Player guide, MidgardPlus

How MidgardPlus works

Everything starts off. A feature only joins your world once it is switched on.

Playing alone: you switch things on yourself, in F9 under Game settings, or in the launcher from midgardplus.odinthered.dev.

On a server: the admin decides. If something below is missing, ask for the setting in brackets.

Your first hour

Scroll to the bottom of this page to see what is switched on here.
Bind the keys you want in F9, Game settings, Keys. Some start empty on purpose.
Craft a horn at the workbench and call a gatherer or a warrior.Setting: Companions
Press J for the Saga Book: deeds, bounties and the tales of the bosses.Setting: Saga Book
Walk to the village marked near your start, talk to the folk, trade and take an errand.Setting: Village, Village folk talk
Let chests do the hauling: storage buttons over your bag, crafting from nearby chests.Setting: Storage buttons, Craft from nearby chests
Beat Eikthyr, then watch your map: Hugin marks where the next MidgardPlus boss waits.Setting: Mosskin boss

Default keys

Every key is a setting. Change it in F9, Game settings, Keys, or in the launcher. An empty key is off.

F9: the MidgardPlus panel. Guide, Leaderboard, Factions and your own settings are open to everyone.
F8: the leaderboard. J: the Saga Book. O: achievement goals. F10: lay out your HUD.
F7: builder plans. F6: build camera. H: world grid. Left Shift + H: grid size.
B: excavation, with a pickaxe in hand. Y: waterproof a piece. T: swap gear with a stand.
Home: pick the snap point. Keypad 8, 2, 4, 6 and 5: tilt, roll and reset a piece.
[ ] and = -: wider, narrower, longer and shorter build areas. Page Up and Page Down: ground tools higher or lower.
G: hitch a cart. U: whistle for your mount. Left Alt + H: every tame follows, or stays.
Left Alt + O: station queue. Left Alt + P: pause a station. Left Alt + N: name a chest.
Left Alt + Y: drop or raise the anchor. Left Shift: surtling boost.
Left Alt + I: item and recipe browser. Left Shift + P: more map pin shapes.
Left Shift + right click: paint armour, or a built piece with the hammer out.
Left Ctrl: transmog. Left Alt: mark a favourite. Delete: trash. End: recycle.
Middle mouse: change a legendary's form, or hold it with a full bar for the finisher. Right mouse: bow zoom.
Left Alt + 1 to 4: pick an ammo kind. Left Ctrl in water: dive. V: unarm your companion.

Empty at first: quick stack, sort, store all, restock, quick slots, item magnet, dodge and the Megin power keys.

Companions and tames

Horns: craft a Companion, Gatherer's, Builder's or Gardener's Horn at the workbench and blow it. Warriors fight, gatherers collect, builders mend and feed fires, gardeners farm.Setting: Companions
Orders: E to follow or stay, hold E for their bag, crouch and blow a horn twice to send them all home.
Barracks: a sturdy table in the hammer's furniture tab. It shows every companion, where they are and what they wear, and gives orders and full loadouts.Setting: Companions need a barracks
Unarm: look at your companion and press V to put its weapons away, again to get your gear back.Setting: Companions can be unarmed
Growing: they level up, and one led to a Garden sign or a kitchen takes the work there. A fifth horn calls a healer.Setting: Companion levels, Companion jobs, Healer companion
Tames: E makes any tame follow, Left Alt + H leads them all, and they come through portals. Saddle a wolf or boar and ride.Setting: All tames can follow, Tames follow through portals, Mounts

Building

Placing: a world grid, extra snap points, free rotation, copy a piece and blueprints.Setting: World grid, Free rotation, Blueprints
Big jobs: rows and patches in one click, pits and ramps with a pickaxe, square hoeing.Setting: Build area width, Excavation, Hoe and cultivator work in squares
Fly around your build, or lay free ghost pieces for a builder companion.Setting: Build camera, Builder plans
New pieces: glass and round pieces, Dvergr and marble, drawers, food barrels, lifts, pressure plates and a raised stone floor for a fire on wood.Setting: Glass and round pieces, Item drawers, Lifts, Raised hearth floor
Water: a Water source fills a hole and spills downhill, and waterfalls pour from a cliff.Setting: Flowing water, Waterfalls
Paint: with the hammer out, hold Left Shift and right click a piece to colour it or every match nearby. Everyone sees it.Setting: Building painting
Comforts: doors that open as you walk up, repair a whole building at once, wards that guard more.Setting: Doors open as you walk up, Repair connected pieces, Wards guard stations and beds

World and adventure

Bosses: Mosskin, the Gravejarl and Vordr of the Reeds wait after Eikthyr, Bonemass and the Elder. Hugin marks their altar; craft the offering and lay it there. The Red One answers at the Red One's Rest after Fader.Setting: Mosskin boss, Gravejarl boss, Vordr boss, Red One boss
Replay bosses: offer a boss trophy back at its own altar and something older answers.Setting: Extra bosses
Sieges: a war horn warns you, hold out for a reward chest, or call a horde yourself at a war horn shrine.Setting: Upgraded sieges
Loot: Magic, Rare, Epic and Legendary gear, spell marks, and runestones for the enchanting table.Setting: Loot rarity, Spell marks, Enchanting
Portals: Bronze, Iron and Silver portals, a portal picker on Shift + E, carts and tames through.Setting: Tiered portals, Portal destination picker
More to find: saga stones, world finds, bounties at the bounty board, seasons, and an upgrade tree.Setting: Saga stones, World finds, Bounties, Seasons, Upgrade tree
Together: parties, guilds, a revive when you go down, and the leaderboard on F8.Setting: Parties, Guilds, Revive downed players

Villages and factions

Villages: Hearthguard villages appear in new land, one near where you wake. The trader buys and sells for coin.Setting: Village
Talk: press E on a villager. Ask about the place, ask for news of places nearby, or ask for work: one errand a day, paid from the trader's purse. A lore stone keeps each village's saga.Setting: Village folk talk
Growth: villages grow day by day, faster when you trade there and help in a raid. Five levels, a better trader at each, and a palisade from level 3.Setting: Village growth, Village walls
Factions: the Hearthguard keep the settled lands and the Ashen Host of skeletons and draugr marches on them. Fight the Host for fame and standing. F9, Factions shows how it stands.Setting: NPC factions, Faction fame
Oaths: swear at a village banner. The Hearthguard give better prices and their fighters stand with you. The Ashen Host's undead leave you alone, but Hearthguard villages turn you away. Shift + E at the banner renounces.Setting: Faction oaths
Assaults: use a banner twice to attack or free a village held by the other side. Three waves and a champion, then a reward chest. The Host also raids villages while you are in them.Setting: Settlement assaults, Village raids

Legendaries

Jarl weapons: legendaries named for the people who back MidgardPlus. They turn up now and then in chests and on creatures in later lands.Setting: Supporter legendaries in loot
Rumours: Hugin names the land and the kind of place each one sleeps in.Setting: Legendary rumours
Dormant: a new one hits like a strong plain weapon, with its powers asleep.Setting: Legendaries start dormant
Awakening: hold it while a boss you fought dies. It wakes in the boss's blood.
Growth: from 0% to 100% with kills, and a boss counts for 60. The tooltip shows how far it has come, and its glow grows with it.
Unlocks: the projectile at once, the secondary at 25%, the combo at 50%, the large area at 75% and the charged special at 100%.
Every Jarl weapon has all five, and a finisher when its bar is full. Its look is yours to tone down.Setting: My legendary effects

