OdinBet ForgeOfPotential
Gamble on your gear. Or lose it. Set the odds at the Refinement Forge, choose what a failure costs, announce every win and wreck. Plus an in-game settings panel, a Hall of Fame, Elemental Infusions on
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🛡️ ODINBET – FORGE OF POTENTIAL
Gamble on your gear. Or lose it.
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ODINBET — Forge of Potential
Thunder Night — a lightning storm over the forge
Odin's visit — a cutscene on Thunder Nights
Elemental Infusions — fire, frost, lightning, poison, spirit
In-game settings panel — every option explained, in 15 languages
Shift + E at the Refinement Forge opens it
Statistics — your numbers, your place in the Hall of Fame, your history
Server log — every change to the server's settings, kept for good
What this mod does
Forge of Potential turns the Refinement Forge into a real gambling
table. In vanilla Valheim, refining is a button that sometimes works, and you
control almost none of it. With this mod, you set every number: the odds,
what happens when you lose, what it costs, how long it takes, how far it can
go, and what the whole server gets to hear about it.
Fourteen systems, each one switchable on its own:
| System | What it gives you |
|---|---|
| ⚔️ The gamble | Success chance as a percentage, plus separate control over what a failure does: drop levels, destroy the item, or hand it back at level 1. |
| 📜 Recipes | All 16 Idols (Protection and Battle, tier 0 through 7) get craft recipes, each one requiring the boss trophy for that biome. Cost scales with item level. |
| 📢 Notifications | Every refinement becomes a line in every player's chat, and the player who refined gets a clear message on screen. You choose what gets announced (success, failure, destruction) and from which level. Every text is translated in 15 languages. |
| 🏗️ Forge area | Optional exemption that lets you build inside the protected zone around the Refinement Forge. |
| ⛈️ Lightning storm | The show of Thunder Night: on a Thunder Night, lightning and other sky effects fill the sky around the Refinement Forge. Has its own switch, EnableStorm. |
| 👁️ Odin's visit | On a Thunder Night, a short cutscene each time you arrive at the Refinement Forge: Odin waits there with his ravens, calls the storm, and Thor's lightning strikes the forge. Local switch EnableOdinScene. |
| 🚫 Forge disable | One switch that closes the Refinement Forge for everyone — no refining, no repairing. The forge is on by default; set EnableRefinementForge = false to close it. |
| 🔒 Version lock | On a server, players with a different mod version than the server are disconnected, so nobody plays by different rules. On by default, server only. |
| ⛔ Item blacklist | A comma-separated list of items that can never be refined at the Forge, no matter what. Empty by default. |
| 🏆 Hall of Fame | Eight statues around the Refinement Forge, each guarding one server-wide ranking (highest level, most refinements, longest streaks, best item ever made...) with a click-to-open panel. Tracked by Steam ID, translated in all 15 languages. Rankings can be switched off without ever losing the data behind them. |
| 🗺️ Forge on the map | New in 1.4.4. Optional, off by default (ShowForgeOnMap): the Refinement Forge's icon shows on every player's map, even for those who have not found it yet. Nothing is saved in the characters — switch it off and the icon goes away again. |
| ⚙️ Settings panel | New in 1.4.0. Every setting in one in-game panel (Shift + E at the Refinement Forge): each one explained, with live examples and alerts when two settings conflict, in 15 languages. An admin with devcommands changes the server's settings while it runs — saved, applied and sent to every player at once, no restart. Every player can change their own options there too. New in 1.4.2: a Statistics page for every player (their numbers, their place in every Hall of Fame ranking, their full refinement history) and a Server log page for admins (who changed which setting, when, from what to what — kept for good). |
| 💪 Refinement power | New in 1.4.0. Decide how much each forge level
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: