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
A party system for Valheim. Group up with up to seven other players, see everyone's health down the side of the screen, and share skill experience with whoever is near you.
A hirð was a chieftain's sworn war-band. A warband here has a leader, and it lasts as long as that leader is online.
What It Does
- Warbands of up to eight players. Invite by typing a name, or from a list of who is online.
- A party list on the left of the screen with each member's name, health and distance. The rows use the game's own health bars, so they match the rest of the interface.
- Skill experience is shared with warband members near you, in the same skill it was earned in. Chop wood together and you both gain woodcutting.
- A Warband skill that rises while you play alongside your warband and sets how much you share.
Shared Experience
Your Warband level sets how much of your own experience you keep, and how much of each nearby member's you receive.
| Your Warband level | You keep | You receive, from each member nearby |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 50% | 50% |
| 50 | 75% | 75% |
| 100 | 100% | 100% |
With one member nearby you break even at any level. With more than one you gain. At Warband 100 you keep all of your own and receive all of theirs.
If nobody is nearby, nothing changes; you keep all of your own experience.
Members have to be within 60 metres to share. Height is ignored, so somebody mining below you still counts as nearby.
The Warband skill rises from time spent near your warband rather than from anything you do. With one member nearby it reaches level 50 in about four hours and 100 in about twenty. With a full warband, roughly a third of that. As with every Valheim skill, the early levels come quickly and the last ones take much longer.
Using It
Press F7 to open the panel.
- Warband lists who is in it. The leader gets Promote and Remove on each row; everyone gets Leave.
- Invite has a name box and a list of who is online. Inviting somebody while you are not in a warband creates one with you as leader.
- Settings moves the party list and changes its size.
Invitations appear as a banner at the top of the panel and as a message on screen. They lapse after a minute.
How Warbands End
A warband lasts for one session:
- A member who goes offline leaves it immediately.
- If the leader goes offline, the warband disbands.
- A leader who chooses to leave passes the lead on instead.
- A warband with one member left disbands.
Your Warband skill is saved on your character like any other skill. The warband itself is not saved.
Install
Required on the server and on every client.
A player without Hird has no warbands: they cannot be invited and will not see one. Nothing else is affected for them or for anyone else.
Works on a dedicated server and on an in-game host. Compatible with the rest of the GBV mods and does not require any of them.
Settings
BepInEx/config/gbv.valheim.hird.cfg
| Setting | Default | What it does |
|---|---|---|
General / Enabled |
true |
Turn the mod off without uninstalling it. |
General / VerboseLog |
false |
Write every roster change to the log. |
Panel / PanelHotkey |
F7 |
Opens the warband panel. |
Warband / ShareRange |
60 |
How close a member has to be, in metres, to share. Set by the server. |
Warband / MaxMembers |
8 |
How many players one warband holds. Set by the server. |
Warband / InviteExpiry |
60 |
Seconds an invitation stays open. Set by the server. |
Sharing / ShareFloor |
0.5 |
Share rate at Warband 0. Set to 1 to share everything from the start. |
Sharing / ShareCeiling |
1 |
Share rate at Warband 100. |
Sharing / WarbandGainPerSecond |
0.25 |
How fast the Warband skill rises. Raise it to level faster. |
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 member's bar and the next member's name. |
Display / HudNameGap |
-6.5 |
Space between a name and its own bar. Negative values close up the gap. |
Display / HudShowDistance |
true |
Show distances, and dim members too far away to share. |
Display / HudShowSelf |
false |
Include your own row in the party list. |
Debug / FakeMembers |
0 |
Fill the party list with placeholder members. |
Window / X, Y, W, H |
— | Where you left the panel. Set automatically. |
The three settings marked set by the server 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 your current share rate. |
hird_invite [name] |
Ask a player to join. |
hird_leave |
Leave your warband. |
hird_fake [0-15] |
Fill the party list with placeholder members. |
hird_warband [0-100] |
Set your own Warband skill. This is a cheat. |
hird_nameplate |
Print a diagnostic report about the game's nameplates. |
Placeholder Members
hird_fake 7, or the Settings tab, fills the party list with members who do not exist, so
the list can be positioned and sized without other players present. Nothing is sent to the
server, no real warband is affected, and no experience changes hands. The panel reads
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.