QoL Options
Quality of life without changing the balance: fill stations in one go, use nearby chests, recipe search, crafting queue, build undo, stability preview, sticky attack, auto eat and more. Achievements k
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QoL Options
Less clicking, same Valheim. A pack of quality-of-life features that cut the tedious parts of the game without
changing its balance: fill stations in one go, use materials from nearby chests, search recipes, queue crafts,
undo a misplaced piece, see a piece's stability before placing it, and more.
Every feature can be switched on or off in-game, in Settings → QoL, and Steam achievements keep working.
If this saved you some clicks, you can buy me a coffee ☕
Features
Chests & Stations
- Fill stations in one go: hold Left Shift and press E on a smelter, kiln, fire, torch or cooking
station to fill it with everything it takes.
- Use items from nearby chests: fuel and building or crafting materials can come from chests around the
station or build spot, not only from your inventory (food for cooking stations still comes only from you).
Locked chests and chests someone else has open are skipped.
- Quick Stack button in the inventory: sends your items into nearby chests that already hold them (your
hotbar stays put).
Crafting
- Recipe search: a search field above the recipe list of every crafting interface.
- Crafting queue: a Queue button next to Craft lines up several crafts or upgrades.
- Repair everything at once at a crafting station.
Building
- Stability preview: while placing a piece, its preview is tinted with the support it would get there, in the
hammer's colors (blue: full, green to red: weaker, red: it would fall).
- Undo (Ctrl+Z with the hammer out): reverses your last 3 placements and removals. Materials are refunded or
spent again, as if done by hand.
- Area repair: with the hammer's repair tool, hold Attack to repair every damaged piece around you (same stamina
and hammer wear per piece as by hand).
- Deconstruct to inventory: materials from removed pieces go straight into your inventory, even past the weight
limit.
- Remove carts and ships with the hammer (empty cargo, nobody aboard or pulling).
- Seasonal items all year: the Yule, Halloween and other seasonal pieces and recipes, any time of the year, with
their normal materials.
Combat & Survival
- Sticky attack and block: hold Left Alt while clicking Attack or Block to keep it going without holding the
button; click again to stop. Plain clicks stay as in the normal game. If your weapon breaks mid-attack, the same
kind of weapon in the next slot is equipped and the attack goes on.
- Auto eat: when a food is about to run out, the same food is eaten again from your inventory.
Interface
- Stats panel: a Stats button next to Skills shows kills, skill level-ups, time alive and more, per
character.
- Network info: a small line under the minimap that tells whether lag comes from your connection, the server or
another player (ping, server delay, packet loss, who runs the creatures around you).
- Camera zoom: zoom out farther, set separately for on foot, riding and steering a ship.
Time & Weather (off by default)
Always day or night, a longer or shorter share of daylight, a forced weather, no misty weather (the Mistlands keep
their mist) and a fixed wind for sailing. Only what you see: on a server, others keep the normal sky.
Cheats (off by default)
For achievement hunting: almost no stamina or eitr use, up to 10x skill experience, never overweight, higher drop and
trophy chances, and spawn rate, population and pack size multipliers (raids stay normal). Achievements still unlock.
Installing
- Mod manager (recommended): install with r2modman or the app; BepInEx is installed for you.
- By hand: install BepInExPack Valheim, then
copy the contents of this package into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/QoL_Options.
Settings are in-game under Settings → QoL, or in BepInEx/config/com.lorthan.valheimpureqolmodpack.cfg.
Multiplayer
Only you need the mod; it works alone, when hosting and on dedicated servers. Nobody else sees a difference,
except where noted:
- Drop and trophy chances and the spawn multipliers only apply to creatures and areas your g
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: