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Runebourne

Rune spirits that farm, plant, fell trees, haul, mine and craft for you, and sea serpents that carry cargo.

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Changelog & versions

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Version
0.8.3
Updated
Author
Yoy
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Install these too — Gale pulls them in for you.

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Description

Runebourne

Summon rune spirits that farm, plant, fell trees, haul, mine and craft for you, and tame sea serpents that carry cargo between your harbours.

Runebourne is in Early Access. You can play it from start to finish, but it is still being tested, so back up your world before you install it (see Before you install).

Workers

You build a shrine, summon its spirits with a summoning stone, and link them to your chests with the command wand. Each shrine has upgrades in the build menu that add workers, speed or cargo space.

Seedsower

Plants, harvests and replants crops and berry bushes around its shrine, two workers per shrine to start.

Seedsowers working a field at night

Herdwarden

Culls your spare boars, deer, wolves and lox. In the shrine's window you set, for each animal, the herd size at which it starts culling and how many it keeps alive. Named animals and young are left alone.

A Herdwarden culling boars in a pen

Grovetender

Plants saplings and fells grown trees inside the green range line, two per shrine to start.

Two Grovetenders at their shrine

Haulwright

Carries items along routes you set, from a pick-up chest to a drop-off chest. Relay stones stretch its reach to bases far away.

Haulwrights at their shrine, then one unloading at a relay

Orebringer

Mines ore deposits and sunken crypts in range and delivers the ore to your chests. Fit a pickaxe to the shrine. A Rune of Renewal refills a crypt it has mined out.

An Orebringer breaking up a copper deposit

Runekeeper

Lives at a crafting station and crafts, smelts and cooks at up to three stations near it.

A Runekeeper carrying between a smelter and a kiln

Getting started

  1. Build Skald's lectern from the Hammer (Misc tab). Read it to see what each biome opens and what to do next.
  2. Craft the command wand at a workbench (Wood 5, Resin 2, Flint 2). Right-click with it to open the Runebourne build menu, which holds every shrine and structure.
  3. Build a worker's shrine, then craft that worker's summoning stone. Look at the shrine and press the stone's hotbar key to summon the worker.
  4. Press E on a shrine to set it up. With the command wand, left-click a worker and then click chests to link them.

Workers, upgrades and recipes unlock as your world progresses: beat a biome's boss and enter the next biome. The lectern shows what is open now.

The Seedsower shrine window with its workers, radius and crop counts

Sea serpents

Craft a Lightning rune at the forge. Wear a wild sea serpent down below 10% health, equip the command wand and use the rune, with a 50% chance to tame it. You can ride it (E), or build two Serpent depots on the water, ride from one to the other with Record route, and switch the serpent to carry cargo. It then sails the route on its own, taking items from each depot's pick-up chests to the other depot's drop-off chests.

Also in the build menu and at the forge

  • Deephold: a chest that stores one kind of stackable item in bulk (75 stacks, more with upgrades). Workers use it like any chest.
  • Field rune: clears, levels and tills the ground around you for a farm.
  • Rune of Renewal: refills a mined-out sunken crypt near an Orebringer shrine.
  • Feeding trough: hungry animals nearby eat from it, and Haulwrights can stock it.
  • Chest names and filters: name any chest and choose which items workers may put in it.

Compatibility

  • Built for Valheim 1.0.20. A later game update may break the mod until it is patched.
  • Needs BepInExPack Valheim, Jotunn and YamlDotNet. Gale and other mod managers install them for you.
  • Install Runebourne on every player's game and on the server. Everyone must run the exact same version, or the server turns the player away when they join.
  • Multiplayer and dedicated servers are not tested yet. The mod is built for them, but expect more bugs there than in single player.
  • No conflicts with other mods are known yet. It has not been tested next to other large mods, so please report any you find.

Configuration

Settings are in BepInEx/config/com.yohanb.runebourne.cfg, created the first time you start the game with the mod.

Setting Default What it does
[Away work] KeepFarmsCropsTreesAndGeneralsWorking true Herdwarden, Seedsower and Grovetender shrines and Runekeepers keep working while no player is near. The host loads each one's area (its buildings, plants, animals and spirits, never wild creatures or spawners) and runs it as if a player stood there. Turn it off if a server with many bases lags. Only the host's setting counts: your own game in single player, the server's file otherwise.

The [Dev] settings are for testing and are off by default. Leave them off.

Before you install

  • Back up your world. Steam keeps worlds in AppData\LocalLow\IronGate\Valheim\worlds_local (or in Steam Cloud).
  • Removing the mod deletes its things. Without Runebourne, the game removes its shrines, workers, structures and items from your world as you visit each area, along with anything they hold: worker cargo and everything in a Deephold. Reinstalling does not bring them back. Items in ordinary chests are kept.

Known issues

  • Multiplayer and dedicated servers are not tested yet (see Compatibility).
  • Reeve's board uses a placeholder model for now.

Reporting a bug

Report bugs at bugs.yohanb.tech. Reports and attached logs are private.

Include your Runebourne version, what you were doing, what you expected and what happened instead, and attach your log: BepInEx\LogOutput.log in the game's folder (or your mod manager's profile folder). Send it right after the bug, before restarting the game, because each start overwrites the log.

License

Copyright © 2026 yohanbh. All rights reserved. You may download Runebourne and play with it, alone or on a server. Please don't re-upload, modify or reuse it, in whole or in part, without permission.

Changelog

0.8.3 Latest
  • Fixed stutter when Seedsowers work a large farm: their job data is now read once and shared instead of re-read for every check.
0.8.1
  • Fixed low frame rates when Seedsowers start harvesting a field with hundreds of ripe crops.
0.8.0
  • First public Early Access release.

Full version history & older downloads →

Files

33 files · 19 MB download

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FAQ

1 Getting started

2 Chests

3 Hauling and water

4 Animals

5 Crops, trees and ore

6 Changes to the base game

7 Servers and bugs

Manual download
Just this mod One .zip — Runebourne 0.8.3
Files you'll get 3

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Manual installation instructions
1

Install BepInExPack Valheim

BepInExPack Valheim is required to run mods in Valheim.

Download BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351 · View mod page

Check out the mod page for detailed installation instructions.

2

Install Runebourne

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

Download Runebourne 0.8.3

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