Sailing

Anchor: stand on a ship and press Left Alt + Y. It holds through wind, waves and serpents until you raise it.Setting: Ship anchors
First person aboard: the camera moves to your eyes while you are on a ship and glides back when you step off.Setting: First person on ships
Ships: a Skiff and a Wain cart, longship upgrades at the mast, a surtling boost into the wind, crafting carts.Setting: Extra ships and carts, Longship upgrades, Surtling boost, Crafting carts
Easier seas: a tailwind, faster ships and a serpent alert.Setting: Tailwind when sailing, Ship speed multiplier, Sea serpent alert allowed

Player

Down, not dead: a friend nearby can pull you back up.Setting: Revive downed players
Water: dive with Left Ctrl, and press Jump at a ledge or a boat's side to climb out.Setting: Underwater diving, Hop out of water
Skills: Mining, Foraging, Tenacity, Endurance, Vitality, Hunting, Looting, Blacksmithing and more, each its own switch.Setting: New skills, Hunting skill, Looting skill, Blacksmithing skill
Comforts: double tap to dodge, smooth ladders, sleep without setting your spawn, hide your helmet.Setting: Double tap to dodge, Comfortable ladders, Sleep without setting spawn, Hide helmet allowed
No cheese: a creature knocks you out of a chair.Setting: Chairs are no shelter

Production and combat

Station queues: look at a smelter, kiln, cooking station or fermenter and press Left Alt + O. Tell it what to take from chests, how much and in what order.Setting: Station queues, Stations fuel themselves
Stations fuel themselves from chests and empty into them.Setting: Stations fuel themselves, Smelters fill nearby chests
Farming: plant anything, seed beds, bulk harvest with Shift, replant after picking.Setting: Plant anything, Seed bed, Bulk harvest, Replant after harvest
Collectors fill slowly with tar, feathers or guck, even while you are away.Setting: Tar collector, Feather collector, Guck collector
Combat: dual wielding, arrows that fly to the crosshair, whetstones, and creatures with traits or more stars.Setting: Dual wielding, Arrows follow the crosshair, Whetstones, Creature traits, Most creature stars
Trolls and bosses can smash buildings and trees around their blows. A ward keeps your base safe.Setting: Trolls and bosses smash the area

Crafting and inventory

Storage: quick stack, sort, store all and restock, by key or with buttons over your bag.Setting: Storage buttons, Quick-stack key
Chests: craft from nearby chests, repair everything at once, recycle at the station.Setting: Craft from nearby chests, Repair everything at once, Recycling
Item magnet: drops drift to you. Bind its key to switch it off on a busy floor.Setting: Item magnet radius
Bag: extra rows, or craft a backpack for your belt slot. Equipment and quick slots sit beside your bag.Setting: Extra inventory rows, Backpack, Equipment and quick slots allowed
Painter's table: build it, press E and paint a helmet, chest, legs, cape or shield in two colours.Setting: Armour painting
Enchanting table: build it, put a piece from your bag on it, choose what to do with its marks, see the result, then pay in runestones.Setting: Enchanting, Loot rarity
Transmog, favourites and trash: Left Ctrl, Left Alt and Delete.Setting: Transmog, Favourite items, Trash items

Interface

HUD: move every piece on F10. Add a clock, a weather forecast, the season and a compass with true north and party beacons.Setting: Move HUD pieces, Clock, Compass, Teammate beacons
Readouts: hover stats, grow and production timers, auto map pins and ore marks.Setting: Hover stats, Production timers, Auto map pins
Slow machine: Lighter graphics and your own legendary effects level. Both always stay yours.Setting: Lighter graphics, My legendary effects
Language: MidgardPlus follows the game, in English, Russian, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese.

Megin, the add-on

Get the add-on from the launcher's Midgard add-ons page or a mod manager, where it is called MidgardPlus: Megin. Your server needs the same version.Setting: The Lodge
Ýdalir: the hall of Ullr's hunters stands once in every world, in the meadows or black forest, 500 to 2500 metres from the centre.
The trials: Hringvörðr, the ring warden, sets the Raunir: deeds, bounties and a replay boss felled without dying. Pass them and swear on the great ring for Eiðbaugr, the oath ring.
The omen: carve a lot twig and cast it into Mímir's well. The water names your affinity: Styrkr, Hamr, Skot, Smíð, Stjórn, or the rare Óðr. It never changes on a relog.
Sworn powers: build your own from shapes, elements and modifiers, and bind them with oaths to make them cheaper. Bind Power key 1 to 4 in F9 under Megin. Megin grows as you spend it and returns three times as fast if you sit outdoors at night.
Rising: five tiers from Neisti to Ásmegin, ranks up to Drengr and Meistari, and stances learned in order: Hlíf, Móðr, Hljóð, Sjón, Skjaldborg and Ofrefli.
Paths: a Drengr walks one of five, chosen at Hringvörðr: Berserkr, Bogsveigir, Úlfheðinn, Hagsmiðr or Valdr.Setting: Megin paths
Máldagi: the contract board, with work for every land, elders' tales and daily work.Setting: Lodge quests
Himinbjörg: an arena tower far out in the meadows or black forest. Varðrún keeps the stair. Win fights to climb 200 floors, a champion every tenth, then challenge for the high seat.Setting: Himinbjorg

When something is off

A feature is missing: on a server the admin decides. Ask for the setting named in brackets.
Your change does nothing on a server: the server's values win while you are connected. Keys, Panel scale, Lighter graphics and My legendary effects stay yours.
A key does nothing: close any open window first. If another program or mod uses the same key, pick another in F9, Game settings, Keys.
A bug: post in #help-and-bugs on Discord with your log as a file, Valheim/BepInEx/LogOutput.log.
The launcher, install help and patch days: midgardplus.odinthered.dev.

New in 1.52

Village tiers: every village is a Hamlet, Village, Town or Stronghold, set by its land and how far it lies from the centre of the world. Towns and Strongholds send more and stronger foes in an assault and pay more coin and loot. A Stronghold stands behind a stone wall with a gate that shuts while it is attacked. [Village tiers]
More factions: the Wolf Clans, the Sea Kings and the Troll Kin hold villages of their own, the Sea Kings only on the coast. At night Wolf Clan folk turn into fenrings when you come near. Every day each side presses an enemy village close by. A village that loses drops a level and changes hands at level 0. Errands, trades and kills near a village count for its side, and if you are sworn to it, 50 coins at the banner buy three days of defence. [More factions, Wolf clans turn at night, Factions raid each other]
Faction capitals: each side rules from a seat, its strongest village, pinned on every map from the start: Arinheim, Nastrond, Ulfheim, Brimvik and Utgard. A seat is harder to take and more defenders stand in it. When one falls, every player hears of it and the seat moves to the next best village. [Factions raid each other]
Megin capitals: Ýdalir and Himinbjörg are pinned on every map from the start. Only a Veiðimaðr or higher may climb Himinbjörg. Before your Megin wakes, ask Varðrún at the ring to Send me to the trials, and you stand at Ýdalir before the elder for your next step. [The Lodge, Himinbjorg]
New bosses: Ulfarr the Unfed waits at the Feeding Stone in the mountains after Moder, Bokr the Ledger-Eater at the Reckoning Stone in the plains after Yagluth, and Thogn the Unanswering at the Quiet Cairn in the mistlands after the Queen. Hugin marks the stone when the boss before falls. Lay an Unfed Portion, a Torn Ledger or a Fourth Horn there. [Ulfarr boss, Bokr boss, Thogn boss]
Old-world catch-up: New places in old worlds also fills land you have explored, on flat dry ground away from builds, wards and tames, with villages, village tiers and the Mosskin, Gravejarl, Vordr and Red One sites. It runs 45 seconds after the world loads. Back up the world first. [New places in old worlds]
Skjoldr's glowing rim: Animus' Skjoldr, the Jarl buckler, looks out with wolf eyes that brighten as it grows. Its rim lights up from 75% growth and pulses once it is full. [Supporter legendaries in loot]