Sproti

Sproti - Grumpy Farmer (Version 0.5.4)

What he lacks in OP-ness he makes up for in grumpiness.

Sproti is a grumpy forest creature who loves trees and all plants, really – probably because he is one. He used to live in an old stump until he vanished into the Black Forest years ago, and now no one has seen him in a long time. Rumor has it he is in danger, and someone should really go look for him.

They say he is a great gardener and grows the tastiest crops. If you get him out of trouble, he might be persuaded to help with your farm. Give him seeds and he plants them, harvests what is ripe, cultivates the ground and even grows a small forest for you. Don't touch his stuff, though.

The details are hidden in the Spoilers section at the end.

Sproti on Thunderstore | Nexus Mods | Hexium

Features

• Sproti's Tree: a tree house with two built-in chests for seeds and harvest.
• Farming: Sproti harvests ripe crops and seed crops into the harvest chest and replants them from the seed chest on cultivated ground in his work area. He also picks berries, mushrooms and flowers that grow back, wild or planted, in his area.
• Cultivating: put a cultivator in the seed chest and he cultivates the work area himself.
• Tree nursery: a second area where he plants trees from tree seeds.
• Upgrades: bigger work area, bigger chests, and regrowing tree stumps.
• Status display: a symbol above his house shows what he is doing.
• Multiplayer: works for all players, with ward permissions and ownership respected.
• Config: Mod has some config options for visuals, sound, map icons.
• Commands: Mod offers a few console commands for convenience.

Requirements and installation

• BepInExPack Valheim: Thunderstore | Nexus Mods | Hexium
• Jötunn (2.27.1 or newer; latest recommended: 2.30.2): Thunderstore | Nexus Mods | Hexium

Install with a mod manager, or manually: put Sproti.dll into BepInEx/plugins/. The config file is automatically created by BepInEx.

Multiplayer: every player and the server need the mod. Players with a different minor version (e.g. 0.1 vs 0.2) cannot join.

Getting started

1. Meet Sproti and learn the recipe for Sproti's Tree (see Spoilers).
2. Build the tree with the hammer, near a workbench. Cost: 25 Ancient bark, 10 Fine wood, 1 Acorn, 2 Bronze.
3. Put seeds into the left chest (seed chest). Collect the harvest from the right chest (harvest chest).
4. Cultivate a field in his work area yourself, or put a cultivator into the seed chest and let him do it.

Where you can build the tree

• Only in the Meadows, Black Forest, Plains and Mistlands. He is a forest spirit and is not fine with fire, snow and muddy things.
• Only on natural ground, not on floors or other building pieces.
• Sproti needs room to reach his door and chests: no bushes, rocks, stumps or logs within about 3 m of the tree. Plants, pickable stones and building pieces are fine.
• One tree per player per world. Removed or destroyed trees no longer count.
• The work areas of different players may not overlap. A new tree or tree nursery must keep clear of other players' areas.

The tree

• Work area: 10 m radius around the tree (12 m with the upgrade). It also counts as a player base, so nothing decays inside.
• Show the area: hold a cultivator, or use Shift+E on the tree to see the circle for 10 seconds. Normal E opens the upgrade menu.
• The chests are regular public chests and are protected by wards like any other chest. They cannot be removed or damaged on their own; damage only hits the tree.
• Removing the tree is always possible, even with full chests. Both chests drop their contents, and you get back the building cost and the cost of all bought upgrades.
• The lantern lights up at night. The cultivator leaning at the door means Sproti is at home.
• A small paved patch in front of the door stays free; Sproti never plants or cultivates there.
• The ground under the house is cultivated once when you place the tree, so no grass grows through it.

How Sproti works

Sproti stays inside his tree until there is work. He pops out, thinks for a moment, works until done, and pops back in when there is nothing left to do.

Work order: cultivating (only with a cultivator in the seed chest) before harvesting before planting.

Harvesting

• He harvests one kind of crop per round, all ripe plants of that kind, then carries the yield to the harvest chest.
• He only harvests when the full possible yield fits into the harvest chest. A full harvest chest means no harvesting. He prefers crops that already have a not-full stack in the chest.
• He never takes anything back out of the harvest chest.
• Besides crops, he picks plants that grow back in place: berry bushes, mushrooms, flowers and the like, wild ones too. Branches, stones, flint and treasure are left alone. He does not plant these himself.

Planting