cjaycraft ultimate modpack

ATTN: This is a configuration pack. No mods are hosted or re-uploaded on this page. All dependencies are hosted by Thunderstore.io

Valheim "Hard Mode" Adventure

This modpack is now available to the public. My community is still doing a playthrough test, so there may be regular updates to the configuration files here until we have completed our playthrough.

Game Features

• Insane mob difficulty (up to 10 stars)
• Custom raids (150+) that scale in difficulty
• Custom boss fights (WAY more difficult than vanilla)
• Dedicated multiplayer server, intended for 3+ players
• Repair gear and weapons with gold Coins (like an MMO)

What is cjaycraft?

Shout out to the developers, pack makers, and everyone working on great things! This pack is a configuration of all the great things made by people in the community. Thanks for giving people great content to enjoy!

• A collection of over 70 mods! The difficulty is INSANE and features up to 10-star mobs and bosses. Also includes custom boss fights and raids that attack your base!

• You will need several players. Recommend a minimum of 3. It's not possible by yourself! We tested a kill fight sequence on the 4th boss (Moder) with 3 players and it took 1.5 hours to him! Waves of monsters, it was insane!

• Need to take a break from killing things? No problem! Build your own boat, custom from the ground up! This pack features all the fun creative elements of the game without breaking or making the rest of the game too easy.

• Gold (coin) economy, repair your gear with Coins, and custom loot drops!

• Purchase supplies from Haldor the Merchant for a premium, or sell him your cooked foods to earn Coin!

• It's so hardcore that each player can only build 6 portals (3 linked networks) at the start of the game. Build more portals by acquiring special Portal Fluid from killing bosses or purchasing them from Haldor the Merchant!

• Enemy encounters require tanks, casters, and DPS!

• Since this is a modpack, you will be able to change the settings. Customize it to the experience you want.

Dedicated Server Files

https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack_dedicated_server

It's recommended to run a dedicated server, even if you're playing from the same machine. Plus, you need friends to play this pack!

Note: Load times when launching the game are exceptionally longer than vanilla, especially for the server, because they need to load large files like loot tables. Lots of customization! But all good things.

Controls You Want To Know

Gameplay

• Gear and weapons cost gold Coin to repair
• Wood items are free to repair
• 'Better Wards' will reduce building damage by 20%
• The Merchant Trader can buy/sell items
• Sell cooked food, or trash items to make Coin
• Clicking on the [Craft] tab opens a drop down filter for sorting
• Chests next to machines will have items deposited to them automatically
• Inventory weight inside shoulder backpacks is reduced by 50%
• When you die, keep your equipped armor
• When you die, lose 10% skills
• Build and fight in the water (keep your equip on)
• Carrots in a chest will feed pigs
• PortalFluid can be earned by killing bosses or purchasing from Merchant
• WardIsLove: Wards reduce damage to structures by 50% (3 per player), have minor self healing to structures, and creature pushback

Tips

• Make lots of first-tier potions, they're cheap and will keep you alive.
• The new cooking tables make better food than vanilla
• Build bunkers to hide, survive the raid attacks.
• Enchant slow to your weapons to survive fights.
• Get the healing rune when you can and make lots of them.
• Chaos enemies attack with a random damage type.

Inventory

• Drag item and press Delete to recycle the item into parts
• Split stack of items: Left Shift + Right Click
• Split 1 item: Drag + Right Click
• Left Alt + 1 or 2 or 3 to change quiver arrow slots (only with inventory window closed)

UI

• Press ` (key above tab) to switch hotbars (first 2 rows of your inventory)
• F7 to edit UI 

Config

• F1 to open the configuration manager

Mod list

Advanced Signs	Adventure Bounties	Auto Feed	Better Archery
Better Networking	Better Trader Remake	Better UI Reforged	Better Wards
Blacksmith Tools	Bone Appetit	Building Health Display	Chaos Armor
Character Edit	Configurable Fire	Configuration Manager	Crafting Filter
Crafty Carts Remake	Creature Level Control	Custom Armor Stats	Custom Loading Screens
Custom Raids	Custom Textures	Death Tweaks Jotunn Backpacks cjaycraft fix	Discard Inventory Item (recycle) No Coins cjaycraft fix
Drop Single Item	Drop That	Epic Loot	Equipment and Quick Slots
Faster Boats	Forgotten Biomes	Hugo's Armory	Hotbar Switch
Item Drawers	Instant Monster Drops	Interact While Building	Jotunn Backpacks
Judes Equipment	Mass Farming	MonsterLabZ	Montsternomicon
More Gates	More Slots	MultiCraft	Odin Training Place
Plant Everything	Plant It	Potions Plus	Quick Cart
Quick Connect	Quick Deposit	RRRBetterRaids	RRRCore
Quick Cart	RRRMonsters	RRRNPCs	Rare Magic Portal
Repair Requires Mats (Repair with Coins) - cjayride fix (custom changes)	Skyheim	Speedy Paths	Supplemental Raids
Terraheim	Trash Items	Tree Respawn	Use Equipment In Water
Valheim Not Enough Items	Valheim Plus	Valheim RAFT	Vitality Skill
Weightless Coins

Are You Ready!?

Valheim mods are not easy to install. Compatibility issues everywhere! So I made a modpack to play with my friends, and offer the best experience for HARDCORE progression. The insane raids and difficulty will give you quite the challenge, testing your skill and might!

Make sure you install this modpack with R2modman for an automated installation process!

https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/ebkr/r2modman/

I've also spent 200+ hours testing the mods, re-writing broken code for mods, customizing config files, balancing economy, balancing fights, and making the game a great experience.

FPS Boost Recommendations

• For high-end PCs: https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/fps_boost_small

• For medium-grade PCs: https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/fps_boost_medium

• For low-end PCs (very potato graphics): https://valheim.thunderstore.io/package/cjayride/fps_boost_high

The game is poorly optimized, so I recommend playing with at least medium-grade settings.

Some tips to reduce lag:

• Don't build too many things in one place.
• Split up your bases.
• Don't make boats that are too big.
• Don't make things with too many player placed objects.
• Don't make your farms too big.
• Basically, if you wanna go big, spread things out so they're not loaded in at the same time.

Updating This Modpack

Using r2modman from valheim.thunderstore.io ONLY UPDATE cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack -- This will also automatically update dependent mods that are SAFE to update.

I do not recommend auto-updating the OTHER mods included in this pack automatically, unless you know what you are doing. There are some mods that break things with newer versions. For example, there is currently a bug with BetterUI and its latest version. It conflicts with the mods in this pack, so we'll need to wait for them to fix it before upgrading.

Only update the main pack files "cjaycraft_ultimate_modpack" because these are the main configuration files for the modpack. When other mods get updated, I'll run tests, and include the newer versions as dependencies.

Please use R2modman to install, update, and run this modpack.

Quick Connect

Add your favorite server to the QuickConnect file so that you can connect quickly from the opening game screen.

config/quick_connect_servers.cfg Put one server per line

name:addr:port:password Example: Awesome Server:127.0.0.1:2456:smellysocks

Issues

Are you getting an "incompatibility" error connecting to your server?

Did you first install this modpack before vbersion 1.6.0?

Try deleting the profile in r2modman, make a new profile, and download the modpack again.

Change Log

Full change log: https://pastebin.com/1TWh7sGs

VERSION 1.6.2

• Updated Recycling (drag item + delete) so that you CAN'T break down a RunestoneMagic into lesser shard parts because it breaks the modpack.

• Updated Ward recipe.

• Dependency update: OdinPlus-CraftyCartsRemake-3.0.0

• Dependency update: cjayride-Discard_or_Recycle_Inventory_Items_No_Coins_cjaycraft_fix-1.3.3

VERSION 1.6.1

• Actually updated dependency WackyMole-RareMagicPortal-1.4.1 this time, oops!

VERSION 1.6.0

ENCHANTING:

• Essences can now be upgraded.

• Augmenting is now done with reagents, less expensive than previous.

