Kvist by Bryheim

Kvist

Build Kvist's Nest and a friendly greydwarf named Kvist moves in. He keeps your base in order: he sorts what you drop in the nest into labelled chests, keeps your smelters, kilns and eitr refineries running, refuels your fires and hot tubs, farms your crops, runs your windmills and spinning wheels, and looks after your animals.

Beta. Single-player is well tested; multiplayer is designed for but less tested. Back up your world before trying it on a server.

Requirements

• []BepInEx (BepInExPack Valheim)[/]

  []Jotunn[/]

Unzip into your Valheim folder so the files land in BepInEx/plugins/Kvist/.

Getting started

• []Build a workbench, then Kvist's Nest from the hammer menu (Misc): 3 Ancient Seeds.[/]

  []Kvist appears beside it. The nest is also a 10×5 chest.[/]

  []Hover a chest and press L to give it a label. On a chest that already holds items, the first press labels it after its contents. Shift+L cycles backwards. Unlabelled chests are never touched.[/]

  []Hover the nest and press L to switch Kvist's job: Sorting → Smelting → Upkeep → Farming → Animal Husbandry → Custom (Shift+L goes back). Press K on the nest to set the priority of each task in that job, or switch tasks off.[/]

  []Look at Kvist to see his job and what he's carrying; press E to pet him, Shift+E to rename him (handy with more than one). Every Kvist also shows on the map, named after his job. The nest shows today's tally, tells you if something is stopping him, and lists the places he couldn't reach today, so you can tidy them up.[/]

Kvist works within 50 m of his nest. He runs, opens and closes doors on his way (only doors he opened), teleports beside anything he can't get to (or home, if he gets trapped), and as a last resort reaches over a fence from where he stands. If he ever gets lost, the K window's Call home button brings him back. He never touches chests a player has open. He is immune to fire and poison.

Jobs

Sorting

Put anything in the nest. Kvist carries up to 10 stacks per trip to the nearest chest with the right label.

• []Auto chests: an empty chest labelled Auto is claimed for the first category that needs a home.[/]

  []No chest for something? It waits in the nest, and the nest tells you which label is missing. (Optional: turn on UseAreaFallback to let him use another chest in the same area instead.)[/]

  []Incoming Loot: anything uncategorised waits in the nest until you label a chest Incoming Loot.[/]

Categories: Valuables & Boss Items · Trophies · Weapons & Ammo · Armour & Accessories · Tools · Cooked Food & Meads · Cooking & Mead Ingredients · Farming · Raw Food · Wood · Stone & Minerals · Building Extras · Ore & Coal · Metals & Parts · Creature Materials · Incoming Loot.

Smelting

Kvist runs every smelter, blast furnace, charcoal kiln and eitr refinery in range:

• []Fuel first (Coal, Sap), then ore, scrap or Soft Tissue, taken from the nest or the matching chests.[/]

  []Coal is made on demand: kilns get plain Wood only when a furnace has ore to smelt and no coal is left anywhere. Fine Wood and Core Wood are never burned.[/]

  []Bars, Eitr and charcoal are picked up and put away.[/]

  Upkeep

  • []Refuels hearths, campfires, torches, braziers, sconces and hot tubs with their own fuel. Fires you switched off are left alone.[/]

    []Takes finished food off cooking stations and out of ovens before it burns, and leaves it beside them for you.[/]

    []Keeps ovens in wood.[/]

    []Empties beehives and sap collectors and stores the honey and sap.[/]

    []Picks up feathers, and chicken eggs once the flock is full (while it is small, eggs are left alone to hatch).[/]

    Farming

    • []Harvests ripe crops on cultivated soil and stores them.[/]

      []Plants every empty patch of cultivated soil, sharing it evenly between crops, only where they'll grow, and clear of your berry bushes.[/]

      []When a crop runs out of seeds, plants the vegetable as a seed plant so the farm makes its own seed again.[/]

      []Runs windmills and spinning wheels: barley and flax above the planting reserve go in, flour and linen thread are put away.[/]

      Animal Husbandry

      []Feeds hungry tames from your chests (at their feet, over the fence if need be). Planting seed is only fed above a reserve.[/]

      [*]Butchering is off until you pick a species: look at one of your animal