Favor of the Gods — shrines, offerings, blessings and wrath for Valheim

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Build a large stone shrine to Odin, Thor, Freyja, Njord or Loki, lay gifts on the altar and earn the god's favor. Favor unlocks four tiers of blessings. You serve one patron god; a patron who is neglected grows angry — and Loki plays tricks on everyone who follows him.

Shrines

Five custom stone models (about 4.5 × 4.5 m, up to 5 m tall) with carved relief (normal maps), Norse interlace bands and statues — Odin's wolves Geri and Freki, the bound Loki's chains and scaled serpents, Njord's oars and carved prow, Freyja's glowing flowers, Thor's lightning inlays, built with the hammer in their own tab Gods (near a workbench). The runes on each shrine glow in the god's colour and an offering flame burns on the altar. Building one is a real project:

Shrine	Look	Build cost (default)
Odin	Monolith with the Valknut and Odin's eye, Gungnir spears, the ravens Huginn and Muninn, offering bowl	Stone 300, Wood 100, Feathers 20, Deer trophy 3
Thor	Mjölnir resting on a pedestal, four rune posts, anvil altar	Stone 300, Wood 100, Flint 30, Hard antler 3
Freyja	Stone circle, arch with Brísingamen, Freyja's cats, round altar	Stone 300, Wood 100, Dandelion 20, Honey 10
Njord	Stone longship with a coiled prow and shields on a rocky shore, glowing sea in the hull, Laguz stele	Stone 300, Wood 100, Neck tail 10, Resin 20
Loki	Twin serpents around a twisted pillar on a cracked base, Sigyn's bowl with venom, rune slab	Stone 300, Wood 100, Surtling core 3, Resin 20

The shrine window

Press E on a shrine. The window has three tabs and a favor panel:

• OFFERING — everything in your inventory this god accepts, with favor per piece and for the stack; pick the amount and offer. You can also use an item on the shrine to offer the whole stack.
• ACCEPTED GIFTS — the full list of what this god takes and how much favor each gift is worth (items, item groups and categories).
• TIERS & BLESSINGS — how favor works, all four tiers with their thresholds and bonuses, and what the god's wrath does.
• Favor panel — favor bar with the tier marks I–IV, your tier, the patron / Rite of Severance button, today's favor, time until the god grows angry, the current and the next blessing.
• The footer links to the Northarun Discord.

Patron and favor

• You serve one patron god at a time. Choose the patron at its shrine (button in the favor panel, click twice). Only the patron accepts your offerings and blesses you.
• Changing your god requires the Rite of Severance (see below).
• Favor is capped at 2000; you can gain at most 200 per real day.
• Favor fades by 10 per hour of play.
• Tiers: I · Worshipper (150), II · Devotee (500), III · Chosen (1100), IV · Legend (1800). Reaching tier IV takes well over a week of steady offerings — and you must keep offering to stay there. Tiers III and IV are announced to the whole server.
• "Hours of play" are real hours while that character is online on the server — time offline never counts, and every character has its own favor.

Rite of Severance

To leave your patron — for another god or for none — you perform the Rite of Severance at a shrine (patron button or Rite of Severance button, click twice):

• Cost: 300 coins + 300 for every tier reached with the old patron (tier IV = 1500 coins), paid from the inventory. Free only if the patron has received nothing from you yet.
• Penalty: all favor with the old god is lost, you are Forsaken for 3 hours of play — no blessings, health regen −20%, stamina regen −15%, offerings give only 50% favor — and you cannot return to the old god for 24 hours.
• Thunder and a red flash mark the rite for everyone nearby.

Blessings

Blessings are shown as a status effect with the god's symbol. No percentage bonus goes above 50%.

