VargheimWard

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VargheimWard

Thor's Blessing: a small Mjölnir statue an admin places that raises a shield dome. Nothing hostile passes it, and you can build beneath it. Goes on the server and on every player's PC.

What it does

• An admin (devcommands on) finds Thor's Blessing under Misc in the hammer and places it. Nobody else sees it in the hammer, and nobody else can take it down.
• The statue raises a solid dome, 12 m by default. Enemies and projectiles bounce off it, exactly like the Ashlands shield generator — because it is one, with its fuel need removed and its radius pinned. Creatures don't spawn inside and raids don't start there.
• Building inside the dome works as normal. It's meant for the community hub, a market, a harbour — a quiet circle the server grants, not something players earn or defend.
• The ward itself can't be damaged.

The statue model

Out of the box the statue is the Mjölnir from ward_statue.obj beside the DLL (generated by art/gen_statue.py), dressed in vanilla stone, wood and dvergr metal in the shader's triplanar mode. StatueParts can instead assemble a statue from scaled vanilla pieces, or Statue names a vanilla statue (Statue in the config: StatueDeer, StatueHare, StatueCorgi, StatueEvil, StatueSeed or any piece prefab). To use a custom model, put a Unity asset bundle named ward.bundle beside VargheimWard.dll containing a prefab called ward_statue; the mod loads it instead. The bundle only needs to exist on the clients' side to be seen, but ship it in the package so everyone has it.

Settings (digi.vargheim.ward.cfg)

| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | Radius | 12 | Dome radius in metres | | Name / Description | Thor's Blessing | Hammer and hover text | | Statue | StatueDeer | Vanilla prefab used as the model when there is no ward.bundle | | StatueParts | (empty) | prefab:W,H,D:y[:rotY] entries, ;-separated — the vanilla pieces the statue is built from | | StatueScale | 1 | Scale of the statue model | | TextureScale | 3 | Texture repeats per metre on the statue (higher = finer grain) | | StatueMaterials | plinth:#5a5651… | Colour (and metallic, smoothness) per statue group, ;-separated; or group:prefab to borrow a vanilla material (the default is solid colours: grey stone, gold band and cap, wood handle, iron head) | | Resources | Stone:10,Wood:5 | Build cost (admins only build it) | | AdminOnly | true | Only players with devcommands active can place or remove it | | NoSpawns | true | Also stops creature spawns and raids inside the dome |

Edit the config on the server; the piece is created at world load, so changes need a restart.

Compatibility

Needs a game version with the Ashlands shield generator (any 1.0 build). No other dependencies. Works alongside the Vargheim profession pack and everything else in the Season 2 list.

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