Viking Legacy 0.2.0 — Forged in Iron

The north goes from stone to steel. 0.2.0 adds a full metalworking progression, five metal tiers, layered mail armor, material traits, and an in-game guide book. Vanilla smelting, tools, and armor are untouched.

Requires TerraBlender. JEI is recommended.
Back up your world before updating. New ores and Rock Piles generate only in new chunks.

The Skald's Saga

• New in-game guide book, given to every player the first time they join a world.
• Clickable contents, item pictures with tooltips, and recipe grids covering every feature.
• Lost it? Craft a new one from a Book and a Rock.

Starting Progression

• Rock Piles on the ground in every Overworld biome drop Rocks and Flint.
• Nine Rocks pack into Cobblestone.
• Flint Knife cuts Fiber from grass, ferns, and logs.
• Rope—three Fiber—works anywhere String does.
• Added the Stone Hammer and Tough Handle.

Viking Workbench

• New two-block workstation with Parts and Assembly tabs.
• Shape wood, flint, and stone into tool heads, then assemble tools.
• Wood, flint, and stone pickaxes, axes, shovels, hoes, swords, seaxes, and bearded axes.
• All metal tools, weapons, shields, and mail armor are assembled here.

Ores and the Bloomery

• New Tin Ore and Silver Ore, including deepslate variants, raw metals, and raw storage blocks.
• Bog Iron Ore along wet shorelines and riverbeds.
• Bloomery smelts iron, copper, gold, tin, and silver ores into blooms.
• Bellows speed up the Bloomery and Viking Forge when you jump on them.
• Iron Collection Basket catches blooms, ingots, parts, and mail pieces.

Viking Forge

• New hearth-and-anvil forge for ingots, alloys, metal parts, and loose mail pieces.
• Alloys: Bronze, Steel, and Damascus Steel.
• Repair damaged metal gear with a piece of its metal.
• Finished pieces pile up on the anvil or drop into an adjacent basket.
• The throwable Iron Hammer is required to build it.

Metal Tools, Weapons, and Shields

• Five metal tiers: Copper, Bronze, Wrought Iron, Steel, and Damascus Steel.
• Each tier has a pickaxe, axe, shovel, hoe, sword, seax, bearded axe, Viking spear, battle axe, and shield.
• Steel mines at iron level with much higher durability; Damascus Steel is diamond tier.
• The 0.1.3 iron Seax, Bearded Axe, Viking Spear, and Battle Axe are now the Wrought Iron tier.

Mail Armor

• Forge Mail Rings, then turn them into a loose Cowl, Shirt, Leggings, or Anklets.
• Fit mail over the wool set at the Viking Workbench: Mail Hood, Tunic, Trousers, and Boots.
• Separate mail from wool at any time; each layer keeps its own wear.
• Full sets range from 11 armor for Copper to 20 armor for Damascus Steel.
• Mail is worked into the wool outfit through sleeves, hoods, leg mail, and ankle bands.

Material Traits

• Splintering (wood): hits may cause Bleeding.
• Chipped (flint): damage and mining speed rise as it wears.
• Heavy (stone): extra knockback; hits may stun.
• Malleable (copper): forge repair restores twice as much.
• Tempered (bronze): uses may cost no durability.
• Hardened (wrought iron): hits ignore part of the target’s armor.
• Momentum (steel): a steady rhythm speeds up mining or attacking.
• Damascus Steel has both Hardened and Momentum.
• Armor uses Insulated, Riveted, and Deflecting traits.
• Added Bleeding and Stunned effects.

Broken Gear

• Viking Legacy tools, weapons, shields, and armor no longer shatter.
• At their final point of durability, they become Broken until repaired.

Combat

• Shield Bash: Run, jump, and raise your shield mid-air to charge into enemies.
• Dual Seax: The off-hand strike now deals the off-hand blade’s full damage.
• Battle Axe: New two-handed overhead slam animation with a lunge and ground impact.
• Hammers can be thrown.

Advancements

• New Forged in Iron tab with 23 advancements covering the full progression.
• Arms of the North now accepts weapons and shields of any material.
• Shieldwall now counts any Viking Legacy shield.

Creative and JEI

• Reorganized Viking Legacy creative tab.
• New Viking Legacy Armory tab for tools, weapons, parts, shields, and armor.
• JEI categories for the Viking Workbench, Viking Forge, and Bloomery.

Changes from 0.1.3

• The Round Shield is now the Wooden Shield, assembled at the Viking Workbench.
• Crafting-table recipes for the iron Seax, Bearded Axe, Viking Spear, Battle Axe, and Round Shield were removed; they are now made at the Viking Workbench from forged or shaped parts.
• The Longbow is now assembled at the Viking Workbench.