MidgardPlus

By Odin the Red. One mod to rule them all, and every part of it starts off.

Website and launcher | Player guide | Discord | Ko-fi | Megin, the add-on

MidgardPlus is a full overhaul for Valheim. It started as a quality of life pack and grew into a world of its own: 36 Jarl legendary weapons and two Jarl armour sets, all of them waking and growing with you, seven bosses of my own, living villages that grow into strongholds, five factions with sieges, diplomacy and a territory war, a loot system with runes, rune words and boss sets, the Vetrnætr season in October, companions who live in your barracks and work your base, an enchanting table and a painter's table, building tools, a map and compass that keep up with you, and a launcher in four languages. It has more than 1,100 settings, and every new feature starts off, so the game stays vanilla until you turn it on. Install it and your game plays exactly as before. Then turn on the parts you want.

Get the launcher at midgardplus.odinthered.dev. It picks your language for you.

A lot of it started as a message from a player. If something breaks, feels wrong or is missing, tell me on Discord.

What is inside

Every part below has its own switch, and every switch starts off. Turn on what you want in the launcher, the F9 panel or the config.

Quality of life you control

• Farming. A ghost on every spot a click will plant, rows that line up, bulk harvest, replant after harvest and seed beds that need no tilled ground.
• Storage. Quick stack, store all, restock, sort and a trash button that can recycle. Chests follow the signs you give them, barrels show what they hold, and stations fuel themselves from the chests around them.
• Slots and carrying. Up to six quick slots with their own keys, a trinket slot, slots for coins, keys and trophies, a backpack that adds bag rows, and an item magnet that pulls drops to you.
• Everyday comforts. Production timers, an item and recipe browser, a weather forecast, a better chat, a HUD you lay out yourself, instant equip and a hip lantern.
• Want bigger stacks and nothing else? Raise one number and leave the rest alone.

Combat and the Jarl legendaries

• 36 Jarl legendary weapons, named for the Jarls who back MidgardPlus: axes, swords, knives, spears, hammers, bows, crossbows, staffs, shields and gauntlets. Each has its own model and five powers: a shot, a large area attack, a secondary, a combo and a charged special. See them all on the weapons page and the lands they come from in the realms.
• The newest: Trajan's Hróðvitnir, a wolf bow with TRAJAN84 in Valheim lettering and a black Fenrir that breathes fire; Ivanos's Valgaldr, a soul staff that raises a Morgen; Animus' Skjoldr, a frost buckler that calls the Wild Hunt; Boko's Vein Tearer, a vampiric crossbow; and Moumix's Wayfinder, a spear that stretches into an atgeir, with red lightning, blood and Blood Thunder.
• They wake and grow. A legendary starts dormant. Awaken it in a boss's blood and it grows over 750 kills, its five powers waking in stages, and its look grows with it until it burns fully lit.
• They live in the hard places. Each legendary drops only at or above its own tier, and every world draws a stretch where it turns up far more often. Hugin's rumours point the way, and midgardplus legend where tells you what drops it.
• Trajan's Úlfheðnar, the first Jarl armour set. Helm, cuirass, greaves and cape, each found in a different land and each growing with kills, with wolf sight, pack hide, a hunter's stride, a red mantle of wolf spirits and set powers for the bow. See it in 3D.
• Creatures can carry traits that change the fight. Whetstones give a honed edge, and archery gets a quiver bar and arrows of light.
• The server picks how hard the legendaries hit, and every player picks how big their effects look.

Loot

• Marked gear. Gear can drop Magic, Rare, Epic or Legendary, sometimes cursed, with about 70 kinds of marks: life steal, thorns, a last stand, faster swings and many more.
• 24 runes and 14 rune words. Rare, Epic and Legendary pieces carry sockets. Set runes at the enchanting table, and the right runes in the right order speak a rune word.
• 14 boss sets. Every boss drops pieces of its own set, with a power for two, three and four pieces worn.
• Marks that awaken, rolled Norse names, sealed bundles from Haldor and Hildir, and a table that breaks down what you no longer want.
• Runic looks. Enchanted gear shows its step in glowing runes and polished metal, with element runes for elemental marks, instead of a colour wash. Try it on the enchanting table preview.

Bosses

• Seven bosses of my own: Mosskin, Vordr of the Reeds, the Gravejarl, Úlfarr the Unfed, Bókr the Ledger-Eater, Þögn the Unanswering and the Red One. Each rises from his own altar, with his own stages, attacks and great move. Meet them in the Bestiary section of the site.
• Cinematic fights. An intro and a title card, the music, a ring of light around the arena, set pieces at every stage, and a death that is marked.
• Replay the game's bosses at their altars, with new phases.
• Trolls and bosses can smash the building pieces and trees around their blows, if you want a fight to leave a mark.

The living world: villages, factions and sieges

• Villages. Villagers who talk, tell their village's saga and old tales and send you on errands, a market whose prices follow your standing, lore stones, and rumours that mark places on your map.
• They grow. A village grows from a hamlet to a village, a town and a stone stronghold, faster when you trade there, run its errands and hold off raids. It puts up new buildings and walls itself in.
• Five factions. The Hearthguard, the Ashen Host, the Wolf Clans, the Sea Kings and the Troll Kin, each with its own look, oath and capital. Swear an oath at a village banner, take enemy villages by assault, and fight in a territory war the server settles at dawn.
• Diplomacy. Press Insert for the diplomacy window: trade agreements, pacts, alliances, tribute, demanding tribute, war, and asking allies for help.
• Sieges on your base. The threat comes from your wealth, base size, trophies and fame. Factions grow envious of a rich player, and tribute calms them. A war horn before the attack, waves, faction and seasonal sieges, a score out of 100 and rewards when your base holds. A siege book lets a server rewrite any raid.
• Deeds and bounties. The Saga Book keeps 68 deeds with titles to wear, and a Bounty board offers 45 named hunts across eight lands. The War horn shrine calls a horde in waves, ending with a warlord.

Vetrnætr

• An October season event. Soul Candles drop from the undead and from the night, Haldor and Hildir keep a stall of ten keepsakes, and a collection log in the F9 guide ends with a trophy. What you find stays after October. Read more.

Companions

• Call warriors, gatherers, builders, gardeners and healers with a horn. They level up, wear the gear you give them and follow you through portals.
• Jobs. They keep your garden, cook in your kitchen, mend your pieces and keep fires and smelters fed.
• The barracks. A barracks table lists every companion you have and gives them orders, keeps full loadouts exactly as you hand them over, and a server can tie how many companions you keep to the barracks you own. Tell one to put its weapons away and it does.
• Tames and mounts. Tame any beast big enough to ride and anything that flies, modded ones included, ride any tame big enough and fight from the saddle with your own weapon. Ride saddled wolves and boars that level up and attack through them, give your tames pet packs to carry your loot, and have every tame around you follow you with one key.

Crafting and stations

• The enchanting table. Carve runestones, draw a piece's marks again, raise it a step towards Legendary, set runes, lift a curse or break a piece down, and see the result before you pay.
• The painter's table. Paint a helmet, chest, legs, cape or shield in a main and an accent colour, with saved schemes and patterns, and paint the pieces you build too. Everyone on the server sees it.
• Station queues. Tell a smelter, kiln, furnace, cooking station or fermenter what to take from your chests, how much and in what order.
• Craft from nearby chests, craft several at once, crafting carts that carry a workbench or a forge, transmog, new skills and professions.

Building

• Free rotation with a gizmo, a world grid, extra snap points and structural support you can tune.
• Excavation: dig pits, trenches, mounds and flat ground in exact shapes in one go. Flowing water fills the hole you dig.
• Builder plans: place blue ghosts for free and let a builder companion raise them from the materials in your chests.
• A build area in one direction, growing from the piece you aim at.
• Glass, round, Dvergr and marble pieces, a raised hearth floor, pressure plates, lifts and collectors.

