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 dependencies and install automatically with a mod manager. In multiplayer, the server and every

player need the mod (see Multiplayer).

Getting started

• 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.

• 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.

• 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).

• 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.

• 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.

• 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 t