Modded Valheim - Bog Witch Update
6Well, what do we have here? A pixellated Fox on an adventure in the world of Valheim, trying to prove we are worthy to enter Valhalla by slaying all of the Foresaken. But Odin is a bugger and leaves me with just a set of rags, and the elements are against us. Can we make it?\n\nA bit about the pack:
This is a work in progress modpack where survival will be a bit more important. Many items have had their carry weight adjusted and lowered, as well as your starting carry weight being only 100, which gets better as you level up your athletic skills (running, jumping, swimming, woodcutting, pickaxes, and fishing all give +25 carry weight at level 100 for a total of +150) and a new Packhorse skill (+100 at level 100, levels up by carrying heavy loads). This means that the start of the game will feel similar, but wearing armor sets and taking more weapons and tools with you will feel more cumbersome until your character gets stronger.
There are also seasons that dynamically affect your skills, and winter is a harsh season where crops die, oceans freeze, and your character can freeze to death in snowstorms. Seaonss also spawn different enemies, for example. Bears do not spawn in winter, but you'll get more blobs spawning in the fall. Deer are very abundant in the summer. but very rare during the winter.
Early game food will be more demanding as well. All pickables have their food duration reduced to 5 minutes, and cooked meat of any kind only lasts for 8 minutes, unless it's a larger meat such as serpent and lox meat. You will need to prepare cooked meals on the cauldron to have them last for a longer duration, so early game survival will be difficult as you will run out of food quicker if you're not actively hunting and foraging.
Many early game enemies are also buffed in terms of health and damage, which makes the meadows and black forest an actual survival experience rather than a tutorial and adaptation level, respectively. Face a boar and prepare to get gored to death in just a couple of hits without decent protection and good dodging skills. Bears and tougher boars roam the black forest and can strike without warning to those unprepared. Greydwarves and skeletons are much stronger too. This should make the whole experience feel balanced and preserve the difficulty throughout the game, unlike vanilla where the swamp feels like a major jump in challenge compared to the first two biomes.
The Plains has also been reworked slightly - Deathsquito spawns now adapt to seasons. In spring, they only spawn at night. In summer, twice as often. In fall, they are abundant at both day and night, and during the winter they do not spawn at all. But winter is no safer, as fulings are more common to make up for the lack of deathsquitos, and berserkers have a small chance to spawn anywhere in the plains at night. Deer spawn in forests in the summer, explaining how the fuling got a hold of all that deer hide for their roofing!
Mod List:
Advize: PlantEverything
Alpus: BiomeDifficultyProgression
ASharpPen: Custom_Raids, Drop_That, Fall_Damage_For_Creatures, Spawn_That
Azumatt: AllTheBases, AsksvinImproved, AzuCraftyBoxes, AzuExtendedPlayerInventory, ILoxYou, ImFRIENDLY_DAMMIT, MistrootTamer, Recycle_N_Reclaim, RemoveAttackFreezeFrame, ResourceUnloadOptimizer
Balrond: balrond_humanoidRandomizer, balrond_shipyard
Bid: ColouredCrystalGlass
Blacks7ar: BeeKeeper, Endurance, NoDropsFromMonsterKill, TameableNeck, TorchesAreFires, WeaponHolsterOverhaul, WieldEquipmentWhileSwimming, Wisdom
Coemt: EpicBossFights
ComfyMods: SearsCatalog
DigitalRoot: DigitalRoots_Slope_Combat_Assistance
Goldenrevolver: Quick_Stack_Store_Sort_Trash_Restock
Jewelheim: Steelworks_Revolution
MaxFox_Gaming: AltarLocationTweaks, BetterBeehives, CoalControl, DestructiveDenizens, EnvironmentalAwareness, ProcreationPlus
Neobotics: LoxquitoLove
OdinPlus: OdinArchitect, OdinsSteelworks
OhhLoz: HoneyPlus
Raijven: Crypts_And_Caverns
RandyKnapp: Jam
RustyMods: FishChum, FishTraps
Searica: AdvancedTerrainModifiers, FortifySkillsRedux, SkilledCarryWeight
Shudnal: Seasons, HipLantern, TradersExtended
Smoothbrain: Backpacks, PackHorse, PassivePowers, Ranching, Sailing, SmartSkills, Starvation
Therzie: Armory, Monstrum, MonstrumDeepNorth, Warfare, WarfareFireAndIce
ValheimModding: Jotunn
VentureValheim: VentureFarmGrid
Wackymole: WackysDatabase
Warpalicious: BlackForest_Pack_1, BlackForest_Pack_2, Meadows_Pack_1, Mistlands_Pack_1, Mountains_Pack_1, Plains_Pack_1, Swamp_Pack_1, Underground_Ruins
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