FastLoading

FastLoading

FastLoading is now part of SteadyFrame. SteadyFrame contains everything in FastLoading and also makes play

around large bases smoother. This is the last FastLoading release: install SteadyFrame, remove

BepInEx/plugins/FastLoading.dll; your settings carry over on SteadyFrame's first start.

FastLoading speeds up Valheim portal travel and dungeon entrances. Between two heavily built bases a portal trip

went from 7-15 seconds to 2.5-4 on a large single-player world. The game's own area and floor checks are kept.

What it does

• Prepares the destination's terrain as you walk up to a portal, and puts it at the front of the game's terrain

queue during the transition.

• Creates the destination's zones and objects faster while the loading screen is up, starting with what the

arrival actually waits for; distant trees and bushes fill in over the first seconds after you arrive.

• Removes fixed minimum waits (the 8-second floor on portal travel, 2 seconds between teleports becomes 0.5).
• Keeps you safe on arrival: waits for a floor under a built destination and lifts you out if raised ground

loads after you.

• Optional: a short fade to black into and out of dungeons (Dungeon fade, off by default).
• Multiplayer: with FastLoading on the host too, the destination's objects are sent while you walk to the portal.

Requirements

• Valheim with BepInEx 5 on Windows.

Install

• Close Valheim.
• Extract this archive into the Valheim game directory. Verify that the DLL is at Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/FastLoading.dll.
• If upgrading from Valheim Frame Budget, delete the old Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/ValheimFrameBudget.dll.

Settings

Valheim/BepInEx/config/ru.ivest.valheimframebudget.cfg (the old plugin GUID keeps existing settings), all

changeable with Configuration Manager:

• 1 - General: Enabled.
• 2 - Transitions: Dungeon fade, Teleport cooldown, Narrow range while loading, Defer distant nature.
• 3 - Multiplayer: Early object delivery, Send boost (both need FastLoading on the host).

Only errors are logged: a game hook that could not be installed, usually after a game update.

What's new in 0.6.0

• Fixed: buildings could collapse after a teleport when they stood on ruins (such as the Black Forest towers)

or rocks that 0.5.0 created too late. Nothing solid is held back any more, and a streamed-in piece is never

judged for support while the objects around it are still appearing.

• Dungeon fade, the settings down to the seven a player may want, the terrain cache sized from system memory,

cheaper terrain rebuilds under built pieces, and a log that only shows errors.

See also

PortalPreview, a separate mod, shows where a portal leads inside its frame.

Problems and feedback

Write to me on Discord: Attach BepInEx/LogOutput.log from the game folder, or from the profile folder with a mod manager (r2modman: Settings → Browse profile folder), and say what you did when it happened.