Elite Creatures Reborn

Creatures spawn with more stars and with mutations, named traits that change how a fight goes. Bosses take an aspect instead.

Features

• Mutations: thirteen, shown on the nameplate, such as Mad, Bloated, Devouring and Thieving.
• Stars: beyond vanilla's two, counted in fives; chances are set per biome.
• Boss aspects: one modifier per fight (Twin, Phantom and eleven more), shown at the altar; harder ones pay more.
• World tiers: each boss's first defeat makes stars and mutations more common everywhere.
• Breeding: tamed creatures pass a mutation and stars on to their young.
• Loot: Vanilla, Scaled, Rolled or Curated drops, and drop rules per creature.
• Boss damage board: who hurt the boss and how much; /damage shows it again.
• Respawning: cleared camps, dungeons and dungeon chests can refill (off by default).
• Works with PackPanel, GrindstoneSkills' Husbandry and Elite Creatures Pack.

Install

Needed on the server and every client. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put EliteCreaturesReborn.dll in BepInEx/plugins. Remove any other creature star mod and its configs first: this mod reads neither.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/gglasgow.elitecreaturesreborn.cfg (each player's display) and BepInEx/config/creature_rules.yml (the rules, an off switch per feature). Both apply without a restart; the server's rules bind every player. Console: elite tier and damage for everyone, the other elite commands for admins. Every mutation, aspect, rule field and command in detail: reference.

Links

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

• The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
• Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
• Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
• The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
• Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.