🫀 The Blighted World Heart

A dynamic, massive raid event that violently transforms your serene surroundings into a blood-soaked warzone. Only the strongest Vikings will survive.

🌑 The Corrupted Core

Forged from the twisted remains of "The Hive," the Blighted World Heart beats with a sinister, pulsating malice. This towering abomination anchors the nightmare, serving as the nucleus of the raid and the prime target your clan must annihilate to stem the tide of darkness.

🩸 Universal Desecration

No sanctuary is safe. This cataclysm can be invoked at any existing vanilla boss altar.

By sacrificing the required biome-specific trophies, you corrupt the ancient stones, tearing open a rift for the Blighted World Heart to erupt into existence. Transform any boss spawn in your world into a legendary battleground!

🌪️ Biome-Dynamic Onslaught

The Blighted World Heart is a living, adapting nightmare. It bends the very environment to its will depending on where it is unleashed:

Twisted Visuals & Mechanics 🎭 - The Heart warps its horrific appearance and deadly characteristics to mirror the biome it infests.
Relentless Hordes 🧟 - The endless, surging waves of enemies are ripped directly from the local environment. A Heart in the Black Forest will unleash suffocating swarms of Greydwarves led by towering Trolls, while a desecrated altar in the Plains will crush you beneath a stampede of bloodthirsty Fulings and enraged Loxes.
Monstrous Sub-Bosses 👹 - When you strike the Heart and shatter its health thresholds, it retaliates by summoning colossal, biome-dependent Sub-Bosses. These behemoths offer unique, devastating mechanics tailored to break your spirit.

✨ Epic Features

The Blighted World Heart: A corrupted monstrosity summoned via dark sacrifices. Once awakened, it unleashes an unrelenting, endless tide of foes. Survive, or be consumed!
Nightmarish Sub-Bosses: As the Heart bleeds, it calls forth scaled-up champions of the horde (e.g., furious 2-Star Loxes, titanic Trolls, and terrifying Seekers) that must be slaughtered to proceed.
Legendary Custom Loot System: Triumph over the Heart to claim the ultimate prize: Blighted Gear. Discover over 200+ incredibly rare, unique Blighted variations of Vanilla weapons and armors, forged in the heat of battle!
Dynamic Multiplayer Scaling: The spoils of war grow with your warband. The Heart guarantees 3 legendary loot drops upon its destruction, plus 1 additional artifact for every Viking brother or sister who stood by your side.
Fully Server Authoritative & Synced: Forged for dedicated realms. Every brutal config value is locked in server-side and automatically synchronized via Jotunn.
Sleek Custom UI: Keep your eyes on the prize with a beautifully dynamic Boss Health Bar that relentlessly tracks the Heart and its summoned Sub-Bosses.
Wacky's Database Compatibility: Safely customize the stats, recipes, and requirements of any Blighted Item using Wacky's Database! WackyDB is auto-detected on startup, handing full authoritative control of Blighted Items over to your YAML configurations.

☠️ Blighted Affixes

The spoils of your victory are imbued with devastating, game-changing enchantments:

⚔️ Weapons of Annihilation

Affix	Effect
of the Serpent 🐍	Infuses your strikes with a lethal, festering Poison that rots your enemies from the inside.
of the Wraith 👻	Channels the wrath of the dead, adding massive, soul-crushing Spirit damage.
of the Blight ☢️	An ultra-rare, god-tier enchantment combining both Poison and Spirit elements, while massively amplifying your weapon's base destruction.

🛡️ Armor of the Titans

Affix	Effect
of the Bastion 🏰	Forges your armor into an impenetrable wall, granting a colossal boost to Armor Rating and unyielding Durability.
of the Serpent 🐍	Wards your flesh with absolute resistance against Venom and Poison.
of the Wraith 👻	Shields your soul, granting powerful resistance against necrotic Spirit attacks.
of the Blight ☢️	The ultimate ward. A phenomenally rare aegis that bestows both elemental resistances and a monstrous multiplier to your base armor rating.

⚙️ Server Forging & Configuration

Bend the nightmare to your will via BepInEx config or Jotunn's Configuration Manager:

Boss Health & Sub-Boss Thresholds: Scale the Heart's vitality to create an insurmountable challenge in every biome.
Wave Timers & Spawns: Dictate the pacing of the slaughter—adjust wave intervals and the maximum horde size allowed to swarm the battlefield.
Summoning Sacrifices: Demand greater tributes! Customize the specific items and quantities required to invoke the Heart in any territory.
Loot Scaling: Master the economy of war by adjusting the power curve of Blighted gear dropped across different biomes.

🕯️ Default Sacrifice Requirements

By default, corrupting an altar requires 1x of the local Boss's unique drop.

Biome	Required Sacrifice
🌳 Meadows	1x Hard Antler
🌲 Black Forest	1x Swamp Key
🐸 Swamp	1x Wishbone
🏔️ Mountain	1x Dragon Tear
🌾 Plains	1x Yagluth Thing
🌫️ Mistlands	1x Queen Drop
🔥 Ashlands & Deep North	1x Fader Drop

Note: These items and quantities can be completely customized in the configuration file!

🛠️ Installation

Install BepInEx for Valheim.
Install Jotunn.
Extract the BlightedHeart.dll file into your BepInEx/plugins folder.
Prepare for battle!

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