TheGreatHall

The Great Hall

A server-authoritative character system and leaderboard for Valheim dedicated servers.

The server owns your character. It keeps the authoritative copy, hands it back when you join, and

a character levelled somewhere else cannot be walked in. Everyone on the server earned what they are

carrying, on that server.

There is also a hall — press F7 — with the realm's boss progress across the top, a leaderboard

ranking everyone by deaths, power level or skill category, and a dossier on every Viking you click.

Deaths say what killed you: "HEINLIEN was killed by a Troll", "HEINLIEN fell to their death".

Valheim 1.0.7

Build 51 is rebuilt for Valheim 1.0.7 (network version 39). Anything earlier will not work on

1.0.7: the update moved several fields this mod reads, and an older build takes the dedicated

server down with it rather than just failing quietly. If you are running an earlier build, replace

both halves.

⚠ This is a development build

It works, and it has been tested fairly hard by one person. It has not been tested with several

people playing at once, which is the next thing on the list. Expect rough edges, expect bugs, and

please do not put it on a server whose characters you would be upset to lose.

If something breaks, or you just want to tell me it is bad, find me as Zomax in the

Valheim Modding Discord.

Try it without installing a server

There is a live test server running this. Client mod only — install it, join, and see what happens.

srv1936396.hstgr.cloud:2456

password: valheim

It is realm-locked, so you will be asked whether to hand your character over the first time, and you

will start there with a brand new character.

The hall

Boss progress across the top — the realm's saga, with each boss's own trophy icon, lit when

felled. This is the one figure on the board nobody can fake: bosses write a key into the world save

when they die and the server reads its own keys. No client is involved.

The leaderboard, sortable by deaths, power level, or any of the three skill categories.

Click any name for that Viking's dossier:

• Deeds — monsters slain, bosses felled, blocks, parries, items crafted, pieces built, trees

felled, ore mined, distance travelled and sailed

• Equipped — a paper doll of what they are carrying, drawn with the game's own item art
• Slain — their kills broken down by creature
• Killed by — what has killed them, and how often
• Recent deaths — the last twenty, by world day
• Skills — every skill they have raised, grouped and ranked

Deaths are measured by the server from the character's own state, so a death cannot be hidden or

invented. Everything else is reported by the player's client: honest for honest players, which is

what a leaderboard needs. It is not an anti-cheat system and does not pretend to be.

What it does to your character

Nothing, unless you agree. Before anything is applied, the mod stops and tells you in plain words

what the server is about to do, and you can disconnect instead. That question is asked once per

character, per server.

On a realm server:

• Your first visit starts a brand new character — no gear, no skills. Your name, face, hair and

beard come with you; nothing else does.

• The server's copy is the one that counts. Whatever that character did elsewhere is not part of

it.

• Your own character file is never read, written or deleted. The realm character is held

separately, and nothing touches the character you picked at the menu.

• Everything you earn there is uploaded and given back next time — skills, inventory, food, recipes,

appearance, and where you were standing and what you had explored.

Progress is uploaded every few minutes, on death, on logout, and a few seconds after your inventory

changes. An unclean exit — a crash or a power cut — can cost the last few seconds. A normal logout

costs nothing.

The consent prompt carries one optional extra, off by default: whether to keep your

character-select slot updated with your realm progress, so th