FairTrophies

FairTrophies

By Hampus Toft. Client & server mod - install it on the server and on every player.

Valheim already has hidden bad-luck protection for every creature drop of 30% or less (trophies, Jotun armor molds,

Deep North gemstones, Memorial Coal, coins...): a countdown that guarantees the drop within twice the expected number

of kills. FairTrophies keeps vanilla's drop rates exactly, and fixes what makes that countdown unfair:

| Vanilla | FairTrophies |

|---|---|

| Killing a star level whose drop chance differs (e.g. a 1-star Jotun after 0-stars) throws the countdown away and rolls a new one. | One countdown per item, shared by every star level - never a reset. |

| Star-scaled rare drops get the star bonus twice: chance x4 and amount x4, so a 2-star Unbjorn can drop 4 trophies (up to x16 loot). | Stars multiply the loot once (x2 / x4). Trophies, Ancient Gemstones and armor molds drop more often (a 2-star kill counts four times on the countdown), one at a time. Resources (Memorial Coal, coins, meat, hides...) keep the normal chance and drop more per drop. |

| The countdown lives in the memory of whichever player's game is simulating the creature - your kills can use up a friend's countdown. | Every character has their own countdowns. Kills only ever count for the character credited with them. |

| Lost every time the game closes. | Saved in the character file, so it follows the character between sessions, worlds and servers. |

Base drop chances and amounts always come from the game's own drop tables - nothing to configure. The NoPseudoDrops

world modifier is respected (FairTrophies stays out of the way when it is on).

Who gets credit for a kill

• The last player to damage the creature - also when it then dies to something else (fall, fire, drowning, another

creature).

• A creature no player ever hit (mob farms, traps) counts for the player whose game was simulating it - normally the

player standing at the farm.

• A creature the dedicated server simulated on its own counts for the nearest player.

Multiplayer

Valheim rolls a creature's loot on the computer simulating that creature, usually a player's. The server tells that

computer which character gets the kill, that character's client updates its countdown, and the drop appears on the

corpse as usual. The server and every client must run the same FairTrophies version; mismatches and players without

the mod are refused with an "incompatible version" message naming both versions.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/HampusToft.FairTrophies.cfg holds a single debug option:

| Setting | Default | |

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

| Debug.LogCounters | false | Log every counted kill: who was credited, the item, whether it dropped and how many kills are left. |

AI disclaimer

This mod was mostly made using Claude Code, Anthropic's AI coding assistant. The

design and requirements are mine; Claude Code did most of the work: decompiling and analysing Valheim's drop code,

extracting the drop tables, and writing the code, tests and documentation, all under my direction and review. Please

report any problems on GitHub.