PavedRoadAnywhere

Paved Road Anywhere

A deliberately tiny Valheim client-side BepInEx/Harmony mod.

What it does

Exactly one gameplay change:

• Removes the crafting-station requirement from the vanilla Paved Road

Hoe action, allowing it to be used without a nearby Stonecutter.

Everything else remains vanilla:

• Still costs 1 Stone.
• Does not unlock Paved Road early.
• Does not alter Hoe stamina use.
• Does not alter terrain behavior.
• Does not change movement speed or stamina on roads.
• Does not affect Hammer pieces.
• Does not patch Frelsi Hammer.
• Does not patch BuildCamera.
• Adds no items, prefabs, RPCs, configuration, or save data.

Targeting

Valheim 1.0.x uses the vanilla Paved Road prefab ID paved_road_v2.

This mod targets that exact prefab when Valheim refreshes or switches the active

piece table. The older paved_road ID is accepted only as a legacy fallback.

Non-Hoe build tables are ignored naturally because they do not contain the target.

The mod does not scan the build table from Player.HaveRequirements, so ordinary

Hammer placement does not gain a per-requirement table scan.

Multiplayer

The change is local to the Piece definition used for requirement checks.

No network protocol, RPC, prefab, or save-data changes are introduced.

Install it on every client that should be able to pave without a nearby

Stonecutter. If a server-side mod or future Valheim version adds an independent

server validation for this action, that validation can still reject placement.

Expected test

• Start Valheim with PavedRoadAnywhere enabled.
• Unlock the Stonecutter/Paved Road normally.
• Put at least 1 Stone in your inventory.
• Move well outside every Stonecutter radius.
• Equip the Hoe.
• Select Paved Road.
• Pave the ground.
• Confirm exactly 1 Stone is consumed.
• Confirm ordinary Pathen/Level Ground behavior is unchanged.
• Confirm Frelsi Hammer + BuildCamera still behave as before.

Expected BepInEx log line:

Paved Road found; its crafting-station requirement was removed.

If the exact target is not present in a piece table, that table is left untouched.

When the Hoe table containing Paved Road is opened, the target is patched once and

the normal success line is written.