Stavebound

Stavebound

Valheim will not let you carry ore or metal through a portal. You sail it home instead, and that sail

is meant to be the price of the metal.

Letting every portal carry everything throws that away. Still hauling copper by boat long after the

Elder is dead is just tedious. Stavebound sits between the two. Kill a biome's boss and you can build

its stave; stand one beside a portal and that portal will carry that biome's ore — and only that

biome's.

It also drops the pairing. Normally two portals connect by being given the same name; here you

interact with a portal and pick where it leads off the map, from every portal in the world. Where it

leads belongs to the portal rather than to you, so everyone who walks in arrives at the same place,

until somebody points it somewhere else. Walking in still travels, exactly as it always did.

The staves are the part worth having. Build an Elder's Stave beside a portal and that portal will

accept copper, tin and bronze. It will still refuse iron — until you go and build a Bonemass's

Stave there too, and it says so in as many words:

Iron cannot enter "Copper Mine" — no Bonemass's Stave there.

One end of a trip needs the right stave. By default either end counts, so a portal with a

Bonemass's Stave beside it both receives iron from anywhere and sends iron anywhere. Only a trip

between two portals that both lack one refuses iron. Which end has to have the stave is the setting

most worth knowing about; see Which end counts.

A portal tells you before you step through it. Standing next to one, its runes go dark if you are

carrying something it will not take. Open your inventory there and the stacks it will not take are

marked. Walk in anyway and it tells you which resource stopped you, and which stave would have

carried it.

Installing

Built for Valheim 1.0 and needs Jotunn 2.30.0 or newer — earlier Jotunn predates the game's

1.0 release. With a mod manager both it and BepInEx arrive as dependencies and there is nothing else

to do; by hand, drop Stavebound.dll into BepInEx/plugins.

Install it on the server and in every player's game. The server works out what each portal

accepts; each player's game needs it for the map and the check when you travel. The rules come from

the server, so no one player can loosen them for themselves.

Removing the mod removes its pieces, so any staves you built will vanish — normal for any mod that

adds buildables. The extra data it writes is harmless to an unmodded game.

The staves

Each is built from that biome boss's trophy plus a little of what the biome gives you. Stand one

within ten metres of a portal and it starts working on that portal. Nothing to connect or configure.

| Stave | Costs | Lets through |

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

| Elder's | The Elder trophy · 10 copper · 20 stone | Copper, tin, bronze |

| Bonemass's | Bonemass trophy · 10 iron · 20 stone | Iron and scrap iron |

| Moder's | Moder trophy · 10 silver · 20 stone | Silver, dragon eggs |

| Yagluth's | Yagluth trophy · 10 black metal · 20 stone | Black metal |

| Queen's | The Queen trophy · 3 dvergr extractors · 20 stone | Dvergr extractors, mechanical springs |

| Ashen | Fader trophy · 10 flametal · 20 stone | Flametal and the Ashlands' spoils |

Each stave works on its own, so a portal with Moder's Stave beside it takes silver while still

refusing iron. Nothing makes you build them in order.

While you are holding a stave, a beam shows which portal it would work on, and if none is close

enough, a circle shows how far it would reach.

Which end counts

Every trip has two portals: the one you step into, and the one you come out of. MaterialFlow, under

2 - Clearance, decides which of them needs the stave. It is one rule for the whole world, set on the

server, and it changes how the mod feels more than anything else here — so it is worth settling before

you start a world.

| | Which portal needs the stave | What that gives you |

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

| Both (default) | Either one | A stave covers arriving and