VikingQoL

VikingQoL

Quality-of-life for Valheim, built to be safe on dedicated servers: storage, crafting, stations and building helpers in one mod, with a server-synced config.

• Bigger stacks: 5× by default (wood 50 → 250). Weapons, armor and tools stay at 1.
• Shared chests: several players can use one chest at the same time. Hovering shows who has it open.
• Craft from chests: crafting, building, smelting, cooking and refueling use items from nearby chests.
• Shift+E bulk add: fill a smelter, kiln, fire, oven or turret with one press.
• Longer build reach: place, remove and repair from further away (8 m instead of 5).
• Build camera: float the camera around your character with the hammer out, to build roofs and tall walls (press B near a workbench).
• Timers on hover: smelters, fermenters, cooking stations and fires show how long they will run. Animals, eggs, beehives and sap collectors show when the next thing happens.
• Crafting window: ingredients show how many you have (inventory plus nearby chests) out of how many you need, and the recipe list can be sorted by name, type or weight.
• Clock: the day and the time under the minimap, with how long until night falls.
• Chest peek: hovering a chest shows what's inside as item icons with totals.
• Portal pins: every portal in the world on your map, with its name, in areas you've explored.
• Creature markers: optional dots on the minimap: red for monsters, yellow for animals, green for tamed (off by default).
• Player colors: every player's arrow and name on the map has their color.
• Beacons and look pings: middle-click on the map to put down a beam of light everyone can see; press the middle mouse button in the world to ping what you're aiming at, for 20 seconds.
• Chest labels: rename chests and give the name a color; both show on hover and in the chest window.
• Locked slots: lock inventory slots so Quick stack, Place stacks and Sort leave them alone.
• Sort, quick stack, restock, chest counts in item tooltips, and a Craft: ON/OFF toggle.
• Settings window: change your own settings in game, from the Esc menu.

Don't run it together with other mods that change stack sizes, share chests or craft from chests, as they would conflict.

Install

The server and every player need the same VikingQoL version; the server refuses anyone else. Update everyone together.

• Windows: install with r2modman or the Mod Manager; update with its Update button.
• macOS: install with a -compatible manager such as Macheim, or manually (below).
• Manual / dedicated server: put VikingQoL.dll in BepInEx/plugins/VikingQoL/ (needs BepInExPack_Valheim).

Check in game: /vqol in chat shows the version.

About this mod

VikingQoL started as a little project for a group of friends sharing one server, and it was made entirely with AI. We play with it and test each update in our own world, but it hasn't been through a professional code review.

You're warmly welcome to use it, change it and share it however you like. It comes as-is, with no warranty: please back up your worlds and characters before installing, and use it at your own risk. I'm not able to take responsibility for problems it might cause, or to offer support.

Using it

Settings window

Press Esc and click VikingQoL (under Settings), or type /vqol settings in chat. Your own settings are sorted into tabs: Storage, Map, Stations, Building and General. Changes apply right away and are saved. Point at a setting to see what it does. Reset this tab sets the tab back to its defaults. Esc or Close takes you back to the menu.

The Server tab shows the server's current settings, like stack size, chest range and which features are on. You can't change them there. Only the server's config file can.

• Hotkeys: click the key box and press the new key. Combos with Shift, Ctrl or Alt work. Esc cancels, Backspace removes the key. If the key is already used by the game or by VikingQoL, the window asks first, and keys used twice get a! mark.
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