YouAreNotWorthy

You Are Not Worthy

Per-character progression for Valheim.

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Personal progression

Characters sharing one world can see different trader stock based on their own

progression.

Item restrictions

Equipment, consumables, and feasts show their missing requirement and remain

unusable until the character earns the required key.

Doors and boss summons

Personal progression also applies when using key items on locked doors or

activating boss altars.

Mod integrations

Other mods can reuse YNW's personal-key checks and localized blocked message

for their own interactions.

You Are Not Worthy (YNW) personalizes supported value-less, non-reserved

globalkey checks by using Valheim's native character unique keys. Players in

the same world can therefore have different trader stock, raid eligibility,

spawn eligibility, and item-use progression.

Value-bearing keys, reserved modifiers, seasonal keys, and other shared world

state keep their Vanilla behavior.

Features

• Personalizes compatible Vanilla and modded global-key progression.
• Grants supported event keys to active players within 64 metres of a death,

interaction, or requesting player.

• Adds simple creature-defeat keys through defeatKeys.
• Hides configured dedicated location icons until the character earns their key.
• Gates the final use of tiered items without blocking collection or crafting.
• Respects the server's actual Player based raids setting.
• Synchronizes the server's progression.yml and locations.yml to clients.
• Provides admin commands for connected Steam players.

Configuration

YNW creates two independent configuration files. progression.yml contains

creature-defeat keys and ordered item tiers. Its only reserved root field is

defeatKeys; every other root field is an item tier, ordered from lowest to

highest.

defeatKeys:

• prefabs: [Serpent]

key: defeat_serpent

Meadows:

• Wood
• Stone

BlackForest:

requiredKey: defeated_eikthyr

resources:

• HardAntler
• Bronze
• TrollHide

Swamp:

requiredKey: defeated_gdking

resources:

• Iron
• Entrails
• CryptKey

SerpentItems:

requiredKey: defeat_serpent

resources:

• SerpentMeat

locations.yml directly maps each ZoneSystem location prefab name to one

required personal key. There is no wrapper field.

Vendor_BlackForest: defeated_eikthyr

Hildir_camp: defeated_eikthyr

BogWitch_Camp: defeated_gdking

Dolmen01: defeated_eikthyr

• Tier names are labels, not biome checks.
• Creature and resource names are internal prefab/item names.
• locations.yml keys are exact location prefab names, not localized labels,

biome names, or minimap display-icon tokens.

• Expand World Data may keep a custom iconAlways or iconPlaced token in its

own configuration. YNW resolves the originating location prefab and preserves

the chosen icon, size, and animation.

• Omitted prefabs and pins that cannot be resolved to a ZoneSystem location

remain unrestricted.

• Use {} for an empty locations.yml. A former locationIcons block in

progression.yml is not migrated. Former display-token entries are not

treated as prefab aliases or migrated; recreate their rules with location

prefab names.

• defeatKeys grants its key around the defeated creature; it does not require

the killing blow.

• Vanilla and modded defeat global keys normally do not need duplicate

defeatKeys rules.

• Items can inherit tiers through recipes, cooking, fermentation, and smelting.
• A sequence-form tier has no requiredKey and classifies resources without

restricting them.

The two YAML files are validated, hot-reloaded, ServerSynced, and retained as

last-known-good state independently. An invalid edit to one does not roll back

the other, and a remote client applies the server copies in memory without

overwriting its local files.

Item restrictions

When a character lacks an item's resolved requiredKey, YNW can block:

• equipment and ammunition use;
• food, potion, and other consumable use;
• direct boss offerings and final item-stand altar activation;
• key-item us