Bedtime
Server-only bed announcements for vanilla and modded clients. Shows how many players are in bed. Keeps vanilla sleep rules.
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About this mod Author’s original text
A dedicated-server Valheim mod that shows how many players are in bed. Players can use vanilla clients, including consoles.
Valheim still decides when everyone can sleep. Sitting does not count, there is
no voting, and the mod never starts sleep or skips time.
Behavior
- Shows a top-left notification with the bed count and a bulleted list of players
not in bed. Names appear in alphabetical order; the list disappears when everyone is in bed.
- Updates when the count or awake-player list changes, including bed swaps,
joins, and disconnects. With the list disabled, only count changes trigger announcements.
- Uses Valheim's existing sleep-update pass, currently every two seconds.
Bedtime adds no timer or per-frame update loop.
- Counts the same active player characters as vanilla's sleep check. Characters
still loading or respawning may not be counted until the game registers them.
- Does not repeat unchanged announcements, and stays quiet during sleep.
The list uses the normal notification fade time, so large groups may be hard to read.
- No client installation or configuration is required.
Installation
- Install BepInExPack_Valheim 5.4.2350 or newer on the dedicated server.
- Extract plugins/Bedtime.dll from the release ZIP into
BepInEx/plugins/Bedtime/ on the server, then restart it.
- Remove or disable JustSleep or any other mod that changes sleep requirements
if you want vanilla sleeping. Bedtime does not undo other mods' gameplay changes.
For the community-valheim-tools container, place the DLL in the persistent
/config/bepinex/plugins/Bedtime/ directory so it survives updates.
Installing Bedtime on a client has no effect. To uninstall, remove its DLL and
restart the server. It writes no world or player data.
Configuration
After the first start, edit BepInEx/config/augusdogus.mods.Bedtime.cfg on the server:
[Announcements]
ShowAwakePlayers = true
Set ShowAwakePlayers = false to hide the Not Sleeping: heading and player list.
Only the count remains, for example 1 out of 3 players are in bed.
The list is enabled by default. Restart the server after changing the setting.
Build and verification
bun install --frozen-lockfile
dotnet build src/Bedtime/Bedtime.csproj -c Release -t:Package \
-p:GameDir="/path/to/Valheim" \
-p:BepInExDir="/path/to/profile/BepInEx"
MANAGED_DIR="/path/to/Valheim/valheim_Data/Managed" \
BEPINEX_DIR="/path/to/profile/BepInEx" bash scripts/check.sh
bun run typecheck
bun test tests/
Requires.NET SDK 8 and Bun 1.4.1+. Output: artifacts/Bedtime-1.0.0.zip.
Tests cover announcement transitions and the installed game's bed/HUD contracts.
See manual multiplayer checks for verification with real clients.
Built from ValheimModTemplate.
Inspired by the server announcements in
ServersideQoL, with an
independent implementation and no dependency on its code or plugins.
Development and releases · Repository layout
License
MIT. Copyright (c) 2026 AugusDogus.
Banner font notices are retained in FONT-LICENSE.txt.
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: