SunkenSpoils
Fish up lost treasure from Valheim's waters. Ocean fishing builds disturbance, improving rewards while attracting serpents and storms.
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Sunken Spoils
Turn fishing into a dangerous treasure hunt.
Sunken Spoils expands Valheim's fishing system with recoverable treasure, biome-based loot, and an Ocean Disturbance system that makes prolonged ocean fishing increasingly rewarding — and increasingly dangerous.
Features
- Fish up Driftwood Crates, Waterlogged Barrels, and Sunken Chests
- Biome-specific treasure loot tables
- Progression-gated ore and scrap rewards
- Treasure uses Valheim's normal fishing/reeling mechanics
- Configurable treasure fight strength by tier
- Direct inventory rewards, with overflow dropped near the player
- Personal Ocean Disturbance system
- Disturbance-based treasure tier scaling
- Sea Serpent attraction at higher Ocean Disturbance
- Per-player serpent attraction chances and caps
- Severe and Catastrophic disturbance can drive shared Ocean weather
- BepInEx configuration support
Ocean Disturbance
Repeated fishing activity in the Ocean angers the sea.
Disturbance stages:
- Calm
- Restless
- Dangerous
- Severe
- Catastrophic
Ocean fishing can add disturbance from valid bites, hooking treasure, recovering treasure, and slaying Sea Serpents.
At higher stages, treasure tier odds improve and Sea Serpents may be attracted on eligible Ocean bites.
Treasure Tiers
Driftwood Crate
Common treasure with lighter rewards.
Waterlogged Barrel
Mid-tier treasure with stronger rewards and a harder fight.
Sunken Chest
Rare treasure with the highest reward potential and the strongest fight.
Biome Loot
Treasure loot changes based on the biome where the fishing bobber is located.
Supported biome tables include Meadows, Black Forest, Swamp, Mountain, Plains, Mistlands, Ashlands, and Ocean.
Unknown or modded biomes fall back to the Ocean loot table without automatically receiving Ocean disturbance behavior.
Progression
Advanced ore and scrap rewards can be gated behind Valheim boss progression.
Ore rewards can also be disabled or adjusted through the BepInEx configuration.
Multiplayer
Sunken Spoils uses a personal risk/reward model:
- Each player builds their own Ocean Disturbance
- Treasure reward scaling is personal
- Serpent attraction chances and personal caps are personal
- Severe/Catastrophic Ocean weather is shared through the world state
Physical Sea Serpents are normal world creatures and can be seen and fought by other players.
Installation
r2modman
Install Sunken Spoils through your preferred -compatible mod manager.
Manual
- Install BepInExPack for Valheim.
- Place SunkenSpoils.dll in BepInEx/plugins.
- Launch Valheim.
Configuration
Launch Valheim once after installation to generate the Sunken Spoils configuration file.
Most major systems can be adjusted, including treasure chance, treasure tier weights, loot rolls, coin ranges, ore rewards, fight strength, Ocean Disturbance values, decay, stage thresholds, serpent attraction chances, serpent caps, serpent spawn distance, and shared weather behavior.
Version
Current release: 0.3.0
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: