New trader idea - Huntsman’s shack

[Azriel2251]

Today I was thinking about some cool stuff that can be added to the game. I had an idea for the “Huntsman’s shack”. Basically the Huntsman’s shack has a new trader in it called the Huntsman. The purpose of the new trader is to buy things such as deer/ boar/ troll/ etc. skins but also enemy trophy heads. If you have any of these things to sell he will take them off your hands for a price which matched the difficulty of the enemy. (more money for trophy heads because they are rare). When you sell an item to the trader it is added to his wall. So if you get a troll head and sell it, you will see a troll head appear on his shack with a number indicating the total number of that head you have sold.

I think it would also be cool if you could sell boss heads. When you sell a number of boss heads from a specific boss you get a a special item. (E.g. a cape with the bosses head on it or a painting with boss). This will give people more reason to kill the bosses multiple times.

I think this will be useful because at some point in the game you just will not need the trophy heads at all and they do nothing but sit around in storage. So at-least with this you will get rewarded for obtaining the trophy’s.

Side note 1: I think it would also be cool if instead of getting a special item for selling boss heads, you instead get a special boss fight when you sell one of each boss head to the trader. So you sell them all and suddenly you find out the trader was oden all along and he will fight you.

Side note 2: Perhaps it would also be cool if the trader traveled around. I seen a post yesterday on Reddit showing off a Baba Yaga house build and thought it would be cool if it was actually an event in game where you have a walking house which travels around and has a Baba Yaga trader in it.

[Bjørn Thorsson]

+1 you basically described what Better_Trader mod does, apart to the "environment" which is the standard Valheim's one (give that poor dwarf at least an umbrella, LOL... half of the times I go there it rains like hell, and he stay there... poor one). :-D

The wandering trader is also into traditions, like eastern carriage groups, from town to town: here they could move, 1-3 carriages per group, in Plains, Meadows and whichever open path biome (maybe also by using trading size drakkars, the knarr).

Instead of giving "special prizes", as reward, I suggest them to give "related money amount" (related-to-player-and-boss-levels I mean), then to sell high-prices special equip/tools/materials one can buy if needed.

[Azriel2251]

Bjørn Thorsson님이 먼저 게시:

+1 you basically described what Better_Trader mod does, apart to the "environment" which is the standard Valheim's one (give that poor dwarf at least an umbrella, LOL... half of the times I go there it rains like hell, and he stay there... poor one). :-D

The wandering trader is also into traditions, like eastern carriage groups, from town to town: here they could move, 1-3 carriages per group, in Plains, Meadows and whichever open path biome (maybe also by using trading size drakkars, the knarr).

Instead of giving "special prizes", as reward, I suggest them to give "related money amount" (related-to-player-and-boss-levels I mean), then to sell high-prices special equip/tools/materials one can buy if needed.

It’s cool there is already a mod like this. I personally haven’t moded my game yet as I’m playing it on steam deck and feel it will take a lot of effort to get mods working. But if I ever do add mods I’ll definitely add that one.