FreyjasFeeder
Sacred Norse animal feeding trough with 3D model. Automatically feeds, heals, and tames boars, wolves, lox, asksvin, and hens. Configurable caps and ranges.
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Freyja's Feeder
Automated pet feeding, healing, and animal taming trough for Valheim.
Features
- Automated Feeding of Tamed Pets: Automatically feeds hungry boars, wolves, lox, asksvin, hens/chickens, and modded tameables within range. Keeps your pets happy, nourished, and continuously ready for breeding without tedious manual feeding.
- Automated Taming of Wild Beasts: Place a feeder near pens or wild animal enclosures. Untamed beasts will automatically eat matching food from the feeder to start and progress their taming process.
- Pet Healing & Care: Injured pets are fed nutritious food from the trough to heal their wounds, displaying healing effects and floating numbers so your companions stay healthy through raids and battles.
- Prevents Night Despawn: Wild creatures (such as coveted 2-star night wolves) that feed from Freyja's Feeder are prevented from despawning at sunrise.
- Overcrowding Safeguard: Optional setting to pause feeding once a species reaches your desired population limit in the area, preventing runaway lag from excessive breeding.
- Dedicated 3D Feeder Chest: Includes a custom carved Norse feeder trough 3D model with custom textures, authentic normal mapping, piece icon, and a 24-slot container grid (6x4).
- Nearby Chest Linking: Optional config setting allowing Freyja's Feeder to pull animal food from adjacent standard chests if the feeder's own storage runs out.
- DFG Category Integration: Seamlessly appears in the Hammer build menu under the shared DFG tab (supported by DFGHub).
Building Freyja's Feeder
Equip your Hammer and navigate to the DFG tab:
- Wood: 10
- Fine Wood: 5
- Bronze: 2
- Dandelion: 2
(All costs are fully configurable in com.dfg.freyjasfeeder.cfg).
Configuration
Settings are saved in BepInEx/config/com.dfg.freyjasfeeder.cfg:
- FeedRange: Detection radius around the feeder (default: 15.0 meters).
- FeedInterval: Frequency of feeding scans (default: 5.0 seconds).
- FeedTamed: Enable/disable automated feeding of tamed pets (default: true).
- HealInjuredPets: Feed injured pets to restore health (default: true).
- HealAmount: Health restored per feeding (default: 25.0 HP).
- HealCooldown: Cooldown between healing feeds per creature (default: 20.0 seconds).
- PreventOvercrowding: Halt feeding if local creature count hits limit (default: false).
- MaxCreaturesLimit: Population cap per species (default: 10).
- FeedUntamed: Feed wild animals for taming (default: true).
- FeedUntamedWhenAlerted: Allow feeding even if frightened/alerted (default: false).
- PreventNightDespawn: Prevent night creatures from despawning once fed (default: true).
- TamingSpeedMultiplier: Taming progression multiplier (default: 1.0).
- ContainerWidth / Height: Storage size (default: 6x4 = 24 slots).
- PullFromNearbyChests: Pull food from nearby chests (default: false).
- EnableAnyChestFeeding: Allow any standard chest to feed animals (default: false).
Installation
Deploy FreyjasFeeder.dll along with FreyjasFeeder.obj, FreyjasFeeder.mtl, and texture files into your BepInEx plugins/FreyjasFeeder/ directory.
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: