HaldorExpansion
Expand Haldor with 13 unique relics, trophy selling, Berserker and Ragnarok, Forge of Possibilities upgrades, awakened powers, Facebreaker, protective idols, configurable trading, and Norse-inspired lore. Multiplayer-ready, EN/RU.Haldor Expansion
Power has a price. How far will you push it?
Haldor Expansion expands Valheim's wandering trader with 13 unique pieces of equipment, dangerous combat abilities, upgradeable relics, and stories inspired by Norse legend. Each artifact offers a different way to play, with powerful rewards, meaningful drawbacks, and synergies to discover.
Version 1.3.2 | BepInEx 5 + Jotunn | English / Russian | Multiplayer & dedicated servers
Make it your own. Fine-tune combat balance, ability requirements, keybindings, trading prices and availability, world progression, HUD settings, and optional interface features. Server owners control synchronized settings, while players can keep their own local UI preferences.
What's new in 1.3.0
- The Berserker: equip the Greataxe, Helmet, and Cloak to build Wrath and Blood Debt, unleash Reckoning, and summon Ragnarök — a devastating storm of meteors.
- Forge of Possibilities: upgrade 12 artifacts beyond quality 10. At quality 10+, 11 artifacts unlock unique awakened abilities or passive effects. Hel's Oath's awakening is still in development.
- Two Haldor idols: take the risk of ordinary upgrades, or use Haldor's Adamantine Idol to protect your equipment from destruction when an upgrade fails.
- Facebreaker: a new Bone Crushers ability with its own casting animation and impact sounds. Pull enemies inward, slow them, and stagger pulled targets when enemies are caught on both sides.
- A better shop: six item categories, atmospheric item previews, optional scrollable tooltips, improved UI compatibility, and faster navigation.
- Stories behind the relics: discover interconnected Norse-inspired legends in English and Russian — including hidden connections between the two Haldor idols and other artifacts.
- More control: a customizable Blood Debt HUD, optional in-game settings through ConfigurationManager (F1), and live configuration reloading.
🎬 Ragnarök — Ability Showcase
Watch the Berserker unleash Ragnarök in-game.
Signature combat mechanics
Berserker — Wrath, Blood Debt & Ragnarök
The Berserker Greataxe, Helmet, and Cloak reward relentless aggression, but surviving your own power is part of the challenge. These pieces complement each other without requiring a particular chest armor or leggings.
- Bloodthirst: the Greataxe grows more dangerous as you lose health.
- Wrath I–V: consecutive qualifying hits build up to five stages, increasing attack speed and reducing stamina consumption.
- Blood Debt: take damage and land Greataxe hits to fuel your most destructive attacks. Track the resource on a dedicated HUD.
- Reckoning: at Wrath II+ and with enough Blood Debt, use the Greataxe's secondary attack to spend that resource, deal extra damage, and recover health on a successful hit.
- Ragnarök: with the Greataxe wielded, Cloak equipped, Wrath V, and enough Blood Debt, press E by default to call down 12–30 meteors. The skies darken, the battlefield erupts, and Exhaustion follows.
The Helmet adds Wrath-based protection and healing; the Cloak accelerates Blood Debt generation while increasing incoming damage. The ability thresholds, bonuses, Exhaustion penalties, and Ragnarök key are configurable.
Bone Crushers — Retribution & Facebreaker
The Bone Crushers are aggressive cestus weapons that turn damage suffered into Battle Fervor. At full charge, press the middle mouse button (Mouse2) by default to trigger Retribution, releasing a shockwave and creating a temporary protective barrier.
Facebreaker offers a different kind of control: hold the right mouse button (RMB) to aim, then release to pull enemies inward. Targets are slowed for 4 seconds, and enemies pulled from both sides are staggered. The ability features a custom animation, synchronized impact sounds, and a 5-second default cooldown. Its key can be reassigned.
Equip the Pit King's Mantle alongside Bone Crushers to activate Steel Heart, strengthening the barrier and Retribution shockwave.
Hel's Oath — high-risk archery
Trade 50% of maximum health for maximum stamina with Hel's Oath, a bow designed around powerful ranged attacks and careful survival.
With the full Fenris set, bow hits build Hel's Touch through five stages, increasing movement speed and reducing stamina costs. Normal shots also charge Hel's Embrace: when ready, empower the next arrow for a devastating Lightning / Frost explosion. Hel's Touch V strengthens the blast.
Complete the setup with the Pelt of Helheim to gain Very Resistant to Pierce while all synergy conditions are active.
Other ways to survive — or gamble with death
- Thread of the Norns: a one-use trinket that sacrifices itself to save you from a lethal hit.
- Cuirass of Silent Reckoning: delays part of dangerous damage, buying time without removing the consequences.
- Cloak of the Wounded Beast: stronger healing when badly wounded, at the cost of increased incoming damage.
- Cloak of Burned Resolve: redirects part of incoming damage into stamina, with a severe penalty if stamina runs out.
- Corrupted Brisingamen: increases carrying capacity.
- Crossbow of the Shadow Hunt: devastating opening shots with a mobility trade-off.
Forge of Possibilities — push your relics further
12 of the 13 unique equipment items can be upgraded at the Forge of Possibilities. The Thread of the Norns is excluded.
| Upgrade resource | Successful attempt | Failed attempt |
|---|---|---|
| Haldor Idol | Quality increases by 1 | The item may be destroyed |
| Haldor's Adamantine Idol | Quality increases by 1 | Quality decreases by 1, but the item cannot be destroyed |
Both idols have the same chance of success. Adamantine failures can never reduce quality below 1, and every attempt consumes one idol — even a failed attempt at quality 1.
Quality 10 is the awakening threshold, not the upgrade cap. Awakened effects continue to work above quality 10 while their conditions are met. If quality drops from 10 to 9, the awakening becomes inactive until the item reaches 10 again.
Show awakened powers at quality 10+ (spoilers)
| Artifact | Awakened power |
|---|---|
| Berserker Greataxe | Bloody Harvest: Greataxe kills grant 30 Blood Debt |
| Berserker Helmet | Feast of the Fallen: Greataxe kills during Wrath restore 10% of missing health |
| Berserker Cloak | Ragnarök preserves Wrath; Blood Debt consumption and Exhaustion remain |
| Bone Crushers | Normal attacks heal 3% of actual enemy HP lost |
| Pit King's Mantle | With Bone Crushers, Steel Heart barrier bonus rises to +100% and Retribution damage increases accordingly |
| Hel's Oath | Ghosts of the Last Hunt — work in progress; no awakened effect yet |
| Pelt of Helheim | +80 maximum stamina, 80% less fall damage |
| Cuirass of Silent Reckoning | While delayed-damage debt is active and HP is at or below 25%, restore 2% of maximum HP per second |
| Cloak of the Wounded Beast | +30 maximum HP and +30 effective Unarmed skill (capped at 100) |
| Cloak of Burned Resolve | 25% slashing damage resistance at the resistance stage |
| Corrupted Brisingamen | Blessing of the Rejected Goddess: +40% stamina regeneration |
| Crossbow of the Shadow Hunt | +60 effective Sneak and +30 effective Crossbows (each capped at 100) |
Where to find the idols
Haldor sells both custom idols. The regular Haldor Idol can also drop alongside existing idols without replacing their drops. Haldor's Adamantine Idol has an independent 1% chance per eligible chest by default; the chance is configurable in balance.cfg.
All 13 unique equipment items
Default buy prices are shown below and can be changed in trading.yml.
| Equipment | Coins | Playstyle |
|---|---|---|
| Berserker Greataxe | 2500 | Missing-health damage, Wrath, Blood Debt, Reckoning |
| Berserker Helmet | 2500 | Wrath-based defense and healing |
| Berserker Cloak | 2500 | Faster Blood Debt generation, Ragnarök, increased risk |
| Bone Crushers | 2500 | Fast cestus combat, Retribution, Facebreaker |
| Pit King's Mantle | 3500 | Health and Steel Heart synergy with Bone Crushers |
| Hel's Oath | 2500 | Health-for-stamina bow, Hel's Touch and Hel's Embrace |
| Pelt of Helheim | 2500 | Powerful Pierce resistance with the Hel / Fenris synergy |
| Cuirass of Silent Reckoning | 3500 | Delays part of dangerous damage |
| Thread of the Norns | 6666 | One-use escape from a lethal hit |
| Cloak of the Wounded Beast | 2500 | Stronger low-health healing, higher incoming damage |
| Cloak of Burned Resolve | 2500 | Redirects part of incoming damage to stamina |
| Corrupted Brisingamen | 1600 | Increased carrying capacity |
| Crossbow of the Shadow Hunt | 2500 | Heavy opening / backstab shots, reduced mobility |
Legends and item descriptions
The relics are more than their stats. 12 equipment artifacts and both Haldor idols carry Norse-inspired stories, with connections that attentive players can discover for themselves. Shop previews emphasize the legends; inventory tooltips also provide mechanical details.
The Crossbow of the Shadow Hunt retains a conventional description pending its future redesign.
Optional, screen-friendly tooltips. Long artifact descriptions fit within the screen and support scrolling with the mouse wheel or Page Up / Page Down. Prefer another tooltip or UI mod? You can disable Haldor Expansion's scrolling feature in the configuration and keep your preferred interface.
Haldor's expanded shop
Browse six categories: All / Equipment / Wood / Ores and Metals / Resources / Other. Idol trading is found under Other. The category UI and the visibility of goods from disabled categories can be configured.
Haldor sells more wood, ores, metals, and crafting materials, including Black Metal, Linen Thread, Sap, Refined Eitr, and Soft Tissue. You can also sell supported trophies (including bosses and Deep North trophies), Surtling Core, Black Core, Molten Core, and idols. Prices and progression requirements are configurable.
Idol trading — default prices
Haldor buys and sells all 18 idols: the 16 standard idols and both custom Haldor idols. Prices below are in coins per idol.
| Idol | Buy from Haldor | Sell to Haldor |
|---|---|---|
| Any of the 16 standard idols | 1000 | 300 |
| Haldor Idol | 1000 | 300 |
| Haldor's Adamantine Idol | 4000 | 2500 |
All idols are traded one at a time. Purchase availability, progression requirements, and buy/sell prices are independently configurable.
Show default resource prices
Prices are for the whole stack, not necessarily a single unit. Full stack means the item's maximum stack size.
| Resource | Default stack | Coins |
|---|---|---|
| Copper / Tin / Iron / Silver / Flametal | 30 each | 150 / 150 / 250 / 450 / 1000 |
| Black Metal | Full stack | 200 |
| Stone / Grausten / Black Marble | Full stack | 25 / 50 / 50 |
| Wood / Core Wood / Ancient Bark / Fine Wood | Full stack | 25 / 50 / 100 / 200 |
| Yggdrasil Wood / Ashwood | Full stack | 300 / 100 |
| Red Jute / Blue Jute / Linen Thread | Full stack | 300 / 300 / 800 |
| Sap / Refined Eitr / Soft Tissue | Full stack | 400 / 900 / 400 |
| Resin / Greydwarf Eye / Crystal / Obsidian / Needle / Tar | Full stack | 100 / 100 / 250 / 250 / 250 / 250 |
| Feathers | 100 | 150 |
Configuration & multiplayer
Haldor Expansion automatically generates three configuration files:
BepInEx/config/aveasura-HaldorExpansion/
├── general.cfg # Shop UI and local preferences
├── balance.cfg # Combat balance, abilities and idol drop chance
└── trading.yml # Inventory, prices, sell values and progression
Live reloading applies valid edits without restarting the game (default check interval: 3 seconds). BepInEx ConfigurationManager is optional and lets you edit supported settings in-game using F1.
For multiplayer and dedicated servers, install the same version on the server and every client's game. The server is authoritative for synchronized combat balance, shop prices, stock, and progression settings. Local control preferences and shop-tab visibility remain client-configurable. The mod uses NetworkCompatibility(EveryoneMustHaveMod, Minor).
If upgrading from 1.2.x, the mod attempts to migrate existing settings and backs up the previous configuration. Existing customized prices may differ from the defaults shown here.
UI compatibility: Scrollable item tooltips can be enabled or disabled under Compatibility → Enable long item tooltips in general.cfg or through ConfigurationManager (F1). The setting is client-side, so every player can choose their preferred tooltip experience independently.
Installation
Required: BepInEx 5 and Jotunn. A compatible mod manager can install these dependencies automatically.
For a manual installation, place HaldorExpansion.dll in:
BepInEx/plugins/aveasura-HaldorExpansion/
Item icons are embedded in the DLL; no separate PNG files are needed.
Compatibility & optional mods
Haldor Expansion has previously been used in local and dedicated-server environments alongside mods such as:
Smoothbrain-CreatureLevelAndLootControlwarpalicious-Monster_ModifiersASharpPen-Custom_RaidsAzumatt-AzuExtendedPlayerInventoryAzumatt-AzuSkillTweaksrendl0449-CraftFromContainersAdvize-PlantEverythingMarf-FuelEternal...
These are not required dependencies. Compatibility depends on the installed versions; earlier testing does not guarantee every mod combination will work with 1.3.2.
Valheim 1.0 / Deep North Update: Haldor Expansion 1.3.2 is compatible with the latest Deep North update, allowing you to continue using its equipment, abilities, and trading systems throughout your adventures.
Source, documentation & feedback
GitHub: aveasura/HaldorExpansion
For full configuration details, mechanics, and update history, see the GitHub README and changelog. Bug reports and feedback are welcome through the repository.
Version: 1.3.2 | Languages: English and Russian | Client + server installation required in multiplayer
Contact & Support
Have questions, found a bug, or want to share feedback?
You can reach me on Discord: @aveasura
Bug reports, suggestions, and feedback are always welcome!
❤️ Support Development
HaldorExpansion is free and will always remain free.
If you enjoy the mod and would like to support its continued development, you can make a one-time donation or become a supporter on Boosty.
Your support is entirely optional, but always appreciated. Thank you! 🍻