NokepMagicStaffs

Magic staffs that grow with you, biome by biome. Craft a Blank Staff, bring it to the Arcane Workbench and enchant it with one of six elements. Every staff has 7 levels.

How it works

1. Arcane Workbench — build it with the Hammer (Crafting tab). It has its own window: put a staff in the circle, pick an element, confirm.
2. Blank Staff — crafted at the ordinary Workbench. It has no magic yet.
3. Enchant the Blank Staff into an element staff (level 1), then upgrade it up to level 7.
4. Upgrade the workbench with the arrow buttons in its window. Each level opens the next biome: Meadows → Black Forest → Swamp → Mountains → Plains → Mistlands → Ashlands.

Each staff level needs a higher workbench level, so stronger staffs come with the biome progression.

Elements

Element	Opens at	What it does
Fire	Meadows	Sets the target on fire. Explosion from level 3.
Water	Meadows	Soaks the target (Wet). Splash from level 3.
Earth	Black Forest	Heavy blow: staggers and knocks the target back. Breaks rock and ore. Rockfall from level 3.
Poison	Swamp	Poisons the target. Toxic burst from level 3.
Ice	Mountains	Frost slows the target. Ice burst from level 3.
Arcane	Mistlands	Lightning damage with a burst from level 1.

Special upgrades

Every staff gets something new at levels 3, 5 and 7 (level 3 is the burst; Arcane has its burst from level 1).

Element	Level 5	Level 7
Fire	Two fireballs per cast	Bigger explosion
Water	Drenched: target takes +25% frost and lightning damage	Three orbs in a fan
Earth	Armor break: target takes +25% blunt damage	Stronger knockback, bigger rockfall
Poison	Weakness: target deals 15% less damage	Poison cloud where it hits
Ice	Three shards in a fan	Freeze: target can barely move for 2 s (not bosses)
Arcane	Two orbs per cast (level 3: returns 25% eitr on hit)	Bigger burst

Balance

Damage follows the biome, not the element: a staff made at the Swamp workbench hits about as hard as any other Swamp staff — roughly 90% of a one-handed mace of that biome. Each element splits it its own way (Fire: half blunt, half burning; Poison: a small hit and long poison; and so on). Eitr per cast also grows with the biome. Two or three orbs per cast share the damage.

• The confirm window shows what changes: the old staff on the left, the new one on the right, new specials in green, the cost below.
• The staff level is shown on its icon (a Roman numeral in the element colour).
• Earth staff mining: rock from level 1; ore one biome behind the workbench the staff was made at (level 2 — copper and tin, level 3 — scrap iron, level 4 — silver and obsidian, level 6 — giant remains, level 7 — flametal). It never mines buildings.

Other

• Staffs are one-handed — take a shield or a torch in the other hand.
• The anvil button in the workbench window repairs all your element staffs.
• Staffs use eitr. Early eitr: NokepArmorSets (Magic sets, Mage cape) or any other source.
• Deconstructing the workbench returns its own cost and everything spent on its upgrades.
• Languages: English, Russian, German.

Config

All costs and numbers are in nokep.valheim.magic.cfg: the workbench recipe and upgrade costs, the Blank Staff recipe, and damage and eitr per workbench level (7 numbers each), and for every element — enchant and upgrade costs, its share of instant and extra damage, eitr share, from which level the burst works; for Earth also stagger, knockback and mining damage.

Settings are synced from the server. The mod must be installed on the server and on every client.

Version history: see the Changelog tab.