Bronze Battleaxe

Adds a Bronze Battleaxe: a bronze-tier take on the iron Battleaxe, for when you want a two-handed axe before you have the iron for one.

It reuses the vanilla Battleaxe's animations, hit effects and sounds, with its own bronze model, textures and inventory icon.

Model by leonsavelind, CC BY 4.0 - see Credits.

Crafting

Forge level 2 (the same as the iron Battleaxe).

Ingredient	Amount	Per upgrade level
Fine Wood	20	+3
Bronze	14	+7
Leather Scraps	4	-

Stats

Quality 1. The bronze/iron ratios follow the vanilla Bronze Axe / Iron Axe gap.

	Bronze Battleaxe	Battleaxe (iron)
Slash	50	70
Chop	30	40
Durability	150	200
Block power	16	28
Attack force	60	70
Attack stamina	x0.8	x1
Movement penalty	-5%	-15%
Tool tier	2	3

Per-quality scaling, weight and deflection are the same as the iron Battleaxe.

Axes skill and swing speed

The Bronze Battleaxe swings faster the higher your Axes skill: +0% at skill 0, up to +25% at skill 100 (linear in between). Wind-up, hit timing and combo windows all speed up together.

Config

BepInEx/config/com.ixillia.bronzebattleaxe.cfg

• Combat / MaxSwingSpeedBonus (default 0.25): swing speed bonus at Axes skill 100. Set to 0 to disable. Admin-only; the server's value applies.

Multiplayer

The server and every player need the mod installed. Versions must match on the minor number (1.1.x with 1.1.x).

Console

spawn BronzeBattleaxe with devcommands enabled.

Known limitations

• Only English text is provided; other languages show the English name.
• If the bundled model fails to load, the item falls back to the iron Battleaxe's model recoloured bronze (a warning is logged).

Credits

The 3D model is based on "Glass Battleaxe, 1958 Tris, Low Poly" by leonsavelind (source), licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0. Changes: rotated and scaled to fit Valheim's battleaxe, UVs and normals kept, textures re-coloured from glass to bronze (albedo, metallic/smoothness), ambient occlusion baked into the albedo.

Built with Jötunn.