VikingsForHire

Vikings for Hire

Hire Viking companions and workers. Build settlements. Pay your debts... or else.

Wandering Vikings now roam every biome. Talk to them, hire them for coin (or on a promise), take them into battle, or settle them at your base as lumberjacks, miners, farmers, cooks and more. Every Viking has a name, traits, loyalty, friendships and grudges. They level up and wear the gear you give them. And they really remember who didn't pay them.

Also on: (images and full version history) · · Hexium — screenshots: Wiki → Screenshots — same files everywhere.

Languages: English, Latin American Spanish and Russian (follows the game language).

Status: actively developed. Please report bugs with your BepInEx/LogOutput.log ( Mod Manager / r2modman: Settings → Browse profile folder → BepInEx).

Hotfix 1.4.3

Settlement route searches and long-path smoothing are spread across frames; expensive failed routes are retried less often to reduce performance spikes.

Hotfix 1.4.2

Companions are immune to bleeding, rain sickness and fake illness. Any existing medical effects and infirmary-bed claims are cleared while they are companions.

Hotfix 1.4.1

Room furniture links now persist across world reloads. Existing links are recovered when the matching room is unambiguous. The settlement resource-limit menu has search. Guards train without running back and forth; archers use the front of the target, and NPC target scores no longer appear on the player's screen. Injured Vikings use available infirmary beds, and feast participants reach their gathering spots.

New in 1.4.0: settlement life, care and resource limits

Optional medical system: workers can get sick in the rain or bleed after combat. Medics treat and carry downed Vikings to infirmary beds; if no infirmary is available, ordinary beds provide only very slow recovery. Place a room sign and choose infirmary or kitchen. Press E on furniture to link it and Shift+E to unlink it. Beds can be linked only to the infirmary, never the kitchen. Colored dots above furniture show link status; the infirmary sign counts medical beds separately. Disable the complete care system with MedicalSystem = false.

Configure resource caps from the settlement banner. Each cap counts total stock across all settlement chests; resources with no configured cap remain unlimited. Workers stop gathering capped resources and stokers stop producing them. Chest signs still control preferred storage, not the cap.

A trader stationed at your base can buy directly from accessible settlement chests within 100 m of the banner. The trade window keeps your bag and chest contents in separate tabs, with chest items grouped by container.

Freeholder settlements can now forgive attacks. The first unordered companion strike warns you and deals no damage. Minor feuds end after two in-game days if you and your companions stay over 100 m away. Killing a resident or destroying a building requires compensation through a resident's dialogue; the global reputation penalty for kills still applies.

Open the J roster while inside your own settlement's banner radius to call one of its workers. The worker walks to you, pauses their job briefly, and then returns to work without joining the squad. Sleeping, injured and unloaded workers cannot be called.

Guards can train on player-placed dummies and targets, and mentors now train Vikings below level 10. Outlaw camps wait until Eikthyr is defeated and scale with boss progress. The Y wheel can disable automatic ship rescue while the player swims to shore. The description explains how to find and hire the first companion and where Configuration Manager opens (F1 by default; the author's key is ').

New in 1.3.9: settlement raids, safer companions and readable speech

Foreign settlements no longer appear on the world's first day or anywhere in the Ashlands. At valid locations their chance now accumulates every 2 minutes until one appears, so an established world