Hird

Hird

A party system for Valheim. Group up with up to seven other players, see everyone's health

down the side of the screen, and share skill experience with whoever is near you.

A hirð was a chieftain's sworn war-band. A warband here has a leader, and it lasts as

long as that leader is online.

What It Does

• Warbands of up to eight players. Invite by typing a name, or from a list of who is

online.

• A party list on the left of the screen with each member's name, health and distance. The

rows use the game's own health bars, so they match the rest of the interface.

• Skill experience is shared with warband members near you, in the same skill it was

earned in. Chop wood together and you both gain woodcutting.

• A Warband skill that rises while you play alongside your warband and sets how much of

their experience you receive.

Shared Experience

While a warband member is near you, half of your experience goes to them. That is the

cost of being in a warband and it never changes.

What changes is how much of their experience comes back to you. That is what the Warband

skill raises.

| Your Warband level | You keep, of your own | You receive, from each member nearby |

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

| 0 | 50% | 50% |

| 50 | 50% | 75% |

| 100 | 50% | 100% |

So one member nearby covers what you gave up, and a second is profit. At Warband 100 you

take everything each of them earns while still paying the same half, which makes a full

warband worth far more than a pair.

If nobody is nearby, nothing changes and you keep all of your own experience. You are

never worse off for walking away on your own.

Members have to be within 60 metres to share. Height is ignored, so somebody mining below

you still counts as nearby.

The Warband skill rises from time spent near your warband rather than from anything you

do. With one member nearby it reaches level 50 in about ten hours and 100 in around fifty;

with a full warband, roughly a third of that. As with every Valheim skill, the early levels

come quickly and the last ones take much longer.

Using It

Press F7 to open the panel.

• Warband lists who is in it. The leader gets Promote and Remove on each row; everyone

gets Leave.

• Invite has a name box and a list of who is online. Inviting somebody while you are

not in a warband creates one with you as leader.

• Settings moves the party list and changes its size.

Invitations appear as a banner at the top of the panel and as a message on screen. They

lapse after a minute.

How Warbands End

A warband lasts for one session:

• A member who goes offline leaves it immediately.
• If the leader goes offline, the warband disbands.
• A leader who chooses to leave passes the lead on instead.
• A warband with one member left disbands.

Your Warband skill is saved on your character like any other skill. The warband itself is

not saved.

Install

Required on the server and on every client.

A player without Hird has no warbands: they cannot be invited and will not see one.

Nothing else is affected for them or for anyone else.

Works on a dedicated server and on an in-game host. Compatible with the rest of the GBV

mods and does not require any of them.

Settings

BepInEx/config/gbv.valheim.hird.cfg

| Setting | Default | What it does |

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

| General / Enabled | true | Turn the mod off without uninstalling it. |

| General / VerboseLog | false | Write every roster change to the log. |

| Panel / PanelHotkey | F7 | Opens the warband panel. |

| Warband / ShareRange | 60 | How close a member has to be, in metres, to share. Set by the server. |

| Warband / MaxMembers | 8 | How many players one warband holds. Set by the server. |

| Warband / InviteExpiry | 60 | Seconds an invitation stays open. Set by the server. |

| Sharing / KeepOwn | 0.5 | How much of your own experience you keep while a member is near. Fixed; the skill does not raise it. |

| Sharing / ReceiveFloor | 0.5 | How much of each nearby member's you receive at Warband 0. |

| Sharing / ReceiveCeiling | 1 | The