Thanks. I do plan to update this whenever a patch breaks it and this is the first that I've heard that there might be an issue with a recent patch. It's been a few weeks, do you still have the issue?
One thing that isn't quite obvious, but benches sometimes need roofs that cover more than just directly above them. Technically they need a roof over most of a cone that's at a 45 degree angle upwards, so if you're building a little nook or lean-to you might need to overhang it by another roof piece or two.
I love the idea of this mod and I'm going to use it, but might I make a mid-tier suggestion for lore purposes? Make a copy of the existing floors that are affected and recolor them slightly so they can be distinguished between the normal ones, and add them to the construction list. Properly treated wood can resist rain well, so add a material to the cost like Resin for example.
This way people can still opt to use the normal cheaper version of wood and have rain affect its durability like normally while they can replace it with your 'treated wood' as players become more resourceful and can afford the change.
Either way, whether you're planning to use this idea or not, I appreciate all you've done and to bring this mod to us!
Thank you! I like the suggestion, and I agree that resin would be a perfect way to treat the wood. One downside with doing that is that it would prevent the mod from easily being removed (I think the pieces would disappear and possibly lead to more things collapsing), and if the mod broke during a game update then you wouldn't be able to play until I fixed it.
Valheim has proven a lot more stable across its updates than it looked near launch, so maybe I'll do that in the ashlands timeframe.
Getting a lot of red text after this loads. Does this have a new list of incompatibles? Any ideas why this would throw errors? I didn't get the log file, so can't read it.
Sorry, without those details there isn't much I can do to investigate. If you were trying to use the mod without Jotunn (a modding utility used by most mods these days) then I would expect many errors.
If you do have Jotunn installed, please try the new version 2.0.2 which I just uploaded. I got a bug report today from someone who was getting errors because I hadn't properly declared the dependency on Jotunn which meant it was possible for the mod to initialize prior to Jotunn, and that would have caused a lot of red text.
It works by modifying the tags on the items when the game initially creates the piece database as part of game startup. It should be safe to add and remove. It will immediately work on all existing floors, and if you remove it they should start acting the vanilla way again.
Update: I'm a dope; the description says it does this.
It doesn't appear to prevent damage to existing floor pieces on our server, at least prior to 2.0. Will check out 2.0 tonight, and also see whether newly-placed floor pieces are immune to rain as expected.
Hi - sorry for the delay, I missed the Nexus notification. It does seem like it still removes rain damage from the floors the mod patches. Some of the pieces you have listed there aren't roofs. I wouldn't expect this to successfully remove rain damage from walls, because I think they'll fail an earlier check and bail out. Removing rain damage from all pieces is out of scope for this mod. I recommend using a dedicated mod like AzuWearNTearPatches to configure this globally.
Does the latest release allow for adding Wood_ladder and Wood_stair to the prefab line (I think there is also a ladder in More Gates)? I tried adding them and it didn't work. If not, would you, could you, if you pretty please, add the ability to use ladders as roofs? They look SO pretty in a gazebo build, or when used as a skylight in your house. I wanted to put one in the roof over the bed, but it won't let me sleep, and a soggy bed from the rain makes me a sad Panda.
Hey, seems like you got Odin Architect to work. What did you put for the hammer tool? I added the same list of things that you have above but it still doesn't acknowledge the IG floors are roofs, I don't think that it's finding them. Thanks in advance!
It's odin_hammer. While this does keep the rain off of you, you can still see it coming through the pieces. So it rains inside your building, but you don't get wet. Still needs work, it seems.
Yeah, they don't work out of the box because the pieces are designed differently and don't have the same structure. The angled ramps from Odin Architect have the same problem. I agree that it would be good to support them - I've tried to use them as skylights too :) I'll try to spend some time to add this feature soon.
Im also using few custom building pieces mod that adds more various wood/stone floor tiles. Would your mod see those new floors & work with those too? Or only the default 2 wood floor tiles only?
Hi - I have the correct configuration for Odin Architect 1.2.7 listed in the mod description. The main thing you need to do is update the Hammers setting to include the Odin Architect hammer as well. The piecename for its hammer is odin_hammer.
found out the issue with its high resource usage was tied to error handling with a localization file that wasn't where it needed to be. for more info https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/9962243-jotunn-the-valheim-library/page-38#entry120856776
What's the difference between putting a floor over your head vs a roof piece? They literally do the same thing and offer the same amount of shelter, using this mod. You can get a rested bonus with a campfire and a few pieces of wood, you don't need to make a shack or anything even, in vanilla.
There are so many better things to be mad about dude. It's a mod, for a game. For people to play, and have fun. If this is how people have fun, then why is that so offensive to you?
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No matter what i do it always tells me the bench needs a roof. I dont use vortex or anything like that just manual.
Thanks
(oh and no red script comes up in bep when loading up)
One thing that isn't quite obvious, but benches sometimes need roofs that cover more than just directly above them. Technically they need a roof over most of a cone that's at a 45 degree angle upwards, so if you're building a little nook or lean-to you might need to overhang it by another roof piece or two.
This way people can still opt to use the normal cheaper version of wood and have rain affect its durability like normally while they can replace it with your 'treated wood' as players become more resourceful and can afford the change.
Either way, whether you're planning to use this idea or not, I appreciate all you've done and to bring this mod to us!
Valheim has proven a lot more stable across its updates than it looked near launch, so maybe I'll do that in the ashlands timeframe.
If you do have Jotunn installed, please try the new version 2.0.2 which I just uploaded. I got a bug report today from someone who was getting errors because I hadn't properly declared the dependency on Jotunn which meant it was possible for the mod to initialize prior to Jotunn, and that would have caused a lot of red text.
Or does it just change the leaky tags to roof every time the building parts are instantiated by the game? (Which would not modify the save.)
Edit - Also I guess this works for existing floors and not just newly built floors?
It doesn't appear to prevent damage to existing floor pieces on our server, at least prior to 2.0. Will check out 2.0 tonight, and also see whether newly-placed floor pieces are immune to rain as expected.
Does the latest release allow for adding Wood_ladder and Wood_stair to the prefab line (I think there is also a ladder in More Gates)? I tried adding them and it didn't work. If not, would you, could you, if you pretty please, add the ability to use ladders as roofs? They look SO pretty in a gazebo build, or when used as a skylight in your house. I wanted to put one in the roof over the bed, but it won't let me sleep, and a soggy bed from the rain makes me a sad Panda.
PrefabsToChange = wood_floor,wood_floor_1x1,IG_Chevron_Floor,IG_Hardwood_Floor,IG_Big_Chevron_Floor,IG_Big_Hardwood_Floor,Wood_ladder,Wood_stair
found out the issue with its high resource usage was tied to error handling with a localization file that wasn't where it needed to be. for more info
https://forums.nexusmods.com/index.php?/topic/9962243-jotunn-the-valheim-library/page-38#entry120856776