Abioheim

Place the Fabricator (Abiotic Factor's crafting bench) next to your Workbench and turn Viking materials into gear straight out of the GATE facility: real Abiotic Factor models and icons, read from your own copy of Abiotic Factor the first time you press Play.

Abiotic mode. Press J and Valheim turns into Abiotic Factor-style first person: Abiotic Factor's own first-person arms and animations hold your AF gear. Guns fire instant hitscan bullets with AF's sounds (R to reload, the shotgun shell by shell; right mouse to aim, through AF's own scope on the rifles), with an ammo counter on screen. Melee weapons and tools are held and swung with AF's own animations, timed to Valheim's hits. Your Valheim gear works there too: swords, axes, maces, shields, bows, spears, pickaxes and even the dual weapons are held in the same AF arms and moved with the closest Abiotic Factor animations. [ and ] change the field of view; press J again to go back to Valheim's camera.

New in 0.5: Abiotic Factor creatures. The Pest and the Peccary now roam the Meadows beside Valheim's Necks and Boars, with Abiotic Factor's own models, animations, sounds and behaviour. The Pest rears back and leaps at your head, splatting on the ground when it misses. The Peccary opens with a stampede that ends in a psychic explosion, then swings, lunges and hops aside. Both are weak to blunt weapons.

19 items, each behaving like its Valheim counterpart

• Melee: Crowbar, Sledgehammer, Laser Katana (with lightning damage), Makeshift Spear
• Guns: Security Pistol (8-round magazine, Abiotic Factor's own), Romag Shotgun (6 shells), Gutnic Rifle (25 rounds, automatic, 2x scope), Wessex Rifle (bolt-action, 5 rounds, 6x scope), Grinder (10 ricocheting discs, 60% of them recoverable), with 9mm Rounds, 12g Buckshot, 5.56 Rounds, .308 Rounds and Grinder Discs
• Armor: Hard Hat
• Food: Military M.R.E., Alien Drumstick
• Tools: Pickaxe (mines up to iron), Woodsman's Axe

How it plays

• The Fabricator is in the hammer's Crafting tab once a Workbench is nearby. It costs Wood 10, Stone 6 and Resin 4, and needs no roof.
• Everything at it costs Valheim materials, so the gear follows your progress: a Crowbar or Pickaxe with Bronze, the Grinder with Iron and Bronze, the Security Pistol and Romag Shotgun with Iron and Silver, the Laser Katana, Gutnic and Wessex rifles with Black Metal. Ammo is cheap (Iron or Black Metal plus Coal).
• Want a sandbox? Set FreeCrafting = true in BepInEx/config/AbioticFabricator.cfg and building and crafting cost nothing.
• Single player.

Requirements

• Valheim (Melty installs BepInEx 5 for you).
• Abiotic Factor installed through Steam, for the models, animations and sounds. Nothing from Abiotic Factor ships with this mod; a small converter reads about 60 MB from your install in a few seconds. Without Abiotic Factor the items still work, with Valheim's look.

Coming next: more Abiotic Factor creatures, and food in Abiotic mode.

Credits Made by Tiago Menezes with Claude (AI). Bundled: Jotunn (MIT), CUE4Parse (Apache-2.0), Abiotic Factor mappings by Swept (MIT), vgmstream (ISC; bundled FFmpeg/mpg123 under LGPL-2.1). Abiotic Factor by Deep Field Games; Valheim by Iron Gate. Unofficial fan mod.