Exploration and the map

• A compass that can hold true north, with your pins, your coordinates and your party as beacons in their own colours.
• The map. Auto pins for dungeons, berries, portals and more as you walk past, carried maps you can draw roads on, and a map the server shares.
• The world. Saga stones, forgotten caches, dungeons that grow with each boss and Hugin's rumours.
• Travel. Tiered portals with a destination picker, portal stations, a travel stone you carry, longship upgrades, anchors that hold a ship in place, first person on deck, and a jump that pulls you out of the water onto a dock or a ledge.

Multiplayer and server control

• The host decides. Join a server and its settings replace yours while you are there. You get yours back when you leave.
• Changes go live. Edit the server's config or change a setting in the F9 panel, and everyone connected has it within a second or two.
• The F9 panel. Every setting with its explanation, commands with search, spawning, presets, player management, and a Player guide and an Admin guide in four languages. The player guide is also on the site.
• Guilds and parties, guild wards, a server leaderboard, Discord posts for joins and boss kills, and a launcher that can set up a rented server.

Performance

• Lighter graphics trades looks for frames on older cards: shadows, grass, detail, effects and snow, each one your own choice.
• Smoother saves on big worlds, network settings for a server with a good line, and legendary effects each player can turn down.
• MidgardPlus spreads its own work over frames and writes in the log when something takes too long.

Everything starts off, and you choose

• Install it and nothing changes. Every new feature starts off, so the game stays vanilla until you turn it on. Run MidgardPlus for one thing and leave the rest alone.
• Want longer days? Set Day length in seconds. Want bigger stacks? Raise Stack size multiplier. That is the whole change.
• Edits to the config apply while the game runs. Try a number, change it again, no restart.
• Updates never surprise you. A setting that arrives with an update starts off, and server owners can turn on "Lock settings between updates" to keep their exact setup from patch to patch.
• It steps aside for the mods it replaces. If you already run a mod that does one of these jobs, MidgardPlus leaves that job to it, says so once in the log and keeps your setting saved.

The add-on: MidgardPlus: Megin

Megin is a separate download, MidgardPlus_Lodge on Thunderstore, that adds a full RPG layer on top of MidgardPlus. Join Ullr's hunters at their hall, wake the inner might in you and build your own powers piece by piece. Choose a path, take quests and contracts in every land, hear the elders' tales, pass the trial gate and climb the 200 floors of Himinbjörg. Plan your powers with the power builder. It needs MidgardPlus, and like everything here it starts off. Get it on Thunderstore or from the launcher's Midgard add-ons page.

The creator program

Stream or make videos with MidgardPlus? The creator program is open. Trajan84's full kit, his bow and armour in 3D, shows what a creator's Jarl gear looks like. Read about it and apply.

Compatibility

• MidgardPlus needs BepInEx and Jotunn. A mod manager brings both in for you.
• Everyone needs the mod, the dedicated server too, and everyone needs the same minor version, so 1.52.x plays with any other 1.52.x.
• It steps aside by itself for the mods below. Step aside for other mods is on by default, and Never step aside for keeps a job with MidgardPlus anyway.
• The launcher warns you before you install a mod that overlaps.

Mods it can stand in for

• Suites: ValheimPlus, OdinsQOL, AllTheBases
• Admin: Server devcommands
• Companions: Offline Companions
• Saga and raids: Almanac, Custom Raids, Valheim Fortress (the shrine)
• Farming: PlantEasily, MassFarming, TreesReborn
• Storage: Quick Stack Store Sort Trash Restock, OdinsFoodBarrels, SmarterContainers, AutomaticFuel, AutoFuel, LazyVikings
• Slots: Equipment and Quick Slots, AzuExtendedPlayerInventory, ExtraSlots, InventorySlots
• Ships and carts: LongshipUpgrades, Surtling Boats, CraftyCarts
• Portals: TeleportEverything, QuickTeleport, FastTeleport, PortalStations
• Skills: the Smoothbrain skills (Blacksmithing, Cooking, Farming, Lumberjacking, Ranching, Building, Tenacity, Evasion, Vitality, Exploration, Mining, Foraging, Sailing, PackHorse, SmartSkills, Professions), the blacks7ar skills (Endurance, Herbalist, Hunting, SNEAKer, Fermenting), PassivePowers, CartographySkill, Pathfinder, SkilledCarryWeight, ReliableBlock
• Archery: BetterArchery, BowPlugin
• World: TradersExtended, Max Dungeon Rooms, StarLevelSystem, World Advancement Progression, Drop That, DropMoreLoot, RecipeCustomizer, LongerDays, ServerSideMap, ProtectiveWards, TombstoneLock, Venture Location Reset, Venture Multiplayer Tweaks, Venture Floating Items, TimedItemDestruction, UsefulPaths, Spearfishing, OdinTrainingPlace, BetterNetworking, SmoothSave
• Building: Gizmo, SearsCatalog, FenceSnap, PressurePlate, SimpleElevators, More Vanilla Build Prefabs, AdvancedTerrainModifiers, FreeBuilder, StructurallyImpossible, Venture Area Repair, InfinityTools, NoRainDamage, TarCollector, FeatherCollector, GuckCollector
• Everyday: VNEI, MyLittleUI, MinimalStatusEffects, HipLantern, Better Wisps, BetterLanterns, InstantEquip, Intermission, Chatter, BetterLadders, NoSmokeStayLit, ItemStacks, BiggerItemStack, Magni, the Zen mods (ZenUI, ZenMap, ZenPlayer, ZenCombat, ZenHoverItem, ZenItemStands, ZenWorldSettings)

Languages

MidgardPlus follows your game's language in English, Russian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese: messages, hover text, the Guide, the F9 panel, setting descriptions, companion speech and the Saga Book. If a line reads wrong, tell me on Discord.

Install

With a mod manager

Works with Gale, r2modman and the Thunderstore Mod Manager. Search for MidgardPlus and press Install. The manager brings in BepInEx and Jotunn for you and keeps the mod updated.

By hand

1. Install the Valheim BepInEx pack and Jotunn from Thunderstore. MidgardPlus needs both.
2. Put the plugins folder from this package into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/MidgardPlus/.
3. Start the game once. It writes BepInEx/config/midgardplus.cfg with everything at vanilla.

To remove it, delete the MidgardPlus folder. Nothing the game ships gets modified, so there is nothing else to undo.

The MidgardPlus Launcher (Windows)

Prefer a window to a text file? The launcher finds Valheim, installs BepInEx, Jotunn and this mod, and gives every setting a real control with the explanation next to it, in your language. It also has presets, a search box, export and import of settings, other mods in one click with a warning when they overlap, config backups, and a clean uninstall that keeps your settings. It updates itself.

Thunderstore hosts mods, not programs, so it lives on the site: midgardplus.odinthered.dev

It is not code signed, so Windows calls it an unknown publisher. Choose More info, then Run anyway.

Or use one line in PowerShell. It finds your Valheim folder and installs BepInEx, Jotunn and MidgardPlus. You can read the script first.

irm https://midgardplus.odinthered.dev/install.ps1 | iex

Linux and Mac

Linux has a one line installer on the site. Valheim has no macOS build; if you play on a Mac through CrossOver or Whisky you run the Windows version, so use the Windows steps inside that bottle.

Dedicated server

Install BepInEx, Jotunn and MidgardPlus on the server as well as on every player's PC. valheim_server.exe loads it the same way the game does and writes its own BepInEx/config/midgardplus.cfg the first time it starts. That file is the one that counts.

Multiplayer and servers

• The host decides. Join a server and it hands you its settings, which replace yours while you are connected. You get yours back when you leave. Keys and a few personal display settings stay yours.
• Everyone needs the mod, including the dedicated server, and everyone needs the same minor version, so 1.52.x plays with any other 1.52.x.
• Changes go live. Edit the server's cfg, or change a setting from the F9 panel, and everyone connected gets it within a second or two. No restart, no reconnecting.
• Anything that changes a shared world needs the server to allow it. Your own copy can't turn on free building, companions or flowing water on someone else's server.
• Update safety. If you join a server running an older MidgardPlus, any setting it doesn't know about stays at vanilla on your side.

