Galdr

How to install: pick your voice and install its package — Galdr_VoiceEN for English or Galdr_VoiceRU for Russian. Your mod manager adds Galdr along with it. You can install both and switch in game.

Voice magic for Valheim. The game's staffs no longer shoot on a button press — they listen: you name each spell with a word of your own and speak it out loud while holding the cast key. «Fireball» works, so does «grandma's pie» — the runes remember your voice, not the meaning.

Speech recognition runs offline on your PC. Each language comes as its own pack with the texts and a speech model; the interface follows your game language, and the voice language is switched in Esc → «Galdr» → «Voice language».

This is a beta. It's playable, but the balance will still move.

Start in 60 seconds

1. Join a world. After a few seconds Hugin tells you what to do.
2. Press K and choose your native element.
3. Your first spell already has a word (English: flame, thunder, frost, shadow or healing; Russian: пламя, молния, холод, тьма, жизнь).
4. Hold the back side mouse button, say the word, release. That's your first spell.

Nothing happens? Esc → «Galdr»: pick your microphone and watch the level bar while you speak.

Later: pick a spell in the window, press «Bind word» and say a word of your own three times — anything that sounds unlike your other words. Longer words (two syllables or more) are recognised far better than short ones. Your voice listens for up to 4 spells at a time; the set is changed at a rune altar. Hugin also leaves an old book at your feet — it explains the rest.

What's inside

• Five elements: fire, lightning, ice, dark and life. Five spells and a charm in each, plus five spells of two elements at once.
• Every spell has its own ranks for power, mana cost and cooldown.
• Knowledge instead of levels: from spell hits, kills (the farther the land, the more), runestones, trophies offered at the rune altar, mead of wisdom and sorcerers' notes found in chests.
• Higher tiers unlock as the Forsaken (bosses) fall. The circle and the book reveal themselves as you progress.
• Its own mana: two mana dishes in every land, mana potions and a rune amulet. It returns faster while Rested and at the rune altar.
• Armor for your element: a matching set makes its spells stronger and cheaper.
• Foci worn in place of a trinket: a strong upside for one element and a real downside.
• Weather, time of day and the land change the elements' power. While wet, fire weakens; heavy iron dulls your mana.
• Element reactions: fire shatters the frozen, lightning overloads the burning and electrocutes the wet. Works between your companions' spells too.
• Rune-wise foes: runebound enemies that resist magic, mana eaters and silencer shamans.
• Techniques found in dungeon chests change a spell for good.
• Creatures have weaknesses and resistances to the elements, just like to weapons.
• Three loadouts switched at the rune altar, and a Chronicle page in the book that keeps count of your spells, foes and mightiest blow.
• Summons fight for you in PvP too.
• Magic is support here, not a replacement for your weapon. Mana runs out fast.

Controls

Key	What it does
K	galdr window
back side mouse button	hold and speak a word: shout it for a stronger spell, whisper it so creatures don't hear
back side mouse button + 1–9	quick cast: the spell in that loadout slot, no word needed
E on your summon	follow / hold ground
Esc	close the window

The microphone and keys are changed in game: Esc → «Galdr». You can also test there whether the mod hears you, see what the runes heard during play, let the mod measure your room's noise, and choose how to listen: hold the key, press to toggle, or always while holding a staff. The runes also learn how you say your words, so recognition improves as you play. All other balance numbers are in BepInEx/config/com.galdr.voicemagic.cfg.

Playing with friends

Everyone needs the mod and a language pack. Put Galdr on a dedicated server too: then the balance and find chances are shared, and the books are counted per world. There are as many books in the world as players who have joined it.

It doesn't conflict with in-game voice chats (ProximityVoiceChat and the like): the microphone is read separately.

Languages

Galdr itself contains no text. Every language is a pack: a Galdr<CODE>.lang file with all the texts, stop words and the voice settings, and a Vosk speech model next to it. Galdr finds packs anywhere in BepInEx/plugins. To add a language, copy GaldrEN.lang to, say, GaldrDE.lang, translate it, set @code = de and @game = German, and put a German Vosk model in the same folder.

If something doesn't work

• The voice isn't picked up: Esc → «Galdr», choose your microphone and check the level meter.
• A word gets confused with another: choose a longer word that sounds unlike the others.
• Something broke: send BepInEx/LogOutput.log; the mod's lines start with Galdr.

Contact

Bugs, ideas, questions: [email protected]. Please attach BepInEx/LogOutput.log and say which language packs you use.

Not done yet

• Voice packs exist for English and Russian only.
• It hasn't been tested much with large groups.