Kin Catalysts
Kin Catalysts adds craftable hats that lure in monsters and increase their trophy drops. Can be crafted using a creature's trophy and 5 leather scraps. Includes an editor that can edit the orientation of the hats.Kin Catalysts
Craft hats from the trophies of fallen enemies. Wearing a hat attracts that creature and rewards you with more of its trophies.
Features
- Trophy hats for every creature. Any creature with a trophy gets a matching craftable hat, generated automatically.
- Attracts its kin while worn. Wearing a hat affects how that creature spawns nearby:
- Spawn count — multiplies how many of the creature can exist at once.
- Spawn chance — adds a flat bonus to the chance of spawning.
- Spawn timer — reduces the countdown between spawns.
- Better trophy drops. While worn, the matching creature drops more trophies (a quantity multiplier plus a flat bonus chance).
- Live hat editor. An in-game tool to position, rotate, and scale each hat on the head in real time, with per-hat overrides. Every built-in hat ships pre-tuned.
Crafting
Each hat is crafted at the Workbench from:
- 1x the creature's Trophy
- 5x Leather Scraps
The hat editor
Press F6 (configurable) to open the editor while wearing a hat.
- Adjust Position (X/Y/Z), Rotation (X/Y/Z), and Size with sliders and fine nudge buttons.
- Choose This hat for a per-hat override, or Default (all hats) for a shared offset.
- Reset restores a hat to its built-in tuned values.
- Changes apply instantly and save to
BepInEx/config/KinCatalysts_HatOffsets.cfg.
Configuration
Settings live in BepInEx/config/KinCatalysts.cfg:
| Setting | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|
SpawnMultiplier |
2.0 | Multiplies how many of the creature can spawn at once. |
SpawnChanceFlatBonus |
0 | Flat % added to spawn chance (capped at 100%). |
SpawnIntervalReduction |
0 | % the countdown between spawns is reduced by. |
TrophyDropMultiplier |
2.0 | Multiplies trophy drop quantity on kill. |
TrophyDropFlatBonus |
0 | Flat % chance to drop an extra trophy on kill. |
AttractionRadius |
100 | Range (m) around the player where drop boosts apply. |
HatEditor.Enabled |
true | Enables the in-game hat editor. |
HatEditor.ToggleKey |
F6 | Key that opens/closes the editor. |
Installation
Use a mod manager (r2modman, Gale, or Thunderstore Mod Manager) and this mod will pull in its dependencies automatically.
Manual install: install BepInEx for Valheim and Jötunn, then drop Kin Catalysts.dll into BepInEx/plugins.
Credits
Built with Jötunn, the Valheim Library.