CreaturePreview
Preview Valheim creatures from the character-select screen with model, level, variant, color, lighting, and camera controls.
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Creature Preview
Creature Preview adds a creature viewer to Valheim's character-select screen.
Browse the available creature prefabs, inspect their models, and customize the
preview without entering a world.
✨ Features
- Opens directly from the character-select screen.
- Creature list sorted alphabetically from A to Z.
- Includes creatures, bosses, NPCs, variants, and other supported character prefabs.
- Select creature level from 1 to 3.
- Change supported visual and skin variants.
- Free-fly preview camera with zoom and focus controls.
- Remembers the most recently selected creature and settings.
Controls
Creature viewer
| Control | Action |
| --- | --- |
| Creature Preview | Open the viewer from the character-select screen. |
| Choose Creature | Open the alphabetical creature list. |
| Previous / Next | Move between creature-list pages. |
| Creature name | Select that creature and return to the viewer. |
| Level − / + | Change the creature between levels 1 and 3. |
| Skin − / + | Cycle supported visual variants. This row appears only when variants are available. |
| Close | Close the creature list or Creature Preview. |
Free-fly camera
| Control | Action |
| --- | --- |
| Mouse | Look around freely. |
| W / S | Move forward or backward. |
| A / D | Move left or right. |
| Mouse wheel | Increase or decrease camera movement speed. |
| Hold Left Ctrl | Pause camera movement, show the cursor, and temporarily hide the preview panels. |
Installation
Mod manager
Install Creature Preview through a -compatible mod manager. Its
required dependencies will be installed automatically.
Manual
- Install BepInEx for Valheim.
- Install Jotunn.
- Copy Untamo.CreaturePreview.dll into BepInEx/plugins.
- Start Valheim and open the character-select screen.
- Select Creature Preview.
Notes
- Creature Preview is a client-side preview utility.
- Some unusual internal prefab variants may not have complete preview visuals.
- The Player prefab is excluded to prevent conflicts with Valheim's player instance.
📌 Version
1.0.0
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: