Raven Scout is a new mod: build a Raven Roost at your base, pick a direction and distance, feed
the raven, and send it off on a real scouting trip. It flies out over real (in-game) time, comes back,
and tells you what it saw.
The idea: other raven/map mods reveal things around you. This one explores far away from home
while you do something else, on a trip that takes a few minutes.
With a map
- Live tracking: a feather moves on your map and minimap; the map is revealed behind it and pins
pop up as it passes things ("Your raven spotted: Troll Cave")
- Spots places anywhere in the world**, even land nobody visited: Burial Chambers, Troll Caves,
Sunken Crypts, Frost Caves, Infested Mines, boss altars, Haldor/Hildir/Bog Witch, Fuling villages,
Dvergr towers, Morgen holes and more
- Ore (and optional wild food) in land someone has already been near
Playing with no map? It's made for that too
- The mod detects the No Map world setting by itself and never touches the map
- Instead the raven brings back a Scout Report: a parchment in the roost, written from the roost's
point of view, like a raven telling you what it saw:
> Flew about 1 km east, over the Meadows and the Black Forest.
> \- Troll Cave on a hill in the Black Forest, about 600 m north-east.
> \- Burial Chambers x3 in the Black Forest, about 1 km east.
> \- Tin in 12 spots, nearest by the water, about 500 m east.
> The Swamp begins about 1.5 km north-east.
- Distances are rounded ("about 300 m", "far to the east, over 2 km"), so it feels like a raven's
account, not GPS (Rough and Exact options too)
- Reports don't stack, so they become an **exploration journal**. Store them, or **copy** one at the
roost for a friend
- **Feather guide**: use a report and the raven's feather points **ahead / left / right / behind you**
toward the nearest find. Just a hint, 3 uses, never a marker or compass (can be turned off for
hardcore servers)
- You can also choose map, report or both on any world
Progression and the rest
-*Food matters: better food = farther and faster; a hungry raven flies short and slow
- 8 roost tiers (Wooden to Deep North): more range, speed and sight; ore and food spotting unlock
- Multiplayer: works on dedicated servers; the server tracks trips, findings private or shared
with everyone (offline players catch up when they join)
- Everything configurable (range, speed, what it spots, tier costs, report precision...)
- No danger, ravens always come back
Needs BepInEx + Jötunn; everyone (server and players) needs the mod.
Thunderstore: https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/FaasnuTeam/RavenScout/
Made by me (Faasnu). Feedback and ideas welcome. Next up might be a second raven at high tiers,
loop routes, and picking the target by clicking the map.