VanillaMagic

VanillaMagic

Vanilla-friendly early-game magic for Valheim.

In vanilla, magic only becomes available in the Mistlands. VanillaMagic adds a small set of basic magic tools that you can use from the Black Forest through the Plains, so a mage playthrough can start much earlier.

The goal is to fit in, not to replace anything. Everything is built from the game's own models, materials and effects, so it looks and feels like vanilla Valheim. The numbers are tuned to sit next to the bows and weapons of each biome rather than outclass them. Your Mistlands staves stay an upgrade.

Features

Wands and staves

Crafted at the Forge, one per biome, each a step up from the last:

| Item | Biome | Forge lvl | Recipe | What it does | |---|---|---|---|---| | Flame Wand | Black Forest | 1 | 7 Bronze, 1 Surtling Core | Rapid stream of embers. 20 blunt + 20 fire per bolt, 7 eitr | | Healing Staff | Swamp | 2 | 10 Withered Bone, 2 Ancient Seed, 10 Ectoplasm | Heals you and everyone standing close for 12/15/20/25 s (by quality), 20 eitr + 30% health | | Frost Wand | Mountains | 3 | 28 Silver, 1 Crystal, 2 Freeze Gland | Single frost bolt that bursts on impact. 90 frost, 30 eitr | | Stone Wand | Plains | 4 | 18 Black Metal, 4 Obsidian, 5 Fine Wood | Heavy rock that shatters and knocks enemies back. 240 blunt, 40 eitr |

All of them can be upgraded at the Forge and use the vanilla magic skills.

Eitr food

You need eitr to cast, so the mod adds a few early sources of it:

• Wildberries: a glowing purple bush found in the Black Forest (more rarely in the Swamp and Plains). Eat the berries raw for a little eitr.
• Ghostshake (Cauldron lvl 2): 4 Wildberries + 1 Ectoplasm. A light eitr meal (5 HP / 20 stamina / 40 eitr).
• Blue Mushroom: grows in Frost Caves in the Mountains, using the game's own unused blue mushroom (15 HP / 10 stamina / 25 eitr).
• Mushroom Soup (Cauldron lvl 3): 1 Mushroom + 1 Yellow Mushroom + 1 Blue Mushroom makes 2 bowls (20 HP / 23 stamina / 25 eitr, 25 min).
• Crystal Sugar: grind Crystal in the Windmill.
• Eyescream with Sprinkles (Cauldron lvl 3): the Eyescream recipe + 1 Crystal Sugar, trading a little health and stamina for 10 eitr.
• Frosted Sweetbread: Viking Cupcake dough + 1 Crystal Sugar at the Prep Table, then bake it. The frosted Viking Cupcake now gives 20 eitr (33 / 33 / 20). Baking plain dough gives the new unfrosted Sweetbread with vanilla stats.

All of these foods can be placed with the Serving Tray, like vanilla food.

Wraith armor

A 4-piece mage set for the Swamp-to-Mountains stretch (hood, robe, leggings, cape), made from wraith chains and Fenris hair, crafted and upgraded at the Workbench:

• Light armor (8, +3 per level) with eitr regeneration on every piece.
• Full set bonus: +10 Elemental Magic and +10 Blood Magic.
• The cape is frost resistant.
• Upgrade costs grow with the biomes (Wolf Hair Bundle, Ectoplasm, Leather Scraps, Chain).

Drop changes

These make the ingredients reachable in their own biome:

• Wraiths (Swamp, at night) always drop 1-4 Ectoplasm (same as the vanilla Ghost). Their trophy drops 33% of the time (vanilla: 5%). Ghosts now drop it only 10% of the time.
• Fenrings have a 25% chance to drop a Wolf Hair Bundle.

The Ghost and Fenring drops can be changed in the config.

Installation

With a mod manager (recommended)

Install with r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager. BepInEx and Jötunn are installed automatically.

Manual

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Install Jötunn.
3. Copy VanillaMagic.dll into BepInEx/plugins/VanillaMagic/.

Multiplayer

Everyone must have the mod, including the server, with the same minor version. Jötunn checks this when you connect.

Configuration

Settings are in BepInEx/config/com.barnabur.vanillamagic.cfg, created on first launch. You can also edit them in game with Configuration Manager (F1).

| Setting | Default | Description | |---|---|---| | Drops.FenringHairChance | 25 | Chance (%) that a Fenring drops a Wolf Hair Bundle | | Drops.FenringHairAmount | 1 | How many Wolf Hair Bundles a Fenring drops | | Drops.GhostEctoplasmChance | 10 | Chance (%) that a Ghost drops Ectoplasm (vanilla: 100) | | Drops.GhostEctoplasmAmount | 1 | How much Ectoplasm a Ghost drops (vanilla: 1-5) |

On a server, the server's values are synced to all players. Changes apply right away, also to creatures already in the world.

Compatibility

• Wands, armor and foods are new items. Vanilla items are only touched where listed above (Viking Cupcake stats, the oven conversion, Ectoplasm/Fenring drops, the unused blue mushroom, the Serving Tray food list).
• Frost Caves get variants of their rooms with mushroom spots. Only newly generated caves have mushrooms, so explore new areas or use a new world.
• Mods that heavily rework the same drops or the Viking Cupcake may override each other's changes.

Planned

• More config options: damage, eitr costs, recipes and the remaining drops (the first drop settings arrived in 0.0.4).
• Balance pass: further tuning of wand damage and eitr costs, Wraith armor stats and drop rates, based on playtesting and feedback.

Changelog

0.1.3

• Wraith Trophy drop chance raised to 33% (vanilla: 5%).

0.1.2

• New food: Mushroom Soup (Cauldron lvl 3): 1 Mushroom + 1 Yellow Mushroom + 1 Blue Mushroom makes 2 bowls (20 HP / 23 stamina / 25 eitr, 25 min).