Skidbladnir

Skidbladnir

A mad dvergr engineer is building a ship to sail the sky. Help him finish it, harness two elder gjall, and fly.

What it does

Somewhere in the Mistlands of every world stands Ivaldi's tower: a dvergr keep of black marble rising out of the mist, with an empty deck on top. Ivaldi is building Skidbladnir, a drakkar that flies, and he needs a walker to fetch what he can't.

• One tower per world. It's raised at one of ten Mistlands sites (picked from your world's seed) the first

time a player comes near one, seated in the ground with a walkable approach to its stair turret. The tower's own mark appears on your map the first time you come near it.

• A quest in Valheim's own voice. Ivaldi talks in hints, never item lists. The ship grows on the tower as you

bring him what she needs:

• a hull of fired clay, made for the hot lands to the south;
• barbs for her ballistas, left lying about in the ruins of the Mistlands;
• a yellow stone from where the ground itself burns, to calm a leashed beast (so the quest waits for the

Ashlands);

• then lift: lure two elder gjall (twice the size and far tougher than normal ones) close to the moored

ship, and her ballistas fire their ropes and harness them, one to each side.

• Fly her. Take the helm: W/S set the speed, A/D steer, hold Jump to climb and Crouch to

descend. Wind speeds you up or slows you down. Nobody at the helm, she hovers where you left her.

• Firebomb from the sky. At a ballista in flight, E ("Reapply toxin") jolts that side's gjall: it drops

its ticks, which burst on impact with fire and pickaxe damage (creatures, rocks, trees, terrain; never your ship or anyone's buildings).

• Build more. When the first Skidbladnir flies, the whole world learns her recipe: the hammer (Misc tab,

a black forge in range) builds more, flight-ready. Aim at open sky and you build her right there in the air (Alt + mouse wheel sets how far out).

Finding the tower

It's in the Mistlands: come within 250 m of one of the ten sites and it rises there; the other nine are then never used. Tired of searching? About one dvergr guard tower in three hides a dvergr waymark: a small rune tablet like the one by the Seeker Queen's door, tucked against a wall inside. Read it and it marks the nearest place the tower stands, or may yet rise, on your map. The first reading in a world settles it: the tower will rise there and nowhere else, and every waymark points the same way. Once you've met Ivaldi, everything else is up to his hints.

Installation

Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager; BepInExPack Valheim comes as a dependency. No Jotunn needed.

Manual install: put Skidbladnir.dll in Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\Skidbladnir\.

Multiplayer: every player and the dedicated server need the mod, on the same version. The server sends its gameplay settings to each player as they join (Ivaldi's look stays each player's own), and a player on a different version gets a warning.

Like other mods, this marks your game as modded, as Iron Gate asks of mod authors.

Settings

BepInEx\config\com.chase.skidbladnir.cfg (r2modman: Config editor). The main ones:

| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | Quest / HullCost | CeramicPlate:30 | What the hull costs. | | Quest / HookItem, HookAmount | Hook, 4 | The barbs for the ballistas. | | Quest / ToxinItem, ToxinAmount | SulfurStone, 10 | The stone that calms a gjall. | | Quest / DiscoverRadius | 250 | How close you must come to a site for the tower to rise. | | Quest / Waymarks | true | Dvergr waymarks inside some guard towers, pointing the way to the tower. | | Quest / WaymarkChance | 0.33 | Share of the guard towers that have one. | | Quest / CaptureRadius | 35 | How close an elder gjall must come to a harness for the ballistas to fire. | | Recipe / Cost | CeramicPlate:30, Hook:4, SulfurStone:10, Bilebag:2 | What another ship costs on the hammer. | | Recipe / Station | blackforge | The station that must be in range to build one. | | Recipe / AirPlaceDistance | 20 | How far out the frame goes when you build in the air. | | Flight / SpeedSlow, SpeedHalf, SpeedFull | 4, 8, 12 | Airspeed (m/s) at each speed setting. | | Flight / ClimbSpeed | 4 | Climb and descent speed (m/s). | | Flight / MaxAltitude | 400 | The ceiling. | | Elder Gjall / Scale, HealthMultiplier, DamageMultiplier | 2, 3, 1.75 | How big and tough the elder gjall are. | | Elder Gjall / SpawnChance, SpawnInterval, MaxNearTower | 0.35, 60, 2 | How often they appear near the tower (until the ship flies). | | Bombing / TicksPerDrop, FireDamage, PickaxeDamage, Radius, Cooldown | 3, 40, 60, 4, 20 | The toxin bombs. | | Tower / SinkDepth | 1 | How deep the tower is set into the ground. | | Ivaldi / CustomLook, Suit, BackTool | on | Ivaldi dressed as a master smith (looks only, per player). | | Dev / AdminCheatsOnServers | off | Lets a dedicated server's admins use cheats in their own game (debugmode, fly, nocost...), which Valheim otherwise allows only the host. |

Commands

All need devcommands (cheats):