The asset kit is embedded in the plugin — three wall faces, three floor patterns, ceilings, stairs, archways, the twin gate-monoliths and the skull-crowned torches — so there is no bundle to misplace. Walls are laid two-sided, one per boundary, and varied by position, so no two corridors read alike and no seams open at the corners. If the kit ever fails to load, the labyrinth falls back to vanilla stonework rather than leaving you in the void.

Every maze piece is persistent: it survives logout and relog. The sky-realm forces its own crypt weather, so no Ashlands sky bleeds through, and vegetation is skipped beneath the maze to keep the frame rate up.

The maze empties when you leave. Nothing is simulated while no one is inside; it wakes when you return. Proximity spawners through the arenas wake as you approach, so the whole labyrinth is alive, not just the entrance. The mob cap is per player — four of you summon four times the dead.

Every sub-boss is starred, hardened by difficulty and allied to the undead horde, and the starred ones carry Crypt Keys far more often.

The Revenant arrives named, with a green health bar, because rarity you cannot see is indistinguishable from a bug — and the labyrinth is already thick with starred mobs. It is always mutated and always starred twice.

The traps scale with you. Both take from 40% on Easy to 85% on Hardcore of your current health. Spike plates are true damage — nothing reduces it — and land all at once. Dart traps are poison: poison resistance blunts them, and they drain you over the next twenty seconds while you try to get away. Because they measure current health, neither kills you outright — but one misstep leaves you on a sliver, deep in the dark, with the horde closing in.

The creatures hit hard, but not unfairly. Two server settings sit between them and your health bar: EnemyDamageScale scales their damage before armour and blocking, and MaxHitFraction caps any single blow at a share of your maximum health — at the default, a player at full health always survives the first hit. Neither touches traps, falling or drowning.

The Warden rises when you come within about 34 m of the way out, announced by name under a gold health bar. Whichever champion it is, it is two-starred, cannot be staggered, and carries 3× to 7× its kind's health depending on difficulty.

It guards rather than hunts. It holds the gate and paces it, and fights you the moment you arrive — but pull it a short way from its post and it breaks off, runs home, and takes no interest in you until it is there. So healing and re-engaging is free. A short leash is also a short bow range: a patient archer just outside it can work on the boss unanswered.

It always drops the sword — guaranteed, one per labyrinth, no roll — with a guaranteed Recall Rune and a rolled hoard of gemstones, Surtling Cores, Black Metal, Flametal and a purse of 200–600 coins.

One Warden per labyrinth. Kill it and the way out stays unguarded; that is stored on the gate, so it survives a relog and a server restart. Only a full maze reset raises a new one.

The blade will not stay still. Small dark-green runes bleed off the steel — a slow drip while it rests on your back, a trail of glyphs hanging in the air behind every swing. In a labyrinth that can be set to absolute pitch black, its own green light is worth more than any number on a stat sheet. It is not simply a better sword. It is the sword you carry into graves.

Crypt vaults sit behind heavy rusted iron grates, and only an Avalor Crypt Key opens them. The entrance and the exit are never sealed — no key ever locks you out of your own escape. Every chest in Avalor is indestructible: no stray blow or collapsing hall will cost you a hoard.

Keys: an ordinary Avalorian has a small chance of carrying one, a starred sub-boss a much better one, and the Revenant and the Warden always do. One key per kill at most, never multiplied by stars. Valheim paces low drop chances with a counter rather than a fresh coin flip, so a small chance plays as "about one key every twenty-odd kills", not a drought and then three at once. A key off the Warden is for the next labyrinth.

Depth decides the hoard. A chest at the threshold rolls three distinct stacks; a vault at the world's end rolls eight. Past halfway, the deeper band stops being a bonus and becomes the bulk of what you find. Most stacks come in threes to fives; what a smith burns by the dozen — cores, ingots, hides, stone — in eight to twenty-five. Difficulty multiplies it all (×1 / ×2 / ×3), and depth once more. Every vault chest also hands you a Recall Rune.

Anti-Farm exists to answer one loop: walk in empty-handed, kill what is in reach, open what you pass, then die on purpose and collect the grave the mod sends home. None of that was cheating, and the grave rescue stays — but it paid out in full for a run nobody survived. The hoard is still in the vaults; a vault still needs a key; a key now needs a fight.

The site is laid out, not scattered. The gate stands in a cleared graveyard, set well apart from the Sacrificial Stones so the hallowed ground is never disturbed. Leaning gravestones march out in front of it in ordered rows, half-buried ruin walls stand in symmetric pairs, and nothing stands in the avenue. The ground is matched to the land around it — cut into the high side, filled on the low — so the clearing meets untouched terrain at its own height, and the temple's own stones are fenced off from every terrain edit. A gloom hangs over it even at noon.