God	Tier I	Tier II	Tier III	Tier IV
Odin	skills +5% faster	skills +10%, map reveal radius +20%	skills +15%, map reveal +35%, skill loss on death −25%	skills +25%, map reveal +50%, skill loss on death −50%
Thor	carry +25	carry +50, 5% chance that a melee hit calls lightning (+30% of the hit)	carry +75, 10% lightning, resistant to lightning	carry +100, 15% lightning (+50% of the hit), resistant to lightning
Freyja	food lasts 10% longer	food +15%, 15% double harvest (plants, berries, mushrooms)	food +20%, 25% double harvest, fall damage −40%	food +30%, 35% double harvest, fall damage −50%, falcon cloak: glide instead of falling
Njord	steering a ship: wind never below 40%, swim stamina −15%	wind ≥ 55%, swim stamina −25%, swim speed +10%	wind ≥ 70%, swim stamina −35%, swim speed +15%	wind always perfect, swim stamina −50%, swim speed +25%
Loki	speed +4%, sneak +5	speed +6%, sneak +10, dodge stamina −10%	speed +8%, sneak +15, dodge stamina −20%, 5% chance that a blow passes through you	speed +12%, sneak +25, dodge stamina −30%, 10% evade

Freyja deliberately gives no health regeneration (guild banners already do) — her gifts are nature, food and flight.

Patron powers

Every god grants one active power. Forge the amulet of your patron at its shrine (tab PATRON POWER, tier I or more), wear it in the trinket slot and press H (PowerKey). Stronger and faster to recharge with each tier. The power is silent while the god is angry or you are Forsaken.

God	Power	Tier I → IV
Odin	Eye of Odin — reveals the map around you and marks ore veins and hidden chests with pillars of light (45 s)	80 → 180 m map, 30 → 60 m marks · cooldown 12 → 6 min
Thor	Hammer of Thunder — lightning strikes every enemy around you (stagger)	25 → 90 damage, 6 → 12 m · 6 → 3 min
Freyja	Tears of Freyja — heals you and every player near you; from tier II also cures poison, fire, frost and tar	30 → 100 HP, 8 → 15 m · 10 → 6 min
Njord	Calm Seas — perfect wind in your sail, swimming costs no stamina, +30% swim speed	2 → 6 min · 12 → 8 min
Loki	Illusion — +25% speed, silent, monsters chasing you lose sight of you	10 → 30 s · 8 → 5 min

Amulet cost (default): 200 coins + Feathers 10 & Deer trophy (Odin), Hard antler & Flint 10 (Thor), Honey 5 & Dandelion 10 (Freyja), Neck tail 5 & Resin 10 (Njord), Surtling core & Resin 10 (Loki). The cooldown is stored with the character.

Blót — the weekly festival

Every Saturday at 20:00 (server time, configurable) the Blót of one god begins (a different god every week) for 2 hours:

• every offering gives 2x favor and ignores the daily limit,
• all offerings of all players fill a shared bar (3000 favor),
• a full bar gives every player the tier II blessing of the Blót god for 4 hours — even players who serve another god (not the Forsaken),
• start, 25/50/75% progress and the result are announced on screen, in chat and — with DiscordWebhook set — on the Northarun Discord. A horn sounds for everyone when it begins.

Admins can start one any time: gods blot start [god] [minutes], gods blot stop, gods blot.

Favor bar

A small bar at the bottom of the screen (left of the guild bar): patron symbol, tier, favor with the tier marks, time until the god grows angry (or THE GOD IS ANGRY / Forsaken), the power key and its cooldown, and the Blót progress or reward. Turn it off with ShowFavorHud, move it with FavorHudOffsetX/Y.

Sounds and effects

Each god has its own voice — Odin's horn, Thor's hammer strike, Freyja's harp, Njord's waves, Loki's laughter — heard when you offer and when the power is used. Glowing runes rise from the altar with every offering. All sounds are synthesized in the mod (no game assets); volume: EffectsVolume.

