DeathRoulette

DeathRoulette

> Every death remakes the evening. A player falls, and the whole server gets one random event — a gift, a curse, or a cruel cosmic joke.

Server-side only. Install it once on the dedicated server, and every vanilla client plays along. Nobody installs anything, nothing changes about saves, and unmodded players connect and leave without a trace.

Built and verified against game build l-1.0.12 (network 40, world 41), BepInEx 5.4.23.5.

Source: <https://github.com/Geckuss/valheim-deathroulette>

Why you'll like it

• Zero client install. The server does everything. Your friends need nothing, and you never re-sync a modpack.
• One death, one event. No death goes unremarked: the server names the fallen -- and the

cause when it can see it -- counts down 3, 2, 1 in the raid-banner slot, and then the roulette fires. A global cooldown (default 30 s) stops a wipe from piling five events at once.

• 63 events in four personalities. Quick buffs, real raids, wild travel, visible comedy — with a default weight that leans into fun.
• Deadly but never cheap. Damage events cap at a fraction of current health, so the roulette can knock you down but never kill you itself. The fun kills you, not the mod.
• Tune everything from a config file. Change any weight, disable any event, flip raid gating — no rebuild, and admin commands can reload it live.
• Admins stay in control. Trigger any event on demand, see the odds, end raids, and audition effects — all from the in-game console.

Quick start

1. On your dedicated server, make sure BepInEx 5 and Server Devcommands are installed (Devcommands is optional but recommended — it's how admins drive the mod).
2. Drop DeathRoulette.dll into the server's BepInEx/plugins/ directory.
3. Restart the server. That's it. Players need nothing.

On first run the mod writes BepInEx/config/geckuss.deathroulette.cfg — every event with its weight, ready to tune.

A restart kicks everyone online.

Docker (lloesche/valheim-server)

The image re-syncs plugins from its persistent /config/bepinex/plugins/ bind mount at startup, so install the DLL there (not just into the live container layer) or it silently reverts on the next restart:

docker cp DeathRoulette.dll valheim:/config/bepinex/plugins/Geckuss-DeathRoulette/DeathRoulette.dll
docker restart valheim

The event table

All 63 events and their default weights. Weight 0 disables; changing a weight needs no rebuild. The armour-set and standalone potion events ship disabled (weight 0) so they can be called directly (server dr fire <id>) without rolling on their own — armour fitting and witch's brews dish them out at random instead.

Kind — the gods give back. (29)

| Event | Id | W | What happens | | ----- | -- | - | ------------ | | Forsaken Gift | forsaken_gift | 7 | A random forsaken power is granted to everyone. | | Windfall | windfall | 7 | Scatters a pile of materials on the ground at the corpse. | | Second Wind | second_wind | 6 | Every surviving player is healed to full. | | Called to the Grave | corpse_run | 5 | Fifteen seconds after dying -- once the fallen player has respawned -- they are pulled back to their grave. | | Adrenaline | adrenaline_rush | 4 | A surge for everyone: full heal, a stamina-regen buff, and Ashlands adrenaline. | | Fenris Blessing | fenris_blessing | 0 | The fenris set bonus, callable directly: faster on foot for five minutes. | | Wolf Set | wolf_set | 0 | The wolf set bonus, callable directly: frost resistance and truer blades for five minutes. | | Root Set | root_set | 0 | The root set bonus, callable directly: arrows and poison slide off for five minutes. | | Troll Set | troll_set | 0 | The troll set bonus, callable directly: sneaking sharpens for five minutes. | | Lox Set | lox_set | 0 | The lox set bonus, callable directly: a lox's hide for five minutes. | | Harvester Set | harvester_set | 0 | The harvester set bonus, callable directly: gathering comes swifter for five minutes. | | Berserk | berserk_fury | 0 | The berserker set bonus, callable directly: hits land harder for 45 seconds. | | A Path Revealed | revealed_path | 4 | Pins the nearest landmark on each player's map and turns them to face it. | | Mercy of Dawn | dawn_mercy | 4 | Time skips to the next morning. | | Granted Rest | rested | 4 | Rested buff for everyone. | | The Gods Relent | gods_relent | 4 | Ends the raid that is currently running. | | Mercy of Dusk | dusk_mercy | 4 | Time skips to the next nightfall. | | Feather Fall | feather_fall | 4 | Slow Fall on everyone for five minutes: no fall damage. | | Lessons Held | hold_lessons | 3 | No skill drain for ten minutes. | | Berserk | berserk_fury | 3 | Berserk on everyone for 45 seconds: hits land harder. | | Witch's Brews | witches_brews | 3 | A potion for everyone, picked from every potion in the mod — applied once (meads run their full duration), and each player gets one they were not just handed last time. | | Giant's Strength | giants_strength | 3 | Megingjord for everyone for five minutes: 150 carry weight. | | Armour Fitting | set_bonus | 3 | One of the seven armour-set bonuses at random, for everyone: fenris, berserk, wolf, root, troll, lox or harvester. | | Lightfoot | lightfoot | 0 | Lightfoot mead on everyone, given once for its full ten minutes: lighter steps, no fall damage. Callable directly; not rolled on its own. | | Mistveil | mistveil | 3 | Demister on everyone for five minutes: the mist parts. | | Mage's Luck | mage_luck | 0 | Minor eitr mead on everyone for three minutes: eitr regens. Callable directly; not rolled on its own. | | Wolf Sight | wolf_sight | 2 | Wolf Sight on everyone for five minutes: hits land harder. | | Magic Barrier | magic_barrier | 2 | The staff of protection's barrier wraps everyone. |