YourThirsty

v2.1.2·Updated 2026-03-03

Adds a complete thirst and water system to Valheim. Drink from natural water, fill and use containers, boil water for safety, and manage hydration. See README and CHANGELOG for details.

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You're Thirsty

You can now drink, store and purify water from water sources in Valheim!

This is a complete hydration system. Your thirst drains constantly and not all water is safe. Boil your water to make sure that its safe to drink or your character will suffer from the consequences. Use containers to carry water and barrels to store it.

The Thirst System:

You now have the ability to drink from water sources in Valheim.

Use containers to drink from.

store water in barrels.

Boil the water to make sure its safe.

Water Containers:

Waterskin - small leather pouch. Crafted early.

Drinking Horn - holds less water than the waterskin

Water Bucket - high capacity. Essential for boiling water and filling the barrels.

Build Pieces -

Barrel - Large container used for storing water at your base. Fill using buckets and other containers.

Boiling Bucket - buildable after collecting boiling water from cauldron. Place on the ground to cool. pick it up for purified water.

Cauldron Boiling -

Boil water option appears in cauldrons menu. A live count down text will appear above cauldron when water is boiling. When the countdown is done, collect boiling water bucket and use your hammer to place it.

Buffs and Debuffs:

Hydrated - drinking clean water will improve movement speed and stamina regen

Dirty water sickness - drinking dirty water can cause your character to puke and can also reduce movement speed.

Thirsty - if your thirst bar is low, your character will have reduced movement speed and decreased combat effectiveness.

BOILING THE WATER REMOVES CONTAMINATION

How to Use

To drink from water or fill containers from natural sources, press CTRL near water

Use containers to carry water and refill them at water sources

Boiling water removes all contamination risk

Controls

All keys are configurable in the BepInEx config.

E near water - Drink directly or refill equipped container.

E near water with bucket in inventory - Fill the bucket.

E away from water - Empty your equipped container.

G with waterskin or horn equipped - Drink from container.

G at barrel with bucket - Pour bucket into barrel.

G at barrel with waterskin or horn - Pour container into barrel or fill from barrel.

CTRL near water to drink or fill containers

E away from water to empty your equipped container

G with a container equipped to drink from it

G at a barrel with a bucket to pour the bucket into the barrel

G at a barrel with a waterskin or horn to fill from the barrel

Difficulty Modes

Set in the BepInEx config under DifficultyLevel.

Easy - Slow drain, large containers, short sickness, fast boiling.

Casual - Balanced default. Recommended starting point.

Hard - Fast drain, small containers, long sickness, slow boiling.

Custom - Set every value manually. Prevents presets from overwriting.

Set the difficulty in the BepInEx config under DifficultyLevel

Easy mode has slow thirst drain and short sickness

Casual is balanced and recommended

Hard mode has fast drain and long sickness

Custom lets you set every value manually

Configuration

A config file is created at BepInEx/config/marc.yourthirsty.cfg on first launch

Adjust thirst duration, container capacities, boil and cool times, buff durations, sickness length, speed penalties, and more

Set DifficultyLevel to Custom before making manual changes

A config file is created at BepInEx/config/marc.yourthirsty.cfg on first launch. Adjust thirst duration, container capacities, boil and cool times, buff durations, sickness length, speed penalties, and more.

Set DifficultyLevel to Custom before making manual changes or the preset values will overwrite yours.

Installation

Use r2modman or Mod Manager and search for YourThirsty

Manual install: place YourThirsty.dll and yourthirstyassets in a YourThirsty folder inside BepInEx/plugins

Requires BepInEx 5.4 or higher

r2modman or Mod Manager - Search for Your Thirsty and click Install.

Manual - Place YourThirsty.dll an

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
YourThirsty-2.1.2.zip
File size
40.8 MiB