Lockstep

The next boss stays sealed until every player on the server has defeated the previous one. Fast players wait for the group; nobody skips ahead.

Features

• A boss altar opens only once everyone has defeated the boss before it, and says who the group is waiting for.
• Credit per player: everyone who hit the boss, plus everyone within a set distance when it dies.
• The roster fills itself; players away for a set number of days stop holding the group back.
• New players catch up with everything the world has already cleared (configurable).
• Safe to install mid-playthrough: bosses already defeated count as cleared for everyone.
• The boss chain is a YAML file: add modded bosses or change the order.
• Admins can grant or revoke credit and ignore or forget players from the console.

Install

Needed on the server and every client; the server refuses clients without it. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put Lockstep.dll in BepInEx/plugins. Replaces OathBound (up to 0.1.2): remove it, its config files are not read.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.Lockstep.cfg and LockstepChain.yml; the server keeps its roster in Lockstep.<world>.roster.yml. Every setting is described in the file and applies without a restart; the server's values bind every player (Lock Configuration). Console: lockstep status shows who the group waits for; admin commands: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/blob/main/Lockstep/PLAN.md. charter status shows whether the server binds your settings.

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.
• The co-op group that kept waiting at the Elder altar for the one player who was still at work.