Graves never stack, and never sink. Each fallen Viking takes the next free plot — sixteen marked plots, four rows deep and two wide, all on levelled ground — before the dead are laid behind the gate instead. A grave always lands on flat, walkable ground; if the graveyard cannot be found, it stays where you fell.

You cannot permanently lose a grave. A quiet sweep runs when a world loads and every minute after, looking for any grave that fell out of the labyrinth or ended up stranded on the clearing, and sets it back on a plot. It only looks at Avalor's own ground — the sky-realm and the clearing. A grave in your cellar or anywhere out in the world is left exactly where it is. avalor_tp_grave takes you straight onto your nearest tombstone, asking the server where it really is; an admin can run avalor_recover_graves to force the sweep now.

If a run goes badly, the only thing you lose is the walk back.

The compass is a compass rose lying on the ground ahead of you, seen from above, drawn in transparent Avalor green. The exit rides inward as you close on it. It gives a direction and a distance, nothing else — it will point straight through a wall, and following it into a dead end is normal. Turn it off if you would rather be properly lost.

Hold Left Alt to adjust it: drag it with the mouse, nudge it with the arrow keys (Shift for faster), resize it with the wheel or + / −. Wherever you leave it, it stays.

De-misting mods are fine. Avalor paints its own fog last, after every other mod, so the labyrinth keeps its murk even if something strips the mist from the rest of the world.

Pack

• Two damage types. Every sub-boss is immune to something, and Vampiric resists all three physical types. One-trick builds get stonewalled.
• Poison resist — it works on the dart traps as well as the skeletons.
• Max-health food, not regen. Traps take a fraction of your current health, so the size of the pool decides what you are left with.
• A light. A torch, minimum.
• Leave the hoard at home. Deaths are recoverable, but they cost the walk back.

Run it

1. Walk between the monoliths. Glance at the graveyard — that is where you loot later.
2. Spend the countdown. Eat, light up, buff. When it says Good luck, the maze wakes.
3. Pick a direction and commit. Shallow chests roll the common band only.
4. Clear arenas before looting. The corner chests are bait; the spawners wake while your inventory is open.
5. Kill every starred mob you can afford to. Keys are where the vaults' value is.
6. Spend keys at once. Vault chests roll the top band wherever they sit, and each hands you a Recall Rune.
7. Read the disc, not the walls. A blip on a stem means the exit is on another floor — go find a stairwell. (Hard and Extreme only; Normal is one floor.)
8. Heal up before the disc goes tight. The Warden wakes at about 34 m.
9. Fight the Warden in a doorway. Back off far enough and it returns to its post.
10. Kill it for the greatsword, loot the corpse, walk into the gate.

Don't

• Fight in the open when a corridor is two steps away — spawns come ahead of you, so open ground means both sides.
• Save your Recall Rune. It is a 5-second channel; start it before the fight goes bad.
• Panic when the compass points into stone. It gives a bearing, never a route.
• Corpse-run. Your grave is already at the gate.
• Assume a group is safer. The mob cap is per player.

Open the console with F5 and enable devcommands first. Commands that move a grave, forge the maze or rebuild the overworld site ask the server to do the work when typed on a client; the fuller log lands in the server's log.

1. Install BepInEx, Jotunn and Mists of Avalor on the server, as on a client.
2. Start the server once and stop it — that writes BepInEx/config/wubarrk.mistsofavalor.cfg.
3. Edit the server's config. Every gameplay setting is server-synced; editing them on a client does nothing.
4. Restart, and look for this line in the server log — it prints whether or not DebugLogging is on:

[Avalor][net] topology=DedicatedServer - RPCs registered (SERVER+client handlers) headless=True simDistance=...

The labyrinth is forged when first needed. Walking through the gate asks the server to make sure one exists; only the server ever creates one.

The gate appears when someone visits spawn. A dedicated server cannot site the gate itself, so the first client at the Sacrificial Stones is granted the job (portal-siting request from …: GRANTED). On a brand-new world the gate appears once somebody stands there, not at server start.

Grave recovery runs on the server only, on load and every minute after. Resets run on the server clock, only when the maze is empty; anyone inside is sent home first.

The server writes BepInEx/config/MistsofAvalor/barrkbot_avalor_labyrinth.json once a minute, with no setup: for the labyrinth standing now, how many have died in it and what killed them, how many creatures are left, how many people are inside, whether the Warden still guards the way out and how many walked out alive — plus lifetime totals for the server and each player, which survive restarts and resets.

Only the labyrinth is counted. A death with no creature behind it — a fall, drowning, a trap — is put down to the labyrinth itself. The lifetime counters live in avalor_stats_store_<world>.tsv, one per world; delete it to reset them.

Set EnemyDamageScale and MaxHitFraction both to 1.0 for untouched damage.

LootEntryBonus shifts how many different items a chest holds — -2 lean, +3 generous, never fewer than one. LootCoinScale at 0 takes coins out of the chests. A pool name the game does not have is dropped and named in the log.