ChebsMercenaries

Cheb's Mercenaries

Cheb's Mercenaries adds mercenaries to Valheim that you can purchase with gold and upgrade with materials to fight (warriors, archers) or perform work (lumberjacks, miners).

It is related to my other mod called Cheb's Necromancy and shares a lot of concepts and functionality. It's basically for people that want living human minions rather than the undead.

About Me

I'm a YouTuber/Game Developer/Modder who is interested in all things necromancy and minion-related. Please check out my YouTube channel and if you like the work I do and want to give back, please consider supporting me on Patreon or throwing me a dime on Ko-fi. You can also check out my website where I host information on all known necromancy mods, games, books, videos and also some written reviews/guides.

Thank you and I hope you enjoy the mod! If you have questions or need help please contact me on Discord and @ me so I see it.

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Reporting Bugs & Requesting Features

If you would like to report a bug or request a feature, the best way to do it (in order from most preferable to least preferable) is:

a) Create an issue on my GitHub.

b) Create a bug report on the Nexus page.

c) Write to me on Discord.

d) Write a comment on the Nexus page.

Requirements

• Valheim Mistlands
• BepInEx
• Jotunn
• Cheb's Valheim Library (included)

Installation (manual)

• Extract the contents of the plugins folder to your BepInEx plugins folder in the Valheim directory.

A correct installation looks like:

plugins/
├── Translations
├── chebgonaz
├── chebgonaz.manifest
├── ChebsMercenaries.dll
├── ChebsValheimLibrary.dll
└── ... other mods ...

Cheb's Valheim Library

Cheb's Valheim Library (CVL) is a DLL that contains shared code across my mods. For example, both skeletons from Cheb's Necromancy and mercenaries from Cheb's Mercenaries inherit the ChebGonazMinion type from CVL. This permits mercenaries to be commanded by a wand, and vice versa.

My mods are bundled with the latest CVL at the time of their release, but if you want to upgrade, you can get the newest CVL here.

Features

Detailed info in the wiki. Here's the short version:

• Almost everything is, or will soon be, configurable. Minions too weak/overpowered? Tweak them.
• Craftable structure at the workbench:

+ Mercenaries Chest: Hire warriors, archers, catapults, miners, and lumberjacks.

• Put coins and other items in the chest to recruit a mercenary:
• Tier 1 warrior: 5 CookedMeat/Coins, 1 Club
• Tier 2 warrior: 25 Coins
• Tier 3 warrior: 50 Coins
• Tier 4 warrior: 100 Coins
• Tier 1 archer: 5 CookedMeat/Coins, 20 ArrowWood
• Tier 2 archer: 50 Coins, 10 ArrowBronze
• Tier 3 archer: 100 Coins, 10 ArrowIron
• Miner: 5 Coins, 1 HardAntler
• Woodcutter: 5 Coins, 1 Flint
• Catapult: 25 Wood, 5 Core Wood, 1 Bronze
• Put extra stuff in there to give the mercenary clothing:
• Leather armor: 2 DeerHide/LeatherScraps/Scales
• Troll armor: 2 TrollHide
• Wolf armor: 2 WolfPelt
• Lox armor: 2 LoxPelt
• Bronze armor: 1 Bronze
• Iron armor: 1 Iron
• Black metal armor: 1 Black Metal
• Special Equipment:
• Special equipment added by joel in 3.1.0. Includes carapace and flametal armor as well as very high quality weaponry such as JotunBane, Mistwalker, Eldner, Niedhogg and Splitner.
• Carapace: 1 Carapace
• Flametal: 1 FlametalNew
• Ownership
• Mercenaries have no owner until first activated (with E), after which they only ever respond to that one player.
• Roam/Wait/Follow
• Works the same as in Cheb's Necromancy
• Weapons of Command can be crafted at the forge. They're equivalent to black metal weaponry and can be used to command groups of nearby mercenaries with:

+ F will make all nearby minions follow you. + T will make all nearby minions wait. + Shift+T will make minions roam. + G will teleport all following minions to your position (useful if stuck or to get them on boats)

With Cheb's Necromancy Installed

If you have Cheb's Necromancy 3.0.0 or newer installed beside the mod, the wand should also work to command the mercenaries with. Weapons of Command should also work to command the undead minions with.

Config

Attention: To edit the config as described, the Configuration Manager is the most user friendly way. This is a separate mod. Please download and install it.

Press F1 to open the mod's configuration panel.