Clan Wars Field Manual

Before you join

What you need installed

Your game must also be the same Valheim version as the server. The easiest way to get everything right is Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman: make a profile, install BepInExPack Valheim from the mod list, import the Clan Wars zip your server admin gives you, and always start the game with Start modded from that profile.

Fresh characters only

Nobody walks in with a head start. The first time a character joins this server it must be fresh:

• nothing in its inventory beyond the starting rag tunic and torch,
• no forsaken power,
• no skill trained above level 1.

From then on the character belongs to this server. The server remembers what it has as you play, and if it comes back with gear, a better piece, a forsaken power or higher skills than it left with - earned in another world - it is turned away.

Founding a clan

Press F6 to open the clan panel. On the Roster tab, fill in a tag - 2 to 5 letters or digits, unique on the server, shown in front of every member's name - and a full name, pick your clan colour and an emblem to go with it, then press Found clan.

You are now the clan's Leader. Press Invite and the panel lists every clanless player online - click one to invite them. They see the invitation on their own Roster tab with Join and Decline.

An invitation does not hold a place: whoever accepts first fills it, and a full clan takes nobody new. The Roster shows Members X / 4 and Clan Full. The clan store's One more member slot makes room for a fifth.

Clan colours & emblems

Every clan flies one of fifteen colours and bears one of thirty emblems with it. Two clans may share a colour, or share an emblem, but never both: a colour and an emblem together belong to one clan only. The founder picks both on the Roster tab as the clan is made. The whole palette is shown, and a colour or emblem another clan already bears in that pairing is greyed out and cannot be taken.

They are deliberately muted - weathered dyes rather than bright paint - so they sit in Valheim's world instead of on top of it, and they are kept far enough apart to tell one clan from another across a field.

Your colour is how you are known on the battlefield. You wear it:

• Your cape and shield carry it outright - these are what can be read at distance.
• Your armour, helmet and weapons carry it too, while still looking like the metal and leather they are made of.
• Your Clan Wards fly it over the land you hold, so you can see whose ground you are standing on. Capture a base and its Ward turns your colour.
• Your clan's boats fly it on their sails, wherever they are.
• Your clan banners fly it with your emblem - see The clan store.

The colour belongs to the player, not the item. Two vikings in the same armour from different clans look nothing alike, and a shield you take from a rival carries none of their colour. Leave your clan and you look like everyone else again.

Emblems

Your emblem is free and stands as a small mark in your clan's colour just before your [TAG], wherever the tag is shown: name plates, chat, the clan panel, the Hall of Champions, raid and season lines, hover texts and the War Map, where your Wards' pins wear it too. Capes and shields keep the colour only. There are thirty, all from Norse myth:

The clan panel

F6 opens and closes it - from the inventory too - and so does the Open Clan UI button beside your inventory; Esc closes it without opening the game menu. While it is open your Viking holds still and the inventory stays shut. Each mouse-wheel step moves a page within the current tab. Long guides scroll separately. The latest message has a fixed two-line area, with an ellipsis for longer text, so it cannot move the controls. Every button asks the server, which decides - there are no chat commands. Logs and Rules sit beside Close; the rest are tabs across the top.

The panel shows only what you can use, and a button the server would refuse is greyed out. A guide stands beside it, explaining the page that is open and what to do there; H, the Guide button or the pad's top button shows or hides it.

While your clan is raiding or being raided, an alert stands above the tabs - red when you are attacked, amber when you attack - and opens the Raids page with the raid's clock and capture.

Incoming trade offers provide Accept, Counter and Decline actions. When another clan counters your outgoing offer, Cancel withdraws your offer; Reject counter leaves your original offer active.

Who you can fight

With the default PeacefulClansEnabled = true, every new clan begins Peaceful. Its Clan Wards and Outposts carry an everlasting shield - faint and almost clear - and cannot be raided. Only its leader can permanently make it Warbound, either with Enter the War (permanent) or by initiating its first raid. Becoming Warbound drops the clan's peace shields, but every member remains personally Peaceful until choosing Join the War (permanent). Both buttons ask for a second press to confirm.

Peace has its limits. Until it enters the war, a Peaceful clan may hold only one Clan Ward, and 100 pieces may stand on each of its camps; Wards and pieces already standing stay. It also earns no renown, and so no Hacksilver. Entering the war lifts every one of these.

A Peaceful player cannot damage another player or be damaged by one. They do not count toward raid presence or capture, are moved out of active raid territory, and cannot pick up, carry or equip an Odin-Sent Relic. When their Warbound clan is attacked, they are told how to opt in if they choose to defend. The choice is permanent.

When clan peace is disabled, or when both players are Combatants, clan tags decide the remaining combat rules. Names above heads and in chat are coloured by where they stand with you:

Ranks

Three ranks, each able to do everything the one below can.

There is only ever one Leader. While a raid is on, nobody in the two clans - or their allies - can leave, kick or disband.

Inactivity & clan retirement

With the default server setting, a Leader with no authenticated activity for 72 hours (LeaderInactivityDuration = 259200) becomes an Officer. The oldest Officer by clan join time takes over, or the oldest Member if there is no Officer; stable player ID breaks a tie. Offline members are eligible, the outgoing Leader is excluded, and a sole member stays Leader. The successor receives a new full leadership window, but the promotion never refreshes clan-wide activity. A server can set the duration to 0 to disable succession.

A clan with no authenticated activity from any member for 7 days (ClanAbandonmentDuration = 604800) is safely retired; 0 disables this independently. Its members become clanless and its name and tag become available again. Bed claims are cleared but beds remain. Only validated Clan Wards and Outpost Flags are removed: ordinary buildings, containers, items, portals, ships, carts and creator information remain, with no gradual decay. Historical raid records may still retain the former clan's identity. Its renown, season reward and Hacksilver go with it, though seasons it placed in stay in the Season Log, and trinkets already bought for its members still wait for them at the Quartermaster. If an object cannot be identified safely or cleanup cannot be saved, retirement waits for an administrator rather than risking foreign property.

Alliances

An alliance stops your members hurting each other, lets allies help capture a Ward in a raid, and is the only way to open a trade route. Both Leaders must agree: one offers on the Diplomacy tab, the other accepts or rejects it. The offering Leader can withdraw the offer at any time before it is answered.

Breaking an alliance takes effect at once: protection ends, routes close, and goods in escrow go home as a returning caravan. Two clans in a raid with each other cannot ally until it is over.

Clan Wards & bases

A Clan Ward - a Ward twice the size of the personal one, in your clan's colour, free to build from the Hammer - claims 150 metres around it for your clan. It is always on and belongs to the clan, not to whoever built it: every clanmate is on its list, and its hover names the clan. An ordinary Ward stays a personal, vanilla Ward.

Where a Ward may stand

Nor may a Ward stand with its land under a moshpit's shield. The server checks every new Clan Ward against every Ward in the world and takes down one that is too close. You are told the rule - never where the other Ward is - and which way the nearest open land lies, which is marked on your War Map. Looking for somewhere to settle before you build? See Finding open land.

How many Wards

Your clan may hold 3 Clan Wards to begin with. Every Ward you capture in a raid raises that limit by one, and every Ward you lose lowers it by one - never below 3, and with no ceiling. The clan panel shows your Wards against your limit. A Ward past the limit stands but claims no land.

A Peaceful clan may hold only 1 until it enters the war. Wards it already holds keep their land; a new one claims nothing while it is at that limit.

What a claim protects

Inside the claim, anyone outside your clan - allies included - cannot:

• build, take down pieces, dig or level the ground;
• open chests, doors and the like, or rename a portal;
• harvest crops planted there, by hand or with a scythe, or take food from or put food on a cooking station;
• claim a bed (a bed someone already holds stays theirs);
• damage anything - except in a raid on that very Ward.

The server keeps watch too: anything an outsider still manages to build on claimed land is taken down within a second or so, with no refund, and the builder is told whose land it is.

Only crops somebody planted are the clan's. What grows wild on its land - flint, berries, mushrooms, wild barley - and the trees are anybody's, as everywhere else. So are the doors the world put there itself: a crypt gate inside a claim opens to its key for anyone, as it would anywhere.

Workbenches and crafting stations work only for the clan whose base they stand in, and its allies. Portals on clan land carry only that clan and its allies, at either end of the trip. Monsters still attack bases as the game intends. When the claim turns someone away, the Ward's shield flashes across the whole claim.

Carts and boats belong to the clan that built them, wherever they are taken: only that clan can pull the cart, take the helm or open the hold - not a rival who finds it moored on an open shore, and not the builder once they have left the clan. One built by a clanless player is theirs alone until they join a clan. A cartography table goes with the ground it stands on: on claimed land, only the clan holding that land can read it.

Each Clan Ward also has a five-slot store that takes only feathers - use the Ward to open it. That is what your Ravens fly on. The clan store's Ward store upgrade adds five more slots to every one of your Wards, twice over.

Clan Outposts

A Clan Outpost is a camp your clan holds away from home. Raise a Clan Outpost Flag - free, no crafting station, known to every clan member - and it claims 60 m that only your clan may build on.

• 3 Outposts for every Clan Ward your clan holds.
• 200 pieces may stand on one, counting whatever is already there when the Flag goes up - 100 on a Peaceful clan's camp until it enters the war. Carts and boats do not count. On a full camp a new piece simply will not go up, and you keep its materials. The clan store's Bigger camps adds 50 pieces to every camp, twice over.
• 350 m from your own Wards, 210 m from a rival's, and never overlapping another camp.
• 100 m from the world spawn, every boss altar and every trader, and never with its land under a moshpit's shield.
• Found like a base - by Scout Raven, or by walking within 200 m.
• Raided like a base, with a tighter 20 m capture zone.

