Brings layered psychological thrills to Valheim.
 The Reaper Queen and Her Minions |
 Cursed Relics |
New Status Effects
- Sleep or become Paranoid
- 5 Haunts
- 7 Cursed Relics
- 4 Status Effects
- Dungeon's cause Hallucinations
- Status effects persist through logout
- Biome-based audio illusions
- False events designed to manipulate your mind
- Carefully balanced escalation and cooldown systems
- Configs are modular. Turn up/down/on/off what you wish.
How it works:
Paranoia doesn’t care if you’re new or experienced, it knows your greatest enemy is your own mind.
- Paranoia Meter | Builds from sleep deprivation and unlocks escalating event layers
- Haunts | Intense psychological encounters with counterplay
- False Events | Environmental deception and misleading cues
- Audio Illusions | Sound manipulation using Valheim’s own soundscape
- Dungeon Hallucinations | Visual distortion, fake enemies, and sensory manipulation
- Cursed Relics | Relieve your body. Burden your mind. Powerful boss drops carry-weight relics with escalating consequences
- Infection & Nausea | Poison causes nausea. Mistlands creatures can infect you.
- Persistent Ailments | Logging out will not remove infection, nausea, hallucinations, or paranoia effects
Server admins can tune thresholds, pacing, hallucinations, status-effect ladders, relic odds, cooldowns, Paranoidin behavior, and biome sound pools via config. Server settings are authoritative for clients.
Multiplayer testing has been limited so far. Feedback is welcome, and it genuinely helps shape the mod’s future.
Keep backups and test before deploying to important worlds.
Installation:
Ensure you are running the latest version of BepInEx (linked above).Place the mod DLL into
BepInEx/Plugins/, install on all clients & server-side.Mod managers will usually handle local installation automatically and are recommended.
None known.
3D Models & Assets
The following assets are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY 4.0):
"Horror Ghost Character - Blood Stained Spirit" by adhamasalah
"Creepy_Witch_2.0" by JayantParihar
"psx ghost" by petya-petyavich
"Psx hands monster (ps2 style)" by petya-petyavich
"Terrifying Hooded Horror Woman" by PurplePoint
"Eilhorn, Lost relic | WeaponCraft" by Marko Prokopyev
"Crimson Heart Relic" by Angela Lumbreras
"Skull Relic" by Tyler Regnart
"Relic of Knowledge (RWBY)" by Light1108
"Sacred Book" by stasbelyk13
"Pyramid Relic Sci-Fi Free" by AMMediaGames
"Epic "LAVA SWORD"" by BlueMesh
"Tentacle" by Elite Large Cameraman
"DOOM eternal tentacle" by DJ_Nugget
Sound Effects
- Sound Effect by Neng Jemping from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by TheLlywellyn from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by TheLlywellyn from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by Nicholas Panek from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by SUBMORITY from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by Neha Pandey from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by freesound_community from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by Trading Nation from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by DRAGON-STUDIO from Pixabay
- Sound Effect by SimpleSound from Pixabay
Technical
CookieMilk | Paranoia's Serpents are inspired from CookieMilk's work on MultiverseGuardian. From inspiration to technical support, I truly appreciate you!
Ulvar Hraefer | Thank you for helping me playtest the multiplayer components several times, always a pleasure working with you!
Thanks for stepping into the dark. ❤️