Wrath

When your patron is at tier I or more and you make no offering for 3 hours of play, the god becomes angry: favor fades three times faster, a Wrath status effect appears and every ~15 minutes the god punishes you:

God	Wrath effect	Punishment
Odin	skills improve 50% slower	the ravens peck away your progress towards the next level in one skill
Thor	carry weight −50	lightning strikes at random one of your own buildings nearby (never below 10% health) or you (only when above 30% health)
Freyja	health regen −30%	one piece of food in your inventory wilts
Njord	swimming costs 50% more stamina	on a ship: headwind for 3 minutes; on land: drenched (Wet)
Loki	stamina regen −20%	steals 5% of your coins — at most 50, or 100 when you carry 1000 or more — and pranks you twice as often

An offering worth at least 25 favor at once calms the god. If your favor falls below tier I the god loses interest and the wrath ends on its own. The shrines of an angry god glow red for you.

Loki's pranks

Players with Loki as patron (tier I+) get a prank about every 30 minutes of play: two inventory slots swap places, his champion hen appears (a tamed hen wearing a horned helmet), the wind turns against you for a few minutes, you put your weapon away, someone taps your shoulder… and sometimes he simply leaves a small gift. Offerings to Loki are worth between 0 and 2 times their value — he decides.

Offerings (defaults)

God	Likes
Odin	any trophy 10 (boss trophies 100–260), meads 12, mead bases 4, feathers 1, eitr 3, black core 15
Thor	weapons 6 per quality level, copper/tin 1, bronze 3, iron 4, silver 5, black metal 6, flametal 9, thunderstone 40, hard antler 15, Eikthyr trophy 150, troll/fenring trophies 20, cooked meat
Freyja	any food 10 per 100 food points (ValheimCuisine dishes count), honey 3, queen bee 40, flowers, berries, vegetables and seeds, ancient seed 12, boar/deer trophies, dragon egg 150
Njord	any fish 10, cooked fish 4, serpent scale 10, serpent meat, serpent trophy 120, chitin 5, amber 15, amber pearl 25, ruby 20, silver necklace 30, coins 0.04 each
Loki	anything 0.5, wishbone 120, shaman trophies, surtling core 6, ooze, guck, entrails, bloodbags, mushrooms 3–5, coins 0.02 each

Every table is a config string ([4 - Offerings]):

• Prefab:favor — exact item, e.g. Thunderstone:40
• Prefix*:favor — e.g. MeadBase*:4
• *text*:favor — text in the prefab or item name, e.g. *mead*:12
• #trophy, #fish, #mead, #any — categories; #food:N = N favor per 100 food points; #weapon:N / #armor:N = N per quality level
• Exact names win over prefixes, prefixes over *text*, *text* over categories. 0 = refused.

Items from other mods work automatically through the categories (Monstrum and ExtendedBosses trophies, ValheimCuisine food, Warfare/Armory weapons).

Installation

The mod must be installed on the server and on every client. Jotunn rejects players without it.

Requirements: BepInExPack_Valheim, Jotunn 2.29.0 or newer.

1. Copy the Northarun-Gods folder to BepInEx/plugins/.
2. On a dedicated server, copy the same folder to the server's BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Start the server once — the config file BepInEx/config/adrian.valheim.gods.cfg is created.

