CharmaKameleon

Tame wild necks like wolves - then breed them for tiny hatchlings that grow up right before your eyes.

Features

• Tame necks like wolves. Feed a wild neck raw meat (meat), keep your distance while it tames — it fights back, and it spits — then claim it: pet it, give it a name, and command Follow / Stay. It will defend you like any tamed wolf.
• Necks can breed. Keep a fed, tamed pair together and they'll form a loving bond — watch for the heart effects — and after a pregnancy of about a day the mother gives birth in front of you.
• hatchlings are born small. Newborn neck hatchlings spawn at 30% size and grow to full size over one in-game day. All completely configurable.
• Rare hatchlings colours. Every hatchling has a small chance of being Ember, Ash or Copper instead of the natural coat. — . The colour is rolled once, at birth, and saved to that neck, so it survives unloading and growing up, and an Ember cub stays Ember for life.
• Stats like a wolf's. Necks use the wolf's diet, feeding behaviour and breeding parameters, so everything works exactly like you'd expect from taming a wolf — just spittier, and with cute widdle lizzards.

Install

Requires BepInEx and Jotunn for Valheim.

1. Extract the zip into BepInEx\plugins\ inside your Valheim install (the plugins\CharmaKameleon\ folder merges straight in).
2. Start Valheim through your mod manager of choice.
3. Find a wild neck, drop raw meat near it, and stay back while it tames.

Config

BepInEx\config\wayfarers.tameablenecks.cfg — all settings reload on next start.

Section	Setting	Default	What it does
General	TargetPrefab	Neck	Prefab to tame. Only change this if necks are not becoming tameable at all
Appearance	BabyScale	0.3	Newborn cub spawn scale (1.0 = adult)
Growth	GrowTime	1800	Seconds for a cub to grow to full size (1800 = 1 day)
Growth	DebugLog	false	Log baby-size decisions
Neck Colors	Enabled	true	Allow rare cub colours
Neck Colors	EmberChance	0.05	Chance a newborn cub is Ember (burnt orange)
Neck Colors	AshChance	0.05	Chance a newborn cub is Ash (cool grey)
Neck Colors	CopperChance	0.05	Chance a newborn cub is Copper (warm bronze)
Neck Colors	ForceVariant	(empty)	Testing only. Set to Ember, Ash or Copper to force every newborn cub to that colour instead of rolling. Clear it when you are done
Neck Colors	TintMode	Texture	Texture recolours the hide texture and is the only mode that reproduces the true Ember hues. Flat just multiplies the material colour, which can only darken toward Ash
Neck Colors	TintEyes	false	Also tint eyes, claws and teeth
Neck Colors	ResetColors	false	Forget every cub's saved colour and re-roll from the chances above. Turn on, load the world once, then turn back off
Neck Colors	DebugLog	false	Log the colour roll and which materials were recoloured
Breeding	Enabled	true	Master breeding switch
Breeding	FedDuration	7200	Seconds a neck stays fed after eating (breeding blocks while hungry)
Breeding	RequiredLovePoints	5	Love points needed to get pregnant
Breeding	PregnancyChance	0.25	Chance per check to gain a love point
Breeding	PregnancyDuration	1800	Seconds the pregnancy lasts before birth (1 day)
Breeding	UpdateInterval	2	Seconds between breeding checks
Breeding	MaxCreatures	30	Max necks within TotalCheckRange before breeding pauses
Breeding	TotalCheckRange	20	Radius for the total-neck count
Breeding	PartnerCheckRange	30	Radius a second tamed neck must be within
Breeding	DebugLog	false	Log one breeding status line per tamed neck every ~20 s

Multiplayer & dedicated servers

Every client needs the mod. On a dedicated server, drop the same dll into the server's BepInEx\plugins\ — breeding is server-authoritative, so the server must run it too.

Credits

Built for the fun, with Jotunn. Inspired by getting spat at one too many times. :)

Support

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Thank you! :neck: