She Wolf — become a she-wolf in Valheim (alpha preview)

35 languages: item names, effects, messages and the wolf interface follow your game's language — English · Svenska · Français · Italiano · Deutsch · Español · Русский · Română · Български · Македонски · Suomi · Dansk · Norsk · Íslenska · Türkçe · Lietuvių · Čeština · Magyar · Slovenčina · Polski · Nederlands · Português (Portugal) · Português (Brasil) · 简体中文 · 繁體中文 · 日本語 · 한국어 · हिन्दी · ไทย · Hrvatski · ქართული · Ελληνικά · Srpski · Українська · Latviešu (English otherwise).

The she-wolf and her interface. This picture is assembled from the mod's own artwork, laid over an in-game capture.

Alpha preview (0.4.2). This version adds a lot at once, and part of it is rough. The base of the mod (transformation, fighting, pups, leash) is the one from the previous preview. The new look, the Wolf skill, the talent tree, its magic and the new interface are young: expect rough edges. See Known issues below before you install it on a world you care about.

New in 0.4.2: another player's she-wolf now glows on your screen too, Geri and Freki are much tougher, the Wolf skill grows half as fast, and every ability has an icon that shows what it does.

Hunt wolves, collect their pheromones and brew an essence at the mead cauldron. Drink it, and answer the call of the pack: you become a she-wolf for 45 minutes, with dark fur, three tails and glowing markings that change colour as your Wolf skill grows.

What is new since the previous preview (0.3.1)

• A new look. The she-wolf used to be the game's grey wolf with a brown lock of hair. She now has charcoal fur, a spiky mane, three tails, white glowing eyes and luminous tribal markings.
• Markings that follow your level. Cyan at level 1, then yellow, orange, red, pink and violet at level 100. They glow, and cast a faint light on what is close to you.
• A Wolf skill, from 1 to 100, in the game's skills window. It grows as you live as a she-wolf.
• A talent tree of Norse magic: twenty abilities, one every five levels, fifteen already active, each with its own visible magic. It opens with F4, in a real window.
• A power bar: your powers on keys 1 to 6, with their cooldowns.
• A new interface, in the style of the emblem: a health dial, food sockets, ink-black windows with a thin gold line.
• Movement fixed. She no longer runs with her hindquarters twisted to one side, she has a real walk, she can sneak low to the ground, and she really leaps when she jumps or dodges.
• A real howl: she sits and raises her head to the sky.
• Peace with wild wolves: they leave a she-wolf alone, as long as she does not bite them.
• Everything is translated: the Wolf skill, the tree, its abilities and its powers follow your game's language too, in all 35 languages.
• On the character selection screen, a character who logged out as a she-wolf is shown as a she-wolf.
• The essence costs 30 drops instead of 50.
• A fur for the cold (0.4.1): as a she-wolf you are resistant to frost, with no cape and no mead.
• 0.4.2: other players' she-wolves glow on your screen too, Geri and Freki are tougher, the Wolf skill grows half as fast, and every ability has its icon.

The full list is in the changelog.

How it works

1. Wolf Pheromone Drops: wolves you kill have a 50 % chance to drop 1 to 5 of them.
2. The essence: 30 drops make a Wolf Pheromone Essence at the mead cauldron.
3. The transformation: drinking the essence turns you into a she-wolf for 45 minutes. There is no way back early. Logging out does not end it, and neither does dying: you respawn as a she-wolf and can still recover your tombstone.

As a she-wolf

• Body: you get the wolf's own model and animations, with charcoal fur, a spiky mane down the back, three tails and white glowing eyes. Nobody will take you for a wild wolf.
• Markings: a spiral on the hip, a line running down the hind leg and along the tail, a sign behind the shoulder, cracks on the throat and the face, bands around the legs. They glow in the colour of your Wolf skill level and cast a faint light around you. Other players see them in your colour.
• Fighting: all your damage is multiplied by 1.5, and your attacks are quicker than a wild wolf's.
  • Left mouse button: a three-strike combo, like the game's weapons: bite left, bite right, then she rears up and rakes with her claws (stronger, wider, staggers).
  • Middle mouse button (secondary attack): a hunting pounce. She leaps up to 4.5 m onto the nearest enemy in front of her and bites as she lands (double damage).
  • Dodge: the game's dodge keys (block + jump, crouch + jump, or the dodge key) make her leap aside, leaning into it. She is invulnerable at the start of the leap, just like the game's roll, and it uses the same stamina and Dodge skill.
• Sneaking: the crouch key makes her stalk: slow and quiet, body low, neck stretched forward, head down.
• Speed: you run 40 % faster.
• Cold: her fur keeps her warm. For as long as you are a she-wolf you are resistant to frost, without a cape or a frost resistance mead: the Cold and Freezing effects no longer apply, in the Mountain or at night, and frost damage is halved.
• Instinct: living creatures glow within 45 m. Red means hostile, orange means animal, and blue means player or tamed creature.
• Howl: press H. She sits, raises her head to the sky and gives a long howl that every player hears from far away.
• Food: you can eat raw meat.
• Wolf interface: your vision is framed with fur and turns red as your health drops, and the whole interface takes the shapes of the emblem: see the next section.
• Among wolves: wild wolves do not attack a she-wolf. Bite one, and it and its pack turn on you for two minutes.
• Pups: stay close to a tamed, fed and calm wolf, and hearts appear now and then. A litter is then on the way, and after 3 minutes 1 or 2 tamed wolf cubs are born at your feet. If the transformation ends first, they are born just before you turn back.
• Collar and leash: another player can put a collar and leash on you with the Use key. They lead the way and you follow, and the same key removes it. If they go through a portal, you go with them. The leather leash hangs in a gentle curve between the collar and their hand.
• Paws, not hands: you can't equip anything or use weapons, tools, workbenches, forges or cooking stations, and you can't handle objects. You can still open doors, sleep, recover your tombstone, pick items up, and pet or call a tamed animal so it follows you.

The she-wolf interface

While you are a she-wolf, the game's interface takes the shapes of her emblem: ink-black discs ringed with gold, rings of chevrons, thin gold lines. The picture at the top of this page shows the whole of it.

• On the right, the emblem. Its ring of chevrons empties with the time you have left as a she-wolf.
• On the left, the health dial, its mirror: the same ring, blood red, empties with your health, around your health and its maximum.
• Beside it, three food sockets show what you have eaten, each ringed by the time it has left. The ring turns red when the meal is running out.
• In the centre, the power bar: one socket per power, with its icon in the colour of your markings, its cooldown and its key. A power you have not earned yet shows its level.
• Around them, the game's Forsaken power sits in the same row, and the stamina bar just above the power bar.
• Windows: inventory, chests and crafting get an ink-black background with a thin gold line and cut corners.

The game's own health bar and food icons are hidden while you are a she-wolf. Everything goes back to normal when you turn back.

These interface pictures are assembled from the mod's own artwork, laid over in-game captures. They were made for 0.4.1: since 0.4.2 the power bar shows an icon for each power instead of a rune.

The Wolf skill

"Wolf" is a skill like the game's own: it shows in the skills window, goes from 1 to 100, and drops when you die, like every other skill. It only grows while you are a she-wolf.

You do this	You earn
Stay transformed	1 point every 20 seconds
Travel	1 point every 24 m
Land a bite	half a point
Kill a creature	4.5 points (9 for a one-star creature, 13.5 for a two-star one)
Kill a boss	100 points
Howl	2 points, once a minute
A litter is on the way	30 points
Your pups are born	50 points

These gains were halved in 0.4.2: in play, level 41 came in 30 minutes, far faster than planned. How long level 100 takes depends a lot on how much you fight, and the pace may still be retuned.

Your level gives your markings their colour:

Level	Colour
1	Cyan
20	Yellow
40	Orange
60	Red
80	Pink
100	Violet

The colour shifts a little at every level in between, so each level has its own shade.

The talent tree

Press F4 to open the tree. It is a real window: the mouse appears, and Escape closes it. It is drawn as a runic tree, with the stump of level 1 at the bottom, three branches rising from it, Fenrir (fury), Seiðr (sorcery) and Máni (moon and pack), and a level scale from 1 to 100 on the left. There is one ability every five levels, each with an icon of what it does and its level next to its name: point at one to read the details.

Made for 0.4.1: since 0.4.2 each ability shows an icon of what it does instead of its level, and its level sits next to its name.

Most abilities are permanent. The others are powers. Each power has its own key, 1 to 6 by default (the number row, configurable), and a cooldown of 5 minutes (10 for Fenrir unbound). The power bar at the bottom of the screen shows them with their icons, their cooldowns and their keys. While you are a she-wolf, those keys no longer trigger the game's item shortcuts.

