LivingCompanion

Living Companion (beta)

One autonomous companion for single-player Valheim. It follows you, fights (it dodges, and has tactics for 163 creatures and for the bosses), gathers and mines, crafts from zero, smelts, hunts, farms, swims, survives its own death and goes back for its things. Since 0.3 it also keeps your base running: it refuels the fires, tends the smelters and the charcoal kiln, empties the hives, feeds penned animals by hand, repairs the base and plants trees back. You talk to it with short typed phrases (Russian or English) or with buttons. There is no microphone input and no multiplayer.

> This is a beta. Read "Honest status" below before you trust it with a world you care about, and back up your worlds and characters first.

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60 seconds to a companion

1. Start Valheim with the launch option -console (Steam: Properties, Launch options) and load a single-player world.
2. Press F5 and type lc_spawn. One companion appears with an empty pack; a second one is never created.
3. Walk up to it (within 3 m, clear line of sight) and press E. The window has seven tabs: Talk, Inventory, Tasks, Map, Rules, Rights, Notes (Ctrl+1 to Ctrl+7). Esc closes it.
4. Inventory tab: give it real food, a weapon, armor and tools. The mod never creates gear from a command.
5. Talk tab: type one short phrase and send it, for example follow me, gather 10 flint, chop 10 wood, go home. The Tasks tab has Quick commands, one button per common order, no typing.
6. Far away? F7 opens a limited remote window and H sends a one-line message. New rights, item transfers and work orders still need you within 3 m.
7. If it stands still, type why did you stop. It tells the reason: a missing right, tool, food, or an unsafe route.

How phrases work:

• One order per message, up to 240 characters. Case, a final . ? ! and a leading or trailing "please" are ignored.
• Numbers are digits or English words (gather ten flint). "A few" and "several" are not numbers.
• Item names are singular and match what your game shows: craft hammer, not craft hammers.
• Chain up to three orders with then (chop 20 wood then go home), or two with a plain and.
• Russian works everywhere, English works in most places. The mod language follows the game language ([Localization] Language = auto); set Valheim itself to English for English item names.

The 15 phrases you will use most

Each phrase has a Russian twin that gives the same order. Every pair was run through the mod's real phrase parser (English and Russian) and reads as the same kind of order.

| Say | Or in Russian | What happens | |---|---|---| | follow me | иди за мной | Follows you | | stay | стой | Waits where it stands | | go home | возвращайся домой | Walks to the home you set | | this is our home | это наш дом | Saves the place where it stands as home (the base work is measured from it) | | what are you doing | что ты делаешь | Says what it does now | | why did you stop | почему остановился | Says why it stopped or refused | | chop 10 wood | сруби 10 древесины | Fells trees with its own axe | | gather 10 flint | собери 10 кремня | Picks up what lies around | | mine 5 copper ore | добудь 5 медной руды | Mines with its own pickaxe | | collect 100 wood and deliver it to the chest | собери 100 дерева и доставь в сундук | A long delivery goal into a chest it may use | | smelt 10 copper ore | расплавь 10 медной руды | Walks to a smelter, loads it, takes the bars | | take anything from this chest | бери всё из этого сундука | Look at a chest: it may take from it | | put everything in this chest | складывай всё в этот сундук | Look at a chest: it may put things into it | | this chest is for ore | этот сундук для руды | Labels the chest for sorting | | bring me 20 wood from the chest | принеси мне 20 дерева из сундука | Fetches it from the chests it may take from and hands it to you |

Also useful: sort the chests (отсортируй сундуки), this is the sort chest (этот сундук для разбора), feed the animals yourself (корми животных сам), allow repairs (разрешаю ремонт), cancel the task (отмени задачу), repair your gear (почини снаряжение), go to sleep (иди спать), and for the long goals allow campaigns (разрешаю кампании) and then defeat Eikthyr (победи Эйктюра; boss fights: see "Honest status").

Base life (new in 0.3)

A companion that stands idle at home now looks after the base without being told. It starts after it has stood quietly for 2 minutes ([Autonomy] IdleSeconds) at home, in Stay, Guard or beside you. Danger, a conversation, an order or a command of yours ends the job at once.

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