Configuration

Section	Setting	Default	Description
1 - Client	Language	English	English or Polish.
1 - Client	EffectsVolume	0.8	Thunder, chimes and other sounds (0 = silent).
1 - Client	ShrineLights	true	Coloured light from the runes and flames.
1 - Client	PowerKey	H	Uses the patron power (amulet in the trinket slot).
1 - Client	ShowFavorHud / FavorHudOffsetX / FavorHudOffsetY	true / -330 / 4	Favor bar on the screen and its position.
2 - Favor	FavorMax	2000	Most favor with the patron.
2 - Favor	TierThresholds	150,500,1100,1800	Favor for tiers I, II, III, IV.
2 - Favor	DailyFavorCap	200	Favor per real day (0 = no limit).
2 - Favor	DecayPerHour	10	Favor lost per hour of play (real time with the character online).
2 - Favor	NeglectHours	3	Hours of play without an offering before the patron gets angry.
2 - Favor	NeglectDecayMultiplier	3	Faster fading while the god is angry.
2 - Favor	AppeaseFavor	25	Offering value that calms an angry god.
2 - Favor	RenounceCooldownHours	24	A god you left cannot be chosen again for this long (real hours).
2 - Favor	SeveranceCoins	300	Base coin cost of the Rite of Severance.
2 - Favor	SeveranceCoinsPerTier	300	Extra coins per tier reached with the old patron.
2 - Favor	ForsakenHours	3	Hours of play of the Forsaken penalty.
2 - Favor	ForsakenFavorMultiplier	0.5	Favor from offerings while Forsaken.
2 - Favor	Announce	true	Announce new Chosen (tier III) and Legends (tier IV) to everyone.
3 - Wrath and pranks	WrathEvents	true	Punishments of angry gods (off = only the status effect).
3 - Wrath and pranks	WrathIntervalMinutes	15	Average minutes of play between punishments.
3 - Wrath and pranks	ThorStrikesBuildings	true	Thor strikes at random the player's own buildings or the player (off = only the player).
3 - Wrath and pranks	LokiPranks	true	Loki's pranks on players whose patron he is.
3 - Wrath and pranks	LokiPrankIntervalMinutes	30	Average minutes of play between pranks.
3 - Wrath and pranks	LokiStealsCoins	true	An angry Loki steals coins (max 50, or 100 from 1000 coins).
3 - Wrath and pranks	LokiRandomFavor	true	Offerings to Loki are worth 0–2× their value.
4 - Offerings	OfferingsOdin … OfferingsLoki	see above	Offering tables.
5 - Shrines	RecipeOdin … RecipeLoki	see above	Build costs (restart needed).
5 - Shrines	CraftingStation	piece_workbench	Station needed nearby (empty = none).
5 - Shrines	HammerCategory	Gods	Hammer tab of the shrines.
6 - Powers	AmuletOdin … AmuletLoki	see above	Cost of the patron amulets.
7 - Blot	Enabled / Day / Hour / DurationMinutes	true / Saturday / 20 / 120	Schedule of the weekly Blót (server local time).
7 - Blot	God	rotate	God of the Blót (or a different one every week).
7 - Blot	FavorMultiplier / Goal	2 / 3000	Favor multiplier and the shared goal.
7 - Blot	RewardHours / RewardTier	4 / 2	Reward: blessing of the Blót god for everyone.
7 - Blot	DiscordWebhook	(empty)	Discord webhook URL for Blót announcements (server only).

Favor, Wrath and pranks and Offerings are taken from the server's config file; clients receive what they need.

Admin commands

Console command gods (server admins only):

• gods list — patron and favor of all players (* = online, ! = angry)
• gods set <player> <god> <favor> — makes the god the player's patron with that favor, e.g. gods set Ragnhild thor 1800
• gods wrath <player> <god> on|off
• gods reset <player>

Data and security

• The server keeps the favor of every player in BepInEx/config/Gods/<world name>.dat (with .dat.bak) and logs every offering, wrath and renouncement in BepInEx/config/Gods/<world name>.log.
• Only the server changes favor. Players are identified by the character ID of their in-world object. Gifts the god does not accept (not your patron, not on the list, over the daily limit) are returned.
• Offered items are consumed — including magic items and their enchantments.
• Punishments and pranks run on the player's own client and only touch that player and their own buildings.
• As everywhere in Valheim, the inventory belongs to the client; an anti-cheat (e.g. AzuAntiCheat) is recommended.

Building from source

The shrine models are generated in code — no Unity, no AssetBundle. tools\shrines\build_shrines.ps1 builds the meshes (convex stone blocks, lathe bowls, tubes for serpents and the prow), the seamless stone texture, the rune panels with the god symbols and Elder Futhark inscriptions, the glow masks, all icons and preview renders (art\previews, software renderer). build.ps1 embeds assets\ in the DLL.

powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File tools\shrines\build_shrines.ps1
powershell -ExecutionPolicy Bypass -File build.ps1

Languages

English by default; Polish with Language = Polish. Each player picks their own language; server messages are translated on the client.

Community

News, help and feedback: Northarun Discord — also linked in the shrine window (top-left corner and footer).