balrond twinstones

⚒️ Balrond TwinStones

Balrond TwinStones adds a buildable Teleport Obelisk to Valheim, allowing you to create paired short-distance teleport connections between locations.

Use TwinStones to connect nearby bases, outposts, mining camps, workshops, docks, farms, or other places where a full portal network would be unnecessary.

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✨ Features

• Buildable Teleport Obelisk
• Pair two obelisks together for two-way travel
• Configurable maximum linking distance
• Configurable construction cost
• Rename individual obelisks
• Visual states for unlinked, pending, and connected stones
• Connection effects between linked obelisks
• Multiplayer support
• Server-synchronized gameplay configuration
• External JSON translation support

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🧱 Building the Teleport Obelisk

The Teleport Obelisk is built with a Stonecutter and appears in the build menu.

Default Build Cost

| Material | Amount | |---|---:| | Stone | 10 | | Thunderstone | 2 | | Greydwarf Eye | 4 | | Iron | 2 |

The construction cost can be changed in the mod configuration.

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🔗 How to Link TwinStones

1. Build two Teleport Obelisks.
2. Hold Shift and press Use on the first obelisk.
3. Go to the second obelisk.
4. Hold Shift and press Use again.
5. If both stones are within the allowed linking distance, they become paired.
6. Press Use on either linked obelisk to teleport to the other one.

By default, TwinStones can be linked up to 50 meters apart.

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🎮 Controls

| Input | Action | |---|---| | Use (E) | Teleport through a linked TwinStone | | Shift + Use | Start or complete a link; use again on the same pending stone to cancel | | Ctrl + Use | Cancel a pending link or disconnect an existing pair | | Alt + Use | Rename the obelisk |

Obelisk names can contain up to 32 characters.

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🚪 Teleporting

Once two TwinStones are linked, simply press Use on either one to travel to its paired stone.

Teleporting will not work when:

• the obelisk is not linked,
• the linked TwinStone no longer exists or is currently unavailable,
• the short teleport cooldown is still active.

Destroying a linked TwinStone will attempt to clear the connection on its paired stone as well.

Pending links are automatically cleared when the player dies or disconnects.

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⚙️ Configuration

The configuration file is created after the game is launched with the mod installed.

Default location:

BepInEx/config/balrond.astafaraios.BalrondTwinStones.cfg

You can edit the file manually while the game is closed, or use a compatible BepInEx configuration manager.

Available Settings

| Section | Setting | Default | Description | |---|---|---:|---| | Server | LockConfiguration | true | Locks synchronized gameplay settings to the host/server values. | | Portal | MaxLinkDistance | 50 | Maximum distance in meters between two TwinStones when linking them. | | Portal | BuildRecipe | Stone:10,Thunderstone:2,GreydwarfEye:4,Iron:2 | Construction cost of the Teleport Obelisk. | | Diagnostics | AudioDebugLogging | false | Enables additional audio diagnostic logging. This setting is local and is not synchronized. |

Changing the Build Recipe

BuildRecipe uses Valheim prefab names in this format:

PrefabName:Amount,PrefabName:Amount

Default:

Stone:10,Thunderstone:2,GreydwarfEye:4,Iron:2

For example:

Stone:20,GreydwarfEye:10,Iron:5

Use valid item prefab names rather than translated display names.

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🌐 Multiplayer & Server Configuration

TwinStones automatically synchronizes its gameplay configuration in multiplayer.

The host/server configuration is authoritative for synchronized settings such as:

• MaxLinkDistance
• BuildRecipe

When LockConfiguration = true, connected clients use the host/server values and cannot override those synchronized settings with different local values.

For a dedicated server, configure TwinStones in the server's own BepInEx configuration folder. Players connecting to that server will receive the synchronized gameplay settings automatically.

AudioDebugLogging is intentionally local and can be enabled independently by each player for troubleshooting.

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🌍 Translations

TwinStones supports external JSON translation files.

Translation files are loaded from:

BepInEx/config/BalrondTwinStones-translation/

The folder is created automatically when the mod runs.

Create one .json file for each language you want to provide. The filename should match the Valheim language name, for example:

English.json
German.json
Polish.json

Translation files use a simple key/value JSON format:

{
  "tag_linked": "Linked",
  "tag_not_linked": "Not linked",
  "tag_link_started": "Link started",
  "tag_disconnected": "Disconnected"
}

If a translation for the currently selected language is not available, TwinStones falls back to English when an English translation file is available.

This makes it possible to add or update translations without modifying the mod itself.

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🔧 Installation

1. Install BepInEx for Valheim.
2. Place Balrond TwinStones in your BepInEx/plugins folder.
3. Start Valheim.
4. Build two Teleport Obelisks and link them together.

For multiplayer, install the mod on the server/host and on connecting clients.

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🤝 Compatibility

Balrond TwinStones is designed for multiplayer and uses Valheim's normal network synchronization for its placed objects.

Potential conflicts may occur with mods that directly modify the same Teleport Obelisk prefab, replace build-piece registration, or heavily alter player teleport behavior.

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💬 Community & Support