VikingSettlements

VikingSettlements

Vikings have finally learned to build homes of their own. This mod adds

inhabited NPC settlements to Valheim's world generation:

• Meadows villages — a longhouse, cabins, a farm, a maypole, a watchtower,

a market stall with a trader, and villagers around a central fire.

• Black Forest outposts — small fortified camps ringed by sharp stakes,

manned by a few hardy settlers.

• Plains steadings — stone-walled halls with barley and flax fields,

home to settlers and a village seer.

Settlers are peaceful villagers with their own names. They defend their home

against raiding monsters and turn hostile if you attack them. Villages contain

loot chests, crops to pick, working crafting spots, and (in meadows villages)

a trader with a small store of early-game supplies.

Requirements

• Valheim 0.221.4 or compatible
• BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2333+
• Jötunn 2.29.2+

Installation

With a mod manager: install BepInExPack Valheim and Jötunn into your

profile, then install this mod. Launch through the manager.

Manually:

• Extract BepInExPack Valheim into your Valheim folder so winhttp.dll sits

next to valheim.exe, launch the game once, then quit.

• Copy Jotunn.dll into /BepInEx/plugins.
• Copy VikingSettlements.dll into /BepInEx/plugins.
• Launch Valheim. The config is written to

BepInEx/config/com.abjumb.vikingsettlements.cfg on first run.

Multiplayer: the server and every client need the mod at the same minor

version, or clients are rejected at connect. Install it on dedicated servers

the same way; world and raid settings are admin-only and sync from the server.

Settlements only generate in new terrain. Installing on an existing save

will not add villages to areas you have already explored — start a new world,

sail somewhere new, or use vs_spawn (requires devcommands).

New player guide

Building Your First Settlement

— step by step from finding your first village to defending your own.

Features

• Three settlement location types spawned by world generation

(new worlds, or unexplored areas of existing worlds).

• Named settler NPCs that stay in their village, chat with visiting players,

and fight off raiding monsters.

• A village trader with a small store.
• Build your own settlement: craft the Settlement Banner (hammer →

Misc, needs a workbench) to found a settlement. Name it (Shift+E on the

banner), and manage it from one screen: E opens a panel listing every

settler — name, rank, job, hunger — with job reassignment buttons.

• Recruit settlers: press E on a settler in a wild settlement to recruit

them for coins. They follow you; bring them home and press E near your

banner to assign them.

• A war party you can lose: up to 4 recruited villagers fight at your

side as a persistent party. Command them with hotkeys — G toggles

follow/hold, H orders a protected fall-back, Y focus-fires the enemy

under your crosshair — or E on a member to post

them somewhere. Plant the cheap Rally Standard ahead of a fight and

the party holds there instead of at your heels. They ride boats and take

portals with you (stowed safely

into your character save) and survive logout. You can never hurt your own

people, and no fall, fire or forgotten corner of the map can kill them:

a party member can only die to a monster in a fight you are standing

in, after loud low-health warnings and an auto-retreat you can override.

When one falls, they are gone.

• Fifteen jobs: press E on an assigned settler to cycle — Villager,

Lumberjack, Farmer, Builder, Blacksmith, Guard, Cook, Miner, Hunter,

Brewer, Courier, Herder, Engineer, Innkeeper, Fisher. Producers fill your settlement's chests, cooks and brewers refine

what they find in them, builders repair damage, guards keep watch.

The jobs chain: hunters bring raw meat, cooks turn it into the food that

keeps the whole settlement fed. Shift+E unassigns/dismisses.

• Talk to your settlers: press T while looking at any settler for a

panel with their health, hunger and next mealtime, pl