RavenIsle

A late-game island beyond the edge of the world. It has four regions, the game's own dungeons, gates that need keys, a raven keeper with a quest line, and a boss who holds the way home.

Beta. RavenIsle is still being tested on a live two-player server. Expect rough edges, and back up your world before you first step through. Bug reports are welcome.

Find a rare Raven stone in an early chest, build the Raven portal, and step through to Raven Isle: Jarl Hrafn's last hold, sealed by his undying Warden. Light the beacons, clear a dvergr mine, storm a charred fortress and brave a frozen hall to recover Hrafn's three heirlooms. Then climb to the summit and wake the Barrow Warden.

Features

• An island of its own, off the map. About 1.1 km across, in its own sea beyond the edge of the world. It has five areas:
  • The Landing: meadows and the keeper's camp.
  • Mistwood: dvergr ruins in the mist.
  • The Ashfields: charred ruins, and lava that burns.
  • Frostpeak: the frozen north.
  • The summit: the Warden's barrow.
• Its own map. On the isle your map shows the isle, with its own fog of war and markers for the places you've found. At home your world map is untouched.
• The game's own places. Thirteen of the game's buildings and dungeons stand on the isle, each with its creatures and loot: an infested mine, a charred fortress, the frozen hall of Mörkhalla, a Morgen's pit, watchtowers, ruins and more.
• Gates and keys. Ridges divide the regions. The Ember gate and the Frost gate stay sealed until someone finds their key. The ravens' blue ward fires burn along the ridge crests, and a warning shows when you start climbing one. Climbing around a gate doesn't help, because sealed regions burn or freeze anyone inside.
• Munin's tasks. Munin, Odin's raven, keeps the isle. Five tasks lead from lighting the beacons to the Warden's fall, plus a side quest for six ravens' hoards hidden in high places. Each task pays coins, and the last one also gives the Raven cloak, which softens falls, heat and cold.
• Harder the deeper you go. Creatures gain extra stars, health and damage in each region past the Landing.
• The Barrow Warden. A towering draugr lord with a boss health bar and 20,000 health. It raises its dead at two-thirds and one-third health.
• After the Warden falls.
  • Hrafn's watch: lay the Warden's skull on the barrow altar to get a new forsaken power. Ravens circle over you, nearby enemies show on your map, and the first blow that would kill you leaves you at 1 health instead.
  • Hrafn's ravenstone: a trinket from Munin. When your adrenaline fills, it heals you, gives you stamina and speed, and slows your falls.
  • A raven on your shoulder while you wear the Raven cloak. The other players see it too.
  • Ravens' fire: the isle's blue ward fire, now yours to build. It never needs fuel.
  • A rematch: an offering on the altar wakes the Warden for another fight and its loot.
  • Players who finished before these existed get them too: talk to Munin.
• The nightmare rule. Die on the isle and you wake in your own bed: "It must have been a nightmare..." What you carried stays on the isle. The Raven portal takes you back for it. Until the Warden falls, beds can't be built on the isle.
• Optional one-way trip. When switched on, the isle's portal stays dark until the Warden falls. After that it works both ways for good.
• Shared progress. Lit beacons, found keys, opened gates and the Warden's fall count for everyone in the world. Each player collects their own rewards from Munin.

How to use

1. Find a Raven stone. It turns up rarely (about 1 in 12) in Meadows and Black Forest chests, burial chambers and troll caves. Each of those chests gets one roll the first time it loads with the mod installed, so in an older world even chests you emptied long ago are worth checking again.
2. Build the Raven portal. Hammer > Misc, next to a Workbench. Default cost: 1 Raven stone, 20 Fine wood, 10 Greydwarf eyes and 2 Surtling cores.
3. Step through with your best gear and food. You arrive at the Raven stones at the Landing.
4. Talk to Munin by the fire at the keeper's camp. The task tracker under the minimap shows what to do next.

Key	Action
E	Talk to Munin, use the Raven portal, light a beacon (with wood), open a gate, read a lore stone, lay the heirlooms on the altar (the game's Use key)

Console commands (the cheat ones need the game's cheats or Server devcommands):

Command	What it does
ravenisle	Shows the isle's progress: beacons, keys, heirlooms, the Warden, hoards and the current task
ravenisle_give [stone, emberkey, frostkey, heirlooms, cloak, skull, ravenstone]	Cheat: gives you a Raven stone, or the named item
ravenisle_goto [place]	Cheat: takes you to the isle, or to a place on it (camp, mine, fortress, frosthall, altar, ember_gate, frost_gate)

The quest, step by step (spoilers)

