Description

DeepNorthStaffVisuals

End-game staffs shouldn't look plain. Give Echo Spike and Lightning Strike the game's own visual effects.

Available effects:

Visuals only. The mod only changes how the staff looks. No extra damage or effects, the staff works just like vanilla.

Seven Lightning Strikes on item stands along a wall, each wearing a different look

Seven Echo Spikes on item stands along a wall, each wearing a different look

Equip a staff and press L to change its look. Each press shows the next one, then back to plain.
Works on Echo Spike and Lightning Strike only.
Each staff keeps its look: in chests, on item stands and armor stands, and on the ground.
Upgrading gives you a new, plain staff. Press L to pick its look again.

A player at night holding Lightning Strike in two looks: on fire, and glowing blue

Client-side only. Friends who also have the mod see your looks, and you see theirs. Friends without it see plain staffs.

Built and tested for Valheim 1.0 (Deep North), on Linux, with no OS-specific code.
It only adds effects to those two staffs, so it shouldn't clash with other mods, except ones that also change how they look.
L taken by another mod? Change Change look key in your mod manager's config editor (file algo7.deepnorthstaffvisuals.cfg). Installed by hand? The file is in <Valheim folder>/BepInEx/config/.

Just remove it. Your staffs go back to plain. Each staff's look stays saved on it (the game ignores it), so reinstalling brings it back.

Available on Thunderstore and Hexium
Source and bug reports: https://github.com/algo7/DeepNorthStaffVisuals (issues welcome)
Changes: see the changelog
Made with AI assistance.
Built with BepInEx and HarmonyX. MIT license.

1.0.1 Latest

Thunderblood is calmer and no longer leans to one side: fewer, shorter bolts on both sides of the staff alike, and its sparks come off all around it.

1.0.0

First release: press L to give an equipped Echo Spike or Lightning Strike one of the game's own visual effects (Frostfire, Thunderblood, Bleeding, Storming, Primal, Dyrnwyn, Frostner), or plain.
Each staff keeps its own look, also on item stands, armor stands and the ground, with a "Look" line in its tooltip.
Friends who also have the mod see your looks, and you see theirs.

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