CharmaKameleon

CharmaKameleon

Tame wild necks like wolves - then breed them for tiny hatchlings that grow up right before your eyes.

Features

• Tame necks like wolves. Feed a wild neck raw meat (meat), keep your

distance while it tames — it fights back, and it spits — then claim it: pet it, give it a name, and command Follow / Stay. It will defend you like any tamed wolf.

• Necks can breed. Keep a fed, tamed pair together and they'll form a

loving bond — watch for the heart effects — and after a pregnancy of about a day the mother gives birth in front of you.

• hatchlings are born small. Newborn neck hatchlings spawn at 30% size and grow to full

size over one in-game day. All completely configurable.

• Rare hatchlings colours. Every hatchling has a small chance of being Ember,

Ash or Copper instead of the natural coat. — . The colour is rolled once, at birth, and saved to that neck, so it survives unloading and growing up, and an Ember cub stays Ember for life.

• Stats like a wolf's. Necks use the wolf's diet, feeding behaviour and

breeding parameters, so everything works exactly like you'd expect from taming a wolf — just spittier, and with cute widdle lizzards.

Install

Requires [BepInEx] and [Jotunn] for Valheim.

1. Extract the zip into BepInEx\plugins\ inside your Valheim install (the

plugins\CharmaKameleon\ folder merges straight in).

1. Start Valheim through your mod manager of choice.
2. Find a wild neck, drop raw meat near it, and stay back while it tames.

Config

BepInEx\config\wayfarers.tameablenecks.cfg — all settings reload on next start.

| Section | Setting | Default | What it does | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | General | TargetPrefab | Neck | Prefab to tame. Only change this if necks are not becoming tameable at all | | Appearance | BabyScale | 0.3 | Newborn cub spawn scale (1.0 = adult) | | Growth | GrowTime | 1800 | Seconds for a cub to grow to full size (1800 = 1 day) | | Growth | DebugLog | false | Log baby-size decisions | | Neck Colors | Enabled | true | Allow rare cub colours | | Neck Colors | EmberChance | 0.05 | Chance a newborn cub is Ember (burnt orange) | | Neck Colors | AshChance | 0.05 | Chance a newborn cub is Ash (cool grey) | | Neck Colors | CopperChance | 0.05 | Chance a newborn cub is Copper (warm bronze) | | Neck Colors | ForceVariant | (empty) | Testing only. Set to Ember, Ash or Copper to force every newborn cub to that colour instead of rolling. Clear it when you are done | | Neck Colors | TintMode | Texture | Texture recolours the hide texture and is the only mode that reproduces the true Ember hues. Flat just multiplies the material colour, which can only darken toward Ash | | Neck Colors | TintEyes | false | Also tint eyes, claws and teeth | | Neck Colors | ResetColors | false | Forget every cub's saved colour and re-roll from the chances above. Turn on, load the world once, then turn back off | | Neck Colors | DebugLog | false | Log the colour roll and which materials were recoloured | | Breeding | Enabled | true | Master breeding switch | | Breeding | FedDuration | 7200 | Seconds a neck stays fed after eating (breeding blocks while hungry) | | Breeding | RequiredLovePoints | 5 | Love points needed to get pregnant | | Breeding | PregnancyChance | 0.25 | Chance per check to gain a love point | | Breeding | PregnancyDuration | 1800 | Seconds the pregnancy lasts before birth (1 day) | | Breeding | UpdateInterval | 2 | Seconds between breeding checks | | Breeding | MaxCreatures | 30 | Max necks within TotalCheckRange before breeding pauses | | Breeding | TotalCheckRange | 20 | Radius for the total-neck count | | Breeding | PartnerCheckRange | 30 | Radius a second tamed neck must be within | | Breeding | DebugLog | false | Log one breeding status line per tamed neck every ~20 s |

Multiplayer & dedicated servers

Every client needs the mod. On a dedicated server, drop the same dll into the server's BepInEx\plugins\ — breeding is server-authoritative, so the server must run it too.

Credits

Built for the fun, with [Jotunn]. Inspired by getting spat at one too many times. :)

Support

If a Neckling ever spat in your face and you laughed instead of reloading, you can chip in towards keeping it (and my tools) going:

Donate via PayPal

Thank you! :neck:

[BepInEx]: https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/denikson/BepInExPack_Valheim/ [Jotunn]: https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/Jotunn/Jotunn/