Raiding a camp

A camp raid differs from a base raid in three ways:

• Somebody from the camp's clan must be online - anywhere on the server, not near the camp.
• The shield. The moment the raid begins, a dome closes over the camp for 5 minutes. Only the camp's own clan can walk in, nobody can hurt anybody through it or inside it, nothing on the camp can be broken, and the capture does not move. The countdown shows at the top of the screen: it is the owners' warning to get there. When it lifts, both clans are told, and the camp is open to the raid at once.
• It is quicker. The raid lasts 25 minutes, shield included, and 3 minutes of control of the 20 m zone takes the camp.

Take a camp and everything on it is yours, trade posts included - even if it takes your clan past its camp allowance or close to your own Wards; you just cannot raise new Flags until you are back within it. Break its Flag instead and the camp is yours just the same: your own Flag rises in its place. While a raid is on, neither side can hammer the Flag down.

Building means holding ground

Pieces go up on your clan's land - a Ward or an Outpost - and nowhere else. Out in the wild anyone may still raise a Campfire, a Workbench, a wooden Cooking Station and a bed: enough to survive a journey, not enough to settle. Off your land the build menu greys out the rest, so you can see where the line is before you reach it. What counts is where the piece goes, not where you stand: you can build at the edge of your land from just outside it.

Chests on ground nobody holds

When the Ward or Flag over a place falls, its chests stay shut - for everyone, the winners included - until some clan claims that ground again, and until then nobody can break them or take them down while anything is inside. A clan's cart or boat out on open ground cannot be broken up or dismantled by anyone outside its clan. Beds are unaffected, and so are the chests the world puts down itself in ruins.

Finding bases & Scout Ravens

A base must be discovered before it can be raided. Either a clan member comes within 200 m of it, or a Scout Raven finds it. Either way the whole clan learns of it, is told who found it, and it appears on the War Map - the land and anything in it stay hidden in fog.

Sending a Raven

1. Pick the spot

   On the War Map, right-click where you want to look. A left click only selects bases, camps and relics.

2. Pick the Ward and the circle

   Choose which of your Wards it flies from, and how much ground it searches around the spot: 250 m, 500 m or 1 km.

3. Pay in feathers

   10 feathers per kilometre from the Ward to the spot, times 1, 1.25 or 1.5 for the three circles, taken from that Ward's feather store. The War Map shows the cost before you send it.

4. It flies there and back

   At 1 km per 5 minutes each way - a spot 1 km out is a 10-minute round trip. It searches only the circle, not the land it crosses, and brings back every Clan Ward in it.

Ravens find Wards and nothing else - no players, no buildings, no terrain. Each clan has three - four once it buys the clan store's Fourth Raven - and one that is out cannot be sent again until it returns.

Raids

A raid starts only from the War Map, never by attacking a base. Select a discovered enemy Ward: it shows its clan, how far it is, and Defenders Present – Raid Available or Raid Unavailable. An officer or the leader presses Initiate Raid. A Peaceful clan cannot be targeted. A Peaceful attacking clan's first raid is leader-only and makes that clan permanently Warbound at once; officers may initiate later raids. Peaceful members of a defending Warbound clan are notified, but do not count or fight unless they permanently join the war.

1. The horn sounds

   Both clans get a centre-screen raid announcement. Nobody else in the game is told while it is fought; on a server linked to Discord, the war log there shows the raid from the moment it starts.

2. 30 minutes to break in

   For the length of the raid the attackers may damage that base - only that one - at the raid damage rates below.

3. Hold the Ward's zone

   The Ward is captured by holding the 50 m zone around it. Every living player there counts for their side; clans allied to only one side count for it. More attackers than defenders push the capture up; more defenders wind it back at the same rate; equal numbers freeze it (contested), and an empty zone pauses it. A full capture is 5 minutes of control however many hold the zone.

4. Captured - the attackers win

   The Ward, its land and everything in it become theirs. The old owners are outsiders there, their trade posts inside are lost, and every bed claim within the base is cleared.

5. Time runs out - the defenders win

   Even at 99%. Raid damage stops at once and the base is protected again.

Only the defending clan then receives 2 hours of protection (RaidCooldownSeconds = 7200; 0 disables it), and offline time counts. The attackers may start another valid raid immediately. A protected clan cannot be targeted; if it attacks, it gives up its own protection only after the new raid passes every check and starts successfully. Refused attempts leave it protected. The voluntary leader-only Enter the War action remains separate. During a raid the raided Ward cannot be taken down with the hammer and its owners cannot break it - but the attackers can destroy it, and that is a capture too: their own Ward rises in its place, and the base is theirs.

