JGRPG

JGRPG adds an RPG progression system to Valheim with seven playable classes, each featuring 120 talent ranks, five unique active abilities, and shared world progression.

Features

• Player class is selected through the JGRPG configuration before opening the game and can be changed at any time while outside the game.
• Persistent character class and talent choices
• 90 RPG levels
• Shared world RPG level and XP progression
• Boss-gated level caps
• Talent points earned as you level
• Free talent resets
• Five active abilities per class
• Configurable keyboard and gamepad ability keybinds
• JGFOOD is the recommended Eitr food mod for Galdramaðr (Sorcerer) and Seiðmaðr (Shaman) progression. JGFOOD was specifically designed to complement JGRPG's class progression and works alongside it without modifications. Other Eitr food mods can be used as alternatives, but JGFOOD is the preferred option for the intended JGRPG experience.

Classes

Huscarl (Tank)

A defensive class focused on armor, blocking, damage reduction, taunting enemies, and protecting nearby allies.

Recommended Equipment

• Armor: Heavy armor for maximum protection and survivability.
• Weapons: One-handed swords, clubs, maces, or axes.
• Off-Hand: Shields, particularly tower shields for maximum blocking protection.
• Playstyle: Frontline defender focused on absorbing damage, blocking attacks, and protecting allies.

Abilities

• Provoke - Taunts nearby enemies and forces their attention onto the Tank.
• Fortify - Temporarily increases the Tank's durability and reduces the stamina cost of blocking.
• Thunderclap - Unleashes a close-range lightning attack that damages nearby enemies.
• Guardian's Rally - Protects nearby allies by reducing the damage they take.
• Odin's Glare - Staggers nearby enemies, creating an opening for the Tank and their allies.

Einherjar (Berserker)

An aggressive melee class focused on melee damage, attack speed, Rage, low-health bonuses, and powerful close-range abilities. Supports swords, axes, clubs, knives, spears, polearms, and fists/fist weapons.

Recommended Equipment

• Armor: Medium or heavy armor, depending on your preferred balance of mobility and protection.
• Weapons: Two-handed axes, swords, and clubs. Can utilize dual-wield weapons or other melee weapons but may not get full ability utilization.
• Playstyle: Aggressive melee combat focused on high damage, attack speed, and overwhelming enemies.

Abilities

• Rage - Temporarily increases melee damage by 50%, movement speed by 20%, and two-handed attack speed by 20% at the cost of taking increased damage.
• Whirlwind - Spins through nearby enemies, dealing weapon damage in an area around the Berserker.
• Fury - Prevents the Berserker's health from falling below a temporary health floor while disabling health regeneration.
• Vorpal - Greatly increases melee damage and allows attacks to execute weakened enemies.
• Thor's Hammer - Temporarily increases melee damage and converts physical weapon damage into Lightning damage.

Veiðimaðr (Ranger)

A ranged class focused on bows and crossbows, mobility, Hunter's Mark, explosive attacks, rapid fire, party buffs, and spear training as a melee backup option.

Recommended Equipment

• Armor: Light armor for mobility, with armor offering bow-related bonuses particularly useful.
• Weapons: Bows and crossbows.
• Secondary Weapons: Spears for close-range combat.
• Playstyle: Ranged damage dealer focused on mobility, precision, and maintaining distance from enemies.

Abilities

• Hunter's Mark - Marks an enemy, causing it to take increased damage.
• Explosive Shot - Temporarily causes ranged attacks to explode and damage enemies around the target.
• Rapid Shot - Rapidly fires a volley of arrows or bolts at reduced damage per shot.
• Ranger's Rally - Buffs nearby allies with increased stamina regeneration, attack speed, and movement speed.
• Ullr's Quiver - Temporarily fires multiple arrows or bolts with each ranged attack.

Níðingr (Rogue)

A stealth-focused melee class centered on daggers, Sneak, mobility, poison damage, and burst attacks.

Recommended Equipment

• Armor: Light armor, preferably with bonuses to Sneak or movement speed.
• Weapons: Knives and daggers.
• Playstyle: Stealth-focused assassin specializing in positioning, backstabs, poison, and burst damage.

Abilities

• Vanish - Drops enemy aggro and conceals the Rogue from enemies until the effect expires or the Rogue breaks stealth.
• Backstab - Delivers a powerful dagger attack that staggers the target when striking from behind.
• Fan of Knives - Spins and throws knives outward, damaging all nearby enemies.
• Shadow Walk - Teleports behind a targeted enemy and delivers a powerful dagger strike.
• Loki's Gambit - Rapidly teleports between nearby enemies while delivering a series of powerful dagger strikes.

Galdramaðr (Sorcerer)

A magic-focused class centered on Eitr, elemental damage, spell channeling, battlefield control, and powerful area attacks. Sorcerers can cast abilities while unarmed or wielding magic staves. From Mistlands onward, magic staves become the primary equipment for damage progression, increasing ability damage based on the equipped staff's progression tier. Magic staves do not reduce spell channeling time.

Recommended Equipment

• Armor: Player's choice until the Mistlands, then Eitr-focused mage armor for the remainder of the game.
• Weapons: Elemental magic staves.
• Early Progression: Abilities can only be used unarmed before magic staves become available.
• Playstyle: Offensive spellcaster specializing in elemental damage, spellcasting, and battlefield control.

Abilities

• Fireball - Channels and launches a Fire projectile that locks onto an enemy when casting begins. The True Fireball talent adds an area-of-effect explosion and enables free aiming.
• Ice Nova - Unleashes a radial Frost attack that damages and slows nearby enemies.
• Gravity Well - Creates a temporary area that repeatedly pulls nearby enemies toward its center.
• Haste - Increases attack speed and spell channeling speed for the Sorcerer and nearby allies.
• Meteor - Channels a powerful meteor strike that deals heavy Blunt and Fire damage to enemies in an area.

Seiðmaðr (Shaman)

A support-focused magic class specializing in healing, elemental resistance, protective shields, and lightning damage. The Shaman excels at keeping allies alive and strengthening their defenses while retaining offensive capabilities for solo play. Shamans can cast abilities while unarmed, wielding magic staves, using a shield, or equipping a one-handed mace or club with or without a shield. Magic staves remain the primary source of Chain Lightning damage progression from Mistlands onward.

Recommended Equipment

• Armor: Eitr-focused mage armor for spellcasting or protective armor for additional survivability.
• Weapons: Magic staves or one-handed maces and clubs. Magic Staves continue scaling for Chain Lightning in the same fashion as with the Galdramaðr class.
• Off-Hand: Shields can be paired with one-handed maces or clubs.
• Playstyle: Support spellcaster specializing in healing, protective magic, elemental resistance, and lightning damage.

Abilities

• Chain Lightning - Channels a Lightning spell that locks onto an enemy when casting begins. Upon release, lightning strikes the locked target before jumping to up to two additional nearby enemies, dealing reduced damage with each jump. Requires a valid enemy target to begin casting.
• Chain Heal - Channels a healing spell that locks onto a friendly player when casting begins. Upon release, healing jumps to up to two additional nearby allies, prioritizing those with the lowest remaining health percentage. Automatically targets the Shaman if no ally is selected when casting begins.
• Ancestral Blessing - Temporarily increases the elemental damage resistance of the Shaman and nearby allies against Fire, Frost, Lightning, Poison, and Spirit damage.
• Earthen Ward - Grants the Shaman and nearby allies a temporary protective shield that absorbs incoming damage based on each player's maximum health.
• Ancestral Totem - Summons a stationary totem that periodically restores health to the Shaman and nearby allies within its radius.

Úlfhéðnar (Ravager)

An aggressive melee class focused on unarmed combat, axes, supernatural transformations, enhanced senses, and devastating coordinated attacks. Specializes in mobility, attack speed, and relentless offensive pressure. Supports unarmed combat, claw weapons, one-handed weapons, and dual-wield weapons.

Recommended Equipment

• Armor: Light armor for maximum mobility, or heavier armor for additional protection.
• Weapons: Claw weapons, dual-wield axes, and one-handed axes.
• Playstyle: Highly mobile melee fighter specializing in rapid attacks, aggressive engagement, and supernatural transformations.

Abilities

• Feral Pounce — Lunges toward a targeted enemy and delivers a powerful melee attack. Dual-wield weapons strike with both weapons.
• Ulv Aspect — Transforms into an Ulv, increasing movement speed while reducing attack damage. Remains active until canceled or another ability is activated.
• Alpha Senses — Reveals nearby enemies through obstacles and increases the damage of the first attack against each marked target.
• Fenring Aspect — Temporarily transforms into a Fenring, increasing movement speed and unarmed/axe attack speed.
• Call of the Pack — Transforms into a Fenring and summons five Ulv to attack a targeted enemy before delivering a devastating finishing slam. Staggers non-boss enemies.

Controls

Keyboard

• U - Open or close the Talent Tree
• Shift + 1 - Ability 1
• Shift + 2 - Ability 2
• Shift + 3 - Ability 3
• Shift + 4 - Ability 4
• Shift + 5 - Ability 5

Gamepad

Default gamepad controls:

• LB + D-Pad Up - Ability 1
• LB + D-Pad Right - Ability 2
• LB + D-Pad Down - Ability 3
• LB + D-Pad Left - Ability 4
• LB + A - Ability 5
• LB + Y - Open or close the Talent Tree

While the Talent Tree is open:

• D-Pad - Navigate talents
• A - Purchase the selected talent or activate Reset Talents

Keyboard and gamepad bindings can be changed in the mod configuration.

Dev Commands

For testing and development, enable Valheim's devcommands and use:

• jgrpg_setlevel <1-90> - Sets the current JGRPG world level for testing talents and abilities.

Installation

Mod Manager

Install JGRPG through Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman. Required dependencies should be installed automatically.

Manual Installation

Install BepInEx and Jotunn first. Then place JGRPG.dll inside: BepInEx/plugins/

Multiplayer

JGRPG is intended for multiplayer use and should be installed on the dedicated server and on every player's client. Single-player and dedicated-server multiplayer functionality have been tested. Additional multiplayer edge cases may still exist.

Compatibility

Tested alongside:

• JGQoL
• JGFoP
• JGFOOD
• RtDOcean
• UnderTheSea