Stars are not just health. As an ally levels up, its gear physically changes: a 0★ Warrior carries a bronze sword, a 1★ one iron, and the 2★ Berserker a blackmetal battleaxe. Spellswords climb the same bronze, iron, blackmetal ladder. Health Multiplier and Damage Multiplier scale every ally's health pool and the slash, blunt and pierce damage of their weapons — and the elemental damage of every mage's staff.

The Cleric heals you and your tamed allies within 15 m the moment anyone in range drops below 80% health: a five-second heal-over-time that grows with the Cleric's stars, then a 15-second wait before the next pulse. Wild dvergr are never healed.

The Berserker's rage adds movement speed, faster stamina and a little regeneration on top of the battleaxe.

The first three come straight from vanilla tames; the rest combine classes into elite hybrids. A valid pair produces the mutation at the Special Combo Chance (25% by default); otherwise the child simply inherits the class of one of its parents, so your bloodlines hold.

Breeding needs a partner within reach (Partner Check Range, 10 m), checks every Update Interval (10 s), and conceives at the Pregnancy Chance (0.33). A pregnancy lasts Pregnancy Duration (600 s), and breeding stops once Breeding Limit (4) Dvergr crowd a 10 m radius. A child may be born one star above its highest parent at the Level Up Chance (10%), up to Max Breeding Level (3, that is 2 stars).

The server writes the stats as JSON to BepInEx/config/DvergrAllies/; players' games do no work and write no files. It reads the save database directly, so Dvergr standing in zones nobody has visited for weeks are still counted. Births, deaths, contracts and pulls are banked to a per-world counter file as they happen — a dead Dvergr leaves nothing behind to count later. Every Dvergr carries whoever tamed or summoned it, offspring inherit it, and a player whose whole warband died still appears with their losses intact.

"We couldn't count" never pretends to be "nothing is alive." If the world cannot be scanned the files are still written, marked census_unavailable with the reason, and the population counts are null, not 0. A missing file means one thing only: the export never ran. Force Census Unavailable triggers that path on purpose, for testing — the export says outright that it was forced, history keeps recording, and in normal play it stays off.

Export Interval is 60 s by default; BarrkBOT only reads every 20 minutes, so going lower buys nothing.

Check BepInEx/LogOutput.log for [Contract] lines. At startup: Dvergr Contract registered at 999 coins., or an error naming what stopped it. When Haldor wakes: Added to Haldor's stock at 999 coins (9 entries before, 10 after)., or a line saying it was already there, or that the item is missing.

If Haldor wakes and there is no [Contract] line at all, that is the answer. The game applies every mod's additions to a trader as one chain, so an error thrown by a mod ahead of this one cancels every addition behind it, this one included. Haldor's counter is busy — other mods sell there too — so look for that other mod's error.