TorvaldsAffordablePavers
A magical paving cart from Torvald's Affordable Pavers. Load it with stone, pull it around, and watch as it levels terrain and creates paved roads with sparks and style.
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Torvald's Affordable Pavers
"Leave a path of stone wherever you roam!"
A Valheim mod from Torvald's Affordable Pavers that adds a paving cart - load it with stone and pull it around to automatically create paved stone roads. Perfect for connecting your bases with proper Viking infrastructure, complete with sparks.
Torvald's been busy in his workshop again, and this time he's solved the age-old Viking problem of trudging through mud and rough terrain between settlements. His latest contraption is part cart, part road-laying machine, and part sorcery. Just toss some stones in the back, flip the lever, and start walking - the cart will lay down a paved path behind you, leveling the ground and clearing small obstacles as it goes.
How to Use
- Craft the Paving Cart at a workbench with:
- 2 Surtling Cores (for the magical paving power)
- 20 Elder Bark (sturdy cart construction)
- 10 Bronze Nails (quality fittings)
- 2 Iron (for the grinding mechanism)
- 8 Stone (initial paving material)
- Load with stone - Put any stone materials in the cart's container
- Regular Stone works perfectly
- Cart will reject non-stone items automatically
- Toggle paving - Use the lever on the right side of the cart
- Interactive club-shaped lever shows current status
- Green sparks when paving is active
- Toggle leveling - Use the lever on the left side of the cart
- Leveling is on by default
- Turn it off to lay road over the ground as it is, without flattening or smoothing
- Only works while paving is on
- Pull and pave - Attach and pull the cart around
- Creates paved stone paths automatically every ~1 meter
- Levels terrain and clears grass/clutter
- Falls back to terrain leveling when out of stone
Visual Indicators
- Sparks effect - Orange sparks fly when paving is active
- Glowing surtling core - Visible power source mounted on the cart
- Interactive levers - Paving on/off on the right, leveling on/off on the left
Technical Details
- Paving Radius: 1.2 meters around cart position (configurable)
- Stone Cost: 1 stone per paved section
- Paving Interval: Every 1 meter of travel
- Terrain Operations: Uses vanilla Valheim terrain pieces for proper persistence
- Multiplayer Compatible: All effects synchronized across players. The server and every client need the same 1.2.x version
Configuration
Server admins can tune how wide the cart paves and where the road lands. These settings are admin-only and sync from the server to every player. Change them in BepInEx/config/com.torvald.pavers.cfg or with a configuration manager.
[Paving]
Radius for terrain leveling, when leveling is on (0.5 to 5)
LevelRadius = 1.2
Radius for terrain smoothing, when leveling is on (0.5 to 5)
SmoothRadius = 1.2
Radius for the road texture (0.5 to 5)
PaintRadius = 1.2
Where the road lands relative to the cart center: left/right, up/down, forward/back (-2 to 2)
OffsetX = 0
OffsetY = -0.2
OffsetZ = 0
Raise (positive) or lower (negative) the leveled ground. Helps stop the cart digging in on slopes (-1 to 1)
LevelOffset = 0
Installation
Install with a mod manager or manually place the files in your BepInEx/plugins folder. Requires Valheim 1.0 or later, BepInEx and Jotunn.
Known Issues
None currently known.
Support
Found a bug or have a suggestion? Visit the GitHub repository for issues and updates.
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: