600 | Hexen, Jotun |

1. Mix. Build the Mixing Cauldron (hammer, crafting). Aim at it and press a product's hotbar key (1-8) to pour a batch (up to 10 doses), then an ingredient's key: one per dose, each adds an effect and raises the price. Use takes the batch back.
2. Recruit. Wear the Stump Pact (workbench). Potential customers within 15 m have a chance to become customers: they stop attacking you and place orders. You can also offer a sample: aim at a creature and press a product's key.
3. Deliver. Aim at a customer to see their order, addiction and withdrawal. Press the product's key to deliver. More effects = more money; all their cravings present: +25%; double price at night. Hitting a customer loses them for good.
4. Track your customers on the map while wearing the Pact.
5. Drink. A product drinks like mead: 5 minutes of effects depending on its mix, and a trip.

Addiction and withdrawal

Each delivery raises the customer's addiction. Curious → Regular (+15%) → Hooked (+30%) → Mjöð Slave (+50%). From Regular on, a customer left without a dose goes into withdrawal: nervous, then aggressive (they attack you until served). Hooked Fulings sometimes pay with a totem… and follow you everywhere to beg.

Dirty money and Odin's Gaze

Customers pay in dirty coins that no trader accepts. Launder them at a Tavern Counter: the cozier the place (comfort), the faster it launders. Every sale raises your heat:

| Heat | Odin's Gaze | What happens | |---|---|---| | 0-19 | Calm | Nothing | | 20-39 | Whispers | Hugin warns you | | 40-59 | The Ravens | Hugin insists | | 60-79 | The Lantern Guard | At night, a 2-guard patrol hunts you | | 80-100 | The Raids | 3 guards, day and night |

A guard who touches you searches you: dirty coins and half of each product stack are seized. An Offering to Odin (clean coins, honey, amber) lowers your heat.

The trip

Drinking takes you away. The visions, colors and sounds are only for you (other players just see you stagger), but your new laws of physics (below) are visible to everyone. Five stages, from It's kicking in… to THE GREAT VOYAGE (with the Overdose module, each dose in a trip pushes you higher):

colors that breathe, trails, floating ingredients, rolling camera, echoes of your own body, Bifröst in the sky, runes, mandalas, inverted controls, your body walking on its own, and swarms of visions. Each product has its own world (Eikthyr and dancing boars, giant trolls, Bonemass, wolves and Moder, pink Lox, Fader, dragons and the Fimbulwinter), and each effect adds its own color.

The soundtrack. Every product has its own techno track (135 BPM) that builds with the stage; every ingredient of the mix adds its own instrument, stacking dose after dose into the ultimate track. Switch product mid-trip and the record rewinds onto the new one. Nearby friends hear your party in 3D, louder the higher you are. Music made with Suno, then separated, re-timed and mixed for the mod.

Comedown (module): after the trip, a grey world and muffled sound for a while.

The laws of physics (new in 0.6)

Tripping also changes your body, and your friends see it: you walk on water, bounce and slide right in front of them. Each game computes its own player's body, so nothing extra goes over the network.

• The higher you are, the less you weigh: gravity ×0.85 at stage 1, then ×0.7, ×0.55, ×0.4, down to ×0.25 at the Great Voyage. Every product, every mix.
• The mix decides the rest:

| Effect in the mix | While tripping | |---|---| | Lightness (feathers) | even lighter (×0.7), plus air strokes: press jump in mid-air to kick upward again (1 at stages 1-2, 2 at stages 3-4, 3 at the Great Voyage; each costs a jump's stamina, all come back when you land) |