Bardheim

Bardheim adds craftable playable instruments to Valheim: a lyre, hand drum, and flute. Equip an instrument, toggle play mode, play manual notes with 1-8, or perform local MIDI songs from your plugin folder.

Version 0. 7. 0 focuses on local play. Experimental multiplayer audio is present but disabled by default.

- Craftable lyre, drum, and flute.

- Manual instrument play with 1-8.

- Local Standard MIDI format 0/1 song playback.

- Song selection, speed control, looping, progress, and in-game overlay.

- Lyre tunings, General MIDI drum mapping, and flute melodic folding.

- Generated in-game instrument visuals and inventory icons.

- Ctrl + F3 support for hiding the Valheim HUD and Bardheim overlay together.

Requirements

- BepInExPack Valheim

Installation

Install with r2modman, Thunderstore Mod Manager, or another Thunderstore-compatible manager.

For manual installs, install BepInExPack Valheim and Jotunn first, then place the plugin at:

BepInEx/plugins/Bardheim/Bardheim.dll

All instruments are crafted at a Workbench.

10 Wood, 2 Leather scraps

8 Wood, 4 Leather scraps, 2 Deer hide

6 Wood, 1 Deer hide

LeftAlt + P:

Toggle play mode while holding a Bardheim instrument

Play manual notes or drum hits

Cycle lyre tuning

Play or stop the selected MIDI song

Select previous or next MIDI song

Decrease or increase song speed

Reset song speed to 1. 00x

Toggle song looping

Hide or show the Valheim HUD and Bardheim overlay

Bardheim loads user MIDI files from:

BepInEx/plugins/Bardheim/songs/

The folder is created automatically when the mod loads. Add .mid files there, equip a Bardheim instrument, toggle play mode with LeftAlt + P, then use the song controls to select and play them.

Lyre playback handles melodic MIDI, drum playback uses General MIDI channel 10 percussion where available, and flute playback folds melodic notes into the current flute range.

Multiplayer

Multiplayer audio is experimental, both-sides-required, and disabled by default. Enable Multiplayer. EnableMultiplayerAudio only if every participating player has Bardheim installed and accepts that two-client validation is deferred to a later release.

Unmodded players are not expected to hear Bardheim instruments.

Release Scope

This release does not add buffs, skills, server-authoritative music state, synchronized song transfer, Harmony