1. Light the beacons. Feed wood to the three beacons: one on each hill of the Landing and one on the Mistwood shore. When all three burn, the isle's main places appear on your map.
2. The mine under the mist. In the Infested Mine under Mistwood, the deepest chest holds the Ember key and Hrafn's Eye. Carrying the key unseals the Ember gate for everyone. The task is done once both are out.
3. Through the Ember gate. In the Ashfields, the Charred Fortress keeps the Frost key and Hrafn's Heart in one of its chests. Mind the lava on the way. The task is done once both are out.
4. The frozen hall. Past the Frost gate, the Frozen Hall (Mörkhalla) hides Hrafn's Tear. Its jötunn gate opens for you once the Frost gate is unsealed.
5. The Barrow Warden. Climb the Warden's stair from Frostpeak to the summit and lay the three heirlooms on the barrow altar. Anyone can lay any of them, one at a time. The Warden wakes once all three are down. When it falls, the Raven stones at the Landing and on the summit carry you home.

Side quest: six ravens' hoards are hidden across the isle, one at the Landing, two in Mistwood and one each in the Ashfields, Frostpeak and on the summit. Open them all for Munin's own reward.

1. After the Warden. Lay its skull on the barrow altar, then take Hrafn's watch there (use the altar again). Munin gives you Hrafn's ravenstone, and the ravens' blue fire appears in the Hammer's Furniture tab (needs a stonecutter). To fight the Warden again, hold the alternate place key (Shift) and use the altar with the offering in your bag (5 elite draugr trophies by default).

Lost an heirloom? Talk to Munin. His brothers bring back any heirloom that was found but isn't on the altar yet.

Configuration

Settings are in BepInEx/config/anwo.RavenIsle.cfg and can be changed in game with a configuration manager. Server settings come from the host or dedicated server; Client settings are each player's own.

1 - Island

Setting	Default	Scope	Description
Island on	true	Server	Raven Isle exists. Off: the isle's terrain is gone, the portal stops working, no Raven stones turn up and nothing about the isle is written to the world. Only turn it off when nobody is on the isle
Building	LandingUntilWarden	Server	Where you may build on the isle: LandingUntilWarden, LandingOnly, Everywhere or NowhereUntilWarden
Camp build radius	90	Server	How far from the keeper's camp you may build while building is limited to the Landing, in metres (20-250)
Sealed regions hurt	true	Server	The Ashfields burn and Frostpeak freezes anyone inside before their gate's key has been found
Curse damage per second	20	Server	Health the curse takes every second in a sealed region, the same for everyone (1-200). Armour, resistances and meads don't reduce it. At 20, a player with 250 health falls in about 12 seconds without healing
Protect island objects	true	Server	The isle's own gates, walls, portals, altar, beacons, lore stones, ward fires and quest chests can't be damaged or taken apart
Ward fires on the ridges	true	Server	A line of blue ward fires along the ridge crests around the sealed regions, so you can see the ridges aren't a way in. Off: no new ones are built; ones already built stay
Lava burns	true	Server	The Ashfields' lava burns like the game's Ashlands lava. Heat resistance (flametal armour, the Raven cloak) slows it, fire resistance doesn't. The roads stay clear of it. Off: the lava is only for show
No beds before the Warden	true	Server	No beds on the isle until the Warden falls, and a bed already there isn't a spawn point until then, so dying on the isle always sends you home

2 - Creatures

Setting	Default	Scope	Description
Tougher creatures	true	Server	Creatures past the Landing get the extra stars, health and damage below. The Landing, the sea and tamed animals are left alone
Mistwood extra stars	1	Server	Extra stars in Mistwood (0-2). Stars stop at two, the most the game shows
Mistwood health	1.5	Server	Health multiplier in Mistwood
Mistwood damage	1.25	Server	Damage multiplier in Mistwood
Ashfields extra stars	1	Server	Extra stars in the Ashfields (0-2)
Ashfields health	2	Server	Health multiplier in the Ashfields
Ashfields damage	1.5	Server	Damage multiplier in the Ashfields
Frostpeak extra stars	2	Server	Extra stars in Frostpeak and on the summit (0-2)
Frostpeak health	2.5	Server	Health multiplier in Frostpeak and on the summit
Frostpeak damage	1.75	Server	Damage multiplier in Frostpeak and on the summit

Creatures in a dungeon count as the region above it. The multipliers apply on top of stars.

