Valerius Noob Shield

Keep the late-game mobs out of your early-game base.

Prevents progression-gated creatures and raids from spawning more than 2 biomes below their native biome.

Useful for multiplayer servers where some players have progressed further than others, while still keeping early-game areas safe for newer players.

Also, I'm really tired of Seekers and Charred Warriors attacking me while I'm building my sick ahh base in the Meadows.

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How It Works

Each biome has a progression tier:

Biome	Tier
Meadows	0
Black Forest	1
Swamp	2
Mountain	3
Plains	4
Mistlands	5
Ashlands	6
Deep North	7

Progression-gated creatures can spawn up to 2 biome tiers below their native biome.

Raid events are also treated as progression-gated events.

Spawning into later biomes is unrestricted.

Normal, non-progression-gated spawns are unchanged.

Example

An Ashlands creature has a native biome tier of 6:

Current Biome	Result
Meadows	❌ Blocked
Black Forest	❌ Blocked
Swamp	❌ Blocked
Mountain	❌ Blocked
Plains	✅ Allowed
Mistlands	✅ Allowed
Ashlands	✅ Allowed
Deep North	✅ Allowed

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Console Logging

Allowed and blocked spawns are logged to the console for debugging.

Allowed :

[Info   :Valerius Noob Shield] ALLOWED Greydwarf | Black Forest -> Meadows | 1 tier down

Blocked:

[Info   :Valerius Noob Shield] BLOCKED Seeker | Mistlands -> Meadows | 5 tiers down

The log includes:

• Creature
• Native biome
• Current biome
• Tier difference

Logs for spawns with the prefab name "projectile_FimbulvinterMeteor" are suppressed due to sheer amount.

Blocked Raid:

[Info   :Valerius Noob Shield] BLOCKED RAID army_seekers | Seeker | Mistlands -> Meadows | 5 tiers down

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Compatibility

Valheim: 1.0.x Dependency: BepInEx

Compatible with most other mods.

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Artificial Intelligence Usage

Artificial intelligence was used in the creation of this mod. The code has been proofread and the mod has been tested thoroughly in-game.

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Testing

• Game-generated spawn rates across various world-progression and biome combinations
• Command-generated raids in various biomes
• Compatibility testing with other mods

No incompatibilities found so far.

Found an incompatibility? Let me know and I'll add it here.

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Current Issues & Shortcomings

• Not fully tested with certain Deep North content.
• Not tested with very long play sessions yet.
• Not tested with mods that add creatures or modify existing creature properties.