About Kin Catalysts
From ThunderstoreKin Catalysts adds craftable hats that lure in monsters and increase their trophy drops. Can be crafted using a creature's trophy and 5 leather scraps. Includes an editor that can edit the orientation of the hats.
Kin Catalysts
Craft hats from the trophies of fallen enemies. Wearing a hat attracts that creature and rewards you with more of its trophies.
Features
- Trophy hats for every creature. Any creature with a trophy gets a matching craftable hat, generated automatically.
- Attracts its kin while worn. Wearing a hat affects how that creature spawns nearby:
- Spawn count — multiplies how many of the creature can exist at once.
- Spawn chance — adds a flat bonus to the chance of spawning.
- Spawn timer — reduces the countdown between spawns.
- Better trophy drops. While worn, the matching creature drops more trophies (a quantity multiplier plus a flat bonus chance).
- Live hat editor. An in-game tool to position, rotate, and scale each hat on the head in real time, with per-hat overrides. Every built-in hat ships pre-tuned.
Crafting
Each hat is crafted at the Workbench from:
- 1x the creature's Trophy
- 5x Leather Scraps
The hat editor
Press F6 (configurable) to open the editor while wearing a hat.
- Adjust Position (X/Y/Z), Rotation (X/Y/Z), and Size with sliders and fine nudge buttons.
- Choose This hat for a per-hat override, or Default (all hats) for a shared offset.
- Reset restores a hat to its built-in tuned values.
- Changes apply instantly and save to
BepInEx/config/KinCatalysts_HatOffsets.cfg.
Configuration
Settings live in BepInEx/config/KinCatalysts.cfg:
| Setting | Default | Description | | --- | --- | --- | | SpawnMultiplier | 2.0 | Multiplies how many of the creature can spawn at once. | | SpawnChanceFlatBonus | 0 | Flat % added to spawn chance (capped at 100%). | | SpawnIntervalReduction | 0 | % the countdown between spawns is reduced by. | | TrophyDropMultiplier | 2.0 | Multiplies trophy drop quantity on kill. | | TrophyDropFlatBonus | 0 | Flat % chance to drop an extra trophy on kill. | | AttractionRadius | 100 | Range (m) around the player where drop boosts apply. | | HatEditor.Enabled | true | Enables the in-game hat editor. | | HatEditor.ToggleKey | F6 | Key that opens/closes the editor. |
Installation
Use a mod manager (r2modman, Gale, or Thunderstore Mod Manager) and this mod will pull in its dependencies automatically.
Manual install: install BepInEx for Valheim and Jötunn, then drop Kin Catalysts.dll into BepInEx/plugins.
Credits
Built with Jötunn, the Valheim Library.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 16d ago.
Kin Catalysts on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.0, released 2026-10-18
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 1 recorded build of Kin Catalysts.
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
- Required: Jotunn
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Kin Catalysts on a Valheim server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogCreatures & NPCs
Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-19Open ↗
- ✓AuthorJacobTeam, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
