Everything in the mod
The realms, the bosses, companions, portals, the sea and every system MidgardPlus adds. All of it starts off until you turn it on.
In short
MidgardPlus is a full overhaul for Valheim. It started as a quality of life pack and grew into a world of its own. It has 1,844 settings, and every one of them starts at vanilla. Install it and your game plays exactly as before. Then turn on the parts you want.
Megin is the first add-on for MidgardPlus, a separate download that adds an RPG layer. At Ýdalir, the hall of Ullr's hunters, you pass the trials, swear on the oath ring and wake the inner might in you. Then you shape it yourself: powers you build piece by piece and bind with oaths, an affinity named by Mímir's well, stances, mastery and five paths. Take the lodge's contracts, hear the elders' tales and climb the 200 floors of Himinbjörg. It needs MidgardPlus, and like everything here it starts off.
Two of the windows from the game work right here, with the same numbers the mod uses.
Lantern Rings
Every player can win one Lantern Ring in each world. Three questions from the old tales wake it in one of seven colours, each with ten powers and a great one, and it grows with you up to level 10. It all starts off, so your host turns it on.
Looking for the rings? This is the place, and the Lantern Rings link in the Features menu brings you back here.
Every world has one ring altar, out in the Meadows or the Black Forest, with a pillar of light over it. Once Eikthyr falls, Hugin tells you where it stands and pins it on your map. Come close and its guards rise. Kill every one and the ring is yours.
Put the ring on and it asks you three questions from the old tales. Your answers wake it in one colour. Later you can turn it to another colour at your rune hearth.
The first time you wear it, the Last Bearer comes down from the sky and walks you through it, one short step at a time. Hold use to skip him, and type ringtutorial or use the button in F9 to see him again.
Build it next to a stonecutter while you carry your ring. It’s one per player and your first one is free. It fills your ring back up with a thin beam in about five seconds, and it’s where you change colour.
A full ring holds 200 charge, shown as a bar over your stamina. Every power spends some and then rests a while. The charge is one pool for each player, so swapping rings doesn’t fill it up. When it’s empty, fill it at your hearth or from a ring battery.
Press Left Alt and F, or jump again in the air, to take off. Flight spends 2 charge a second. When the charge runs out you glide down slowly and take no fall damage. You can punch and swing in the air, dive and slam with power 2 and fire your quick shot as a volley.
Powers that land on foes make the ring grow, up to level 10, and never past the bosses you have beaten. Powers open as it grows: the quick shot, the guard and flight first, the great power at 10. Every level hits and heals harder. Ring growth Fast brings the old way back.
Two colours cast together merge into one team attack. Three great powers at once open the Gate of the Nine Worlds, or the Einherjar Charge when white is among them. With Ring support on, friends feed each other’s charge.
At your own hearth, hold the alternate place key and say your colour’s four line oath out loud. The ring fills up and you go Oathbound for a while, and shouting makes it hit harder. Once a day. It needs proximity voice and a mic, and nothing you say is saved.
Left Alt and 1 to 0 call the ten powers, Left Alt and R the great power. You can change every key.
Yggdrasil, the World Ash
Its roots reach into every world. Your ring raises shapes of hard light, walls and fists, chains and bridges, and stands like the ash when the storm comes.
Gift: Bark like the World Ash. More armour and stamina while your ring holds charge.
Hel, keeper of the dead
Half her face is living and half is dead. Your ring carries the cold of Helheim: bones from the ground, a bell that sends foes running and the dead rising to serve you.
Gift: Frost and spirit bite less while your ring holds charge.
The berserkir, the bear shirts
The berserkir went to battle in the skins of bears and boars. Your ring burns with their blood: claws, charges and a war cry, and at the last the berserkergang.
Gift: You heal and get your breath back faster while your ring holds charge.
Ægir, lord of the sea
Ægir brews the mead of the gods in his hall under the waves, and his nine daughters are the waves themselves. Your ring carries the tide: water bolts, an undertow that drags foes in, Rán's net and a flood across the field.
Gift: You swim faster and longer and frost bites less while your ring holds charge.
Fafnir, the dragon on the gold
Fafnir lay coiled on Andvari's gold until the gold made him a dragon. Your ring breathes his fire and venom and calls his gold down from the sky.
Gift: You carry 75 more and fire bites less while your ring holds charge.
Freyja, mistress of the seidr
Freyja taught the seidr even to Odin, and wore Brisingamen and the falcon cloak. Your ring weaves her craft: crystal, storms, flight and the charm that turns a foe to your side.
Gift: No fall damage and faster stamina while your ring holds charge.
Valhalla, Odin's hall of the slain
The valkyries choose the bravest of the fallen and carry them to Valhalla, where they feast and fight until the last day. Your ring shines with that hall: spears of light, valkyrie wings, Bragi's song and a gate that heals every friend.
Gift: You heal much faster and poison bites less while your ring holds charge.
The ring pictures are renders of the ring models, not screenshots from the game.
Two players cast these two powers within a few seconds and a few metres of each other.
Three or more great powers at once open Gate of the Nine Worlds. With white among them it becomes Einherjar Charge.
In the launcher, the Rings of Valheim card turns every ring part on at once and leaves the oath off. Or pick them one by one in F9 or the config:
Lantern Ring Lantern Ring powers Lantern Ring flight Lantern Ring grows Ring team attacks Ring support Lantern Ring armour glow Ring oath Ring growth Ring battery
Ring altar waits for Eikthyr is on by default. Ring tutorial and Ring effects brightness are your own settings.
This month
A season event for all of October by the server’s own date. Your host turns on Vetrnætr.
Undead and anything killed at night can drop soul candles, more with stars. Bosses drop 3 to 6 candles and a keepsake the killer hasn’t found yet, and Haldor and Hildir sell keepsakes for candles. There are ten: a skull lantern, a Dísir shrine, a raven candelabra, a witch cauldron, a Hel stone, a watcher that turns its head, a bone throne and grave hangings to build, plus a mask and a wisp jar to wear. The F9 guide keeps a collection log with a trophy for finding them all, and everything you find stays and works after October.
The premise
Install it and nothing changes. There’s no bundled opinion about how Valheim should be played, and no rebalanced loot table to undo.
Open the launcher, the F9 panel or midgardplus.cfg, change the two or three things that have been bugging you, and leave the rest alone. Edits apply while the game is running, so you can try a number and change it again without restarting.
Each thing it adds has its own switch, and every switch starts off. Turn on Companions, Mounts, Saga Book or Tiered portals under 0 - Features and only that part joins your game. Settings that arrive with an update start off too, so an update never changes your world under you.
Everything in MidgardPlus
MidgardPlus has grown into a world of its own, so its features are laid out the way the old poems laid out the world: nine realms on one tree. Choose a realm on Yggdrasil and walk through it. Nothing changes your game until you switch it on, and where another mod already does a job, this one steps aside.
Four replay bosses
Four bosses of MidgardPlus's own, each built on a creature the game already knows so he hunts, hits and dies the way the game expects. Each is raised with an offering you craft, at a place Hugin marks for you, and each starts off until the server turns him on.
Bestiary
Eight bosses of the mod’s own, each one waiting behind a boss the game already has. Every picture is the model that walks into your world, and all of them but Hrævængr turn in 3D.
After Eikthyr · Meadows · 5,000 health
The ground splits and the moss stands up. Mosskin is awake, and he is not pleased.
Loot rarity on the piles are a third smaller and an Epic piece of Black Forest gear drops every time, with a 25% chance of a Legendary one.
After the Elder · Swamp · 8,000 health
The reeds stand up in a line, and the line has a face.
Loot rarity on the piles are a third smaller and an Epic piece of Swamp gear drops every time, with a 35% chance of a Legendary one.
After Bonemass · Swamp · 10,000 health
Chains drag up out of the mud. The Gravejarl has come to keep his oath.
Loot rarity on the piles are a third smaller and an Epic piece of Mountain gear drops every time, with a 45% chance of a Legendary one.
After Moder · Mountain · 14,000 health
A howl comes down off the peaks, and it is not a wolf’s.
Loot rarity on the piles are a third smaller and an Epic piece of Plains gear drops every time, with a 55% chance of a Legendary one.
After Yagluth · Plains · 20,000 health
Something heavy comes over the ridge, chewing.
