VegvisirCompass

Vegvísir Compass

A BepInEx mod for Valheim, built for no-map multiplayer playthroughs.

Interacting with a Vegvísir no longer reveals the boss on your map. Instead you loot a Vegvísir Compass — a limited-use item that swings your view toward the boss that stone points at, then crumbles once it is spent.

Breaking the Malicious Ice at the bottom of Mörkhalla drops a different compass, right there in the hall, and starts a Jotun invasion somewhere in the world. The compass is how you find that invasion. It is not spent, works at any distance, and turns you toward the nearest invasion that is still standing.

What it does

• Interacting with a Vegvísir grants a Vegvísir Compass instead of revealing

a map location.

• Each compass is named for its target — Vegvisir Compass - Moder — so you

can tell at a glance which boss it points at.

• Stones can optionally go on a shared cooldown afterwards, applying to every

player on the server. Off by default.

• A player may carry only one compass per target — holding one for The Elder

does not stop you looting one for The Queen, but a second Elder compass is refused. Targets are matched by location, not by the displayed name, so stones sharing a label (such as the Ashlands Dyrnwyn chain) never block each other. The rule applies to picking one up off the ground as well as looting, so a compass cannot be duplicated by dropping it first. Compasses are not swept up by auto-pickup; press use to take one.

• Using the compass points the camera at the boss. It has a single use by default,

and is destroyed once spent.

• A compass only works within 350m of the Vegvísir it came from, measured on

the X/Z plane so height is ignored. Out of range costs nothing: no use is spent and the camera does not move. The Jotun invasion compass has no such limit.

• Aiming turns you to face the boss and levels the view on the horizon, rather

than tilting up a mountain or down into a valley.

• A 1 second guard stops a double-keypress burning two uses at once.
• A stone naming several places grants one compass for each — Hildir's map

table is a Vegvísir carrying all three of her quest dungeons. Targets you already carry are skipped rather than refusing the whole stone.

• Merchant lorestones: biome runestones far enough from the world centre also

grant a compass — Black Forest → Haldor, Meadows and Plains → Hildir, Swamp → the Bog Witch, Mountains → the Forge of Potential. The stone still shows its lore text.

• Hildir's map table grants compasses for her three quest dungeons, named

Brass, Silver and Bronze.

• Merchants settle where you trade with them, not at the first camp anyone

walks past. The Forge of Potential settles when you open it, the same way. New worlds only (or worlds the mod has managed from the start).

• Jotun invasions: destroying the Malicious Ice at the bottom of Mörkhalla

drops one compass where that ice stood, before you leave the hall. It is not destroyed on use and can be read anywhere. Each reading turns you toward the nearest invasion that still has its ice, which is how you find the crystal the hall just called down. Breaking that crystal ends the invasion and does not drop another compass. You can carry one, the same as any other compass; a later hall still drops one, and it waits on the floor until you are not already holding one. If three invasions are already active, the hall ice starts no new one, and the compass still drops so those can be found.

• Icons are coloured by what they point at, so a full pack stays readable at

a glance: gold for bosses, grey for merchants, red for Ashlands Mysterious Locations, purple for Hildir's quest dungeons, ice-blue for the Forge of Potential, teal for Jotun invasions.

The map is never touched. See No map, really for why that needed care.

Requirements

| | | |---|---| | Valheim | Unity 6000.0.61f1, build 21981559 | | BepInEx | 5.4.2333 (BepInExPack_Valheim) | | .NET SDK | 9.0 — to build only; players need nothing beyond BepInEx |

No Jotunn, no ServerSync, no other plugin dependencies.

Everyone needs it. The compass is a real item prefab, so the mod must be installed on the dedicated server and on every connecting client.

Installing

Releases ship every Mushroom mod together. Download MushroomMods-plugins.zip from the latest release, take VegvisirCompass.dll out of its plugins/ folder, and drop it into BepInEx/plugins/:

Valheim/
└── BepInEx/
    └── plugins/
        └── VegvisirCompass.dll

Do this on every client and on the dedicated server. For the server that is its own Valheim directory — the folder holding valheim_server.exe and its BepInEx/.

Mod managers such as r2modman and Vortex will also take a bare DLL through their Import local mod / manual-install flow.

Afterwards

The config file appears on first launch at BepInEx/config/vegvisircompass.cfg.

> Coming from 1.4.1 or earlier? The file used to be named after the plugin > GUID, com.dhobbs.vegvisircompass.cfg. It is renamed automatically on first > launch and your settings come with it — nothing to do. Both the client and the > dedicated server have their own copy, so both get renamed.

> Upgrading? BepInEx never overwrites a setting already present in your > config file, so new defaults do not reach an existing install. If a release > changes a default you want, edit that line yourself or delete the file and let > it regenerate.

Remember the mod has to be on the server and every client — the compass is a real item prefab, so a client without it will not have the item.