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Waystones — Waystone Network, Fast Travel and Immersive Navigation

Name: Waystones — Waystone Network, Fast Travel and Immersive Navigation
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An atmospheric gameplay mod for Valheim that introduces buildable Waystones — a tactile alternative to vanilla portals engineered specifically for immersive, no-map, and no-portal playthroughs. By sitting before a constructed waystone, players enter a focused meditation mode, reading distant spatial audio-visual cues to lock onto landmarks and initiate fast travel. The mod features three operational modes (Cooldown, Charge-based, or Pure Navigation), customizable sacrifice economies, and deep client/server balancing.

Operational Modes:

Cooldown Mode:
Fast travel triggers a distance-scaled cooldown timer (tracked via in-game or real-world time).
Sacrifice System: Cooldowns can be alleviated by sacrificing items configured via shudnal.Waystones.reduce_cooldowns.json (e.g., {"TrophyNeck": 10} reduces 10 seconds per trophy; {"Coins:50": 10} burns 50 coins for 10 seconds).
Console testing command: setwaystonecooldown [seconds].
Charge Mode:
Replaces cooldowns with an energy pool (100 max by default). Short trips (<500 m) cost 20 charge; long-distance travel (>5000 m) scales up to 50 charge.
Item sacrifices restore charges using the same JSON/YAML dictionary.
Charge pools can be linked to the specific source Waystone or assigned directly to the Player character.
Energy is only deducted upon successful teleport completion.
Orientation Mode:
Disables all teleportation routines, turning waystones into navigational sighting instruments. Perfect for immersive compass-free navigation.

Direction Search Mechanics:

Sit before a waystone and engage search mode. The screen darkens, camera movement slows down (world time slows down in singleplayer), and spatial audio cues begin tracking points of interest.
Screen luminance and pitch frequencies shift as your crosshair aligns with valid destinations, bringing destination icons into focus based on sightline precision.
Mouse scroll modifies camera FoV, letting you zoom into distant horizon points to stabilize targeting.
Locking your gaze onto an alignment node initiates the transfer channeling sequence.

Available Target Directories:

Static Landmarks: Sacrificial Stones (spawn temple) and discovered merchants (Haldor, Hildir, Bog Witch).
Dynamic Coordinates: Current active bed/spawn, last death site (persists after grave looting), last moored ship coordinates (stored upon stepping onto land), and prior fast-travel origin points.
Waystone Network: Any constructed waystone that has been personally tagged and activated.
Random Jump: Aiming directly downward at your feet teleports you to an arbitrary land location within discovered biomes (bears the lowest cooldown penalty).

Channeling Rules & Balance:

Channeling Risk: Teleport channeling emits light and sound that agitates nearby hostile creatures. Taking damage adds a 1-second delay penalty to the channel. Tapping Block cancels the cast.
Configurable Constraints: Requires the player to be seated, dry (no wet debuff), unencumbered, out of combat aggro, and carrying zero unteleportable metals (all toggles can be bypassed in config).
Default Blueprint: 1 Surtling Core, 5 Greydwarf Eyes, 5 Stones. Tag name limit defaults to 15 characters.

Installation & Configuration:

Ensure BepInEx is installed.
Place Waystones.dll into your plugins directory:
<Valheim_Directory>\BepInEx\plugins\.
Launch the game.
Tune camera sensitivity, particle effects, sacrifice ratios, and travel rules in-game via Configuration Manager (press F1).

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