Active in this version (15 of 20):

Ability	Level	Branch	What it does
Seiðr scent	5	Seiðr	Wounded creatures within 30 m trail fireflies in your colour
Ember steps	10	Fenrir	Running costs 15 % less stamina, and embers in your colour rise under your paws
Hati's howl	15	Máni	Power. You howl, and a shockwave pushes back and staggers enemies within 12 m, who then flee for 6 seconds
Runic fangs	20	Fenrir	Each bite brands the target with the Tiwaz rune and sets it ablaze: extra fire damage
Niflheim's coat	25	Seiðr	You are never wet and you become very resistant to frost (frost damage cut by three quarters instead of half), and frost glitters around your fur in the cold
Sköll's leap	30	Fenrir	The pounce reaches 50 % further, draws a streak of light and lands in a burst that staggers the enemies around
Geri and Freki	35	Máni	Power. Odin's two wolves, made of light in your colour, fight beside you for 30 seconds. They are tough: four times a wolf's health at level 35, up to eight times at level 100, and physical blows only do them half damage
Veil of mist	40	Seiðr	While sneaking, a mist wraps you: sneaking costs no stamina, enemies hardly notice you, and your first strike hits twice as hard
Máni's blessing	45	Máni	At night your health returns 50 % faster, and when you stand still a moonbeam falls on you and your markings pulse
Bifröst rush	50	Fenrir	Power. You become a streak of light over 10 m: untouchable, you bite everything you pass through
Alpha's aura	65	Máni	Tamed wolves within 20 m hit 20 % harder
Valhalla's feast	75	Fenrir	The soul of each enemy you kill comes to you and gives you back 8 % of your health
Ragnarök howl	80	Máni	Power. A pillar of light and a shockwave: for 20 seconds you hit 25 % harder and your tamed wolves 50 % harder
Yggdrasil's bark	85	Seiðr	You take 15 % less physical damage, and a shield flashes around you when you are hit
Fenrir unbound	100	Fenrir	Power. For 20 seconds you grow, your markings blaze and you deal 50 % more damage, and nearby enemies are thrown back in dread

Shown in the tree, not active yet (5 of 20):

Ability	Level	Branch	What it is meant to do
Blood of the pack	55	Máni	One more pup per litter, growing faster, born with faint markings
Gleipnir's chains	60	Seiðr	Power. Chains of light pin enemies within 8 m in place for 4 seconds
Heimdall's eye	70	Seiðr	You see clearly at night, and enemies' outlines glow through the mist
Thunder bite	90	Fenrir	The third hit of the combo calls lightning, which jumps to two nearby enemies
Hel's breath	95	Seiðr	A lethal blow turns you into mist for 2 seconds instead of killing you, once every 10 minutes

The magic uses the game's own effects (shockwaves, summoning swirls, bursts), recoloured to the colour of your markings, and every player around sees it.

Known issues (alpha)

• Much of this version is young. The talent tree window, the power bar, the new interface, the leap of the jump and the dodge, and the magic effects have had very little play time. Tell me what looks wrong.
• Five abilities are not active yet (levels 55, 60, 70, 90 and 95).
• Fleeing: the game makes each creature think on one player's computer. A creature frightened by your howl only flees if your own game is in charge of it; otherwise it is only pushed back.
• Some details described in the tree are missing: the Ragnarök howl does not strengthen other players yet, and the eyes of your pack do not light up.
• The pace of the Wolf skill was halved in 0.4.2 after a first test, and may still be retuned.

Everything else (transformation, fighting, instinct, pups, collar and leash) is the base of the previous preview.

Where the project is going

• Finish the five remaining abilities, each with its own visible magic.
• Tune the pace of the Wolf skill and the strength of the abilities.
• Keep polishing the animations, the magic and the interface with what players report.

Screenshots of this preview

A howl in front of a portal, at the top levels: the markings are violet.

The character selection screen, after logging out as a she-wolf: she waits by the fire, in the colour of her level. Game in French.

In the Meadows, around level 40: the markings are orange.

The sitting howl, at the top levels: the markings are violet and light the snow around her.

The small panel in the corner of the last three captures is a separate telemetry mod, not part of She Wolf.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.Azura.shewolf.cfg is created at the first launch, with all settings in the [Louve] section. Each setting is described in English and in French. The main ones:

Setting	Default	Meaning
DureeMinutes	45	Length of the transformation, in minutes of play
ChanceGouttes	0.5	Chance that a killed wolf drops pheromones
GouttesMin / GouttesMax	1 / 5	Number of drops
GouttesParEssence	30	Drops needed for one essence (it was 50)
BonusVitesse	0.4	Extra speed as a she-wolf (+40 %)
BoostDegats	1.5	Damage multiplier as a she-wolf
VitesseAttaques	1.25	Speed of your attacks (1 = as fast as the game's wolves)
DistanceBond	4.5	Length of the pounce, in metres
RayonInstinct	45	Instinct radius, in metres
ToucheHurlement	H	Howl key
ToucheArbre	F4	Key that opens the talent tree (it was K)
ToucheHati, ToucheGeriFreki, ToucheBifrost, ToucheGleipnir, ToucheRagnarok, ToucheFenrir	Alpha1 to Alpha6	Keys of the six powers (the number row, 1 to 6)
Silhouette	TroisQueues	Shape: TroisQueues (spiky mane and three tails), Herissee (spiky mane only), Jeu (the game's wolf)
Marques	true	Glowing markings
FourrureSombre	0.32	Fur brightness (1 = the game's wolf)
EclatMarques	1.7	Brightness of the markings
LueurPortee / LueurIntensite	4 / 1.36	Reach, in metres, and strength of the light the markings cast (0 = none)
FacteurExperience	1	Multiplier for every gain of the Wolf skill
FacteurExperienceDeplacement	1	Extra multiplier for the points earned by travelling
FacteurRechargePouvoirs	1	Multiplier for the powers' cooldowns
Reproduction	true	Pups with tamed wolves
GestationMinutes / LouveteauxMax	3 / 2	Litter timing and size
InterfaceLouve	true	Wolf interface while transformed
LongueurLaisse	4	Leash length, in metres

If you already had a config file: an essence cost left at the old default (50) is switched to 30 once. Set GouttesParEssence back to 50 afterwards if you prefer it. In the same way, a tree key left on the old default (K) is switched to F4 once; a key you chose yourself is kept. The Meche and CouleurMecheHex settings no longer do anything, since the brown lock is gone.

Credits

• Ability icons: based on icons from game-icons.net by Lorc, Delapouite, Skoll, sbed, Zeromancer and Carl Olsen, under CC BY 3.0, recoloured, and some combined. The icons of Sköll's leap and Hel's breath were drawn for the mod.

Installation

• Who needs it: install the mod for every player and on the server. Other players need it to see you as a she-wolf, and the server needs it to keep the new items.
• Updating: give everyone and the server the same version.
• With a mod manager (r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager): click Install. BepInExPack Valheim is installed with it.
• By hand: install BepInExPack Valheim, then put SheWolf.dll in Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/.

Tested with Valheim 1.0.17 and BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350.

---

En français

Préversion alpha (0.4.2). Tuez des loups pour récolter leurs phéromones, distillez-en une essence au chaudron à hydromel, buvez-la : vous voilà louve pour 45 minutes, avec un pelage sombre, trois queues et des marques lumineuses qui changent de couleur avec votre compétence Loup. Cette version ajoute beaucoup d'un coup, et une grande partie est toute jeune : lisez les problèmes connus avant de l'installer.

• Nouveau depuis la préversion précédente (0.3.1) :
  • une nouvelle allure : pelage charbon, crinière hérissée, trois queues, yeux blancs lumineux, marques tribales lumineuses (la mèche brune disparaît) ;
  • des marques à la couleur de votre niveau : cyan au niveau 1, puis jaune, orange, rouge, rose, et violet au niveau 100 ; elles luisent et éclairent faiblement ce qui est tout proche ;
  • une compétence Loup, de 1 à 100, dans la fenêtre des compétences du jeu ;
  • un arbre de talents de magie nordique : vingt capacités, une tous les cinq niveaux, dont quinze déjà actives, chacune avec sa magie visible ;
  • une barre de pouvoirs : vos pouvoirs sur les touches 1 à 6, avec leur temps de recharge ;
  • une nouvelle interface dans le style de l'emblème : cadran de vie, alvéoles de nourriture, fenêtres d'encre à filet d'or ;
  • la course corrigée (l'arrière-train ne part plus de travers), une vraie marche, l'approche à pas de loup, et une vraie détente pour le saut et l'esquive ;
  • un vrai hurlement : elle s'assoit et lève la tête au ciel ;
  • la paix avec les loups sauvages, tant que vous ne les mordez pas ;
  • tout est traduit dans les 35 langues, compétence, arbre et pouvoirs compris ;
  • à l'écran de sélection du personnage, une louve déconnectée en louve se voit en louve ;
  • l'essence ne coûte plus que 30 gouttes au lieu de 50 ;
  • 0.4.1 : la louve ne craint plus le froid (résistante au givre dès la transformation, sans cape ni hydromel), la fenêtre de l'arbre de talents s'affiche enfin (elle ne se montrait pas en 0.4.0) et s'ouvre avec F4 ;
  • 0.4.2 : la louve d'un autre joueur luit aussi chez vous (votre instinct éteignait ses marques), Geri et Freki sont bien plus robustes, la compétence Loup monte deux fois moins vite, et chaque capacité a une icône qui montre ce qu'elle fait.
• Butin : chaque loup tué a 50 % de chance de laisser 1 à 5 Gouttes de phéromones de louve. Il en faut 30 pour une Essence de phéromones de louve.
• Transformation : 45 minutes, sans retour possible. Ni la déconnexion ni la mort n'y mettent fin.
• Sous forme de louve :
  • clic gauche : enchaînement de trois coups (morsure à gauche, à droite, puis griffes, dressée) ;
  • clic milieu (attaque secondaire) : bond de chasse jusqu'à 4,5 m sur l'ennemi visé, morsure à l'arrivée ;
  • esquive avec les touches du jeu (parade + saut, accroupie + saut ou touche d'esquive) : bond de côté, invulnérable au début ;
  • dégâts x1,5 et +40 % de vitesse ;
  • sa fourrure la protège du froid : ni « Froid » ni « Gel », et dégâts de givre réduits de moitié ;
  • instinct qui fait briller les êtres vivants à 45 m ;
  • hurlement avec la touche H ;
  • les loups sauvages ne vous attaquent pas ; mordez-en un, et sa meute vous en veut deux minutes.
• Compétence Loup : elle monte quand vous vivez en louve (1 point toutes les 20 secondes, 1 point tous les 24 m, un demi par morsure, 4,5 par créature tuée, 100 par boss, 2 par hurlement, 30 et 50 pour une portée). Ces gains ont été divisés par deux en 0.4.2 : en jeu, le niveau 41 venait en 30 minutes. Elle baisse à chaque mort, comme les autres compétences.
• Arbre de talents : touche F4. C'est une vraie fenêtre, avec la souris : un arbre runique, la souche du niveau 1 en bas, trois branches (Fenrir, Seiðr, Máni) et l'échelle des niveaux à gauche. Capacités actives : Flair du seiðr (5), Pas de braise (10), Hurlement de Hati (15), Crocs runiques (20), Manteau de Niflheim (25), Bond de Sköll (30), Geri et Freki (35), Voile de brume (40), Bénédiction de Máni (45), Ruée du Bifröst (50), Aura de l'alpha (65), Festin du Valhalla (75), Hurlement du Ragnarök (80), Écorce d'Yggdrasil (85), Fenrir déchaîné (100).
• Pouvoirs : chacun a sa touche, 1 à 6 par défaut (réglables), et la barre de pouvoirs en bas de l'écran montre leur icône et leur temps de recharge. Dans l'arbre aussi, chaque capacité a son icône. En louve, ces touches ne déclenchent plus les raccourcis d'objets du jeu.
• Problèmes connus (alpha) :
  • une grande partie de cette version est toute jeune (fenêtre de l'arbre, barre de pouvoirs, nouvelle interface, détente du saut et de l'esquive, effets de magie) : dites-moi ce qui cloche ;
  • cinq capacités sur vingt ne sont pas encore actives.
• La suite : finir les cinq dernières capacités, régler la progression, continuer à polir animations, magie et interface.
• Portée : près d'un loup apprivoisé, 1 ou 2 louveteaux naissent après 3 minutes.
• Collier et laisse : un autre joueur peut vous les passer avec la touche Utiliser. La laisse fait une petite courbe entre le collier et sa main.
• Réglages dans BepInEx/config/com.Azura.shewolf.cfg, section [Louve].
• Icônes des capacités : d'après game-icons.net (Lorc, Delapouite, Skoll, sbed, Zeromancer, Carl Olsen), licence CC BY 3.0, recolorées et en partie combinées.
• Installation : chez tous les joueurs et sur le serveur, avec la même version partout.

---

Old screenshots (previous preview, 0.3.x)

These are OLD in-game captures, taken with the previous preview. They show the she-wolf as she looked before 0.4.0: the game's grey wolf with a brown lock of hair, one tail and no markings. What they show around her (the emblem, the hearts, the pups, the leash) is still in the mod.

Ce sont d'ANCIENNES captures en jeu, prises avec la préversion précédente : la louve y a encore son pelage gris, sa mèche brune et une seule queue, sans marques. Ce qu'elles montrent autour d'elle (emblème, cœurs, louveteaux, laisse) est toujours dans le mod.

Old capture (0.3.x): the she-wolf and her emblem. Game set to French.

Old capture (0.3.x): near a tamed wolf, hearts appear and pups are on the way.

Old capture (0.3.x): the pups are born at her feet, already tamed.

Old capture (0.3.x): running through the forest. Game set to French.

Old capture (0.3.x): on a leash at home, with her collar. Game set to French.

Full album on Imgur