Crypts and Caverns
Explore new randomized crypts, caves, challenges, and enemies in the Meadows and Black Forest.
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Crypts and Caverns
Explore new randomized crypts, caves, challenges, and enemies.
Overview
Crypts and Caverns introduces new locations and enemies to enhance your Valheim adventure:
- Crypts in the Meadows: Unearth treasure and hidden rooms in randomized crypts, with potential surprises around every corner.
- Caves in the Black Forest: Mine abundant copper and tin nodes in two new cave systems.
- New Enemies: Encounter the Spriggan and Spriggan Root in the Black Forest, valuable for Fine Wood and tree seeds. Also explore the crypts where gasts and banshees haunt the halls.
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Features (Click to expand)
Features
- Meadows Crypts: Explore randomized, unique crypts filled with loot and challenges. Some walls break away easily to reveal new treasures and paths.
- Black Forest Caves: Two caves with rich ore deposits to fuel your progression.
- New Enemies:
- Gast: Appears in the Crypts.
- Banshee: A Meadows Mini Boss that can be summoned in the Crypts.
- Spriggan: Appears in the Black Forest and around Cavern entrances.
- Spriggan Root: A smaller, root-based foe that springs from the ground in both the Black Forest and the Caverns.
Hint-Spoilers (Click to expand)
Hints and Spoilers
- Meadows Crypts:
- Crypts have walls that are destroyable with a pickaxe or blunt weapon.
- Crypts could also have a room that seems impossible to get across. There is a way, and there are stones to help you back up to the entrance if you fall.
- The Banshee mini boss can be summoned in the crypts using the surtling core found in the same room.
- Black Forest Caves: Both caves have the same shaped entrance. Cave 2 will need to have the ground leading into it mined away to access the gateway.
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Prefab Names (Click to expand)
Prefab Names
Use the following prefab names for custom placement or reference:
- Crypts and Caves:
- RJV_Cav1
- RJV_Cav2
- RJV_MC1
- Enemies:
- Spriggan_ru
- SprigganRoot_ru
- Gast_ru
- Banshee_ru
Updating your world (Click to expand)
Adding to Your World
New World
No setup is required—new locations will automatically generate.
Existing World Without the Mod
Use Upgrade World by Jerekusala to add locations:
- Open the devcommands console and paste the following command:
Locations_add RJV_MC1, RJV_Cav1, RJV_Cav2
- Type Start and press
Updating a world with the old version mod already loaded
Remove any of your items inside the crypts or caverns
Use Upgrade World by Jerekusala to add locations:
- Delete previous Config File.
- Open the console and paste the following command:
Locations_remove RJV_MC1, RJV_Cav1, RJV_Cav2, RJV_meadowcrypt1, RJV_meadowcrypt2, RJV_meadowcrypt3, RJV_meadowcrypt4, RJV_cavern1, RJV_cavern2
- Type Start and press.
- Open the devcommands console and paste the following command:
Locations_add RJV_MC1, RJV_Cav1, RJV_Cav2
- Type Start and press.
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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.
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