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

• Altar gate: a boss altar opens only once everyone has defeated the boss before it.
• Altar hover: every gated altar says whether it is open or which players the group is waiting for; the offering is kept.
• Credit per player: everyone who hit the boss, plus everyone within a set distance when it dies.
• Roster: fills itself as players join; players away for a set number of days stop holding the group back.
• Late joiners: new players catch up with everything the world has already cleared, or earn each boss themselves.
• Safe mid-playthrough: bosses already defeated count as cleared for everyone.
• Spawn guard: a sealed boss cannot spawn even if another mod gets past the altar.
• Open world: biomes, portals, dungeons and crafting stay open, and the game's own boss progress is untouched.
• Boss chain: Eikthyr, The Elder, Bonemass, Moder, Yagluth, The Queen and Fader, in a YAML file; add modded bosses or change the order.

Console commands

• lockstep status: each altar, open or who it waits for, and every player's credit.
• lockstep grant <player> <boss>: gives a player credit for a boss (admins).
• lockstep revoke <player> <boss>: takes that credit away (admins).
• lockstep ignore <player> / unignore: the player never holds the group back, or counts again (admins).
• lockstep forget <player>: removes a character from the roster; joining again starts fresh (admins).
• charter status: whether the server's settings bind yours.

Install

Needed on the server and every client; the server refuses clients without it, and a player on a server without it is told so. 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). The Wiki tab has the details. Translate: save a copy of English.yml as Lockstep.translations.<Language>.yml in BepInEx/config.

Links

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2sMPGQ4T3

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.