FollowPlayer
Auto-walk to follow another player.
About this mod Author’s original text
A client-side Valheim mod that lets you auto-walk toward and trail another player. Type a chat command and your character paths toward a target player so you can take your hands off the keyboard while still being able to fight.
This is client-side only. It drives your own character's movement, which the base game already replicates to other players, so no one else on the server needs the mod.
Features
- Toggle follow on or off with /follow.
- Cycle through nearby players to pick a target with /follownext.
- Turning follow on with no target picks whichever nearby player you're facing, not just the closest one.
- Moving, attacking, or blocking yourself turns follow off; run /follow again to resume. Jumping, crouching, etc. don't interrupt it.
- A "Following: ``" indicator stays in the top-right corner of the screen while follow is active.
- Configurable stop distance (how close you trail) and run distance (when the follower breaks into a run).
Installation
- Install BepInEx for Valheim.
- Download FollowPlayer.dll from the latest release, or build it yourself (see Building).
- Drop FollowPlayer.dll into BepInEx/plugins.
Usage
- /follow — toggle following on or off. Turning it on targets whichever nearby player you're facing.
- /follownext — cycle to the next nearby player.
Configuration
A config file is generated after the first run at BepInEx/config/FollowPlayer.cfg.
| Setting | Default | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| StopDistance | 4 | Stop this many meters short of the target. |
| RunDistance | 8 | Beyond this distance the follower runs. |
Building
Requires the.NET SDK. The project pulls the game, Unity, and BepInEx assemblies from NuGet, so no manual DLL copying is needed.
dotnet build -c Release
If the restore cannot locate your game install, set VALHEIM_INSTALL to your install path first, for example on Linux:
export VALHEIM_INSTALL="$HOME.local/share/Steam/steamapps/common/Valheim"
dotnet build -c Release
The built DLL lands in bin/Release/net462/FollowPlayer.dll.
Known limitations
Following is straight-line, so the follower can snag on trees, boulders, and steep terrain. A future version can path through Valheim's own navigation (Pathfinding.instance.GetPath) and steer toward waypoints instead of straight at the target.
License
MIT. See 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: