Changelog

1.1.1 - 2026-10-12

• New setting CountGameKills, for worlds where a mod hides the world's keys. Vandi keeps its kill record in the world's global keys, and World Advancement Progression's default BlockAllGlobalKeys refuses every one of them, so a player running it saw his boss kills never move. With the setting on, Vandi reads the count the game keeps for your character instead, which no such mod touches. The trade: the game counts every kill you took part in and keeps the count across worlds, and the star boost for a summon assumes you made the offering, which is only certain when you are alone on the world. Off by default.

1.1.0 - 2026-10-08

• A boss killed three times raises the metal of its own biome by half, for you. The third kill is the one summoned at two stars. Copper and tin for the Elder, iron for Bonemass, silver for Moder, black metal for Yagluth, flametal and bloodgold for Fader, and the giant brains' Softtissue (the Eitr refinery's input) for the Queen, worked out from what the furnaces take in rather than listed. The bonus is x1.5, rounded up, so a stack of one becomes two. It follows the metal and not the place, so a Mistlands copper deposit pays out for the Elder's player. Iron scrap, scrap piles and a fuling's black metal scrap count, bars never do. Eikthyr gives nothing, since the Meadows have no metal. New settings DoubleAtKills, DoubleBosses and NeverDouble (the names predate the cut from x2 to x1.5 and stay, because saved files are keyed on them), and vandi metal in the console.
• The Queen is in and bloodgold is in. DoubleBosses now lists defeated_queen, and NeverDouble is empty. Bloodgold is the prefab GoldOre: the old BloodGoldOre, BloodGold entries named no prefab, so they never held anything back. The Deep North has no boss of its own in BossBiomes yet, so Fader's kills raise bloodgold until it does.
• Existing config files keep their old values. BepInEx writes every entry on first run and the saved value beats a new default, so a profile whose [Metal] section is already on disk keeps the old DoubleBosses (no Queen) and NeverDouble until the line is edited or deleted. The x1.5 is in code and applies everywhere. No local profile had a [Metal] section yet.
• It happens when the drop is made, to the player whose blow made it. Never on pickup, so a friend cannot mine for you. A vein Malmr breaks goes to the player whose swing filled the bar. The machine that owns the rock makes the decision from the world's global keys, so a client that does not own it is covered. Not run in game yet.
• A creature's metal is raised from its drop list, made when it dies. Most creatures drop their loot from a ragdoll a moment after death, and the first version only looked while the creature itself dropped, so a fuling's scrap almost never rose. A blow that breaks a deposit inside another (a scrap pile that spawns a rock) no longer ends the outer blow's credit, a drop that fails to rise is left as the game made it and logged once, and the metal list is built when the world loads instead of at the first drop.
• A Vandi page in the compendium. It is the third entry, after Active Effects and Logs, so opening the compendium still lands where it always did. The left side lists every boss Vandi counts, grouped by biome, with your own kill count on each. Pick one and the right side shows what each kill adds to the star chance in its biome, which kill the boss comes back with a star on, the stars the next summon will have, and where you stand on the ladder. Either side scrolls on its own, with the compendium's scrollbar, when it is taller than the window. Every figure comes from the same functions the star roll and the altar use, so the page cannot say something the world does not do. ShowCompendiumPage in the config turns it off, and it stays each player's own setting under Core.
• Malmr's unlocks show on it. With Malmr installed, a boss that gates one of its metals says what that metal is waiting for: how many more kills, the Pickaxes level, or that it is open. The other bosses that still gate a metal are listed under The road ahead. Without Malmr there is no Malmr line and nothing else changes. Vandi reads Malmr's own table and gate for this by reflection, so the two stay in step, and a Malmr it cannot read costs only those lines. It is read once each time the page is opened, a failed read is tried again after a few seconds, and only the third in a row, or a Malmr that lacks a member the page needs, ends it for the session.
• Two Devkit scenarios: vandi-compendium-page makes a real kill at an altar and checks the page's numbers move, and vandi-compendium-malmr-line checks the Malmr lines against seeded kills. Both include the tall checks that catch a label squeezed to no height.
• The page is built only from code, with no bundle asset, and is rebuilt for every new compendium. Its only borrowed look is a copy of the compendium's scrollbar. It was written without being run in game; the first look is the first test.

1.0.0 - 2026-09-30

First release. Both Devkit scenarios in scenarios/ passed on 2026-09-29, and a two-player run on a dedicated server credited each boss kill once, to the summoner.

• Starred creatures get likelier in a biome whose boss you have killed. Five percentage points a kill, up to twenty five extra, added to whatever the game already rolls where the creature spawns. That is ten in an ordinary stretch of a default world, so there a biome whose boss you have killed five times spawns starred creatures about a third of the time. The game rolls higher in parts of the world far from the centre and lower on a world set to fewer stars, and the points go on top either way. Creatures still stop at two stars, and a biome whose boss you have never killed is left as it was.
• Each boss owns its own biome. Eikthyr the Meadows, the Elder the Black Forest, Bonemass the Swamp and the Ocean, Moder the Mountains, Yagluth the Plains, the Queen the Mistlands, and Fader the Ashlands and the Deep North. BossBiomes in the config changes the pairs. Open-world spawns, camps and dungeon spawners all go through the same roll, and a dungeon counts as the biome above its entrance.
• A boss you have killed before comes back harder. One star for each earlier kill by whoever made the offering, up to two. HarderBosses turns this half off and leaves the rest alone.
• Credit goes to whoever made the offering, even if they are dead, offline or far away when the boss falls. Helping with somebody else's boss earns nothing. A boss that was not summoned at an altar with Vandi installed credits nobody.
• The count is kept in the world, not on your character, one global key per player per boss. The kill is recorded by whichever machine owned the boss when it died, which is often not the summoner's, so the world is the one place both can reach.
• The star roll belongs to the zone owner. Spawns roll on whichever client owns the zone, against that client's own record, so two people in the same forest both get the owner's odds. Alone in a biome you always get your own.

Everyone needs it, at the same build. With Core installed it registers at Requirement.Everyone, because a player without Vandi spawns ordinary creatures for everyone near them. The host's settings apply to everybody.

For other mods

• Other mods can read your kill count. VandiApi.BossKills and LocalBossKills answer how many times a player has killed a boss, and CountsKillsOf whether Vandi counts that boss at all. It only reads, and answers the same whether Vandi is switched on or not. Malmr uses it to open a metal's vein mining once that biome's boss has been beaten at one star.

Console

• vandi prints the boss kills this world has credited to you, one line per boss Vandi counts, and the star chance where you stand with Vandi's share of it. It only reads, so it is not a cheat and needs no devcommands.