AutomationByGoblins 0.7.0

Turn rare melee Fulings into tameable workers. Assign work and sleeping zones with vanilla Wards, improve each worker through a progression tree, and collect the resources they store.

The current in-game interface is in Russian. This release was built for Valheim 0.221.12 (n-36) and .NET Framework 4.7.2.

Features

• Three rare intelligent variants, each configured to a 10% share of the spawn roll by default:
  • Woodcutter — beige clothing, carries AxeFlint, works only with standing Beech trees and stores Wood.
  • Stoneworker — gray clothing, carries PickaxeAntler, works only with stone_pile and stores Stone.
  • Gatherer — green clothing and empty hands; can collect ripe RaspberryBush, BlueberryBush, and CloudberryBush plants.
• Only the normal melee Goblin prefab can become a worker. Archers, shamans and brutes are not changed.
• Intelligent Fulings are tamed with PungentPebbles using the vanilla animal-taming flow.
• Default taming time is 3,600 seconds, twice the normal boar time used by the mod.
• Hover text shows the intelligent/tameable state and taming percentage.
• Tamed workers can follow the player.
• Profession zones use the vanilla Ward radius and are synchronized through ZDO state.
• Woodcutters and stoneworkers alternate 60 seconds of work with 15 seconds of rest.
• Tamed workers cannot damage terrain, trees, rocks, structures or creatures with their work tools.
• Wood/stone production has daylight offline catch-up when the worker is unloaded, provided its saved job conditions remain valid.
• At night, workers stop working and use an available sheltered bed inside a Sleeping Ward zone. They operate nearby doors, reserve beds, stay immobilized while sleeping, and return in the morning.

Controls

Action	Control
Open the looked-at worker's menu	Alt + Y
Open the looked-at Ward's zone menu	Alt + Y
Open a tamed worker's storage	Interact with the worker
Close a mod window	Esc or the on-screen close button

Opening a mod window releases the mouse cursor and blocks normal camera look until the window is closed.

Getting started

1. Find a rare intelligent melee Fuling. Its clothing identifies its profession.
2. Drop PungentPebbles nearby and allow the normal taming process to finish.
3. Place and activate a vanilla Ward.
4. Look at the Ward and press Alt + Y.
5. Assign the Ward as a Woodcutter, Stoneworker, Gatherer, or Sleeping zone.
6. Make sure the correct targets are inside the Ward radius.
7. Look at the tamed worker and press Alt + Y to manage its profession and upgrades.
8. Interact with the worker to collect stored resources.

Several plant types may be enabled at the same time for a gatherer. When no selected ripe bush is available, the gatherer wanders inside its work area.

Upgrade tree

Woodcutters and stoneworkers have three independent branches. Every step in the speed and yield branches requires 30 minutes of active work after the previous step in that branch. Progress in one branch does not pause the others.

Production speed

Level	Cost	Time per production cycle
Base	—	15 minutes
1	5 Flint	12 minutes
2	5 Bronze	10 minutes
3	5 Iron	7 minutes
4	5 Silver	5 minutes

Yield

Level	Cost	Resources per cycle
Base	—	1
1	10 FineWood	2
2	5 SerpentScale	3
3	20 ElderBark	4
4	5 DragonTear	5

Storage

Level	Cost	Capacity
Base	—	50
1	10 DeerHide	75
2	10 BjornHide	100
3	10 Root	125
4	10 WolfPelt	150

The worker stops production when its storage is full. Gatherers use three separate 50-item slots for raspberries, blueberries and cloudberries.

Configuration

BepInEx creates the configuration file after the first launch:

BepInEx/config/mintmango.automationbygoblins.cfg

Available settings:

Section	Setting	Default	Meaning
Spawning	WoodWorkerChance	10	Woodcutter chance in percent
Spawning	StoneWorkerChance	10	Stoneworker chance in percent
Spawning	GathererWorkerChance	10	Gatherer chance in percent
Taming	TamingTimeSeconds	3600	Full taming duration in seconds

The three configured chances share one roll. If their sum exceeds 100%, the mod scales them proportionally; the remaining probability produces an unchanged normal Goblin. Setting a chance to 0 disables that variant.

Installation

Mod manager

Install this package with r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager, or another compatible manager. The required BepInEx pack is declared as a dependency.

Manual

1. Install BepInExPack for Valheim.
2. Copy AutomationByGoblins.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/AutomationByGoblins/.
3. Start the game once to create the configuration file.

For multiplayer, install the same mod version on the host/server and every client to keep worker logic, UI and synchronized state consistent.

Compatibility and limitations

• Target game build: Valheim 0.221.12 (n-36).
• Target runtime: .NET Framework 4.7.2.
• In-game mod UI and worker status text are currently Russian.
• Woodcutters work only with Beech; stoneworkers work only with stone_pile.
• Offline catch-up currently applies to woodcutters and stoneworkers. Berry gathering requires the area to be loaded.
• The mod uses Harmony patches and private Valheim fields; a future game update may require a compatibility update.
• Existing worlds are supported, but already spawned Goblins receive their profession only when the mod first initializes them.

Support

Report reproducible problems with the BepInEx LogOutput.log, Valheim version, mod version and a short description of the setup in the support Discord.

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Русский

AutomationByGoblins превращает редких обычных фулингов-ближников в приручаемых работников: лесорубов, каменщиков и собирателей ягод.

Кратко

• Лесоруб, каменщик и собиратель по умолчанию занимают по 10% общего броска профессии.
• Для приручения используется PungentPebbles; стандартное время — 3600 секунд.
• Рабочие и спальные области назначаются через обычный Ward: наведитесь на него и нажмите Alt + Y.
• Меню работника и дерево улучшений открываются сочетанием Alt + Y при наведении на прирученного гоблина.
• Ресурсы забираются обычным взаимодействием с работником.
• Лесоруб добывает Wood у Beech, каменщик — Stone у stone_pile.
• Собиратель может одновременно собирать малину, чернику и морошку в три отдельных слота.
• Ночью работники прекращают работу и занимают свободные укрытые кровати в спальной зоне.
• Прирученные работники полностью лишены урона, поэтому рабочие удары не разрушают окружение.
• Офлайн-расчёт добычи дерева и камня продолжает работу вне прогрузки в дневное время при сохранённых корректных условиях.

Подробные цены и уровни улучшений приведены в таблицах выше. Для сетевой игры установите одинаковую версию мода у хоста/сервера и всех игроков.