NPCs "for hire"

[Munin]

Threads are being created suggesting the addition of NPCs "for hire" (similar to the Villagers in Minecraft).

There will not be NPCs "for hire" in Valheim.

In regards to quest giving NPCs: Hildir's Quest will be added in the future, confirming the addition of another quest giving NPC similar to Haldor and Hugin.

[p3st|cIdE]

Tamed Wolves are exactly the friendly NPC base guards / party companions folks seem to be wanting.

[Flux]

Opprinnelig skrevet av p3st|cIdE:

Tamed Wolves are exactly the friendly NPC base guards / party companions folks seem to be wanting.

I don't need base defense, I need something to harvest and replant my crops lol

[LordBUM]

some things that need to be added to the game

ok so we have Ballista, Catapults, Battering rams, and loads of fancy building pieces i think its about time we got Drawbridges.
we've needed Drawbridges for a long time now and you cant just give us the ability to build fancy Castles but not any Drawbridges which are a very iconic part of Castles and fortresses.
we could benefit from having Drawbridges massively not only we would have a cool way to enter our bases but have a decent way of keeping enemies away from our main-gates without some ugly contraption made out of doors.
plus if we build a bridge over water we could have part of that bright be a Drawbridge that way our ships can pass through our bridge without needlessly taking a long detour.

Another thing we could use is maybe some kind of NPC that can be stationed on our walls i mean come on we build these massive walls with elaborate defenses yet the only one making use of them is just us and maybe a friend or 2 plus having NPC's we can use will help give some life to our builds. i mean yeah i like having these nice big castles and coastal ports but they do feel a bit lifeless.
sure our characters are trying to get to Valhalla but why not give us some company while we literally conquer the tenth realm.

[northman007]

NPC

Hello, Will you guys add NPC that we can use as guards who can help defending our villige?

[TheGreatDruid]

That's an interesting idea. One idea in the interim to consider is that you can tame some of the animals in the games. For example, one can tame wolves from the mountains biome and then lead them back to ones main base. They will help defend it when its attacked.

[Mharr]

Asksvin has been tamed

[katsuragi]

That is a great idea. Considering you are a dead Norseman who was presumably a village leader or warband leader or something along those lines, perhaps you could draw in the dead souls of your underlings and put them to work. Or maybe just encounter them randomly around the world and lead them back to your base.

[Nerevar]

this wont happen and this thread will get merged soon into the "why no npcs megathread" which has the dev response to this.

[Archdeacon Monseigneur]

back after a couple of years...

still no helpful npcs huh?

guess i'll be off again.

[Gjafar]

Villagers?!

Are villagers planned for an future update, like in medieval dynasty? I found a mod but the villagers can't do anything.

[Nerevar]

not planned according to devs. there is a thread regarding this somewhere.

[Grace O'Malley]

NPC's like in 'Soulmask'

3 years with the desire to deploy NPC helpers to harvest resources and in combat; - It never happened. When will Valheim be modernized for us single player. Why are things only being developed for Valheim's endgame and not for the base game! I've still only been able to kill boss number 2 without help or mods.

[What?]

Tameable Dvergar

I see a lot of these villages which look amazing made by the community, grand videos, hundreds of houses.... but they lack a population.
- - - Dvergar you can tame, which follow you if you select [E].
- - - If youre at a base with a unclaimed bed under a roof, they will hang around the unclaimed bed, and travel to nearby unclaimed beds.
- - - If there's 2xDvergar with sheltered condition (under a roof), and a unclaimed bed, and less than 4 Dvergar around, you get a baby Dvergr.
NOT farmed for meat, their use is just to fix structures damaged by rain, and add a variety of characters to a players village by travelling along the paths. Idk how hard it would be to code them to travel from house to house.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/valheim/images/1/18/Dvergr_(race).png

This is way more creative than a shield dome or whatever... you can even explore with a dvergr as a companion who can fix leaky roofs.

Tamed by GOLD as suggested by user ViridianAD below!

[VivianAD]

It would be fun if you could "tame" them with gold. In that sense it would look more like hiring them as workers. And it would make gold have another use.

[Draconis]

Opprinnelig skrevet av VivianAD:

It would be fun if you could "tame" them with gold. In that sense it would look more like hiring them as workers. And it would make gold have another use.

I came here to say just the same.