⚔️ EpicLootAdjustments

Customize Epic Loot for progression in Valheim.

EpicLootAdjustments is a BepInEx plugin that balances loot progression, reduces heavy legendary set ability effects, and cleans up the Epic Loot interface.

✨ Features

🛡️ Zone-Based Loot Progression

Prevents creatures from dropping gear that exceeds the material tier of their home biome.

• Supports vanilla drops and Epic Loot magic item rolls.
• Removes over-tier weapons, armor, shields, tools, and ammunition. Drops are never rewritten into a different item.
• Materials, shardstones, food, and trophies are left exactly as Drop That / Epic Loot rolled them.
• Supports optional exceptions from Drop That configuration files, allowing specific creature/item combinations to bypass the zone restrictions.

Biome progression: Meadows → Black Forest → Swamp → Mountain/Ocean → Plains → Mistlands → Ashlands → Deep North.

🔊 Legendary Set Ability Effects

Reduce the volume and visual intensity of legendary set abilities.

• Audio volume: Configurable, default 0.35.
• Visual effects: Optional smoke, particle, and visual reduction.
• Includes effects associated with Ragnar, Berserker, Bulwark, Undying, and related set abilities.
• Set Abilities / BulwarkDuration (default 3) — seconds of total damage immunity granted by the Heimdall 3-piece Bulwark ability. Epic Loot bakes this number into its own asset bundle, where no config or patch file can reach it; 5 is the stock duration.
• Uses compatibility-safe optional hooks to accommodate Epic Loot API differences.

🖥️ Interface Customization

Hide Epic Loot's pause-menu Mod Config button.

• Enabled by default.
• BepInEx configuration files remain available for adjusting settings.

💎 Shard Socket Override

Epic Loot treats damage-style effects as one exclusive family. A rolled Physical Damage Dealt enchant blocks a Light Blue Imbue Lightning shard even though those are different damage types.

• Shards / AllowAnyShardInSlot (default true) ignores that enchant-vs-shard exclusive-family conflict so the shard can go in an empty slot.
• It does not allow two of the same shardstone, and unique/boss exclusivity is unchanged.
• Set the option to false to restore Epic Loot's exclusive-effect socket rules.

⚙️ Configuration

Configuration file:

BepInEx/config/com.cjayride.epiclootadjustments.cfg

Available settings include:

Section	Setting	Default / Behavior
Exceptions	DropThatAllowFiles	drop_that.character_drop.BossBonusTools.cfg
Set Abilities	Audio volume	0.35
Set Abilities	Visual effect reduction	Optional
Interface	HideEpicLootConfigButton	true
Interface	HideEpicLootOutdatedConfigPrompt	true
Shards	AllowAnyShardInSlot	true
Logging	LogBlockedDrops	true

Settings can be changed through the configuration file or a compatible BepInEx configuration manager.

📦 Requirements

• BepInEx — Required.
• Epic Loot — Soft dependency; required for Epic Loot loot-roll integration and interface hooks.

📥 Installation

1. Install BepInEx.
2. Install Epic Loot to enable its integrations.
3. Place Cjayride.EpicLootAdjustments.dll in your BepInEx/plugins folder.
4. Launch Valheim and configure the plugin as needed.

Upgrading from CLCCLootPatch

This plugin replaces the previous Cjayride.CLCCLootPatch name.

• Remove the old Cjayride.CLCCLootPatch.dll from BepInEx/plugins.
• The new plugin uses com.cjayride.epiclootadjustments.cfg.
• The old com.cjayride.clcllootpatch.cfg configuration file is not loaded automatically.

🧰 Build Information

Output DLL:

bin/Release/net481/Cjayride.EpicLootAdjustments.dll

Thunderstore package: The Package/ directory contains the package icon, manifest, and plugin files used to assemble the release.

⚡ Performance

The plugin is designed to stay off the game's hot paths:

• Sound effects (ZSFX.Play) resolve each emitter once and cache the result, so ordinary sounds cost a single lookup.
• Set-ability effects are processed with reused buffers, so applying them allocates no component arrays.
• Item and creature name lookups are memoized, and the item tier index is built when the world loads instead of during combat.
• Drop filtering writes no log lines by default during raids beyond the configured LogBlockedDrops setting.