Cheb's Valheim Library

A library which contains shared classes and things required by all my mods. You're welcome to use it for your own minions too. I hope that you do so that we can create some kind of awesome minions framework.

Features

• Minion ownership
  • Minion will only follow and obey its master.
• Minion states
  • Follow
  • Wait
  • Roam
• Creation cost support
• Death drops
• Worker minion AIs for:
  • Woodcutting
  • Mining
• PvP
  • Via the PvP manager, friends/allies are remembered server-side and sent to clients when needed.

Requirements

• Jotunn

Quickstart

Attention: Assumed prior knowledge of basic Valheim modding, C#, etc.

1. Add the DLL reference to your project.
2. Add a constant to your plugin to check the version against. I recommend a warning or error if the player's version doesn't match:

    public class BasePlugin : BaseUnityPlugin
    {
        public const string PluginGuid = "com.chebgonaz.chebsmercenaries";
        public const string PluginName = "ChebsMercenaries";
        public const string PluginVersion = "1.3.2";

        public readonly System.Version ChebsValheimLibraryVersion = new("1.2.3");

        ...

        private void Awake()
        {
            if (!Base.VersionCheck(ChebsValheimLibraryVersion, out string message))
            {
                Jotunn.Logger.LogWarning(message);
            }

            ...

1. Create a minion class and inherit ChebGonazMinion:

    public class YourMinion : ChebGonazMinion
    {
       ...
    }

1. Apply the component to the prefab after you load it from the asset bundle:

var prefab = Base.LoadPrefabFromBundle(prefabName, chebgonazAssetBundle, RadeonFriendly.Value);
prefab.AddComponent<YourMinion>();
CreatureManager.Instance.AddCreature(new CustomCreature(prefab, true));

1. Or create a harmony patch to apply the component to your minions when the game is loading up:

    [HarmonyPatch(typeof(MonsterAI))]
    class MonsterAIPatch
    {
        [HarmonyPostfix]
        [HarmonyPatch(nameof(MonsterAI.Awake))]
        static void AwakePostfix(ref Character __instance)
        {
            if (__instance.name.StartsWith("YourMinion"))
            {
                if (!__instance.TryGetComponent(out ChebGonazMinion _))
                {
                    __instance.gameObject.AddComponent<YourMinion>();
                }
            }
        }
    }

1. If you fire up the game and go to your minions, it should now be possible to command them to follow, wait, or roam with E.

Special Thanks

Some people really helped me out with coding this stuff. I'd just like to thank them:

• Developers
  • Dracbjorn - Extensive work on the configuration files & parsing (including server-sync); general help & testing.
  • CW-Jesse - Refinements and improvements on networking code and minion AI; general help & testing.
  • WalterWillis - Improvements to Treasure Pylon & Testing.
• Advice & Generic help
  • Hugo the Dwarf and Pfhoenix for advice and help for fixing the frozen minions problem.
  • redseiko for helpful advice on the Valheim modding Discord.