Hird
Warbands of up to eight. A party list down the left of the screen in the game's own style, invites and leadership on F7, and skill experience shared with whoever is near you - governed by a new Warband skill.Hird
Warbands for Valheim. Group up with up to seven friends, see everyone's health down the side of your screen, and share your skill experience with whoever is fighting beside you.
A hirð was a chieftain's sworn war-band. A warband has a leader, and it lasts as long as they are online.
What You Get
- A warband of up to eight. Invite by typing a name, or pick somebody off the list of who is online.
- A party list on the left of your screen. Everyone's name, everyone's health, and how far away they are. It uses the game's own health bars, so it looks like it belongs.
- Shared experience. Near a warband member, what you earn is shared with them and what they earn comes back to you, in the same skill. Chop wood together and you both get the woodcutting.
- A new Warband skill that rises while you play alongside your warband, and decides how much you share.
Sharing, In One Table
Your Warband level decides how much of your own experience you keep, and how much of everyone else's you pick up.
| Your Warband level | You keep | You get, from each member nearby |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 50% | 50% |
| 50 | 75% | 75% |
| 100 | 100% | 100% |
One companion already breaks even. Two is a clear gain. At Warband 100 there is no downside left at all: you keep everything of yours and take everything of theirs.
If you are in a warband but nobody is nearby, nothing changes. You keep all your own experience, exactly as if the mod were not installed.
Members have to be within 60 metres to share. Height does not count, so somebody mining below you still counts as beside you.
The Warband skill itself takes roughly five and a half hours of playing together to reach 100 with one companion, or a bit over three hours with a full band. It rises from time spent together, so there is nothing to grind for it.
Using It
Press F7.
- Warband shows who is in it and how they are doing. The leader gets Promote and Remove buttons; everyone gets Leave.
- Invite is a name box and a list of who is online. Inviting somebody when you are not already in a warband creates one, with you leading it.
- Settings moves the party list around and changes its size.
An invitation pops up as a banner at the top of the panel and as a message on screen. It lapses after a minute.
How Warbands End
A warband lasts one session, on purpose:
- Someone who goes offline leaves immediately.
- If the leader goes offline, the warband disbands and everyone is told why.
- A leader who chooses to leave passes the lead on instead.
- A warband down to one person disbands.
Your Warband skill is saved on your character like any other skill. The warband itself is not saved, because it can never outlive its leader's connection anyway.
Install
Everyone needs it, and so does the server.
Someone without Hird simply has no warbands: they cannot be invited and will not see one. Nothing breaks for them or for anybody else.
Works on a dedicated server and on an in-game host. Safe alongside the rest of the GBV mods, and does not need any of them.
Settings
BepInEx/config/gbv.valheim.hird.cfg
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
General / Enabled |
true |
Turn the whole mod off without uninstalling it. |
General / VerboseLog |
false |
Write every roster change to the log. For chasing a problem. |
Panel / PanelHotkey |
F7 |
Opens the warband panel. |
Warband / ShareRange |
60 |
How close somebody has to be, in metres, to share with you. Set by the server. |
Warband / MaxMembers |
8 |
How many people one warband holds. Set by the server. |
Warband / InviteExpiry |
60 |
Seconds an invitation stays open. Set by the server. |
Sharing / ShareFloor |
0.5 |
Your share rate at Warband 0. Set to 1 to share everything from the start. |
Sharing / ShareCeiling |
1 |
Your share rate at Warband 100. |
Sharing / WarbandGainPerSecond |
1 |
How fast the Warband skill itself rises. |
Display / HudScale |
1 |
Size of the party list. |
Display / HudOffsetX |
0 |
Move the party list sideways. |
Display / HudOffsetY |
0 |
Move the party list up and down. |
Display / HudRowGap |
0 |
Extra space between one person's bar and the next person's name. |
Display / HudNameGap |
-6.5 |
Space between a name and its own bar. Negative closes up the empty room under the letters. |
Display / HudShowDistance |
true |
Show how far away people are, and dim anyone too far to share. |
Display / HudShowSelf |
false |
Put your own row in the party list. |
Debug / FakeMembers |
0 |
Fill the list with invented members. See below. |
Window / X, Y, W, H |
— | Where you left the panel. Managed for you. |
The three server settings are read on the server only, so there is nothing to keep in step by hand.
Console Commands
| Command | What it does |
|---|---|
hird |
Show your warband and what your experience is being shared at. |
hird_invite [name] |
Ask somebody to join. |
hird_leave |
Leave your warband. |
hird_fake [0-15] |
Fill the party list with invented members. |
hird_warband [0-100] |
Cheat. Set your own Warband skill, to see what a level feels like. |
The Test Warband
hird_fake 7, or the Settings tab, fills the party list with people who do not exist, so
you can move it around and size it without organising seven friends first. Their health
moves, one is dead, two are out of range and one drops out of contact now and then.
It is entirely local: nothing is sent to the server, no real warband is touched, and no experience changes hands. The panel says Showing a test warband while it is on.
Credits
Built for Guys Being Vikings. Part of the GBV suite, alongside Highseat, Runemark, Byrding, Idavoll, Hermod, Skald and Huskarl.