Skalds Board

Skald's Board

A base storage overview, a group contract board and named legends for groups that play Valheim together. Made against the old problem of big groups: some players only build and gather, others only fight and level, and the group falls apart into two halves.

English, Russian, Ukrainian, French, German and Polish. The language follows your game language (Belarusian gets Russian, other languages English) and can be changed in the mod settings. The translations are plain files in BepInEx/config/LemyChadPack/lang/ — fix or extend them as you like.

Русское описание — ниже.

Base storage

The storage table (hammer → Crafting) shows everything in the base chests:

• an overview of every resource in all chests within range;
• search, with the chests that hold the item highlighted;
• requests: a builder writes "the bridge needs 400 stone and 80 iron" and the storage shows what is missing;
• reserves: what is set aside for a request can only be taken by its author;
• hovering over a chest shows what is inside.

The table window is a storage terminal: categories on the left, the base's items as an inventory grid, the picked item's details on the right. Up to level 4 the storage only shows — it never takes anything remotely. Level 5 adds a sorting chest: every stack put into it goes at once to the storage chests (Shift + E on a chest), with a message, a sound and the target chest lit up; and the window hands items out (click a cell: a stack, Shift + click: all, right click: one). The picked item shows its full description, mods' lines included; gear is listed copy by copy (quality, durability, crafter, EpicLoot rarity) and the very copy you pick is the one you take. Items of other mods get categories too: EpicLoot materials go to Enchanting, PathOfValheiman runes to Runes and azurite, the rest by how the game uses them (smelter, cooking station, fermenter, planting, food, trader value); any player can pick an item's category for the whole world in the window, and make up to 20 custom categories (name + icon) on the Chests tab.

Upgrading the table

Extensions are placed next to the table, like workbench upgrades:

| Level | Extension | Gives | |---|---|---| | 1 | — | 30 m radius, 2 requests | | 2 | Counting scales (bronze) | 40 m, 4 requests, reserves | | 3 | Strongbox (iron) | 55 m, 6 requests, requests go up on the contract board | | 4 | Map shelf (silver) | 70 m, 8 requests, a notice when a request is gathered, directions to chests | | 5 | Sorting chest (black metal) | 85 m, 10 requests, sorting into storage chests by category, taking items from the window, Chests tab, custom categories, re-sort |

Contract board

The contract board (hammer → Misc):

• group contracts — everyone's contribution counts and the reward is split by it;
• personal contracts — 6 offers, up to 3 taken, one reroll a day;
• chains of several steps and a weekly contract;
• base requests from level 3 storage tables;
• contracts follow the group's progress: the current and previous biome, only the next undefeated boss;
• a group contract can be declined by a vote of half the players online;
• rewards are coins and, with EpicLoot, its enchanting materials (with a daily cap) and a runestone chance for hard contracts — without EpicLoot they are paid in coins;
• notices for completion, failure and progress.

Kills, deliveries to storage, crafting and cooking, harvesting, building, taming, finding dungeons, sailing and fishing all count. Tamed creatures, take-and-return deposits and demolished pieces are guarded against.

Legends

Now and then a named legend appears near a player: a much stronger creature of their biome with a retinue, a glow and a name — Hrodgeir Rot-Tooth, Mother of Wolves, the Jotun Colossus and 15 more. Everyone is told, and an area is marked on the map. With PathOfValheiman installed, a legend gets its stars and modifiers too. The reward is shared by damage dealt; if nobody kills it within two game days, it leaves.

Invasions

Rarely — far less often than vanilla raids — a warband of the group's current biome — fulings, draugr, seekers, with a starred leader — marches on a base (a storage table). It is announced a few minutes ahead, sets off from far away and is shown on the map as it moves. Intercept it in the field or hold the walls. Everyone who fought shares the reward; if nobody comes, it leaves.

Merchant caravan

Every 14 in-game days a merchant with a cart comes to a base (a storage table) and stays for an hour of play. He buys surplus resources for coins and sells goods of your biomes — mostly what you have never found yet — along with meads, arrows, meals and enchanted gear. Coins finally have somewhere to go.

Gods' altar

Bring offerings to ten gods at the altar: fighters bring trophies, builders bring resources. Fill a god's favour and the whole group online is blessed for half an hour of play — Thor's lightning on every blow, Freyja's harvest and healing, Odin's wisdom and far sight, Hel's sorcery for mages, Heimdall's armour for those in front, and more.

Ward

A ward post keeps creatures from spawning inside the base — four sizes, 75 to 150 m, each a biome further. Raids still come, but from outside; weak creatures that wander in run away, buildings take half damage from monsters, and you are told when an enemy is inside.

Blood moon

Now and then a blood moon rises: a red night announced in the afternoon. Creatures are fiercer and more often starred, but loot is doubled, kills count double for contracts and trophies triple for the gods, a war signal sounds as it rises — and nobody can sleep it away.

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