BuildBeacon

BuildBeacon

Hang your boss trophies around a rune-carved beacon, and the materials of every biome you have conquered become free to build with nearby.

Building a big base means hauling the same stone, wood and metal back and forth long after it has stopped being a challenge. BuildBeacon rewards progress instead: once you have beaten a biome's boss, its building materials cost nothing inside your beacon's radius, or a twentieth of their price on servers that want some gathering to stay (see Free, or 95% off). Creature trophies take half or more off the rest. The discount is real: it shows in the build menu, in the piece's cost readout, and it is exactly what leaves your inventory when you place the piece.

Built on Jötunn for Valheim 1.0.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jötunn 2.30 or newer

Both are Thunderstore dependencies and install automatically with a mod manager. In multiplayer, the server and every player need the mod (see Multiplayer).

Getting started

1. Build a Build Beacon. Hammer, Misc tab. It needs a workbench nearby and costs **20 Stone and 1 Surtling

Core. While you hold a hammer, hoe or cultivator, a blue ring on the ground shows its radius: 30 metres** to start.

1. Build boss trophy holders near it. Also in the Hammer's Misc tab, near a workbench, each costing

10 Stone and 5 Wood:

• the Boss Trophy Pillar, a short stone pillar with an iron hook, for floors and the ground;
• the Boss Trophy Mount, a hexagonal plaque with a hook, for walls only.

A holder has to stand within 30 metres of a beacon, so holders can line a hall or ring the base rather than crowd the beacon. A yellow thread links them while you place it, just like a workbench and its upgrades.

1. Hang a boss trophy on each holder. Hold the trophy and press Use on the holder; press Use again to take it back.

The boss's materials are now free inside the beacon's radius (95% off, if the server chooses).

1. Slot creature trophies into the beacon itself. Press Use on the beacon to open its panel, or hold a trophy and

press Use on the beacon. Each creature trophy discounts a few of its own materials.

1. Add trophy racks for more creature trophies. Also in the Hammer's Misc tab, near a workbench, each costing

10 Wood and 5 Stone:

• the Trophy Column, a 2 m column with four alcoves round it, for floors and the ground;
• the Trophy Panel, a 2 m square wall panel with four alcoves, made to tile a wall edge to edge.

Each rack links to a beacon within 30 metres like a holder, adds four creature trophy slots on top of the beacon's own, and raises the beacon's level. Look at an alcove and press Use with a creature trophy to place it; press Use on a filled alcove to take it back.

1. Later, raise a Great Beacon. An 8-metre beacon whose own alcoves hold your boss trophies; see

The Great Beacon.

Levelling the beacon

Every boss trophy holder and trophy rack linked to a beacon raises it one level, and each level widens its radius by 10 metres. A holder or rack counts whether or not it holds a trophy yet, and any mix of the two counts.

| Holders and racks linked | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | | Radius | 30 m | 40 m | 50 m | 60 m | 70 m | 80 m | 90 m | 100 m |

Level 8 is the top; further holders and racks still hold trophies (and racks still add their slots) but add no radius. Each links to the closest beacon within 30 metres, so where two beacons are near each other, each counts for whichever one is closer. Removing one lowers the level again straight away. The beacon's hover text and panel show its current level.

Beacons of either kind need 6 metres between them; the hammer refuses a closer spot ("Need more space").

The Great Beacon

A towering, 8-metre version of the beacon, for the trophies of the bosses you have slain. It is a Build Beacon in every other way: the same discounts, ring, glow and panel, and boss trophy holders and trophy racks link to it just as they do to a beacon.

• Building it. Hammer, Misc tab, next to a Stonecutter, for 20 Grausten, 5 Surtling Cores and 1 Crystal.
• Seven boss alcoves. Its own alcoves take boss trophies, not creature trophies (those go on trophy racks beside

it). Use a boss trophy on it, or pick one in its panel. Each boss has its own alcove: on the top row Eikthyr, the Elder, Bonemass and Moder, and on the lower row Yagluth, the Queen and Fader. The front of the lower row carries a great rune in place of an eighth alcove. As everywhere, each boss counts once: one already in an alcove or on a linked holder is refused.

• Level and radius. Every boss in its alcoves raises its level, before holders and racks do. Its radius starts

wider and grows in smaller steps: 65 metres at level 1, 5 metres more each level, 100 metres at level 8.

| Level | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---| | Radius | 65 m | 70 m | 75 m | 80 m | 85 m | 90 m | 95 m | 100 m |

• Trophy sizes. The bosses are shown close to their vanilla size, the largest a little smaller so they fit round the

pillar (Bonemass at 75%, the Queen, Yagluth and Fader at 65%). Turn off ShrinkGreatBeaconTrophies to see them all at full size.

• Lit. While it counts any trophy, its great crystal turns and bobs, and the four small crystals around it circle

with it, each spinning on its own.

How discounts work

Boss trophies make materials free. Each boss is tied to the building materials of its biome: Eikthyr to the Meadows' Wood, Flint and Feathers; the Elder to Fine Wood, Core Wood, Copper, Tin and Bronze; Bonemass to Stone, Iron,