Changelog

v0.1.1 — Achievement reliability, server authority, and recovery

Balrond Achievement Rewards expands from a cosmetic Title layer into a broader achievement reliability system for modded and multiplayer Valheim.

Achievement reliability

• Added an achievement-integrity layer intended to keep legitimate achievement progress usable in modded sessions.
• Added recovery handling for characters/sessions that would otherwise remain blocked from future achievement progress after devcommand or cheat-state contamination.
• Added conservative historical progress reconciliation using Valheim's own stored statistics.
• Recovery is designed around max(existing credited progress, valid stored progress) semantics to avoid double-counting.
• Added repair/re-evaluation support for meta-achievements whose prerequisites may already be completed.
• Added handling for stale character/item cheat-state data when allowed by server policy.
• Achievement recovery is explicitly separate from free achievement granting: the system is intended to restore valid progress, not fabricate completion.

Multiplayer and server authority

• Expanded ServerSync usage beyond the Title catalog so achievement-integrity policy can be controlled by the server.
• Achievement-affecting configuration is intended to be server-synchronized and locked in multiplayer.
• Clients connected to a configured server follow the server's achievement policy instead of locally loosening eligibility/recovery settings.
• The dedicated server remains the policy authority while the normal Valheim/platform provider remains responsible for the actual platform achievement state.
• Retained synchronized Title catalog behavior.
• Retained network publication of the active Title identity for multiplayer name presentation.

Titles and UI

• Retained one cosmetic Title for each supported vanilla Valheim achievement.
• Retained the native Valheim Achievements screen as the Title-selection interface.
• Retained click-to-activate Title confirmation through Valheim's native Yes/No popup.
• Retained the No Title control for clearing the active Title.
• Retained per-character Title selection.
• Retained remote player Title presentation.
• Retained optional local self-nameplate display.
• Titles remain cosmetic and do not grant gameplay bonuses.

Configuration

• Lock Configuration remains the recommended default for multiplayer/progression servers.
• Enabled and Title Rewards remain synchronized server settings.
• Added/expanded synchronized policy coverage for achievement eligibility, recovery, reconciliation, cheat-state repair, and meta-achievement repair.
• Client-only appearance settings remain local.
• Diagnostics remain client-local.

Design changes

• Balrond Achievement Rewards is now intended to be a complete achievement support layer for modded Valheim, not only a Title reward addon.
• The mod continues to use Valheim's existing achievement definitions rather than creating replacement pseudo-achievements.
• Achievement repair functionality is implemented as Balrond Achievement Rewards' own system; external reference mods were used only for behavioral research and comparison.

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v0.1.0 — Initial release

• Added cosmetic Titles for the complete supported vanilla Valheim achievement set.
• Added native Achievements-menu integration for selecting unlocked Titles.
• Added native Yes/No Title activation confirmation.
• Added No Title support.
• Added per-character Title persistence.
• Added multiplayer Title presentation through player network state.
• Added optional local self-nameplate support.
• Added ServerSync-backed Title reward configuration.
• Added configurable Title formatting and optional colors.
• Added diagnostic achievement dump and verbose logging options.