QoL Adventure
A quality-of-life modpack for Valheim 1.0: ImpactfulSkills plus Vitality, Dual Wield and Fermenting, a skill-loss floor, adjustable/map-click portals, craft-from-containers and achievements. Built on
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QoL Adventure
A quality-of-life modpack for Valheim, built on Jotunn.
Targets Valheim 1.0.7. This version replaces the Smoothbrain per-skill mods and
several other Valheim 1.0-broken mods with maintained equivalents — see the changelog.
Valheim 1.0 notes
- Vitality and Dual Wield are still on their pre-1.0 Smoothbrain builds. They
load and work in testing.
What's included
Framework
| Mod | Version | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| BepInExPack Valheim by denikson | 5.4.2351 | The BepInEx modding framework, preconfigured for Valheim. Required by everything else. |
| Jotunn by ValheimModding | 2.30.2 | "The Valheim Library" — a modding API several mods below are built on. Updated for Valheim 1.0.7. |
| YamlDotNet by ValheimModding | 16.3.1 | YAML library. |
| BetterNetworking by SimplifyDave | 1.2.0 | Improves multiplayer performance via compression, queue size, and send rate tuning. Author: "install it on the dedicated server and on every modded client" — required on both ends for compression negotiation. |
Skills
| Mod | Version | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| ImpactfulSkills by MidnightMods | 0.21.0 | Overhauls and adds skills so progression feels meaningful. Reworks Woodcutting, Pickaxes (AOE mining 50+), Gathering/Farming (AOE harvest 50+), weapon stamina cost, Sneaking, Run, Jump, Cooking, Fishing, Blood Magic and Crafting quality; adds Voyager (sailing), Hauling (carry weight) and Animal Whisper (taming). Replaces the individual Smoothbrain skill mods. |
| Vitality by Smoothbrain | 1.1.3 | Adds a skill that raises base health (default x2 at level 100 = +25 base HP). Bonus HP regen at level 30, extra HP from food at level 50. |
| Dual Wield by Smoothbrain | 1.0.10 | Dual wield axes, clubs, knives or swords (both hands the same type). Separate skill per weapon type; axes get a special attack. Not spears. |
| Fermenting by blacks7ar | 1.1.8 | Adds a skill that scales fermenting production speed and output — higher skill level ferments faster and yields more, up to double output at level 100. Configurable XP gain. |
| SkillFloors by Armikur | 1.2.2 | Each skill keeps a minimum "floor" that rises at 15% of the normal gain rate; on death, skills can't drop below their floor. Replaces FortifySkillsRedux. |
Gameplay & QoL
| Mod | Version | Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| PortalMap by korCaptain | 1.0.1 | Map-click portal travel: click any accessible portal on the map or pick it from a scrollable list. Public/Private/Guild access modes and colour-coded minimap pins. Replaces TargetPortal. |
| AdjustablePortals by MidnightMods | 0.6.0 | Makes portal progression more gradual: optional building-piece requirement and fuel cost to activate a portal, boss-gated item teleportation, and mounts/tames/carts that can travel through with you. |
| CraftFromContainers by UnderHeiz | 4.0.62 | Pulls resources from nearby containers within a configurable range when crafting, building, or fuelling smelters/kilns. Client-side only. |
| CraftMeOnce by turbero | 1.0.5 | Marks recipes you haven't crafted yet with an exclamation mark at the workstation, and adds a repair-all button. Client-side; good for 100% completion runs. |
| DetailedLevels by turbero | 2.1.4 | Pin a skill to watch its progress live as an on-screen buff with fractional levels and adjustable skill-up messages; adds player stats to the skills panel. |
| SpearFix by coemt | 0.0.4 | Small tweak to vanilla spears: a bit more attack range, slightly lower attack height, longer spear model. Configurable attack speed. |
| AzuClock by Azumatt | 1.1.0 | Adds a configurable on-screen clock. |
| Unshamed by Azumatt | 1.0.5 | Unblocks Valheim's achievements, which 1.0 disables whenever any mods are installed, and retroactively grants ones already earned while modded. Client-side only. |
| ProximityVoiceChat by Azumatt | 1.0.2 | Proximity voice chat — nearby players sound close, fade out with distance, and go silent out of range, with positional audio that reacts to walls/caves
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: