Plateautem

v0.4.3·Updated 2026-09-25

Terrain flattening totem.

About this mod Author’s original text

Plateautem

A Valheim mod that adds a totem for terrain flattening.

Instructions

The totem needs to supplied with fuel, stone and tools depending on what you want it to do.

  • All operations require fuel.
  • Lowering terrain requires a pickaxe and will generate stone.
  • Raising terrain requires a hoe and will consume stone.
  • Higher tier pickaxes will be slowed down less by the digging operation.

Most features can be modified in the config file in your Valheim install folder at Valheim/BepInEx/config/com.erkle64.Plateautem.cfg

To flatten terrain downward

  • Place the totem on terrain at the desired height.
  • Place fuel (wood/resin/coal) in your hotbar.
  • Look at the totem and press the hotbar number, from step 2, to select the fuel type.
  • Tap E to insert one fuel item or hold E to insert as many as possible.
  • Add a pickaxe by putting it in your hotbar and pressing that number while looking at the totem.
  • If the totem's stone storage is full press \* on the number pad to eject it.

To flatten terrain upward

  • Place the totem on terrain at the desired height.
  • Place fuel (wood/resin/coal) in your hotbar.
  • Look at the totem and press the hotbar number, from step 2, to select the fuel type.
  • Tap E to insert one fuel item or hold E to insert as many as possible.
  • Place stone in your hotbar.
  • Look at the totem and press the hotbar number, from step 5, to select stone.
  • Tap E to insert one fuel item or hold E to insert as many as possible.
  • Add a hoe by putting it in your hotbar and pressing that number while looking at the totem.

To flatten terrain completely

Follow the previous steps adding both a pickaxe and hoe. You may need to eject or add stone depending on the terrain.

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-Jotunn

File & checksum

Filename
Plateautem-0.4.3.zip
File size
165.7 KiB