Valheim 1 0 Hard QoL

Valheim 1.0 — Hard Combat / Less Grind

This is a -ready modpack for a Valheim 1.0 dedicated server. It keeps combat dangerous while cutting repetitive gathering and base-management chores.

What this pack changes

• Hard combat is set through the world modifier, not a global difficulty preset.
• Resources use the 1.5× / More world modifier.
• Death penalty, raids, and portal item restrictions stay normal.
• Warfare, Armory, and Monstrum add progression content at their current defaults.
• EpicLoot uses the low-power minimal template. Boss-gated item drops remain enabled.
• OreSpreadQoL remains at its author defaults; it redistributes mining damage rather than multiplying ore.
• PlantEverything, MassFarming, and Seasons stay at their author defaults.
• CraftFromContainers pulls fuel, ore, and cooking ingredients from nearby containers, preferring the nearest one.
• Unified Target Portal gives destination selection while respecting the normal vanilla non-teleportable-item rule.
• BetterUI custom tooltips are disabled so EpicLoot enchantments display correctly.

Pinned package list

These are the live package versions checked on 2026-09-23:

| Package | Version | Install location |

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

| BepInExPack Valheim | 5.4.2350 | Server + client |

| Jotunn | 2.30.2 | Server + client |

| JsonDotNET | 13.0.4 | Server + client |

| ConditionalConfigSync | 1.0.9 | Server + client |

| Warfare | 1.9.4 | Server + client |

| Armory | 1.4.2 | Server + client |

| Monstrum | 1.6.0 | Server + client |

| EpicLoot | 0.14.12 | Server + client |

| OreSpreadQoL | 1.0.4 | Server + client |

| PlantEverything | 1.21.2 | Server + client |

| Seasons | 1.9.2 | Server + client |

| UnifiedTargetPortal | 1.0.4 | Server + client |

| CraftFromContainers | 4.0.62 | Client only |

| MassFarming | 1.13.0 | Client only |

| BetterUI ForeverMaintained | 2.5.12 | Client only |

The core libraries are explicitly pinned once at their current versions. A few upstream packages still declare older baseline library versions in their own metadata; do not manually add those older copies alongside this curated set.

Client install through r2modman

• Upload this ZIP to your own team as a Valheim Modpack. The package must keep manifest.json, README.md, and icon.png at the ZIP root.
• In r2modman, select Valheim, create a fresh profile, find your published pack, and install it. Start the game with Start modded.
• Every player must use the same published pack/version before joining the server.

Do not distribute this as a bare Import local mod ZIP and expect dependencies to download; local-mod imports do not resolve manifest dependencies. Publishing it first makes r2modman install the pinned dependency list normally.

Sparked Host server install

• Stop the server and create a world backup.
• In Sparked's Game Vault, install or confirm the clean Valheim BepInEx session. This server ZIP deliberately does not include BepInEx core files.
• Upload Valheim_1_0_Hard_QoL-1.0.0-Sparked_Server.zip to /home/container through SFTP or the file manager and extract it there. Merge the included BepInEx folder with the existing one; do not create BepInEx/BepInEx.
• Start the server once. The defaults intentionally left untouched will generate their own config files on this first boot.
• Confirm the BepInEx log shows the shared gameplay mods loading, then connect only with clients using this pack.

The server archive contains the actual server-side DLLs, their dependency DLLs, the shared configs, and Therzie localization files. It intentionally omits client-only BetterUI, CraftFromContainers, and MassFarming.

World modifiers

Do not select the combined Hard preset. Set the individual world modifiers instead:

| Setting | Value |

| --- | --- |

| Combat | Hard |

| Resources | More / 1.5× |

| Death penalty | Normal |

| Raids | Normal |

| Portals | Normal vanilla restrictions |

For an existing Sparked world, stop the server, downlo