Skald

Skald

Skald replaces Valheim's Start Game window with its own, and replaces the title screen logo and

the menu music with files of your choosing.

It ships set up for the Guys Being Vikings server, so the logo and track you get out of the

box are ours. Both are meant to be swapped for your own.

The Start Game Window

Click Start Game as you always have. There is no hotkey and nothing to switch on.

Your worlds and the server list run down the left, and everything about the one you picked fills

the right, which is where Valheim gives you nothing at all.

Everything the game's own window can do is here, so you never end up back in it: making and

removing worlds, world modifiers, managing saves, hosting options, and the full server browser.

Worlds

Pick a world to see its seed, where it is stored, and whether you are about to host it.

New asks for a name and a seed, with a button to roll a different one.

Modifiers opens the same presets and settings Valheim offers: Casual through Hardcore,

Hammer Mode, Immersive, and the individual sliders for combat, death penalty, resources, raids

and portals, plus the toggles for things like no build cost and passive enemies.

Saves lists every save with its size and backups. You can move a save between your computer

and cloud storage, delete old backups, and delete a save outright.

Remove deletes a world after asking you once.

Servers

The four lists Valheim uses are a rail down the left with live counts, so you can see at a glance

how many servers are in each. They are the same lists the game uses, so your favourites and

recent servers are shared with it.

Sorting. Sort by name, players, version or whether a server is up, and click again to

reverse. Valheim's browser cannot sort at all.

More servers. The community list shows everything that comes back. Valheim's own browser

stops at 200.

A Rejoin row at the top for the server you were last on, so getting back in after a crash is

one click.

Version warnings. A server on a different game version is marked in the list and the reason

is spelled out before you try, rather than after the join fails.

Nicknames and notes. Rename any server to something that means something to you. The name the

host advertised stays visible, so a renamed row is still identifiable.

Favourites, and adding by address. Add a server by typing its address, and favourite or drop

any entry.

Saved Passwords

Save a server's password once and Skald sends it for you. The password prompt stops appearing.

Passwords live in BepInEx/config/Skald/servers.json, which is its own file and deliberately not

the mod's config file, because a config is what people paste into Discord when troubleshooting.

They are encrypted with your Windows account, so the file is useless on another machine or

another user. If Windows encryption is unavailable the mod falls back to obfuscating them, says

so in the log and in the window, and you should not save a password you use anywhere else.

Saving is per server and opt-in. There is a Forget Key button, and deleting the file forgets

everything.

Using Your Own Logo and Music

Put your file in BepInEx/config/Skald/ and set its name in the config. That folder is checked

before the one the mod ships with, so your file survives an update and you never have to edit the

installed package.

The logo should be a PNG with a transparent background, around 1600px wide. It is fitted into the

space Valheim's logo occupies, so any shape works without being stretched. The transparency

matters because the logo sits over the forest and the campfire.

The music can be.ogg,.wav or.mp3. Ogg is recommended, as a wav of the same track is

around ten times the size.

The Crowd

The vikings around the campfire are generated fresh each time the menu loads, with different

hair, beards, colouring and armour. Nothing about them is saved.

They are placed clear of the fire, the rocks and your own character, and out of the line between

your character and the camera.

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