BetterSmelter
Bigger smelter, blast furnace, charcoal kiln and beehive, doubled spinning wheel, windmill and eitr refinery. Hold Shift + E to add the maximum at once.
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Better Smelter
A Valheim mod that lets you load more ore and fuel into Smelters and Blast Furnaces, maximize the charcoal kiln, and increase beehive honey — without breaking other machines.
Since the Deep North update, windmills, spinning wheels, charcoal kilns, the eitr refinery and the Frost Kilns all use the Smelter system. Better Smelter detects these machines and leaves them 100% vanilla, so they never stop working.
Features
- Smelter & Blast Furnace: configurable max ore (default 50) and max fuel (default 100).
- Spinning Wheel, Windmill & Eitr Refinery: capacity multiplier (default 2 = double the vanilla queue). Machines without fuel (wheel / windmill) only scale their input; the eitr refinery also scales its soft tissue fuel.
- Charcoal Kiln: configurable max wood (default 100) and speed (default 2x).
- Beehive: configurable max honey (default 50).
- Shift + Interact (E): adds the maximum amount at once on every station (smelter, blast furnace, charcoal kiln, spinning wheel, windmill, eitr refinery).
- Machine-safe: windmills, spinning wheels, charcoal kilns, eitr refinery, siege machines and Deep North frost kilns stay vanilla unless explicitly scaled.
Requirements
- Valheim 1.0+ (Deep North update)
- BepInEx 6 (BepInExPack for Valheim)
Installation
- Install BepInEx 6 and run Valheim once to generate the folders.
- Copy BetterSmelter.dll to Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\.
- Launch the game; the config is created at Valheim\BepInEx\config\com.alan.bettersmelter.cfg.
Configuration
[Smelter]
Maximum amount of ore
Setting type: Int32
Default value: 50
MaxOre = 50
Maximum amount of fuel
Setting type: Int32
Default value: 100
MaxFuel = 100
[Charcoal Kiln]
Maximum amount of wood in the charcoal kiln
Setting type: Int32
Default value: 100
MaxWood = 100
Charcoal kiln speed (2 = 2x faster)
Setting type: Int32
Default value: 2
SpeedMultiplier = 2
[Machines]
Capacity multiplier for the spinning wheel, windmill and eitr refinery
Setting type: Int32
Default value: 2
CapacityMultiplier = 2
[Beehive]
Maximum amount of honey
Setting type: Int32
Default value: 50
MaxHoney = 50
[Debug]
If true, logs each Smelter to LogOutput on load
Setting type: Boolean
Default value: true
DiagnosticLogs = true
Controls
- Interact (E): add one item / fuel as usual.
- Shift + Interact (Shift + E): adds the maximum amount at once.
- Empty: empties the processed output as usual.
Build
Open BetterSmelter.slnx in Visual Studio 2022+ and build Release. The project references the game assemblies under the Steam install path (Steam\steamapps\common\Valheim); adjust the hint paths in BetterSmelter.csproj if your install is elsewhere.
License
This project is licensed under the MIT License.
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: