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ValheimRunestone

A collectible card game inside Valheim. Collect 92 cards from creatures, chests, and traders, build a deck, and battle the AI or challenge other players to networked duels for real in-world rewards.

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1.0.2
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MonkeyMagicMan
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Description

Valheim Runestone

A full collectible card game built inside Valheim itself. Collect cards from creatures, chests, and traders as you explore, build a deck, and battle the AI — or challenge another player on your server to a live networked duel with real rewards on the line.

Features

  • 92 cards across Creatures, Bosses, Equipment, and Items, spanning every biome from Meadows to Ashlands — including named cards for Haldor, Hildir, Bog Witch, and Odin.
  • Real acquisition, not menus — cards drop from creatures you kill, from world loot chests, and are purchasable from Haldor, Hildir, and the Bog Witch. No separate currency or grind; just play Valheim.
  • Full deck builder with 6 pre-built starter decks plus unlimited custom decks, saved and named however you like.
  • Solo play against an AI opponent, any time, from a floating board button that follows you around the world.
  • Live PvP duels — challenge another player on your server directly; a duel plays out in real time with the same rules as solo play, fully synced between both clients.
  • Real rewards — winning a match against the AI grants actual Valheim items and materials, gated by which bosses you've defeated so early rewards can't skip ahead of your progression. PvP wins grant coins scaled to how much health you had left.
  • A card folder to browse your full collection, and a draggable, resizable UI that stays out of your way.
  • Deep configuration — trader prices, reward drop rates, reward contents per tier, and match-balance settings (including an optional "sudden death" for matches that run long) are all adjustable via BepInEx's config system, with settings that matter for fairness synced automatically to every player on a server.

Installation

Install with a mod manager (Gale, r2modman, etc.), or manually: drop the ValheimRunestone folder into BepInEx/plugins. Requires Jötunn, the Valheim Library — a mod manager will install it automatically as a dependency.

Works for both single-player and multiplayer servers. For PvP duels to work between players, everyone who wants to duel needs the mod installed — card collection and solo play work fine even for players who don't.

Configuration

The config file is generated at BepInEx/config/com.monkeymagicman.valheimrunestone.cfg after the first launch, and can be edited directly or through BepInEx's Configuration Manager in-game (F1, if you have Configuration Manager installed). Sections:

  • Traders — the coin price for cards sold by Haldor, Hildir, and the Bog Witch.
  • Rewards - General — whether match rewards are granted at all, and how many coins a PvP win pays per point of health remaining.
  • Rewards - Drop Rates — the relative chance of landing each of the 6 reward tiers after an AI match win.
  • Rewards - Tier Contents — exactly what each tier can grant, including biome gating and one-time-only items.
  • Match Balance — the rune cap and various timeouts (deck selection, duel challenges).
  • Match Balance - Sudden Death — whether health starts draining on long matches to push them toward an end, and how aggressively.
  • Diagnostics — off by default. Includes verbose trader-purchase logging for troubleshooting, and a gate for two debug-only console commands (runestone_grantallcards, runestone_clearcards) that stay disabled unless explicitly turned on, since one of them permanently wipes your collection.

Most gameplay-affecting settings are synced from the server to every connected client automatically, so a server admin only needs to configure them once.

Compatibility

Requires Jötunn (installed automatically as a dependency by most mod managers).

Includes built-in compatibility handling for VikingOS — if detected, its "Ornate Frames" decoration is automatically toggled off for the moment this mod's board or menus are open, and restored the instant they close, so the two mods don't visually conflict. No action needed if you don't have VikingOS installed.

No other known conflicts. If something looks wrong alongside another UI-modifying mod, let us know on Discord.

Credits

Built with Jötunn, the Valheim Library by the Valheim Modding community, without which a mod like this wouldn't be feasible.

Support & Feedback

Join the Discord: https://discord.gg/a3utVT6Txx YouTube Tutorial: https://youtu.be/wp3krlkHBr4

Changelog

1.0.2 Latest
  • Reduced unnecessary logging: creature deaths and non-loot container spawns (chests, carts, ships, workbenches) no longer write a log line every single time, which was adding up on long, active server sessions. A detailed version of the creature-drop logging is still available for troubleshooting via a new opt-in "VerboseCardDropLogging" config setting, off by default.
1.0.1
  • Fixed a bug where an equipment/item card found in a world loot chest (not from a trader) could end up broken if the chest's contents were loaded in a later play session, or after the area streamed back in after being away from it — the card would sit in your inventory without being picked up properly, and attempting to drop it could crash the game and destroy the item. Every card is now registered as soon as the game starts, so this can no longer happen.
1.0.0

First public release.

  • 92 cards across Creature, Boss, Equipment, and Item types, covering every biome.
  • Card acquisition from creature kills, world loot chests, and trader purchases (Haldor, Hildir, Bog Witch).
  • Full deck builder: 6 pre-built decks, unlimited named custom decks.
  • Solo matches against an AI opponent, accessible any time via a draggable floating board button.
  • Live networked PvP duels between players, with a challenge/accept flow and full state sync.
  • Match rewards: real Valheim items and materials for AI wins (boss-gated by tier), scaled coin rewards for PvP wins.
  • Card Folder for browsing your full collection.
  • Configurable trader prices, reward drop rates and contents, and match-balance settings (including optional sudden death for long matches), synced server-to-client where it affects fairness.
  • Built-in compatibility handling for VikingOS.

Full version history & older downloads →

FAQ

  • How to play?

    How to Play

    Valheim Runestone is a 1v1 card game played on a small 3×3 board. Get your opponent's health to 0 and you win.

    Getting cards

    You don't buy or unlock cards from a menu — you earn them by playing Valheim. Kill creatures, loot chests, and buy from Haldor, Hildir, and the Bog Witch, and cards show up in your collection automatically. Open your Card Folder (the floating "Cards" button, visible while your inventory is open) any time to see what you've got.

    Building a deck

    Open the Deck Builder to make a custom deck, or just use one of the 6 pre-built decks to get started immediately — no need to build anything before your first match. A legal deck needs enough cards to actually play with; the builder tells you if something's missing.

    Starting a match

    Click the floating Board button to open the game board. From there you can start a solo match against the AI any time, or hit Challenge Duel to challenge another player on your server to a live match instead.

    The board

    The board is 3 rows x 3 columns. Your creatures deploy into the row closest to your own name plate; your opponent's deploy into the row closest to theirs. The middle row is open ground — whoever wants to push forward has to fight through it.

    Resources: Runes

    Each turn you get more Runes to spend — 1 on your first turn, 2 on your second, and so on, up to a cap (6 by default, adjustable by whoever's running the server). Every card has a Rune cost; you can only play what you can afford that turn. Unspent Runes don't carry over.

    Your turn

    On your turn you can, in any order:

    • Play cards from your hand — creatures, equipment, or items — as long as you can pay the Rune cost.
    • Move one creature to an adjacent empty square.
    • Attack once with one creature that isn't summoning-sick or stunned.

    Then end your turn and your opponent goes.

    Creatures

    Each creature card has an Attack and a Defense value. Defense acts as its health — it doesn't reset between turns, so damage sticks around until the creature is healed or dies.

    A creature that's just been played is summoning sick and can't attack that same turn (but it can still move). After that, it's ready.

    Attacking

    By default, a creature can only attack an enemy in an adjacent square — up, down, left, or right, not diagonal. Some creatures have special keywords (shown right on the card, and in their in-game tooltip when you hover over them) that change this — ranged attacks, flying, extra movement, and more. Rather than memorize a big keyword list up front, just read each card as you get it; the tooltip always explains exactly what it does.

    A creature can only attack if there's an actual enemy creature it can reach — if your opponent's side of the board is empty, or nothing of theirs is in range, that creature simply can't attack this turn. Some card abilities work differently and can hit your opponent's health directly, but that's a property of the specific card, not a fallback for a normal attack.

    Winning

    A player's health starts at 15. Get your opponent to 0 and the match ends immediately. If a match runs long, sudden death can kick in (if enabled on your server) — health starts slowly draining each turn to push things toward a finish rather than stalling forever.

    Rewards

    Beating the AI grants a real reward pulled from Valheim's own items — better rewards unlock as you defeat more of Valheim's bosses, so early wins won't hand you late-game gear. Beating another player in a duel pays out coins based on how much health you had left when you won.

    That's it

    Everything else — what a specific keyword does, what an item's effect is, exact card stats — is right there on the card itself. Open your Card Folder and start reading.

Manual download
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Manual installation instructions
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Install BepInExPack Valheim

BepInExPack Valheim is required to run mods in Valheim.

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Install ValheimRunestone

This mod must be installed on both the client and the server.

Download ValheimRunestone 1.0.2

Extract the ZIP and place the file(s) into the BepInEx/plugins/ folder inside your Valheim game folder.