SentryBallista Ymiron
Eight buildable ballistas, one per biome, that defend your base by themselves: they shoot hostile creatures that come near, never run out of bolts.SentryBallista-Ymiron
Eight new ballistas for Valheim, one for each biome, that defend your base by themselves. Build one, and it turns towards any hostile creature that comes into range, leads it, allows for the drop of the bolt and shoots. They never run out of bolts.
Every ballista has its own model, built from scratch, that gets sturdier and richer biome after biome.
| # | Ballista | Biome | Default cost | Station | Damage | Range | Shot every |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hunter's Ballista | Meadows | 20 Wood, 8 Flint, 4 Deer hide, 6 Resin | Workbench | 18 | 18 m | 4 s |
| 2 | Bronze Ballista | Black Forest | 15 Fine wood, 4 Bronze, 2 Troll hide, 6 Resin | Workbench | 32 | 22 m | 3.6 s |
| 3 | Iron Ballista | Swamp | 10 Ancient bark, 6 Iron, 1 Chain, 2 Guck | Forge | 50 | 26 m | 3.3 s |
| 4 | Silver Ballista | Mountain | 10 Fine wood, 6 Silver, 4 Wolf pelt, 6 Obsidian | Forge | 70 | 30 m | 3 s |
| 5 | Black Metal Ballista | Plains | 10 Fine wood, 8 Black metal, 6 Linen thread, 2 Lox pelt | Forge | 95 | 34 m | 2.8 s |
| 6 | Dvergr Ballista | Mistlands | 10 Yggdrasil wood, 8 Black marble, 2 Mechanical spring, 6 Carapace | Black forge | 125 | 38 m | 2.5 s |
| 7 | Flametal Ballista | Ashlands | 10 Blackwood, 6 Flametal, 10 Grausten, 4 Asksvin hide | Black forge | 160 | 42 m | 2.3 s |
| 8 | Frost Ballista | Deep North | 10 Frostwood, 6 Gold, 4 Moose sinew, 10 Ice | Black forge | 200 | 46 m | 2 s |
The models
- Meadows: three poles lashed with hide, a big bent bow.
- Black Forest: squared tripod, bronze caps and claw.
- Swamp and Mountain: a torsion ballista (two rope springs in a banded frame) on a braced post; silver studs and fittings in the Mountain.
- Plains: a black metal mantlet in front of the frame.
- Mistlands: yggdrasil wood on a black marble plinth with glowing blue Dvergr runes.
- Ashlands: blackwood and flametal on a grausten plinth cracked with embers.
- Deep North: frostwood with gold fittings and a plank mantlet, ice crystals around the plinth.
How they behave
- Hammer, next to the vanilla ballista, with the right crafting station nearby.
- They shoot only hostile creatures: never players, tamed animals or villagers, never wild animals (deer, boars, hares...), Dvergr only once they are angry. Flying creatures are shot too.
- They need to see their target. By default the bolts fly through your own buildings and the ballistas see over them, so one standing behind a palisade still defends it.
- Creatures can attack and break them, like any piece. Repair them with the hammer.
- Use switches a ballista off (it points its nose down) and on again. Needs access to the ward.
- While placing one, or when you hover it with the hammer, its range is drawn on the ground.
Multiplayer
Everybody needs the mod: a player without it cannot see the ballistas. The player who owns the piece picks the target and shoots; everybody sees it turn and hears it fire. If the server hands a ballista to a player without the mod (it would never shoot), a player with the mod nearby takes it over. Players with the mod greet each other; one without it is named in the chat.
Config
BepInEx/config/ymiron.valheim.sentryballista.cfg (reloaded while the game runs):
- General: firing arc, turning speed, lowest and highest aim, whether bolts fly through buildings, whether sleeping creatures and bosses are shot, bolt speed, knockback.
- One section per ballista: enabled, cost, crafting station, health (next world load), damage, range, seconds between shots.