If you change something and see no effect on a server, check BepInEx/LogOutput.log. On joining, MidgardPlus writes lines like these:

Applied N settings from the server.
This server sets N MidgardPlus setting(s) differently from yours. ...

followed by each of those settings with both values. That is the server's value winning, not another mod interfering.

Admin panel (F9)

Press F9 for the MidgardPlus panel. Everyone gets the Guide (what is switched on here and how to use it), the Leaderboard and the Supporters. Admins also get commands with search, spawning any item or creature, every setting, presets, and Players, where you make admins, kick and ban.

Admins are whoever the game already treats as an admin: single player, or a Steam ID on the server's adminlist.txt. To lock the panel to certain people, fill Admin panel Steam IDs with a comma list. The server checks this list itself, so nobody gets around it by editing their own cfg.

Settings overview

More than 1,100 settings in BepInEx/config/midgardplus.cfg. A dedicated server has its own copy in its BepInEx folder. The launcher and the F9 panel show every one with its explanation.

Section	What's inside
0 - Features	A switch for each big addition: companions, jobs, mounts, legendaries, portals, skills, the Saga Book, bounties, step aside
1 - Quality of Life	Timers, the item browser, the HUD, chat, the status list, forecast, portals, map markers, keys, your own look settings
2 - Player	Carry weight, health, stamina and eitr, regen, movement, rest, food, skills, equipping, ladders
3 - Building	Free building, stability, ranges, world grid, snap points, the rotation gizmo, excavation, ground tools, plans, flowing water
4 - Combat	Enemy and player damage, stars, loot, archery, damage numbers, knockback, dual wielding
5 - Production	Yields, smelters, stations that fuel themselves, fermenter, beehives, fire, crops, planting
6 - World	Day length, traders, dungeons, bosses, sieges, wards, collectors, recipes, the shared map
7 - Companions	Limits, health, gear, levels, recall, ranges, guarding, feeder
8 - Containers	Crafting from chests, house chests and chest names, barrels, container sizes
9 - Crafting and inventory	Bag rows, slots, multi craft, repair, quick stack and sort, favourites, trash, recycling, item wear
9 - Discord	A server webhook for joins, boss kills, deaths, milestones and who is online
10 - Sailing	Tailwind, speed and turning per ship, longship upgrades, crafting carts, sea serpent alert

If another program rewrites the cfg and drops settings, MidgardPlus puts them back from midgardplus.cfg.last-good with the values you had.

For launchers and tools

The package carries plugins/midgardplus-settings.json next to the DLL: every section, key, type, default, range, choice and description, generated from the mod's own code. Read it to show or edit settings before the game has ever been started, which is when midgardplus.cfg first gets its keys.

FAQ

The package has a faq folder with short answers on getting started, settings, servers, companions, building, world and items, languages and compatibility. The same answers, the full changelog and the launcher are on midgardplus.odinthered.dev, in your language.

Help and bugs

• Found a bug? Post it on Discord with what you were doing, your MidgardPlus version, and the lines from BepInEx/LogOutput.log. The warnings and errors that mention MidgardPlus usually say exactly what went wrong.
• Playing on a server? Say so, and include the join lines from the log. A version mismatch can look a lot like a bug.
• Have an idea? Same place. A lot of what is in the mod started as someone's suggestion.

I read all of it.

Credits

MidgardPlus is built on the open source tools nearly every Valheim mod stands on. Thank you to the people who make them:

• BepInEx, by the BepInEx team. It loads mods into the game.
• HarmonyX, by the BepInEx team, built on Harmony by Andreas Pardeike. It lets a mod change how the game's code behaves.
• Jötunn, by the Valheim Modding team. MidgardPlus uses it for custom items, pieces, locations and skills, for settings sync and for the mod compatibility check.

The MidgardPlus Launcher also uses SSH.NET and FluentFTP to reach rented servers.

Valheim is made by Iron Gate Studio. MidgardPlus is an unofficial modification.

Notes

The source code is mine.

MidgardPlus is All Rights Reserved. Please don't reupload it; link to it instead.