Ironfjord Vanilla
Comfortable vanilla experience with difficulty scaling as you progress. QoL improvements, an MMO leveling system, new mounts, alternative ways to obtain rare resources, and much more to discover. Easy
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Ironfjord Vanilla+
Enhanced vanilla experience with progression-based difficulty scaling. Easy to install for groups wanting a ready-made modpack.
Designed to expand Valheim while staying as faithful as possible to the original experience, this modpack introduces improved progression systems, quality of life features, and enhanced vanilla mechanics. Discover new skills, expanded taming and mounts, cooperative sailing bonuses, and alternative progression paths that reward exploration. Forget tedious farming and uncover hidden ways to obtain valuable resources, leaving more time to build, explore, and enjoy the adventure. Boss progression has also been reworked to provide a more engaging challenge while preserving the spirit and atmosphere of Valheim.
Ironfjord Vanilla+ is easy to install and requires no manual configuration. Simply create a world, invite your friends, and start your adventure while enjoying additional progression, convenience, and replayability without losing the original Valheim experience.
An installation guide for the server will be available soon.
Features
- Refined user interface with aesthetic visual improvements.
- Countless quality of life improvements across the entire game.
- MMO-inspired leveling system with attribute point allocation up to level 200.
- Reworked and improved Woodcutting, Mining, Weapon, Sneak, Run, Jump, and Knowledge Sharing skills.
- New Hauling skill, attach yourself to the back of a cart and help your friends move heavy loads.
- New Voyager skill, gain crew-assisted sailing bonuses and additional piloting advantages.
- Crafting directly from nearby containers with progression scaling as you upgrade your chests.
- Increase your inventory capacity as you defeat bosses.
- Expanded farming with all available plants.
- Tame up to 15 additional vanilla creatures.
- Ride 11 vanilla creatures turned into mounts across land, sea, and air.
- Enhanced creature progression with colored stars, infusions, and boss powers.
- Biomes remain fully vanilla until their boss has been defeated.
- Boss trophies are heavier and can no longer be teleported.
- Alternative progression paths allow some key items to be crafted without defeating bosses.
- Earn Steam achievements directly while playing without devcommands.
- Secret feature introducing two hidden alternative ways to obtain ores, boss summon items, and more.
Ironfjord Vanilla+ is still in BETA, and gameplay balance is continuously being refined.
Installation
- Install Mod Manager or r2modman.
- Open your mod manager, select Valheim and create a new profile with any name.
- Click Install on this page or search for Ironfjord Vanilla in your mod manager.
- Once installed, click Edit config → search quick_connect_servers → Open File → add your server and save.
- Launch with Modded and you're ready to play. Welcome to Ironfjord!
Upcoming Beta Features
- Additional balance improvements and progression adjustments.
- Automatic server synchronization across updates.
- User customization support with persistent settings.
- Optional texture packs improvements.
- Loading screen tips and feature guides.
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Credits
Thanks everyone for the support, with special thanks to Shudnal, Redseiko, Meldurson, Astevus and Modding Corner for their help in resolving various mods related issues.
If you have any suggestions or need help, you can contact me on Github on any project.
Harchytek
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: