SmarterHoe

v1.2.2·Updated 2026-10-10

Comprehensive Hoe overhaul: Cultivator & crop grid on Hoe, Undo/Redo, Altitude Lock, Instant Plateau, Spline Roads, Measure mode, Live stone cost, Soften/Restore, Clear Debris, Harvest & Replant, Craf

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SmarterHoe

A comprehensive, precision terrain-editing overhaul for the Valheim hoe.

SmarterHoe equips you with a professional suite of terraforming and agriculture tools — from all Cultivator abilities and progression-gated crop planting built directly into the hoe, to laser-flat plateau leveling, multi-waypoint spline road carving, full multi-step undo/redo, 3D previews, 9-language localization, and server-authoritative dedicated server synchronization — all while staying fully balanced for survival play.

🌟 Features

🌾 Full Cultivator Integration & Intelligent Farming Grid

All Cultivator abilities and plantables are now integrated directly into the Hoe — no more swapping tools or wasting inventory slots!

  • Intelligent Farming Grid System (F8): Plant crops, vegetables, and sapling rows in neat, organized grids with a single click.
  • Automatic Healthy Spacing: Automatically calculates safe growth distance dynamically based on each crop's growRadius. Crops planted in the grid will never fail to mature or complain with "Needs more space".
  • Adjustable Grid Radius: Press Q (or hold Alt) and scroll your mouse wheel, or use [ and ], to adjust grid radius with live HUD dimensions (1x1, 3x3, 5x5, etc.).
  • Visual Color-Coded Previews & Boundary:

🟢 Green: Valid planting spot & seeds available.

🟡 Yellow: Valid spot, but out of seeds.

🔴 Red: Blocked, uncultivated, wrong biome, or underwater.

  • Proximity Row Snapping: Snaps the grid to align with nearby existing crop rows of the same type. Hold Shift to bypass snapping for freeform placement.
  • Mass Area Harvesting (Shift + E): Press Shift + E while aiming at crops or empty ground to harvest all mature crops and pickables in a configurable radius (default: 5m). Harvested items are automatically vacuumed directly into your inventory!
  • Harvest Filter & Auto-Replant (C): Press C to cycle between All Pickables, Replantable Crops only, or specific detected crops. Enable EnableHarvestReplant in config to immediately replant harvested fields in place!
  • AzuCraftyBoxes & Nearby Chest Support: Batch planting, single-crop placement, and area harvest replanting seamlessly pull seeds and vegetables from nearby chests and containers (with AzuCraftyBoxes integration).
  • Square vs. Circle Grid Geometry (G): Toggle between rectangular grid and circular planting patterns. Rotate the grid with scroll wheel or arrow keys.
  • Batch Crop Undo & Refund (Ctrl+Z): Made a mistake or misclicked? Press Ctrl+Z to cleanly remove all newly planted crops from the world and refund the seeds directly back to your inventory.
  • Cultivate & Replant on the Hoe: Till fertile soil (Cultivate) and restore lush meadow grass (Replant) directly from the Hoe's right-click build menu.
  • Square Brush & Large-Scale Tilling: Scale cultivation radius up to 20m, or switch to the Square Brush (G) with custom rotation to create perfectly aligned, razor-sharp farming beds.
  • Continuous Hold-to-Sweep Farming: Hold down left-click to continuously till soil or regrow grass as you walk across the landscape.
  • All Vanilla & Modded Crops: Plant carrots, seed carrots, turnips, seed turnips, onions, seed onions, barley, flax, Jotun puffs, Magecaps, Smoke puffs, Fiddleheads, Vineberries, and tree saplings, plus crops from farming mods (PlantEverything, OdinCrops, etc.).
  • Strict Progression & Discovery Gating: Players will never see or plant any crop or sapling they have not yet discovered in the world. Only when seeds or materials are discovered do the corresponding plants appear in the Hoe build menu.

📏 Measure Mode — In-Game 3D Laser Tape & Ruler (N)

With the Hoe or Cultivator equipped, press N to measure between any two points in the world:

  • Point A to Point B: First press sets Point A with a cyan 3D ring; second press sets Point B and locks the measurement; third press or Esc clears.
  • Live 3D Ruler: Displays a live line connecting your aim point in real-time.
  • Full Elevation & Slope Diagnostics: Displays 3D distance, horizontal distance,

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:

denikson-BepInExPack_Valheim

File & checksum

Filename
SmarterHoe-1.2.2.zip
File size
928.3 KiB