ChebsNecromancy
Cheb's Necromancy adds Necromancy to Valheim via craftable wands and structures. Minions will follow you, guard your base, and perform menial tasks.
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Cheb's Necromancy
Cheb's Necromancy adds Necromancy to Valheim via craftable wands and structures. Minions will follow you, guard your base, and perform menial tasks like woodcutting, farming, mining.
Confused? Try the wiki.
About Me
I'm a YouTuber/Game Developer/Modder who is interested in all things necromancy and minion-related. Please check out my YouTube channel and if you like the work I do and want to give back, please consider supporting me on Patreon or throwing me a dime on Ko-fi. You can also check out my website where I host information on all known necromancy mods, games, books, videos and also some written reviews/guides.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy the mod! If you have questions or need help ask me on Discord.
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Reporting Bugs & Requesting Features
If you would like to report a bug or request a feature, the best way to do it (in order from most preferable to least preferable) is:
a) Create an issue on my GitHub.
b) Write to me on Discord.
c) Write a comment page.
Requirements
- Valheim
- BepInEx
- Jotunn
Installation (manual)
- Drag the contents of the plugins folder from inside the archive to your BepInEx plugins folder in the Valheim directory.
Cheb's Valheim Library
Cheb's Valheim Library (CVL) is a DLL that contains shared code across my mods. For example, both skeletons from Cheb's Necromancy and mercenaries from Cheb's Mercenaries inherit the ChebGonazMinion type from CVL. This permits mercenaries to be commanded by a wand, and vice versa.
My mods are bundled with the latest CVL at the time of their release, but if you want to upgrade, you can get the newest CVL here.
Features
Detailed info in the wiki. Here's the short version:
- Almost everything is configurable. Minions too weak/overpowered? Tweak them.
- Player vs Player (PvP) settings can be configured as of 4.5.0.
- As of 4.6.0, further minion appearance customization options are available. You can change the eye color of your minions and also give them special symbols on their capes. And in 4.7.0 you can change the bone color of skeletons too.
- Craftable items at the workbench and forge:
+ Skeleton Wand: Summons skeleton warriors, archers, miners, and woodcutters.
+ Draugr Wand: Summons draugr warriors and archers.
+ Orb of Beckoning Summons skeleton mages and can be thrown to direct minions to go somewhere. It also sticks to enemies so that minions will chase after an enemy.
+ Spectral Shroud: A cloak that increases your Necromancy level, looks cool, and attracts spirits to it. If you're powerful enough, they will serve.
+ Necromancer Hood: A cool hood to match the cloak.
+ Necromancer's Backpack: An optional integration with AdventureBackpacks (, ), which offers a Necromancy backpack that doubles as a Spectral Shroud.
- While holding a Skeleton Wand, Draugr Wand, or Orb of Beckoning you can control the minions:
+ B will make a minion.
+ H will cycle minion types (eg. switch from Warrior to Archer) created by B.
+ F will make all nearby minions follow you.
+ T will make all nearby minions wait.
+ Shift+T will make minions roam.
+ G will teleport all following minions to your position (useful if stuck or to get them on boats)
- A new Necromancy Skill which increases the quality of your minions and allows you to upgrade them.
- Minion health increases with Necromancy level.
- Minions ignore collision with the player so you won't be trapped.
- Minions do not deal damage to player structures and are not affected by sharpened stakes.
- Minions remember who created them and cannot be commanded by other players.
- Upgrades: Having additional items in your inventory when you summon can create an upgraded version of a minion. As a safety measure to prevent you from accidentally consuming stuff, hold Left Shift when creating a minion to permit these resources to be consumed (or set to None in the
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: