BlueCollarTrolls
Automated troll labor through Norse wards. Bind tamed trolls to lumber, quarry, and farming wards to automate resource harvesting and base defense.
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Blue Collar Trolls
Hire friendly, hard-working trolls to run your Viking settlement! Blue Collar Trolls introduces specialised Norse Trolwards that recruit local trolls into honest labor. Bind a troll to a ward, feed them from their dedicated larder, and let them chop trees, mine deposits, tend crops, haul items, or defend your perimeter.
A Valheim BepInEx 5 plugin built on Jotunn.
Trolwards
| Trolward | Role | Behavior |
|----------|------|----------|
| Lumber Trolward | Logging | Fells trees, splits logs, and stacks timber within ward radius. |
| Mining Trolward | Quarrying | Breaks rocks, ore deposits, and collects mineral chunks. |
| Farming Trolward | Agriculture | Plants, cultivates, and harvests crops in prepared farm plots. |
| Sorting Trolward | Logistics | Collects loose dropped items and organizes/merges nearby storage chests. |
| Defense Trolward | Security | Patrols the ward radius and thrashes any hostile monsters that intrude. |
Each ward includes an integrated Larder (food container). Trolls require feeding to maintain energy and reputation—keep the larder stocked with hearty food to keep your blue-collar workforce happy and productive!
Requirements
- BepInExPack Valheim
- Jotunn (2.30.x)
- Valheim 1.0.16+
Installation
- Install via your preferred mod manager (recommended), which automatically installs BepInEx and Jotunn.
- Manual: place BlueCollarTrolls.dll into your BepInEx\plugins\BlueCollarTrolls\ folder.
How to Use
- Build a Trolward from the Hammer build menu (under Misc or the DFG tab if using DFGHub).
- Open the ward's Larder and deposit food (meat, fish, berries, stew).
- Interact with the ward to inspect worker troll status, reputation, active job assignments, and radius.
- For farming wards, access the Farming GUI to designate crop types and plot boundaries.
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Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: