Hearthbound Valheim Modpack

v5.3.0·Updated 2026-09-02

A public, casual-friendly, secured modded Valheim server. No whitelisting required — anyone can join anytime.

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Hearthbound Valheim Modpack (Official)

A public, casual-friendly, secured modded Valheim server — a meeting place for Vikings across timezones, built to suit casual players and progression-minded ones in the same world.

✅ No whitelisting. No application. Install the pack and join anytime.

🌐 www.taegukgaming.com — the full rundown of what's in the world, how joining works, and how to support the server.

💬 Join the Discord — server address, current version, and help all live here.

Attention

and R2Modman managers are no longer supported.

Please use Gale mod manager to connect to the server.

Download Gale

Hearthbound Gale Modpack

  • Join the Server
  • From the Valheim main menu, click Connect on the Hearthbound panel
  • Select your character
  • Join

No application, no approval process — just the modpack.

Bring Your Own Viking

Hearthbound is a shared hub world, not a fresh-start server:

  • Your local world/seed stays your own — solo or with friends, build at your own pace.
  • Hearthbound is where players meet up, party, trade, and run community content, without needing everyone online at the same time.

You can join using your local character, items included, and this modpack is configured so your local progression isn't forced to match the server's. Use the same profile for both if you want one character living in both worlds; keep a separate vanilla character if you'd rather play unmodded locally.

What's in the World

🗺️ The Lorekeepers

Three keepers hold the thread through the world's tiered dangers: Haldor, then Hildir, then the Bog Witch — each running their own branching conversation. Defeating a keeper's Biome Lords reveals that the next keeper exists, but never where to find them. Finding them yourself is the point, and it's rewarded the moment you do.

⚔️ Biome Lords

A boss-tier Lord guards every biome, from Meadows to Ashlands, summoned once you've proven yourself a hunter. Fell one and you keep its trophy — a permanent blessing — plus a Forsaken Power to wield in the fights still ahead. This feature is powered by TaegukGaming-BiomeLords, now updated to version 0.6.6.

📜 Living World — Daily & Seasonal Events

The world keeps moving even when you're not actively questing it:

  • Daily Rites — recurring turn-ins and tasks that reset with the server's clock, like the Bog Witch's daily forage.
  • Weekend & weekly events — heavier content that surfaces on a cadence, including the Dvergr Challenges for anyone raising companions.
  • Seasonal events — limited-time content like Midsummer's Bounty, dropped in for the season and pulled once it passes.

🤝 Lost Scrolls II — Dvergr Companions

Free corrupted Dvergr instead of killing them, and recruit them as companions that level up, fight, do chores, sail, and travel at your side.

🏆 Companion Tournaments & Duels — LIVE

A Tournament of Dverger Companions is coming to the server.

Seal your finest Dvergr into a Communion Totem, register through the in-game Tournament panel (F7), and lock it in when the host opens the bracket. Single elimination, double elimination, or round robin — when a round goes live, your companion is summoned to fight at full health, automatically. Win by strength, seeding, and skill; the last companion standing is written into the Hall of Champions.

Every duel your companion wins — 1v1 or party, tournament or casual — gets broadcast to Discord and server chat. Build a reputation one bout at a time.

🏪 Simple Market

A player-driven economy with asynchronous trading — list or buy from a market area without needing to be online at the same time as anyone else.

🛒 Trader Additions

One unified interface across Haldor, Hildir, and the Bog Witch, with progression-aware pricing, plus daily bounty contracts to chase for rewards.

📈 Skills, Salvage, and Fashion

  • ImpactfulSkills — skill progression that actually changes how you play, not just a number going up.
  • Recycle N Reclaim — salvage crafted items back into materials instead of wasting them.
  • Armoire — a bui

Install & use Install: BepInEx plugin

  1. The archive from playbuff is the mod itself — usually a BepInEx plugin (a .dll or a plugin folder once unzipped).
  2. 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.
  3. Manual route: install the BepInEx loader in the game folder, then drop the unzipped .dll or plugin folder into BepInEx/plugins/.
  4. 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.

Dependencies

Install these first, or the mod will not work:

ValheimModding-HookGenPatcherCW_Jesse-BetterNetworking_ValheimGoldenrevolver-Quick_Stack_Store_Sort_Trash_RestockSmoothbrain-CreatureLevelAndLootControlValheimModding-YamlDotNetValheimModding-JsonDotNETAzumatt-Official_BepInEx_ConfigurationManagerdenikson-BepInExPack_Valheim

File & checksum

Filename
Hearthbound_Valheim_Modpack-5.3.0.zip
File size
1.6 MiB