⚔️ 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.
• 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.

⚙️ 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
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.