MySix ProgressivePortals
In testing: Valheim's portals won't take ore or metal. Five new portals, one per biome from the Black Forest to the Mistlands, each earned by its boss. Each takes the ores, metals and other blocked items of its biome and every biome before.MySix ProgressivePortals
In testing. An early version for the MySix group to try out: it may change, and anything odd is worth reporting.
Valheim's portals won't take ore or metal, so every haul goes home by boat or cart. Progressive Portals adds a better portal for each biome you conquer, from the Black Forest to the Mistlands. Each is built with a material from its biome and earned by beating its boss. It lets through everything the game blocks that comes from that biome - its ores, metals and the rest - and everything from every biome before it, so your portals grow with you.
- Elder Portal (Black Forest, earned by the Elder): 20 Core Wood, 2 Surtling Cores, 10 Ancient Seeds. Lets through copper, tin and bronze, and their ores and scrap. Greydwarf heads with purple eyes watch from the front, its ancient seeds glow as in the game, and it is wound with mossy vines; glows purple.
- Bone Portal (Swamp, Bonemass): 20 Ancient Bark, 2 Surtling Cores, 10 Withered Bone. Adds iron. Glows yellow-green.
- Frozen Portal (Mountains, Moder): 20 Fine Wood, 2 Surtling Cores, 10 Freeze Glands. Adds silver and dragon eggs. Glows icy blue.
- Black Portal (Plains, Yagluth): 20 Core Wood, 2 Surtling Cores, 10 Tar. Adds black metal. Glows ember red.
- World Tree Portal (Mistlands, the Queen): 20 Yggdrasil Wood, 2 Surtling Cores, 10 Eitr. Adds the dvergr's mechanical springs and extractors. Glows green drifting to light blue, and crackles with lightning.
- The Ashlands' stone portal still takes everything, as in the game. With SameTypeOnly on, it connects only to another stone portal.
- Earned by the boss: you learn a portal once you have taken part in defeating its biome's boss (anyone who hit it before it died). A recipe known without that is taken back; portals already built keep working. Setting
ProgressivePortals.UnlockBy(server):BossKill(default),BossHead(everyone learns it once the boss's head hangs on its sacrificial stone) orMaterials(learned from its materials, like the game's own pieces). - Same type only: a portal connects only to a portal of its own type with the same tag. This includes the game's own portals: a wooden portal no longer connects to the Ashlands' stone portal, and any pair already made across types is undone. Setting
ProgressivePortals.SameTypeOnly(server, on by default); off, any two portals with the same tag connect, as in the game. - Runes glow while you place any portal, the game's own included, so you can place it in the dark and see which way it faces.
- The teleport screen takes the colour of the portal you step into.
- Built with the Hammer, in the Misc tab next to the wooden portal, near a workbench (setting
ProgressivePortals.NoWorkbench: anywhere). - Still blocked everywhere: flametal, Bloodgold, Petrified Tissue and charred cogwheels.
- Setting
ProgressivePortals.HildirChests(server, off by default): Hildir's chests pass through their own biome's portal and up - Brass from the Elder Portal, Silver from the Frozen Portal, Bronze from the Black Portal. - Everyone who plays together needs it, the server included. Portals built from it disappear if the mod is removed.
Part of the MySix mod suite. Every mod in the suite needs MySix Core, which adds the
in-game mysix command for reading and changing settings. On a server, settings are owned by
the server: an admin changes a value once and every connected player picks it up.
Installing
Install with a mod manager - the Thunderstore Mod Manager, Gale and r2modman all work - or unzip
the DLL into BepInEx/plugins yourself. Everyone playing together should run the same versions.
Settings
The Settings wiki page lists this mod's 4 settings: what each does, its choices and default, who can change it, and the exact command to type. In short: press F5 in game to open the console and type mysix to list every setting, mysix set <setting> <value> to change one.
Languages
Every MySix mod supports all the languages Valheim offers: whatever language you play the game in, the text these mods show is in that language too. Abenaki is the one exception for now - there it shows in English, as we could not find a translation we trust. We mainly test in English, but we will do our best to support every language the game supports; if something reads wrong in yours, please let us know.
Note on achievements
Valheim switches achievements off for anyone with a mod installed. MySix Mods Not Cheating, part of the MySix bundle, keeps them working.
Version 0.6.2. The Changelog tab lists what changed in each release.