Loot rarity on the piles are a third smaller and an Epic piece of Mistlands gear drops every time, with a 70% chance of a Legendary one.
After the Queen · Mistlands · 24,000 health
The mist goes still. Somewhere a horn is not being blown.
Loot rarity on the piles are a third smaller and an Epic piece of Ashlands gear drops every time, with a 70% chance of a Legendary one.
After Fader · Black Forest and Mountain · 30,000 health
The sky goes grey out of season. The Red One has come for his Eye.
Saga stones on. The Eye is made at a level 2 black forge from Fader’s trophy, the Queen’s trophy, the Cloak of the Red One from the shrine’s chest and 10 flametal.Loot rarity on the piles are a third smaller and an Epic and a Legendary piece of Ashlands gear drop every time.
After Moder · Mountains · 15,000 health
Rooks lift off the peaks all at once. Something big is flying with them.
Boss trophy powers on, his trophy gives Wings of the Sold Hall.The game’s own bosses can change too, each part behind its own switch. Boss scaling fits a boss to the band in front of it: harder to bring down with every extra player, a little more damage and more of whatever it summons, and it can grow with each boss your world has beaten. Extra bosses lets you offer a boss’s trophy back at the altar where you summoned it, and something older answers: The Reed Warden, Hrimnir the Frost Warden or Skarde the Blood Standard. Passive boss powers keeps the Forsaken power you chose always on at a quarter of its strength, and a boss trophy on an item stand at home hands you its power without the walk back to the stones.
Each boss has its own switch under 0 - Features and starts off, and so does every stage and power, so the host decides how hard the fight is. The numbers on the cards are the defaults, for one player.
What it adds
Every part below has its own switch and starts off. Turn on what you want in the launcher, the config file or the F9 panel, and leave the rest.
Craft a horn and call a warrior, gatherer, builder or gardener. Lead one to a Garden sign and it keeps that garden, harvesting and planting again, seed beds too. Lead one to a kitchen and it cooks. A Household board shows who does what, and the harvest goes into the right barrel or signed chest.
Legendary weapons named for the people who back MidgardPlus, waiting to be found in your world. Each has its own model and powers, wakes small and grows stronger with every life it takes. The newest are Himindreki, Sópvöndr, Garmr’s Eclipse and Fate and Fury.
Mosskin, Vordr of the Reeds, the Gravejarl and the Red One, and four more who answer at the game’s own altars. They fight like the game’s late bosses: an intro with a title card, the boss music, a ring round the arena, a great move at every stage and a death worth watching.
Upgraded sieges take over every raid: a siege book you can rewrite, faction and seasonal sieges, a war horn before the attack and rewards when your base holds. Sound the War horn shrine and a horde comes in waves, ending with a warlord.
Press J for your saga: creatures slain land by land, finds, lands walked, the bosses and their tales, and 68 deeds with rewards and titles to wear. Take bounties from a Bounty board or the village trader: 45 named, starred hunts across eight lands.
See where you plant: a ghost on every spot a click will plant, red where the crop cannot grow, with a count and the grow time. Planting grids that line up with the field beside them, bulk harvest, replant after harvest, and the Seed bed, where crops grow without tilled ground.
Store all, Restock, Sort and a Trash button that can recycle. Quick stack fills the open chest too, follows chest signs and groups by kind. Food, seed and meat barrels with a lid that shows what they hold, house chests your companions fill, and crafting from the chests around you.
One panel beside your bag for helmet, chest, legs, cape, utility, trinket, food and ammo. Up to six quick slots with their own keys and a bar on screen, a second utility slot, misc slots for coins, keys, trophies and fish, and slots that open boss by boss.
A quiver bar with a key for each kind of arrow, a draw bar on the weapon readout, and arrow recovery that knows arrow kinds. Draw speed and stamina, crossbow reload and recoil, critical arrows, a crouched draw and an aim trajectory, all steadied by the Hunting skill.
Four whetstones, rough, fine, dragon and runed. Grind a blade for a few seconds and it keeps a honed edge for a number of blows, with a glint everyone can see. Blacksmithing rises as you craft, upgrade, repair and sharpen, for keener edges, more durability and cheaper repairs.
