Ragnarawk

Ragnarawk - Blue-and-Yellow Macaw for Valheim

Version: 0.2.0 | Author: Wawax007

Adds a tameable Blue-and-Yellow Macaw parrot to Valheim. Find them in the wild, tame them with berries, carry them on your shoulder, and hatch eggs to grow your flock!

Installation

• Install BepInEx 5.4+
• Extract the zip into your Valheim folder (drag and drop)
• Launch Valheim

Features

Creature

• Blue-and-Yellow Macaw — a fully animated tropical parrot with custom 3D model, textures and sound effects
• Star variants — 0-star (classic blue/yellow), 1-star (green plumage), 2-star (scarlet red plumage)
• Spawn biomes — Meadows, Black Forest, Plains and Mistlands (daytime only)
• Passive wildlife — AnimalsVeg faction, flees from approaching players
• Drops — 2-4 Feathers on death (more from starred variants)
• Custom SFX — idle chirps, alert squawks, hit and death sounds

Taming

• Food — Blueberries, Raspberries, Carrots or Turnips
• Taming duration — 120 seconds by default (configurable)
• Behavior — drop food near the parrot, stay close but don't spook it; it will eat when not alerted
• Once tamed, the parrot follows you and orbits above your head in flight
• Follow / Stay — use the standard interaction key (E) to toggle between Follow and Stay modes

Flight System

• Wild flight — parrots take off, soar and land naturally using Valheim's native MonsterAI random flight system
• Follow-flight — tamed parrots in Follow mode fly in a dynamic orbit above their owner:
• Circular orbit with sinusoidal speed and altitude variation
• Periodic swooping dives for visual flair
• Smooth landing spiral when the player stops moving
• Automatic takeoff when the player starts walking again
• Custom animations — 2D BlendTree with idle, forward flight, banking turns, hover, and gliding states
• Altitude enforcement — parrots maintain proper altitude above terrain even over uneven ground

Shoulder Mount

• Short press G — whistle to call your parrot down to land nearby
• Long press G (hold 0.4s) — call your parrot to perch on your shoulder
• Press G while mounted — dismount (smooth hop to ground or takeoff)
• Works at any distance — overrides Stay mode, the parrot will fly back to you
• Smooth transitions — parabolic arc animation when mounting/dismounting (no teleporting)
• Auto-mount — occasionally, an idle tamed parrot near you may hop onto your shoulder on its own
• Visible to all players — shoulder parrot is synced in multiplayer, other players see it on your shoulder

Parrot Egg

• Craftable at Workbench — 50 Coins + 5 Feathers + 2 Dandelion
• Hatching — drop the egg on the ground and wait ~2 minutes for it to hatch
• Hover text — shows hatching progress percentage when you look at the egg
• Pre-tamed — hatched parrot is already tamed and follows the nearest player
• Spawn VFX — vanilla Valheim poof effect on hatch

Breeding

• Two fed tamed parrots nearby will produce an egg (disabled by default, configurable)
• Respects the maximum nearby parrot count to prevent overpopulation

Sound Effects

• Idle chirp — random chirps while perching or flying (every ~8s, 50% chance)
• Alert squawk — plays when the parrot is spooked by a player
• Hit sound — custom SFX with vanilla hit sparks VFX
• Death sound — custom SFX with vanilla blood splatter VFX
• Whistle — plays when you use the G key to call your parrot

Multiplayer

• Full multiplayer support — works on dedicated servers and peer-to-peer
• Server-synced config — server enforces taming time, breeding settings, and other gameplay values
• ZDO replication — shoulder state, flight mode, and egg hatching progress sync across all clients
• RPC commands — land/takeoff/whistle commands route correctly to the parrot's owner
• Shoulder visibility — other players see the parrot perched on your shoulder in real-time

Localization

34 languages fully supported:

• English, French, German, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (European), Russian, Chinese, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Italian, Dutc