Elite Creatures Reborn

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

Features

• Mutations: nineteen, shown on the nameplate, such as Mad, Bloated, Frostbound and Cloning.
• Difficulty: Easy to Extreme; new biomes start gentle, cleared ones keep hardening.
• Stars: beyond vanilla's two, up to eight on Extreme.
• Boss aspects: one per fight (Twin, Nightfall, Brutal and fifteen more), shown at the altar with the boss's stars.
• World tiers: each boss's first defeat makes stars and mutations more common.
• Breeding: tamed creatures pass a mutation and stars to their young.
• Loot: four drop modes and drop rules per creature.
• Boss damage board: who hurt the boss and how much.
• Death recap: F10 replays the seconds before each death, hit by hit.
• 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 other creature star mods first; their configs are not read.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/gglasgow.elitecreaturesreborn.cfg (each player's own settings) and BepInEx/config/creature_rules.yml (the rules). Both apply without a restart; the server's rules bind every player. Console: elite tier, damage and deaths for everyone, the other elite commands for admins. 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.