• Augmenting no longer asks for an additional Essence (re-augmenting).

• Augmenting Coin cost is now reduced by 50%. (half the Coin cost of the original enchant).

• Material upgrade cost slightly reduced.

• Added conversion recipes. Magic runestones can be converted to other magic materials for a cost, and recycled back to runestones (with delete key).

• Unwanted trophies can now be turned into Shards, which can be put together to make RunestoneMagic. Finally those unwanted trophies are useful!

BOSSES:

• Bosses now have cooldowns between summoning.

• PortalMagicFluid now correctly drops from bosses Dragon and higher. (Item was misspelled in loot drop config)

• All bosses now have a chance to drop tools and weapons from the next tier!

• Fixed bosses to now correctly drop everything they're supposed to: enchanting mats, PortalFluid, lots of coins!!!! (to pay for your repairs)

CREATURE DROPS:

• BloodBag drop rate increased to 45% to match Entrails as the same. (Up from 40%)

• FreezeGland drop rate reduced to 45% to match Bloodbag. (Down from 49%)

• IceOfTheNorth (rk_moochi) drop removed from creatures in Mountains UNLESS defeated_forgottenone. Also drops from DeepNorth creatures.

TIP: IceOfTheNorth is an important crafting ingredient for higher level foods. You can now craft it without stepping foot in the Deep North, but the full crafted ingredient can also drop from creatures in the Deep North. This is necessary as a gateway to the higher levels, before the highest level foods can be crafted due to the extreme difficulty of the game.

• Drake Eggs (rk_dragonegg) now drop from Drakes (Hatchling) (45%) because there was no possible way in the game to get them. It was missing from the drop loot config! They also now drop from Drakes in the Southern fire zone.

• Enabled many loot drops that were previously disabled, likely as a mistake.

MERCHANT TRADER:

• Dragon eggs can now be sold / purchased for the same cost as Freeze Glands (30buy / 7sell).

• Coal can now be purchased, but not sold (a fix from a mistake).

• Food (consumables) now sell for 30% more than market value (buy price) to encourage cooking as a way to make money! Majority of foods already produce 2x their vanilla crafting rates.

• Updated coin cost of Legendary Items to reflect the new coin scaling and boss rewards (price increase slightly).

RAIDS:

• Icy Hell / Ice King event will no longer start until defeated_forgottenone

POTIONS:

• Disabled certain Flasks and Elixirs, per Epic Valheim update for balance reasons.

ARMOR:

• Adjusted armor values for Jude's Equipment armor sets so that they better scale with the difficulty of the game and align more closely with Chaos Armor.

• Increased armor levels on all gear to match game difficulty.

WARDS:

• Replaced WardIsLove mod with BetterWards. There is only one kind of ward and permissions are not necessary because there are no player prohibiting controls. As long as it's enabled, it will reduce damage by 85% to pieces within 25 blocks, and heal 20% damage every 60 seconds.

DEPENDENCIES:

• Updated to latest version: WackyMole-RareMagicPortal-1.4.1

• Added: Smoothbrain-PassivePowers-1.0.3 - Press LeftShift + 1 and LeftShift +2 to trigger active powers.

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We're still beta-testing the following with our playthrough. I'm not sure what to expect but this is how I understand it... I could be wrong in the order or bosses.

We just finished Tier 5 (Gobling King Boss in the Plains)

Tier 6:

Mistlands: Weapon + Tool Upgrades (Heavymetal + World Tree Frgament) Mistlands Boss: SvartalfrQueen

Tier 7:

DeepNorth: Weapon + Tool Upgrades (Frometal + Primordial Ice) DeepNorth Boss: Jotunn

Tier 8:

Ashlands: Weapon + Tool Upgrades (Flametal + Burning World Tree Fragment) Ashlands: Armor Upgrades (Flametal) Ashlands Boss: The Blazing Damned One

Contact

Twitter: twitter.com/cjayride

Discord: discord.gg/cjayride

IRL: twitch.tv/cjayride

Gaming: twitch.tv/cjaywalk