Players at the Ward see the capture, the head count on each side and the raid clock at the top of the screen; the War Map shows the zone filling like a stopwatch.

Breaking in

In a raid every weapon works, as a share of its normal damage against the base's structures, depending on the attack and what the piece is made of:

Furniture takes half of that again.

Fire arrows

A fire arrow that hits a wooden wall, fortification or piece of furniture sets it alight with the game's own fire, burning it down. Leave a fire long enough and it eats into a wooden wall. Rain puts it out. The fire stays on the piece that was hit - it does not spread to the pieces around it. Inside someone's claim, fire burns only during a raid on that base.

The War Map

The map gains a [Normal Map] [War Map] switch at the top. The Normal Map is the game's own. The War Map shows only Clan Wars: your Wards and territory, enemy and allied Wards you have found, your clanmates, Ravens in flight, trade posts and caravans, raids under way, every Odin-Sent Relic and every moshpit - and, with Valheim's own icons, the world spawn and every boss altar your map already has, uncovered or marked by a Vegvisir. Clan Wars' pins and rings are painted in the colour of whose they are: green your clan, blue allies, red enemies, white nobody's (moshpits and relics). A key in the corner explains them all.

• Click your own, an enemy or an allied Ward or Outpost to see its details - or press View on War Map beside it on the clan panel's Bases or Enemies tab.
• An active caravan moves along its visible post-to-post route until it reaches the destination.
• Your clan's Moshpit Portals have a green portal pin.
• A boss Vegvisir always opens the Normal Map, where the boss's marker shows.
• Click any relic pin - even one of several carried by a player, shown in a row above their arrow - to see it in the panel.
• While a base or camp is raided, the raid's pin takes the place of its own.
• A Ward's pin wears its clan's emblem.
• The HUD minimap shows every War Map pin too, beside the game's own pins.

Finding open land

With no clan, or a clan that holds no Clan Ward yet, the War Map's panel offers Find open land at its top. Press it and the server looks outward from where you stand, up to 3 km, for the three nearest spots where a Clan Ward may stand right now, judged by the very rules a new Ward is held to. Each is marked on your War Map alone, with the 150 m it would claim roped out on stakes, and chat tells you which way the nearest lies - Nearest open land: 420 m north-east. - or that you are standing on it already.

The marks stay for ten minutes, or until you leave the world. You may look once every 5 minutes; until then the button is greyed out with the time left on it, and a Ward refused for standing too close counts as a look. It shows where land is free, never where anyone lives: no other clan's base is drawn.

Trade

Allied clans trade real goods between chests that may be a continent apart. Each clan registers up to three trade posts - four with the clan store's One more trade post. Open a chest you built and press Set trade post in its window, then give it a name. To release it, press Remove trade post, then press it again when it asks Confirm removal?.

Once two allies have trade posts, either can open a route. The Trade tab then shows the distance and how long a caravan takes: 5 minutes per kilometre.

Making a trade

1. Start from a post

   Open one of your posts and press Initiate trade (or use the button on its row in the Trade tab), then choose the ally.

2. Pick from both chests

   Choose what you send from your chest's grid and what you want from theirs - their grid shows what they really hold. Only goods that stack travel by caravan: materials, food and ammunition, never weapons, armour, tools or relics. Up to five kinds of goods each way, and up to 9,999 of each. You can trade from anywhere; nobody needs to stand at a post.

3. Your goods are loaded

   They leave your chest at once and are held in escrow. If the chest does not hold enough, nothing is taken.

4. They answer

   An officer of the other clan accepts, declines or counters with different terms. A counter moves nothing until the terms are agreed.

5. Two caravans set off

   One each way, timed by the real distance between the two posts. Both sides watch the countdown.

6. They unload themselves

   When a caravan arrives, its goods go straight into the destination chest. Nobody has to be there.

Odin-Sent Relics

Sixteen unique trinkets - eight Military and eight Economic - each tied to a god. When one of the eight bosses falls, Odin sends that boss's two relics into the next land of the journey, and everyone on the server gets one notice: Eikthyr defeated!  Ullr and Víðarr relics fell from the sky!

Only one of each relic exists. A boss sends again only once its relic is gone, and not within 3 hours of its last gift.

The Ashlands lie at the world's far south and the Deep North at its far north, so the last three bosses' relics land near the edge of the world. In the Ashlands a relic never lands on lava or beside it. Kall Fimbulbringer counts as defeated when the last of his forms dies.

It falls from the sky

A relic arrives as a meteor, seen from far away, and strikes with a flash, a shockwave and a boom. It never lands where anyone has built, dug or died. Everything within 10 m is flattened - trees, rocks, whatever stands there - but never people, creatures, dropped items, graves, ships, carts, portals or Clan Wards. It leaves a shallow scorched crater.

Odin guards it

A new relic hangs in Odin's light inside a dark, solid bubble for 6 hours (Military) or 3 hours (Economic) after it lands. Nobody can pass through, take or break it. The bubble fades over the last five minutes; then the relic is free and everyone is told. The War Map shows only an area around a guarded relic, not the spot.

When it is first claimed, Odin speaks where it happened, for everyone nearby to hear - in words of his own for every relic.

Loose relics hover

A relic lying loose - dropped, left behind, set free - never lies on the ground: it hovers above the ground or water in Odin's light, glowing and humming. Pick it up where it hovers.

Wearing one

• A relic goes in the trinket slot and works only while worn. You wear one at a time; putting on another swaps the first out. A clan store trinket takes the same slot, so you wear a relic or a store trinket, never both.
• You can carry two, the worn one included. A third cannot be picked up or taken from a chest.
• Worn, it hangs round your neck on a leather cord for everyone to see.
• Every relic is on everyone's War Map from the moment it lands - carried, worn, in a chest or a grave, it can always be found.

Armour counts as heavy when helmet, chest, legs and cape together weigh 20 kg or more; under that it is light.

Holding a relic also earns a Warbound clan renown for every hour it is held while a season runs.

Moshpits & battles

Five moshpits stand on the Plains of every world, well apart: rings of old, weathered stone round a great Vegvisir, a standing stone carved on both faces with faintly glowing runes. Ruins lie scattered over each arena's middle - broken walls, fallen corners, rows of broken pillars, old foundations and heaps of stone - to fight around and over, with open lanes between them. Every moshpit is on the War Map with a pin of its own.

Nobody walks into or out of a moshpit. Its shield stops you at the edge like a wall, and Moshpit Portals are the only way in and out. No creature lives in a moshpit, and tames are kept out.

Moshpit Portals

• You learn the Moshpit Portal by being within 100 m when Moder falls. It is built with the hammer, from the same materials as the wooden portal, and only players who were at Moder's fall can travel through one.
• Your clan may build one on each territory it holds - each base and each camp. Only your own clan can use them, and a captured territory's portal passes to its new owner.
• Every moshpit has its own portal, in a stone room at its north gate.
• Moshpit Portals work in no-portal worlds; ordinary portals stay disabled. Boss portal locks still apply.
• Step into a portal and the map opens: pick a moshpit, or one of your clan's portals, and press Travel. With no clan portal of your own, your bed and the world spawn are offered instead.
• As with any portal, ore and other metals cannot go through, and no portal works during a duel or a clan battle.

A moshpit is where two players settle it one on one, whatever their clans - rivals, allies or clanmates.

1. Challenge

   Use a moshpit's Vegvisir and pick anyone online - search by name to find them. They are told at once, and the challenge waits for them on the clan panel's Battles tab.

2. Answer

   They accept or decline within 30 minutes, or the challenge is dropped. You can cancel a challenge you sent until it is answered, and accepting a battle calls off any other challenge still waiting for either of you.

3. Commence

   Once it is accepted you both have 30 minutes to come through a Moshpit Portal, stand within 25 m of the Vegvisir and press Commence. The button stays grey until you are there. Either of you can call the battle off until it begins.

4. Fight

   When both have commenced, the battle begins. A red arrow over your rival's head shows who you are fighting - only the two of you see it. Neither of you can leave the moshpit, nobody else can harm either of you, and neither of you can harm anybody else. Several battles can be fought in one moshpit at once.

5. The first to fall loses

   A fall in a moshpit is not a death. The loser kneels where they fell for a few seconds, held still, and gets up whole - nothing dropped, no gravestone, no skill lost. Every battle has a winner.

Your Battle Log, on the Logs tab, lists every battle you have been in: who, where and how it ended. It is yours alone, whatever clan you are in.

The Hall of Champions

Every moshpit battle goes on your character's record: career wins, losses, win rate, current and best streak, and the players you have beaten. A win also counts as a qualifying win, up to 3 over the same opponent in a rolling 24 hours; wins beyond that still count as career wins.

Qualifying wins earn milestones. Each gives a permanent combat reward and a permanent economic reward, and every one earned adds to the rest. Combat rewards are off during your own moshpit battles; economic rewards never are. Farming means planted crops, gathering covers wood, stone, ore and everything picked, and trader rewards apply at Valheim's traders, never at clan trade posts. Your rewards are listed in the Valheim Compendium under Active effects.

Open the Hall of Champions with the button in your inventory's row of icon buttons, or from the Battles tab. It shows your record, the milestone ladder and the server's leaderboard, ranked by qualifying wins and then career wins, with your own row highlighted. Its third tab, the Clan Leaderboard, ranks the clans by this season's renown - see Renown & seasons. The inventory key closes it. Moshpit duels keep their own record and earn no clan renown.

