KvasturBroom

Kvastur Broom

She swept the Swamp long before she ever carried you.

Deep in the Swamp, where the rain never truly stops, the Kvastur sweep the mud for the bog witch. Bring one down, take its trophy to the Galdr Table, and bind it with refined eitr and ectoplasm. The broom wakes up.

Imbued with spirits and magic, she will carry you over forests, seas and mountains. Well, when she feels like it.

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A broom, not a horse

She doesn't gallop, she glides. Lean into the wind and she banks through the turns. Pull up and she climbs. Let go and she hangs in the air, breathing with the breeze. Your cloak streams behind you, your hands close on the shaft, and the ground falls away.

She tires like a lox does, and the spell that keeps her aloft feeds on your eitr. Fly far and you'll feel both run thin.

She has a mind of her own

She is not a tool. She is company, and she has opinions.

• Rain makes her happy. It smells like home.
• The Ashlands frighten her. She is straw and wood, after all.
• She won't carry your ore. Some things are not for magic.
• Weigh her down and she'll tell you what she thinks of it.
• Push her too hard and she'll lose her patience. She may refuse you, sulk, or simply leave you in mid-air and walk off. You'll find her later, lying in the grass like any broom.
• Get hit while riding and she won't take it quietly. She dives, leaps off and fights beside you, then lies back down as a broom when it's over.
• Wound her and she'll need time to mend. She mends faster in the mists.

And she talks, in English or in Brazilian Portuguese.

Crafting

Galdr Table: 10 Refined Eitr, 1 Kvastur Trophy, 5 Ectoplasm.

Riding

| | Keyboard | Controller | |---|---|---| | Mount / dismount | use the broom, or E | use the broom | | Fly and turn | W A S D | left stick | | Faster | Shift | run | | Up / down | Space / Z | RT / LT |

Dismount in the air and she lowers you gently to the ground. Press again to jump off.

Make her your own

Almost everything about her can be changed: how far she flies, how much eitr she drinks, her health, her temper, her fears. Every trait can be switched off, and every line she says can be rewritten. Prefer an obedient broom? Turn Personality off.

Requires BepInExPack and Jötunn. Install it for everyone who plays together. The config is personal and is not synced from the server.

Configuration

Everything lives in BepInEx/config/marce.kvasturbroom.cfg. Every description is written in English and in Brazilian Portuguese.

[Recipe]

| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | Ingredients | Eitr:10, TrophyKvastur:1, Ectoplasm:5 | Broom ingredients and amounts, as Prefab:amount separated by commas (Eitr = refined eitr, Ectoplasm, TrophyKvastur = Kvastur trophy). Requires a game restart. | | Station | piece_magetable | Prefab of the crafting station: piece_magetable (Galdr Table), piece_workbench (Workbench), forge (Forge), piece_artisanstation (Artisan Table), blackforge (Black Forge). Requires a restart. | | StationLevel | 1 | Minimum station level (1 = no upgrades). Requires a restart. | | Weight | 4 | Weight of the broom item. Requires a restart. |

[Flight]

| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | Acceleration | 6 | m/s per second when accelerating (W). | | Braking | 4 | m/s per second lost when releasing W or braking with S. At zero, the broom hovers. | | DiagonalAngle | 35 | Degrees of the diagonal climb/dive when Space or Z is pressed while moving forward. Standing still, Space/Z goes straight up and down. | | FollowCamera | false | On: without A/D pressed, the heading turns toward where the camera looks. Off: W always goes where the character faces and only A/D turn. | | LandingSpeed | 4 | m/s descending when dismounting in the air. | | RunSpeed | 24 | m/s holding run. | | Speed | 12 | m/s walking. | | TurnRateFast | 55 | Degrees per second of turning at top speed (wider turn). | | TurnRateSlow | 120 | Degrees per second of turning when still or slow. | | VerticalAcceleration | 10 | m/s per second to start and stop climbing or descending. | | VerticalSpeed | 7 | m/s climbing (Space) and descending (Z). |

[Controller]

| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | CameraDeadZone | 10 | Degrees of camera up/down that don't change altitude (camera flight). | | CameraFlight | false | On: moving forward, she climbs when you look up and dives when you look down (mouse or right stick), like the flying mounts of many games. | | TriggersClimbDescend | true | Controller (Xbox): RT climbs and LT descends, proportional to how hard you press. While mounted, the triggers don't attack or block. A also climbs. |

[Keys]

| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | Dismount | E | Dismounts (same as using the item). In the air it starts the landing; pressing again during the landing jumps off and falls. Does nothing if there is something interactable in your sights. | | Down | Z | Descends. | | Up | Space | Climbs. |

[Kvastur]

| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | AshlandsPatienceLoss | 3 | Patience lost per second flying over the Ashlands (she is afraid of the heat). | | AshlandsSecondsBeforeLanding | 6 | Seconds she puts up with the Ashlands before landing on her own. | | AttackChance | 0.06 | Chance every half second of jumping off to fight (rises with impatience). | | AttackRange | 6 | Meters: with the enemy this close and less than 5 m above the ground, she may jump off to fight. | | BroomStamina | true | Turns on the broom's own stamina (the bar on screen). Off, she flies without getting tired. | | ClimbDrain | 1 | Stamina per second while climbing. |