AchievementsWithCheats
Optional Normal Achievements add-on allowing achievement progress with cheats, devcommands and spawned items. Does not unlock achievements automatically.
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Achievements With Cheats
An optional add-on for Normal Achievements that allows achievement progress when using cheats, devcommands and spawned items.
What it does
- Bypasses the overall achievement cheat check, including character, world and cheated-item restrictions.
- Enables the game's native cheat-check bypass while installed.
- Hides cheated-item pickup/drop achievement notifications while the add-on bypass is active. Other notifications remain visible.
- Keeps the normal requirements for individual achievements: you still need to perform the relevant actions.
This does not unlock all achievements, replay missed progress, or erase existing cheat flags. Because it uses the native bypass, it also affects cheat-item tagging when spawning or crafting items. Removing the add-on does not retroactively tag those items.
Requirements and installation
Requires Normal Achievements 1.0.2 or later and BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350 or later.
Install through Mod Manager; required dependencies are installed automatically. Launch Valheim modded. Install on each player's profile that wants this behaviour; no server installation is required.
For manual installation, install both dependencies, close Valheim, and copy the included plugins/AchievementsWithCheats folder into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins.
The achievement bypass activates automatically; no configuration is needed. Cheats themselves must still be enabled and entered normally. If upgrading from the standalone version, replace its DLL rather than keeping two copies. This version requires Normal Achievements and will not load without it.
Removal
Close Valheim and uninstall the add-on, or remove its plugin folder. Normal Achievements can remain installed; its normal character, world and item cheat checks will apply again. Existing saved cheat flags are not cleared by either installation or removal.
Console commands
Fixes repeating cheat-confirmation prompts caused by the achievement bypass, including the separate setkey check. Enable devcommands normally before using debugmode. This add-on does not grant dedicated-server command permissions or bypass host/admin restrictions. Commands retain their normal effects, including any saved cheat flags they set; achievement eligibility remains bypassed while this add-on is active.
This mod does not automatically unlock recipes, building pieces or items. It removes achievement-related restrictions; it is not a command to unlock everything.
Created by Sfantul.
Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin
- The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
- Recommended: use a community mod manager (such as r2modman) — pick this game, import the mod, and the manager sets up BepInEx and its dependencies for you.
- Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
- Launch the game — the BepInEx console logs every plugin it loads; seeing this mod in the log means it is installed.
Mods with listed dependencies need those installed too, or they will not load. Options are usually changed in-game or in the plugin's config file. In multiplayer, the host and every client need the same mods installed.
Install these first, or the mod will not work: