WardEventBlocker

v1.0.0·Updated 2024-01-22

Makes enabled Wards protect a player from random events. Works on both servers and solo games.

About this mod Author’s original text

Valheim Ward Event Blocker

A lightweight Valheim mod to make Wards protect a player from random events.

This mod works on servers (dedicated or otherwise), and singleplayer games.

It is safe to have it installed when you join other servers as a client, it just won't do anything.

Features

This mod gives an additional purpose to wards in-game by allowing them to hide players from "raids" (random events, e.g. The forest is moving).

In the vanilla version of Valheim, random events can occur when the following three conditions are met:

  • The player is in the required biome
  • The player is not in a dungeon
  • The player is within 40 meters of at least 3 base structures

Basically, with this mod installed, there is another condition:

  • The player is not inside any enabled ward

This means that the player can essentially opt-in/opt-out of potential raids by toggling the state of the ward.

Installation

BepinEx for Valheim is required for this plugin to work

Install from your favorite mod manager, or manually by following these instructions:

  • Download and extract the build artifact for the latest release
  • Place the bbar.Mods.WardEventBlocker.dll file into \Bepinex\plugins
  • The first time the game starts with the plugin loaded, it will generate a config file: \BepinEx\config\bbar.Mods.WardEventBlocker.cfg
  • Open the cfg file to change configuration as needed. Any manual changes to that file will require a restart. The plugin is also compatible with the BepinEx configuration manager.

Configuration

  • ProtectionRadius
  • Default: 32
  • The radius for wards to hide a player from a random event. This defaults to the vanilla Valheim ward radius. Changing this has no effect on the range of the vanilla ward functionality.
  • FlashWardsOnEventBlocked
  • Default: false
  • Whether or not wards should flash when they hide a player from the random event system.

Quick Links

  • Listing
  • Bugs and Improvements

Attributions

  • Shield icon by Jemis mali on The Noun Project (CC BY 3.0)

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. 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.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. 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.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim

File & checksum

Filename
WardEventBlocker-1.0.0.zip
File size
14.1 KiB