ElPopeAdventures

ElPopeAdventures

Three things in one mod, each of which can be switched off on its own:

• Rideable deer. Tame a wild deer with berries, put a saddle on it and ride it.
• The Mage class. Play a mage from day one in the Meadows. You get a mana pool, and a new staff in every biome: frost first, then fire, then arcane. Mage armour covers the biomes before vanilla's Eitr-weave. Mana cocktails are brewed from each biome's fruit.
• Inventory quality of life. Bigger stacks, a sort key, quick stack to nearby chests, and crafting/building from nearby chests.

Everything is crafted in game. No cheats or console commands are needed.

Installation

Use r2modman or the Mod Manager, search for ElPopeAdventures, and click install. BepInExPack_Valheim is installed with it automatically. Then start the game from the mod manager (Start modded).

For a manual install, install BepInExPack_Valheim first, then copy ElPopeAdventures.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ElPopeAdventures.

Multiplayer: every player needs the mod with the same config. Installing it on the dedicated server too is recommended.

Rideable deer

Tame. Drop raspberries, blueberries, mushrooms or carrots near a wild deer, then back off or crouch so it doesn't bolt. A calm deer walks over and eats. It stays fed for 5 minutes, and taming only progresses while it is fed and not frightened, so drop a few pieces. Look at the deer to see its taming progress. By default a deer needs 10 minutes of fed time.

Saddle. Use a Lox saddle on the tame deer, the same way you saddle a Lox: put the saddle in your hotbar, look at the deer and press that hotbar key.

Ride. Aim at the saddle and press E. The controls are the Lox's: move forward to walk, steer with the camera, and hold Run to gallop (this uses the deer's stamina).

Using the deer's body toggles follow/stay. Wild deer, the Lox and every other creature are left completely vanilla. Only tamed deer (a separate creature, RideableDeer_Tame) get the riding parts.

The Mage class

• Craft a Mage Tome at the workbench and read it (eat it). Your character becomes a Mage and gains 50 mana, plus 20 more for every boss defeated. Mana is the game's eitr (the purple bar), so eitr food adds to it as well. This choice is saved on your character.
• Craft a staff. Staff recipes only appear once you're a Mage, and only a Mage can cast with them. Staffs cast the vanilla staff spells, scaled to their biome. They train Elemental Magic and upgrade like vanilla weapons.
• Wear mage armour for faster mana regeneration and Elemental Magic.
• Drink cocktails to refill mana instantly.

Staffs

| Biome | Staff | School | Where | Ingredients |

|---|---|---|---|---|

| Meadows | Frost Staff | Frost | Workbench | 10 Wood, 4 Deer hide, 1 Deer trophy |

| Black Forest | Glacial Staff | Frost | Forge | 10 Core wood, 6 Bronze, 10 Greydwarf eye, 1 Greydwarf shaman trophy |

| Swamp | Ember Staff | Fire | Forge lvl 2 | 10 Ancient bark, 8 Iron, 4 Surtling core, 1 Draugr trophy |

| Mountain | Blaze Staff | Fire | Forge lvl 3 | 10 Ancient bark, 10 Silver, 6 Obsidian, 6 Surtling core, 1 Cultist trophy |

| Plains | Arcane Staff | Arcane (lightning + spirit) | Forge lvl 4 | 10 Fine wood, 10 Black metal, 6 Linen thread, 1 Fuling shaman trophy |

| Mistlands | Rime / Inferno / Mistrune Staff | Frost / Fire / Arcane | Galdr table | 20 Yggdrasil wood, 16 Refined eitr, plus 4 Freeze gland / 4 Surtling core / 2 Black core |

| Ashlands | Hoarfrost / Surtr's / Stormcaller Staff | Frost / Fire / Arcane | Galdr table lvl 2 | 10 Ashwood, 4 Flametal, 3 Celestial feather, plus 6 Freeze gland / 2 Molten core / 1 Charred warlock trophy |

| Deep North | Jotun Frost / Muspel / Norn Staff | Frost / Fire / Arcane | Galdr table lvl 3 | 10 Frostwood, 10 Gold, 5 Norn thread, plus 10 Ice / 4 Molten core / 1 Jotun witch trophy |

From the Mistlands on, each staff matches the damage and mana cost of the vanilla staffs.

Mage armour

Vanilla mage armour (Eitr-weave) only arrives in the Mistland