Ranching, Building, Tenacity, Endurance, Vitality, Exploration and Herbalist, with a herb table and dandelion and thistle tonics, beside Mining, Foraging, Sailing and more. Bonuses for the game’s own Cooking, Woodcutting, Dodge and Sneak, passive boss powers and professions.
Ride your tamed wolves and boars on a saddle you craft and upgrade. Every mount, lox and asksvin too, levels up as you ride, adds to your carry weight, comes to your whistle and pulls a cart. A taming rope holds a wild animal while you tame it.
Bronze, iron and silver portals let more through as you go. Take carts through with their load, choose which tames follow, let enemies give chase, pay a toll for ore and travel faster by tier. Portal stations and a travel stone you carry reach any portal in the world.
Longship upgrades fitted at the mast: a hinged mast, a lantern, sail colours and patterns, a tent, side shields, a bigger hold and a surtling brazier. The surtling boost burns cores to push any ship, even into the wind. Crafting carts carry a workbench, forge, cauldron, stonecutter, artisan table or black forge.
A map shared by the server, guild wards, tar, feather and guck collectors, pressure plates and lifts, forty more of the game’s own pieces, locked tombstones and a training yard. Traders sell more, dungeons grow bigger and creatures roll past two stars.
Press F9 for every setting with its explanation. Admins also get a command search with suggestions, devcommands that work on a server, a spawner for any prefab, settings presets to save and load, and a log of what admins did. Drag it to any size.
Stations that fuel themselves from the chests around them, production timers, an item and recipe browser, a rotation gizmo, chest names, a weather forecast, a better chat, a hip lantern, bigger stacks and a bigger bag, a HUD you lay out yourself and hundreds of small switches besides.
English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian. Set Valheim to your language and the mod follows: messages, hover text, the guide, the admin panel and every setting’s description. The launcher and this site pick your language too.
One mod to rule them all
MidgardPlus can do the job of the mods below. You don’t have to choose, though: keep any of them installed and the matching part of MidgardPlus steps aside by itself, says so once in the log and keeps your setting saved, so two mods never fight over the same job.
The skill mods by Smoothbrain and blacks7ar, and the ones like them.
Step aside for other mods is on by default. Never step aside for keeps a job with MidgardPlus even when the other mod is there.
New content
Each horn calls a Dverger who is already tamed and already yours, with a name everyone on the server sees. They sit in the player faction, so they fight whatever attacks you and never turn on you. Press E to send one ahead or tell it to hold, the same way you command a wolf.
The warrior fights beside you, in whatever you give it to wear.
The gatherer would rather carry than fight. It walks over to what is lying around, picks it up, and files it into the chests nearby as it goes.
The builder looks after your base. It repairs damaged pieces, keeps fires and torches burning, and keeps smelters, furnaces, windmills and spinning wheels supplied from its own bag and the chests around them. It never feeds building wood into a kiln, and it leaves seed barley and flax for the next crop.
The gardener works your fields. Give it seeds and stand it on tilled ground and it sows rows in the same grid and spacing you would, working through every kind of seed in its bag. It plays by the rules you do: tilled ground, the right biome, other people’s wards and no build zones. It knows a crop by the plant that grows it, so crops from other mods count too. Being straight with you: it plants, it does not yet harvest, and the release notes say so.
Each wears its own colours, so you can tell them apart at a glance: warriors in the Dverger’s red, gatherers in green, builders in blue, gardeners in brown.
| Horn | Calls | Cost | Robe |
|---|---|---|---|
| Companion Horn | Warrior | 10 fine wood, 2 bronze, 4 deer hide, 10 greydwarf eye | the Dverger's red |
| Gatherer's Horn | Gatherer | 10 fine wood, 8 leather scraps, 4 deer hide, 10 greydwarf eye | green |
| Builder's Horn | Builder | 10 fine wood, 20 stone, 10 resin, 10 greydwarf eye | blue |
| Gardener's Horn | Gardener | 10 fine wood, 5 dandelion, 8 leather scraps, 10 greydwarf eye | brown |
All four are made at a level 2 workbench.
They take jobs. Lead a companion to a Garden sign and it keeps that garden, harvesting, planting again and tending seed beds. Lead one to a kitchen and it cooks. A Household board shows who does what, what each one needs and what happened, and the harvest goes into the right barrel or signed chest. With Offline Companions installed, this part steps aside.
