🐦‍⬛ Where The Crow Flies

Two ravens fly out over Midgard every morning and come home every night to whisper in the All-Father's ear. They cannot be everywhere. So a crow keeps to each Viking's shoulder, watches what the ravens miss, and flies it back to the hall before the mead is cold.

Your kills, your deaths, your crafts and your parries, carried to the hall's ledger.

Where The Crow Flies is Raven Iron's client companion to TheRavensCall, the server-side admin and chronicle mod. It is opt-in, and it goes on each player's game.

Valheim works out combat, creature deaths, damage, parries, building, crafting, foraging and fishing on the player's own machine, the one that owns that piece of the world, so the server never sees most of it. Where The Crow Flies is the scout: it watches those events where they happen and reports them to a server running TheRavensCall, so its Chronicle, Discord narration and web dashboard know what really happened. On any other server it keeps quiet and changes nothing.

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This is the Valheim 1.0.21 build of Where The Crow Flies.

You	It
Play on Valheim 1.0.21	Where The Crow Flies runs on it and reports exactly what it reported before
Join a server	update your game together with the server: Valheim 1.0.21 is network version 41

Nothing else is new in this version.

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	If…	Then…
🐦‍⬛	your server runs TheRavensCall	install this on your own game. It reports what you do to that server, which is what it is for. Set EnableReporting = false if you would rather it did not.
🌍	your server does not run TheRavensCall	nothing is reported and nothing breaks.
🛡️	your server uses AzuAntiCheat or a mod whitelist	the server admin adds WhereTheCrowFlies.dll to the allowed plugins.
🏷️	the title panel is open	your character holds still: movement, attacks, the map and chat are paused. Close it (Esc) before a fight.

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Everything you do that the server cannot see for itself.

	What it reports
⚔️ Kills	creatures killed by a player, credited to the killer, with the creature's stars, boss and tamed flags, the killing blow's damage type, the biome and where it fell
💀 Deaths	your own deaths with a cause: the boss or creature that did it, the player who killed you, drowning, a fall, burning, freezing, poison, or spirit or lightning damage
🛡️ Combat and defence	damage dealt and taken, with creatures and players kept apart, hits, shield and weapon blocks, perfect parries and damage blocked
🎣 Fishing	each fish you land, with its quality, weight and biome
🔨 Crafting	items crafted and upgraded, how many, and at which station; repairs too
🏠 Building	pieces placed and torn down, with their category and position
🌿 Foraging and farming	berries and mushrooms picked, crops harvested
🍖 Food and meads	food eaten, with its health, stamina and eitr, and potions and meads drunk
🗿 Rituals and travel	boss altar summons, portal trips with the portal's tag, and Forsaken powers used

📖 Read the saga — why a crow on every shoulder

In Valheim the machine that owns a zone or a character decides what happens there. A kill, a parry or a picked berry is settled on a player's own game and the server only sees the result, if that. TheRavensCall can only chronicle what it hears about, so Where The Crow Flies listens where the event happens and sends a short report to the server over Valheim's own routed messages. It credits the right player: a berry you pick is reported by your own game, under your name, not by whoever owns that patch of ground.

Damage, blocks and parries come thick and fast in a fight, so they are added up and sent in small batches, every ten seconds or sooner in a heavy fight, instead of one message per swing.

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Every number Valheim keeps about you, on the server too.

📊 Every vanilla stat	every one of Valheim's own player counters (distance travelled, jumps, arrows fired, trees chopped, mining hits, time in base, sleep and the rest), the changes sent every ten seconds
📚 Full backfill	a complete snapshot of every stat, plus every skill you have raised (level and progress), the moment you spawn and every five minutes after
👀 Out of the way	no HUD changes. The only window is the title panel, and only when you open it.

📖 Read the saga — why a snapshot as well as the changes

The changes alone would only ever count what you did after installing the mod, and a lost message would be lost for good. The snapshot carries your true totals, the ones your own game shows, so the server's ledger starts complete and heals itself. Any changes still waiting are sent before each snapshot, so nothing is counted twice. How often the snapshot goes out is FullSyncIntervalSeconds; it always goes out when you spawn, whatever that is set to.

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Choose which of your earned titles the hall shows with your name.

On a server running TheRavensCall, the title you pick is shown with your name in its Discord narration, Chronicle log and web dashboard. Nothing changes on your in-game nameplate.

You	It
/titles in chat, titles in the console (F5), or your TitlePanelKey	opens the title panel: every title you have earned, as a button
Click a title	sets it
No title	clears it
Esc or Close	closes the panel
/title	lists what you have earned and which one is active
/title Wolf Hunter	sets that title; titles of several words work
/title clear	shows no title, and it stays that way: titles you earn later are listed, not shown, until you pick one

📖 Read the saga — who decides what you have earned

The server does. This mod only sends your request and shows whatever TheRavensCall answers, in the chat box or console you typed in, or in the panel. The panel asks the server when it opens and refreshes after every click, so it always shows the true state. The console commands are the same as the chat ones, without the leading /.

If nothing answers within a few seconds, you get a one-time hint naming the two likely causes: a TheRavensCall too old for titles, or a server that has turned off AcceptClientReports. Everything else in this mod keeps working either way.

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First ten minutes: put WhereTheCrowFlies.dll in BepInEx/plugins/ → join a server that runs TheRavensCall → play as you always do → type /titles to pick your title.

Chat	Console (F5)
/titles	titles	open the title panel (or press your TitlePanelKey)
/title	title	list your titles
/title <name>	title <name>	set one
/title clear	title clear	show no title
	ravenscall …	admins: TheRavensCall's own server command, typed from your console. It runs on the server; the output is in the server console.

🛠️ Install

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Put WhereTheCrowFlies.dll in BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Start the game once. The settings appear in BepInEx/config/com.raveniron.wherethecrowflies.cfg.

🛠️ Open the title panel with a key

Set TitlePanelKey in the config to the key you want. It is None by default, which means the commands only.

🛠️ For server admins: an anti-cheat or a whitelist

If your server uses AzuAntiCheat or a client mod whitelist, add WhereTheCrowFlies.dll to the server's allowed plugins list.

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Works with any server	Needs TheRavensCall on the server	Needs Where The Crow Flies on each player
joins vanilla servers and servers without TheRavensCall: its reports go unheard there, and nothing breaks	everything this mod reports · titles · the ravenscall admin command	each player's own reports: deaths, combat, crafts, building, harvests, food, stats, skills and titles. A player without it sends none of their own.

Older servers. It still sends the older combat report alongside the full one, so an older TheRavensCall keeps hearing what it understands. A server can turn all player reports off with TheRavensCall's AcceptClientReports.

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Mod
TheRavensCall (Raven Iron)	its partner: the server mod that receives the reports and answers title requests
AzuAntiCheat · mod whitelists	add WhereTheCrowFlies.dll to the server's allowed plugins
Mods with their own title or titles command	Where The Crow Flies leaves theirs alone and says so in the log. TitlePanelKey still opens the panel.

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All in BepInEx/config/com.raveniron.wherethecrowflies.cfg. A client-side mod: every setting is your own.

🖥️ Local — yours alone

Section	Settings
General	EnableReporting (send reports to servers running TheRavensCall; on by default) · FullSyncIntervalSeconds (seconds between full stat and skill snapshots; 300 by default) · TitlePanelKey (a key that opens the title panel; None by default)

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Needs: BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2360 · pairs with TheRavensCall on the server (1.7.0 or newer for titles).

Raven Iron's client companion mod for TheRavensCall. Vendored, and not ours: the title panel's gilt frame is Wubarrk's VikingOS shared source (MIT), compiled in unchanged.

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