Clan battles

A clan battle is an agreed fight between two clans for a wager. It is arranged at a cartography table standing on your own land - inside a Clan Ward's claim or an Outpost camp - and any clan with a table can challenge any other clan with one. Allies and Peaceful clans included: nothing is lost on the field, so there is nothing to keep anyone out.

Look at the table and press F4 to open your clan's battles - on a controller, the alt button and Use, as the table's hover shows. Clan battles open only at the table, not from the clan panel. Only one player can use the battle interface at a time; normal map sharing is unchanged. There is no attached wager chest. Only an officer or the leader may challenge, answer, commence or cancel a battle.

Arranging one

1. Opponent. Choose the clan you want to challenge and press Next. A clan without a cartography table is greyed out and marked No Cartography Table; it cannot be challenged.
2. Team. Choose how many fighters each side brings and your online members, then press Next. Each section opens below the previous one, leaving your earlier choices visible and editable.
3. Wager. Select item icons and quantities, or wager nothing. Items remain in your inventory until you press Confirm challenge. Cancel or leave the table before confirming to discard the draft; returning starts a fresh setup.
4. They answer. The other clan puts up a wager of its own and names its own fighters. You see the wager, then take it or walk away - neither side is bound to a stake it has not seen. Online clanmates see a centre-screen notice when a challenge arrives or is accepted. Withdrawing an unanswered challenge returns its wager to Winnings / Returned wagers.
5. Commence. Either clan may Cancel until combat begins, even after one clan has marked itself ready; both wagers are returned. When both clans press Commence, everyone chosen is taken to a neutral field in the land of the latest age both clans have reached. Nobody is taken out of a moshpit duel or a dungeon, and a clan in a raid cannot commence; if a clan has nobody free, both commence again when it has.
6. Fight. Fifteen minutes. The clan with the most kills takes both wagers; level is a draw and each wager goes home. A kill by poison or fire counts like any other. A battle won between two Warbound clans also earns the winners renown.

On the field

Each clan stands up on its own guarded ground at one end. Yours is green, theirs is red, and no attack crosses either. You can walk out of yours but nobody can walk in, and standing in it longer than 30 seconds sets you down just outside it, facing the field.

While the battle is fought, nobody can leave either clan or be put out of it, and a clan cannot disband while it has a battle arranged. Clanmates who are not fighting see the field's dome, but cannot walk onto the field or fight there.

Falling costs you nothing. No gravestone, nothing dropped, no skill lost and no corpse run; what you have eaten and the Forsaken power you carry are kept. You wait 10 seconds on your clan's ground and are back in the fight. Ground you cross during a battle leaves no mark on your map - it stays under the fog, and anywhere you had already explored is untouched.

Winnings

Open Claim items at the table to collect Winnings / Returned wagers. Select an item and quantity. Compatible partial stacks in your inventory fill first; if there is not enough room, the items remain available to claim. These balances are not included automatically in a new wager. If you log out during a battle you are taken back into it when you return, and if it finished without you, you come back to your clan's cartography table - or to where you stood before it, if you carry anything that cannot go through a portal. A battle under way when the server restarts is called off, and both wagers go home.

Renown & seasons

Clans earn renown for raids, for holding Odin-Sent Relics and for clan battles, and race for it in weekly seasons. Only Warbound clans earn it: a Peaceful clan enters the war to be ranked. Within a season renown only ever goes up - losing a raid or a battle costs you none.

Seasons

A season runs for one week, from Monday 00:00 UTC to the next Monday at 00:00 UTC. Renown counts only while a season runs, and every clan starts each season at nothing: there is no all-time total. On a server where Clan Wars first starts mid-week, no season runs until the next Monday, and nothing earns renown until then.

Everyone sees the time left on the HUD - Clan Wars season 3 ends in: 4d 7h, or starts in while the first season waits for its Monday. To hide it, turn off Show season countdown on the Gameplay tab of Valheim's own Settings. Every player online is told in the middle of the screen when a season begins, and when it ends, with the champions and their win streak.

Earning renown

• A defence counts only if the attackers made some capture progress during the raid.
• An allied clan that helped - one of its fighters alive on the raided ground at some point - earns half of what the side it helped earned, on top; nobody earns less for bringing allies. The alliance must still stand when the raid ends.
• A relic counts for the clan that holds it - carried or worn by a member, in a chest or on a stand on the clan's land, or in its cart or boat - and only while at least one of its members is online. A relic Odin still guards belongs to nobody.
• Only clan battles between two Warbound clans earn renown. A forfeit counts as a win for the clan still on the field.
• Between the same two clans, at most 2 raids and 2 battles earn renown in any 24 hours. Later results still stand but earn none.

After every raid or battle, your clan is told in chat what renown it earned, or why it earned none. Your clan's renown and place this season, and its Hacksilver, also show beside the Crafting title in your inventory.

The Clan Leaderboard

Open the Hall of Champions - its button sits in your inventory and on the Battles tab - and choose Clan Leaderboard. It ranks every clan's renown this season, with the countdown beside the title, and shows each clan's raids won, raids held, relic hours, battles won and its current season reward. Clans are ranked by renown, then raids won and held, then whoever got there first. Your clan's row is highlighted, and a clan without the renown to place yet is dimmed.

The end of a season

A clan needs at least 50 renown to place. When the season ends, the top three placed clans take a bonus against creatures for the whole of the next season:

• Creatures means every monster and animal, bosses included - never players, and never anyone's tames or summons, so it does not help in the war itself.
• The reward belongs to the clan: everyone in it has it, a player who joins gets it at once, and one who leaves loses it.
• It stacks while a clan keeps finishing in the top three, season after season, up to 15%: a champion three seasons running fights the next one at +15%. The first season a clan misses the top three, it loses the lot, and its next finish starts again from that place alone.
• It is listed in the Valheim Compendium under Active effects. Relic and moshpit milestone bonuses add on top of it.

The champions also wear a crown beside their tag - on the Clan Leaderboard and over their members' heads - until the next champions are crowned. The final rankings of the last three seasons stay in the Season Log under Logs, newest first, each clan under the name it had then.

The Monday recap

A few seconds after a season ends, everyone online gets its recap in chat: the biggest raid - the one with the most fighters in its capture zone at once - the clan that held relics longest, and the top duellist, by moshpit qualifying wins that season. A line is left out when the season had nothing for it.

The clan store

Every point of renown also earns your clan 3 Hacksilver, the moment it is earned - an ally's share included. Hacksilver is the clan's, kept by the server, never an item, and unlike renown it carries over from season to season. Joining or leaving a clan moves none, and a clan that disbands or is retired loses it.

Spend it with the Viking Quartermaster, who wanders the sanctuary round the world spawn. Look at him and press Use (E) - Trade - and he stops, turns to you and opens his store. Anyone may look, clanless players too; only a clan's leader and officers buy, standing within 12 m of him. A Peaceful clan earns no Hacksilver until it enters the war.

The store has three pages: Upgrades, Trinkets, and Collect while something waits for you. Pick an item and the card beside it shows what it gives, what your clan has now and after buying it, its price, and why it cannot be bought, if it cannot.

Clan upgrades

Each step is bought once and belongs to the clan for as long as it exists. A Peaceful clan's camps stay at 100 pieces until it enters the war, whatever it has bought.

Trinkets

Ten trinkets, each about a third as strong as the matching relic, and none of them changes a fight between players. The leader or an officer buys one for any member, themselves included - choose on its card who it is for - as many as the clan's Hacksilver allows.

• A trinket waits with the Quartermaster until its member collects it on the Collect page, standing by him - so nothing is pushed into a full pack. It still waits for them if they leave the clan, or the clan is gone.
• It is bound to that member: only they can wear it, and it cannot be dropped, traded, put in a chest or on a stand. It stays in their pack when they die, never wears out, and stays theirs if they leave the clan.
• It goes in the trinket slot, so you wear a store trinket or an Odin-Sent Relic, never both.
• Its effect rests while you fight a moshpit battle or a clan battle. The Huntsman's Tooth adds on top of a season reward.

Clan banners

Once your clan has bought banners, every member learns the Clan Banner: a wooden pole with a hanging cloth in your clan's colour and emblem. Build it with the hammer on your clan's own land, without a workbench, from 3 wood, 2 leather scraps and 1 resin, as often as you like. A banner flies the colours of the clan that built it.

Death & respawning

When you die the map opens where you fell, with every bed you have claimed and the world spawn marked on it. Select one by clicking its pin on the map or picking it from the list - the map moves to show it - and it turns green; then press Respawn here at the bottom of the panel. The server checks the bed as you confirm it - it must still stand, still be yours and not stand on a rival clan's ground - so a bed lost when a base was captured can never put you back inside.

A trinket from the clan store stays in your pack when you die; it never goes into the grave.

A bed needs no roof. Valheim will not normally let you claim a bed unless it is under cover and out of the weather. Here it will: lay a bed anywhere, claim it, and wake there. Sleeping through the night still wants a roof, as it always has.

Fifteen beds. You may keep fifteen claimed beds. Claim another and your oldest claim is released - the bed still stands, it simply belongs to nobody until somebody claims it again. After you wake in a bed it rests for five minutes and cannot be woken in until that has passed, so a bed is not a way back to the same spot over and over; the list shows how long it has left. The world spawn never rests. A long list of beds scrolls.

Playing with a controller

The clan panel, the Hall of Champions, the Viking Quartermaster's store, the War Map, the respawn map and the Moshpit Portal map can all be driven with a gamepad, and the hints along the bottom of each name the buttons of the pad in your hands rather than one make of pad.

• Left stick or d-pad moves between what is on the page.
• South button - Cross, A or B depending on your pad - chooses what is highlighted.
• East button goes back out of whatever is open.
• Shoulder buttons change tab.
• Right stick scrolls a long page.
• Right trigger closes the panel from wherever you are in it.

Offers, challenges and battles are accepted or refused by moving onto the button that says so and pressing the south button, so on a page of several you always answer the one you meant. Typing - a clan name, a search - opens Valheim's own on-screen keyboard, the same one a sign is written with.

In your inventory, the Open Clan UI button stands with Skills and Trophies, and the Hall of Champions button sits in the inventory's row of icon buttons. The shoulder buttons bring you to either row, and the stick moves along it.

• Clan panel from anywhere: hold the alt button and tap Hide.
• Guide: the top button (Triangle or Y) shows or hides it.
• Clan battles: look at your cartography table and press the alt button and Use.
• The clan store: look at the Viking Quartermaster and press Use; the store pages, the trinket's member and Buy are reached like the rest of the panel.
• Season countdown: the Show season countdown switch on Valheim's Gameplay settings works with the pad like the switches beside it.
• In a chest: the shoulder buttons reach the trade post buttons; the east button cancels naming a post.
• War Map: the left stick moves the map and the d-pad works the side panel. The top button switches maps, the left shoulder selects what is under the crosshair, and the right shoulder sets where a Scout Raven goes.
• Respawn and Moshpit Portal maps: the stick moves the map, the d-pad walks the list, and the left shoulder picks the pin under the crosshair. The right stick scrolls a long list.

For server owners

Clan Wars speaks English, French, Polish, Russian and Turkish. Each player sees it in the language they chose in Valheim's settings, and it follows them straight away when they change it; anything not yet translated shows in English. Player, clan and member names, and the names of Wards, Outposts and moshpits, are always shown exactly as written.

Choose [Server] DefaultLanguage in the Clan Wars settings for new automatic Ward and Outpost names. English is the default; French, Polish, Russian and Turkish are supported with English fallback. Discord posts use the same language unless another is chosen with /cw language in Discord. Changing the setting preserves existing and custom names. Capturing a base still gives it a new-owner name. Players keep their own choice of menu language, and saved names display exactly as written.

The server records activity. Changing an inactivity duration adjusts the existing timer instead of starting it again: shortening it can make a clan or leader overdue immediately. Older saves receive one full configured grace period. If activity records cannot be saved safely, affected actions pause until saving succeeds.

Reconnecting cannot revive an overdue clan. After an ordinary abrupt crash with working storage, inactivity actions may be delayed by up to two minutes instead of happening early. Long server stalls or storage failures can affect timing, so keep regular backups and investigate save errors.

Renown and seasons have their own [Renown] section in ClanWarsConfig.cfg, and the clan store its own [ClanStore] section; this manual gives their defaults, and the Rules tab shows players the numbers your server uses. Seasons always run Monday to Monday at 00:00 UTC, and RenownSeasonWeeks (1 by default) sets how many weeks one lasts, from the next season on.

Clan Wars keeps the map on: the No map world modifier and the nomap console command do not take it away, since respawning, Moshpit Portals, the War Map, raids, Scout Ravens and Find open land all need it.

Discord. Clan Wars can mirror your clans into a Discord server through Clan Wars Herald: a role and private text and voice channels for each clan, and a public #war-log with raids, clan battles, duels and each season's result. It is off by default. Invite the bot and run /cw setup in your Discord server; it shows you a key once. Save the key, and nothing else, in a text file named BepInEx/ClanWars/clanwarsdiscord.key, beside the clan data - it never goes in the config, and it is never sent to players or written to the log. Then set DiscordEnabled = true in the [Discord] section of ClanWarsConfig.cfg and restart the server. Players link their character in the Discord section of the clan panel's Roster page. docs/discord.md has the bot's invite link, its commands and what it stores.

Server admins have four console commands, typed in the game's console (F5 - turn it on first under Settings → Gameplay → Enable console, or start the game with -console): cw_relic <relic> puts a fresh, unprotected copy of a relic at your feet and destroys the old one wherever it is; cw_hacksilver <amount> [clan tag] gives a clan Hacksilver - your own clan without a tag, and a negative amount takes it away; cw_pardon <character name or number> forgets what a turned-away character left with, so its next join is taken as it comes (use the number it lists when two characters share a name); and cw_discord tests the connection to Clan Wars Herald. A pardon helps only a character that has played here before: one turned away on its very first visit was never recorded, so list its player in ExemptPlayers instead.

If the server ever finds that its clan records and the world no longer agree, it pauses clan changes rather than save over them, and everyone online is told why. Until an admin has checked them, raids, moshpit fights and clan battles stop, no relic can be picked up and new characters are turned away; the panel's pages and the Hall of Champions still open, and characters the server already knows can still join. The server log names the reason.