Every companion carries a 5×3 bag. Drop in a weapon, shield or armour and they put it on within a few seconds. What you give them stays yours: it is saved with them, so it is still on them after you log out, and if they fall it drops with their bag. The kit they arrive in is their own.
Crouch and sound any horn twice to dismiss every companion you own, however far away. The ones near you drop their bags where they stand. The far ones stay where you left them until someone next goes near, then put down everything they had. To get your gear back, go and fetch it.
Anyone who falls more than forty metres behind is pulled back to your side, so you will not lose them the first time you take a portal. Leave food in the bag and they eat it when hurt.
Every companion earns its own XP and grows up to level 10 (the cap is a setting). Warriors learn from the damage they deal and the things they kill, with starred enemies worth more and bosses worth triple. Gatherers learn from every pickup, builders from repairs, finished plans and fuelling fires and smelters, and everyone picks up a little from each meal. Look at a companion to see its level and XP.
| Level | XP to next | Total XP | Health | Warrior hits | Work speed | Gear they show |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 | 0 | +0% | +0% | +0% | none yet |
| 2 | 210 | 75 | +6% | +5% | +4% | none yet |
| 3 | 390 | 285 | +12% | +10% | +8% | Leather, flint spear, wood shield |
| 4 | 600 | 675 | +18% | +15% | +12% | Bronze, after Eikthyr |
| 5 | 840 | 1,275 | +24% | +20% | +16% | Iron, after The Elder |
| 6 | 1,100 | 2,115 | +30% | +25% | +20% | Iron, after The Elder |
| 7 | 1,390 | 3,215 | +36% | +30% | +24% | Silver and wolf, after Bonemass |
| 8 | 1,695 | 4,605 | +42% | +35% | +28% | Black metal and padded, after Moder |
| 9 | 2,025 | 6,300 | +48% | +40% | +32% | Carapace, after Yagluth |
| 10 | max | 8,325 | +54% | +45% | +36% | Flametal, after The Queen |
Each level also heals them for 0.12% of their max health every 4 seconds (about 1.1% at level 10), and makes gatherers chop and mine 3% faster with a 2% chance of an extra item. Gear only shows once your world has beaten that boss; until then they wear the best your world has earned. It is only for looks, can’t be looted, and anything you give them yourself always wins. Settings: Companion levels, Companion XP multiplier, Companion max level and Companion gear by level, in 7 - Companions.
With Companion jobs on, cooks take station orders, an alchemist taps your mead, gatherers haul a cart and a crew sits aboard your ship. Guard patrols adds waypoint torches, and a warrior walks from one to the next and keeps watch at each.
A single bunk (Small barracks) or a weapon rack (Weapon rack barracks) counts as a barracks now, no whole house needed. The rack gives every player their own shelf of companion gear. With Companions rest in beds on, they heal resting by any bed, modded beds too.
Hirðstjóri is the barracks steward. He stands where you put him and can’t be hurt. Talk to him to see all your companions, near or far, and give them orders: follow you, stay, or guard by him, work a garden or kitchen near him, and get dressed from your bag or the chests around him. He counts as a barracks too. Turn on Barracks steward and build him from the furniture tab.
The Move aside key, new in 1.55.1, sends your own companions and tames right in front of you a few metres to the side. It’s your own key.
| Portal | Extra cost | What may pass |
|---|---|---|
| Bronze portal | 10 bronze | copper, tin and bronze, as ore, scrap or bars |
| Iron portal | 10 iron | all of that, and iron |
| Silver portal | 10 silver | everything, like the stone portal from the Ashlands |
Also added
An iron-banded chest with an 8×4 grid. Built with the hammer under Furniture. Costs ten fine wood and four iron.
Three things you could only find before. These are additions. Every normal drop and spawn is left as it was.
| Item | Yield | Cost | Station |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chain | 1 | 4 iron | Forge · level 2 |
| IronNails | 20 | 1 iron | Forge |
| Tar | 4 | 8 resin, 4 coal, 2 bloodbag | Workbench · level 3 |
See it
Short pieces about what MidgardPlus adds to your world. No sound needed, but they are better with it.
Made by Odin the Red. Streamers and video makers are welcome to use these; there is more in the streamer kit.