FeedLikeGrandma

FeedLikeGrandma

Feed creatures by hand to tame, grow, heal, and level them up. Capture and carry tames in Taming Orbs with creature icons, or automate feeding with Feed Barrels. Supports custom foods, modded creatures, stacked fed time, and riding improvements.

The current source targets Valheim 1.0.7 and BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350, using original game DLLs. See compatibility notes for changes and validation limits.

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Feed-driven progression

Turn food into taming progress and complete the full wild-to-tamed journey by hand.

Feed a tamed juvenile to advance its growth timer and raise it into its adult prefab.

Once growth is complete, feeding advances level progress and raises the creature one level at a time.

Feed creatures directly from your inventory and see the accepted foods, taming gain, and stacked fed time immediately.

Automatic feeding

Hungry tameables walk to real food supplied from a nearby Feed Barrel, preserving normal pathfinding and eating behavior.

Build the dedicated Feed Barrel with a configurable recipe, material, and container size.

Taming Orb

Capture one tamed creature for travel, then release it at the surface under your aim.

Every filled orb overlays the captured creature on its icon, making multiple stored tameables easy to identify.

Craft reusable Taming Orbs from a configurable recipe and crafting station.

Food and progress UI

Daily foods appear in one row with their individual food numbers, while hover text shows fed and level progress.

Juvenile creatures show growth and fed timers, with level progression locked until growth is complete.

Level-up-only food is displayed above ordinary food with the exact level transition it advances.

Assign special level-up food by current creature level, including required item quality and a custom progress value.

A configured level can require its own exclusive food without replacing the creature's everyday diet.

Taming boost

TamingBoost tooltips expose the active passive-taming, passive-growth, and feed-efficiency multipliers.

Riding compatibility

Configured biome restrictions force dragons out of flight and reject new flight attempts with clear feedback.

Compatibility handling keeps riders attached when supported Monstrum mounts perform their own jump.

Core progression

Each food has a foodNumber. The active feed constants convert that number into five effects:

| Effect | Calculation | Result |

| --- | --- | --- |

| Level | foodNumber * levelupconstant | Level progress |

| Taming | foodNumber * tamingconstant | Seconds removed from taming time |

| Growth | foodNumber * growthconstant | Seconds added to growth progress |

| Healing | foodNumber * healconstant | Percent of maximum health restored |

| Fed | foodNumber * fedconstant | Seconds added to the fed timer |

The current creature state decides which progression effect is relevant:

• A wild tameable gains taming progress.
• A tamed creature with Growup gains growth progress.
• A fully grown, tamed creature gains level progress.
• Every accepted daily or level-up food can restore health and add fed time.

Manual feeding can consume several matching items from the selected stack, up to Max Items Per Feed. When the amount would cross a level boundary, FeedLikeGrandma consumes only enough items for that boundary and grants at most one level per feed action.

Quick start

• Install BepInEx for Valheim.
• Put FeedLikeGrandma.dll in BepInEx/plugins/FeedLikeGrandma.
• In multiplayer, install the same mod version on the server and every client.
• Start the game and enter a world once.
• Edit the generated files under BepInEx/config/FeedLikeGrandma.
• Use a valid food item on a creature, or build a Feed Barrel for automatic feeding.

The mod creates:

| File | Purpose |

| --- | --- |

| sighsorry.FeedLikeGrandma.cfg | General, feeding, leveling, riding, and compatibility settings |

| FeedLikeGrandma/feed.yml | Your active feed and prefab overrides |

| FeedLikeGrandma/feed.reference.yml |