AutoEquipShield
Automatically equips your best available shield when you equip a one-handed weapon. Press F7 to toggle it on or off.
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Rambo's Auto Equip Shield
Automatically equips your best available shield when you equip a one-handed weapon.
Features
- Automatically equips a shield when a one-handed weapon is equipped.
- Chooses the available shield with the highest block power.
- Leaves an already-equipped shield alone.
- Ignores two-handed weapons, bows and crossbows.
- Press F7 to toggle the feature on/off.
- Optional debug logging in the BepInEx config.
Requirements
- Valheim
- BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350 or compatible
Installation
Install Mod Manager/r2modman, or manually place the compiled plugin DLL in:
BepInEx/plugins/
The mod creates its configuration in BepInEx/config.
Configuration
After launching the game once, edit:
BepInEx/config/rambos.valheim.autoequipshield.cfg
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: