Harvest Turrets

Adds three automated ballista variants that gather the world for you. Clones of the vanilla Ballista — point one at a resource and it works on its own: aiming, warming up, and firing with no ammo and no interaction.

A Valheim BepInEx 5 plugin built on Jotunn.

Turrets

Piece	Fires	Targets	Cost
Lumberjack Turret	Chop bolt	Trees (TreeBase) and logs (TreeLog)	20x Wood, 10x Fine Wood, 5x Iron
Quarry Turret	Pickaxe bolt	Rocks and ore (MineRock, MineRock5)	30x Stone, 10x Iron, 5x Bronze
Huntsman Turret	Pierce bolt	Wild animals (deer, boar, ...)	15x Fine Wood, 10x Iron, 10x Leather Scraps

All three are built from the Hammer build menu under Misc.

Requirements

• BepInEx 5 (denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim)
• Jotunn 2.30.x (ValheimModding-Jotunn)

Installation

1. Install through your mod manager (recommended) — BepInEx and Jotunn are installed automatically.
2. Manual: drop HarvestTurrets.dll into BepInEx\plugins\.

How to use

1. Restart the game after installing (the build pieces are registered at startup).
2. Build one of the three turrets from the Hammer under Misc and place it near the resource you want worked.
3. Walk away. The turret scans every 0.4 s, swings to face the nearest valid target, holds its aim for the warm-up, then fires a bolt that deals the right damage type with a high enough tool tier to actually fell trees / mine rocks.
4. The Huntsman Turret leaves tamed animals and hostile monsters alone by default — enable TargetMonsters / TargetTamed (with livestock warnings) in config if you want them hunted too.

How it works

• Damage is applied when the bolt lands, using vanilla damage types (Chop / Pickaxe / Pierce), so drops, log spawning, and death behaviour are all vanilla.
• No ammo required — turrets fire on a configurable cooldown.
• Targeting is owner-authoritative; each turret only acts if it owns its zone data (co-op safe).

Configuration

Generated on first launch at BepInEx\config\com.harvestturrets.harvestturrets.cfg.

General

Key	Default	Description
Enabled	true	Master toggle.
AddBuildPieces	true	Register the three pieces (requires restart).
ShowProjectile	true	Draw the bolt flying to the target.
TintModels	true	Tint each turret so the variants are visually distinct (requires restart).
Scale	0.5	Uniform model scale (requires restart).

Lumberjack / Quarry / Huntsman

Key	Lumberjack	Quarry	Huntsman	Description
Range	40	40	45	Detection range in meters.
Damage	60	60	90	Damage per shot.
AttackInterval	1.5	1.5	1.2	Seconds between shots.
ToolTier	4	4	0	Tool tier per shot (must be high enough for the target).
Warmup	0.4	0.4	0.3	Seconds of held aim before firing.
ProjectileFlightTime	0.25	0.25	0.2	Seconds for the bolt to reach the target.
TurnRate	30	30	40	Aim swing speed.

Huntsman only

Key	Default	Description
TargetAnimals	true	Hunt non-tamed animals (deer, boar, etc.).
TargetMonsters	false	Also hunt hostile monsters.
TargetTamed	false	Also hunt tamed animals (will shoot your livestock).

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.