3 - Portal

Setting	Default	Scope	Description
Raven portal recipe	RI_RavenStone:1,FineWood:20,GreydwarfEye:10,SurtlingCore:2	Server	Cost of the Raven portal, as Item:Amount pairs with prefab names. Needs a restart
One way until the Warden falls	false	Server	On: the isle's Raven stones stay dark until the Warden falls, so the trip is one way. Dying still sends you home
Teleport rules apply	true	Server	The Raven portal follows the game's teleport rules (no ores or metals)
No portals on the isle	true	Server	Players can't build their own portals on the isle until the Warden falls

4 - Raven stone

Setting	Default	Scope	Description
Found in early chests	true	Server	The Raven stone can turn up in the chests listed below. Off: it's only available through the ravenisle_give command
Chance per chest	0.08	Server	Chance that a listed chest gets a Raven stone on its one roll (0-1)
Early chests	Meadows, Black Forest, burial chamber and troll cave chests	Server	The chests (prefab names, separated by commas) that can hold a Raven stone. Each gets one roll, the first time it loads with the mod installed

5 - Quests

Setting	Default	Scope	Description
Reward scale	1	Server	Multiplies Munin's coin rewards (100 to 500 per task; 0-10)
Warden health	20000	Server	The Barrow Warden's health (1,000-200,000)
Warden stars	2	Server	The Warden's stars (0-2); each makes its hits half again as hard
Warden damage	2.5	Server	Damage multiplier for the Warden's hits, on top of its stars
Warden calls its dead	true	Server	The Warden raises draugr at two-thirds and one-third health

6 - Display

Setting	Default	Scope	Description
Island map	true	Client	On the isle, the map shows the isle with its own fog of war
Task tracker	true	Client	Shows Munin's current task under the minimap while you're on the isle
Tracker height	0.36	Client	Where the tracker sits, as a share of the screen height from the top
Region names	true	Client	Shows a region's name when you walk into it
Ridge warning	true	Client	When you start climbing a ridge towards a sealed region, a message says it is warded and which gate is the way in
Arrival intro	true	Client	Shows the isle's intro text the first time you arrive
Nightmare message	true	Client	Shows "It must have been a nightmare..." when you wake at home after dying on the isle
Ask before stepping through	true	Client	While the trip is one way, the Raven portal asks you to press use a second time
Raven on the shoulder	true	Client	Players wearing the Raven cloak have a raven on their left shoulder, on your screen
Shoulder raven size	0.3	Client	How big the shoulder raven is (0.1-0.8; 0.3 is about a real raven)
Shoulder raven height	0.1	Client	How far above the shoulder joint it sits, in metres (-0.3 to 0.6). Raise it if it sinks into bulky armour

7 - Rewards

Setting	Default	Scope	Description
Forsaken power at the altar	true	Server	After the Warden falls, its skull goes on the barrow altar and the altar gives Hrafn's watch to anyone who asks: for 5 minutes (20 to recharge), ravens circle over you, enemies within 60 m show on your map, and the first blow that would kill you leaves you at 1 health. Munin replaces a lost skull
Ravenstone from Munin	true	Server	After the Warden falls, Munin gives each player Hrafn's ravenstone. When your adrenaline fills, it gives 100 health and 50 stamina at once, then 20 seconds of extra speed and slow falling
Ravens fire to build	true	Server	After the Warden falls, the ravens' blue fire can be built (Hammer, Furniture, next to a stonecutter: 10 stone, 5 feathers, 1 surtling core). It burns without fuel
Warden rematch	true	Server	After the Warden falls, an offering on the altar (Shift + use) wakes it again for another fight and its loot
Rematch offering	TrophyDraugrElite:5	Server	What waking the Warden again costs, as Item:Amount pairs with prefab names

Multiplayer

• Everyone needs RavenIsle, including a dedicated server. Jotunn checks the version when a player joins and turns away a missing or mismatched mod.
• The host sets the rules. Every Server setting comes from the host or dedicated server.
• Progress is shared. Beacons, keys, gates, heirlooms on the altar, hoards and the Warden's fall are saved with the world and count for everyone. Rewards, the found-places list and the isle's fog of war are saved on each character, separately for each world.
• The isle is built by the host the first time anyone goes there, from the same terrain on every computer.

Compatibility

• Map-sharing mods. One Map To Rule Them All keeps sharing your world map while you're on the isle, and the isle's own map is never shared as world map.
• World generation mods that change the edge of the world or place the world far outside its normal size may clash with the isle, which lies about 14 km south of the world's centre.
• Teleport mods that move you between portals or to map pins can take you off the isle even while the trip is one way.

Uninstalling

The isle sinks back into the abyss. Anything you built or left there stays in the world save, out of reach, and returns if the mod is installed again. The Raven portal pieces and the isle's items no longer load. Your world map, the rest of the world and your characters are not touched.

Found a bug?

Report it at github.com/Anwo91/valheim-mods/issues (pick "Bug report"). Please attach your LogOutput.log from the game session where it happened: it's in your mod manager's profile folder, under BepInEx. Ideas are welcome there too.

About

This is a beta release: tested with automated checks and simulations, still being tested in game.

Made with Claude (Anthropic's AI model) and tagged AI Generated, as Thunderstore's rules ask. Built for Valheim 1.0.17 (Deep North) with BepInEx 5.4.2351 and Jotunn 2.30.2.