ConcernedTeamster

Concerned Teamster

Stable 1.0.4 patch release by The Concerned Cat.

Your cart stops being a mystery: Concerned Teamster measures load, grade, traction, and risk so hauling decisions are informed — while vanilla cart physics stay untouched by default.

Why

Valheim shows no cart mass, no cargo weight total, no hint whether a loaded cart can climb the hill ahead, and no warning before a descent turns into a runaway. Most cart mods answer that pain by deleting it — weightless or physics-free carts. Concerned Teamster keeps the logistics gameplay and explains it instead.

What it does today

• Cart Status panel. A visible Cart button (right screen edge, in-world) shows total mass with its base + cargo breakdown, live terrain grade with climbing/descending state, ground surface, attachment/pull state, and data freshness. Stale or unavailable values say so — never wrong numbers.
• Cargo manifest and load planning (v0.2). A sortable, filterable manifest of the cart's cargo using the game's own quality-scaled weights, a calibrated safe-load model that answers "uncalibrated" instead of faking precision, and live load/grade warnings with actionable non-color text.
• Descent safety and recovery (v0.3). A calibrated descent-risk model with bounded lookahead, an explicit reversible parking brake (never written to saves — a reloaded world is always brake-free), stuck-cause diagnostics, and numbered vanilla-legal recovery steps — advice, never teleports or cheats.
• Trip recording and road quality (v0.4). Pulled-cart trips are recorded to Teamster's own per-world sidecar (bounded, capped, atomic writes; world saves untouched); recorded trips score the roads in 8 m segments — roughness, grade, drag proxy — and a Trips panel lists, compares, and analyzes them, locating worst-grade points, roughest segments, and hypothetical-load bottlenecks on your real routes.
• Optional Cartographer integration (v0.5). If Concerned Cartographer is installed (0.10.0+), a Routes button lists its drawn routes; pick one and Teamster terrain-profiles it in bounded chunks — distance, surfaces, grade histogram, worst sections, and the safe-load bottleneck for your cart's current mass — then renders a numbered problem report with load advice straight from the calibration model. Unloaded terrain is reported as UNSAMPLED, never guessed. Strictly read-only toward Cartographer (its atlas is never touched), no hard dependency in either direction, and without Cartographer the feature simply does not exist.
• Multiplayer trust and authority (v0.6). A written, enforced policy decides who may read, act, and observe each feature: the parking brake — the only feature that changes a cart — works only when you own the cart under vanilla rules, and any doubt fails closed. Crews get cooperative diagnostics (who's helping, hindering, or idle, and why the cart still won't move) with zero added force, owner-fresh readings are labeled when you're only observing, and every network-derived value is bounded as hostile input. Teamster stays client-side: it sends nothing, takes no ownership, and an unmodded peer sees pure vanilla.
• Read-only, bounded telemetry with hard performance caps; everything game-facing is verified at startup and fails closed with one actionable log line if a game update changes cart internals.
• UX, controller, accessibility, and localization (v0.7). Every panel scales (0.8–1.3×), meets a WCAG AA contrast target, and never relies on color alone — every warning, diagnosis, and comparison already carries distinguishing text or a symbol. A gamepad focus order and accelerator-conflict checker keep every feature reachable by button first. All 277 user-facing strings resolve through a translator-friendly catalog with English fallback — see the translator guide to contribute a language. New players get a short, dismissable pointer to the Cart button, and three documented settings presets (Minimal / Standard / EverythingObservational) cover common preferences without ever