Hearthwife
Homestead wife for your Valheim home: idol, chores, presence, and comfort. Follows your game language.
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Hearthwife
A homestead wife for your Valheim home — presence, chores, and comfort around a wooden idol.
By blackhearthx. Single-player focused. Follows your game language (EN, PT-BR, DE, FR, ES, and more).
Place one idol → she lives in the circle → cook, gather, repair, keep the fire, rest.
How to use (tutorial)
- Place the idol
Hammer → Furniture → Wife Idol.
Only one idol per world is allowed.
She appears near the idol. The blue circle is her home area.
- Controls (look at the idol)
| Key | Action |
| --- | --- |
| E | Open her chest |
| Shift+E | Open the menu |
| Crouch+E | Call her back / unstuck (bring to the idol) |
Looking at her (not the idol): E talks when she is free.
- Choose a lifestyle (menu → Home)
| Mode | What she does |
| --- | --- |
| Home life | Presence only — stroll, sit, sleep. No chores. |
| Balanced | Works with pauses between tasks. |
| Hardworking | Prioritizes chores; idle only when nothing to do. |
Also on Home: set her name and bed (look at a bed and press E when prompted).
- Chores (menu → Work)
Turn on what you want inside the idol circle:
- Keep fires / torches lit (optional wood reserve in base chests)
- Repair buildings
- Prepare meals (uses food from her idol chest)
- Gather bushes and floor items (pick categories: berries, mushrooms, herbs…)
- Life / presence (menu → Life)
Optional comforts: sit on chairs, sit by the fire, daytime nap, home comfort bonus, map pin (heart), warn on house damage, affection when you stand near her.
Tips
- Put wood / food she needs in her idol chest (and base chests for fire wood reserve).
- If she freezes or gets stuck: Crouch+E on the idol once.
- Night: she walks to her assigned bed to sleep (if day/night is enabled).
- Rain: in Home life she prefers shelter; work modes keep working.
Como usar (PT-BR)
- Coloque o ídolo
Martelo → Mobília → Ídolo da esposa (só um por mundo).
- Controles (olhando o ídolo)
| Tecla | Ação |
| --- | --- |
| E | Abrir o baú dela |
| Shift+E | Abrir o menu |
| Agachar+E | Chamar / destravar (traz ao ídolo) |
Olhando ela: E conversa quando estiver livre.
3–5. Menu
- Aba Lar: modo Vida no lar / Misto / Trabalhadora, nome e cama.
- Aba Tarefas: fogo, reparo, refeições, recolher.
- Aba Vida: sentar, conforto, pin no mapa, carinho…
O idioma do menu segue o idioma do Valheim. As imagens do tutorial em inglês (acima) mostram o mesmo fluxo.
Requirements
- BepInExPack Valheim
- Jötunn
Config
After first launch: BepInEx/config/com.blackhearthx.hearthwife.cfg
Identity
| | |
| --- | --- |
| Package | blackhearthx-Hearthwife |
| GUID | com.blackhearthx.hearthwife |
Do not change the GUID after release.
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: