Need some Valheim mods to boost your Viking paradise? Although Iron Gate Studios, Valheim’s developer, does not formally assist mods, keen Norsefolk have made it work, including a heap of high quality of life mods, constructing mods, and simply usually patching up components of the sport the place there may nonetheless be enchancment.
Valheim has come a long way because it first launched early final 12 months, a lot in order that you can overlook it is nonetheless in early entry. The final main replace was Fireplace and Residence, tweaking all the pieces from Viking victuals, to fight, to constructing your perfect maintain. The following main replace is the Mistlands, and although we do not know when it’s going to arrive, it is set to flesh out the boggy biome of the identical title.
For those who’re seeking to change issues up a bit when you watch for future updates, Valheim mods are a good way of doing it. From useful adjustments to the strange, listed below are some our favorites.
Vital word: As Valheim does not formally assist mods, we do not know what impression mods will in the end have in your saved worlds and characters as the sport is developed in Early Entry. If you are going to mod your sport, be sure to frequently again up your character and world information (we explain how to do it here).
Constructing Mods
The constructing in Valheim is likely one of the issues that makes it so good, however with regards to setting sail, you do not have a lot selection in the best way your ship appears to be like. That is the place this mod is available in. The ValheimRAFT mod mainly means that you can use a raft base and construct upon it as you’d another construction, permitting you to artfully craft the ship of your desires. There are just a few further constructing items too, equivalent to a captain’s wheel and masts. As an added bonus, the conventional guidelines of constructing do not apply so you’ll be able to actually let your creativeness sail away with you.
Valheim Plus packs loads in, and could be the first actual overhaul mod—balancing, stat modifiers, and a few tweaks to manufacturing and processing speeds of fermenting and smelting.
However gamers who spend a whole lot of time engaged on their bases will prefer it most for the superior constructing and enhancing system. You’ll be able to freely transfer development items and gadgets exactly on the x, y, and z axis, and even edit the position of things after they have been constructed, somewhat than destroy and rebuild them. For those who’re decided to construct the Viking fort of your desires, you need to undoubtedly examine this mod out.
As an alternative of getting to undergo your numerous crates to seek out the sources you want earlier than constructing, crafting, smelting, or cooking, this mod means that you can get proper to work. It’s going to pull sources from any crates you’ve inside its customizable vary, so you are able to do your crafting with out a entire lot of rummaging round beforehand. It even works for upgrading gadgets, fueling campfires and torches, and including ore to smelters. Handy!
You’ve got most likely seen a few of the amazing forts, bases, and settlements Valheim gamers have been establishing. And now there is a strategy to add and obtain full buildings for your self and different gamers. Buildshare packs up buildings right into a .vbuild file that different gamers can obtain and import into their worlds.
Some of the spectacular components of Valheim’s vanilla constructing system is the way it works structurally, with each bit requiring a specific amount of assist from beneath—in any other case, buildings can collapse. However if you wish to have some enjoyable by constructing with out constraints (in singleplayer mode), go nuts. Each piece you construct will suppose it is being firmly supported, so you can construct as excessive and much as you need.
For those who do not need to blanket the world in workbenches, which should be erected to restore weapons and construct stuff, now you can convey them with you as an alternative. Artful Carts places your workbenches on wheels so you’ll be able to drag ’em world wide, get your work performed, and wheel ’em again. It is extraordinarily helpful.
This mod could not sound notably fancy but it surely’s tremendous helpful if, like me, you overlook which chest you place sure gadgets in. The sport already consists of supplies to make indicators that can assist you out, but it surely’s straightforward to combine issues up when you’re in hurry, regardless of the perfect intentions. The Merchandise Drawers mod takes away any thriller. Basically, it allows you to craft a brand new storage field (for a similar value as a typical chest) that shows icons on the skin, exhibiting precisely what number of of a selected merchandise or materials is inside them. Fairly neat, proper?
Gameplay Mods
For those who’re getting a little bit bored with crafting all the pieces, and need to spice issues up with some highly effective weapons or armor, Epic Loot by Randyknapp provides magical gadgets to Valheim’s loot pool. Which means that once you open chests, slay enemies, or beat boss fights, you will have an opportunity to assert a particular merchandise of randomized rarity and magical powers. Similar to precise magical swords and armor, these drops will be fairly uncommon, however that makes it all of the extra particular when one does.
This one does what it says on the tin, fairly actually on this case. For those who desire how Valheim’s meals was once in ye olde days, you’ll be able to revert its values and stats again to pre-Fireplace and Residence. In some ways, the growth nerfed the facility of fine grub, narrowing its focus to both stamina or well being, versus each, and this makes some points of the sport tougher. If you would like the Previous Meals Stats mod, you will additionally want Configuration Supervisor, BepInExPack, and Jotun (which itself requires HookGenPatcher).
If you wish to be a legendary Viking, you will want to face out from the group. Valheim Legends provides six character courses to the sport, every with their very own particular talents, so you do not have to be only one commonplace Viking amongst many. Select from courses like Ranger, which supplies you enhanced stealth and buffed ranged assaults, Mage, which helps you to sling fireballs and name down meteor strikes, and Druid, which may summon indignant vines from the bottom and launch them like projectiles.
Bow lovers rejoice! It is a beautiful mod for all of your archery wants. You’ll be able to craft your self a quiver, which supplies you three additional stock slots simply to your various kinds of arrows. Drawing again your bow allows you to zoom in for extra exact goal. And also you now have an opportunity to retrieve your arrows (besides hearth arrows, since they’ve burned up) after you’ve got shot them. Nice stuff!
Have you ever ever wished to customize your character’s bones? Whereas it is not one thing that is likely to be proper on the prime of your to-do checklist, BoneMod means that you can just do that. You’ll be able to change the dimensions of particular person bones to provide your self large palms or make your self right into a freakishly huge Viking. No matter physique half you need to remodel, this mod has you coated. Simply be sure to can nonetheless match into your base once you’re performed.
Kicking is not one thing you most likely do a whole lot of below regular circumstances, other than the annoying tool-breaking-frustration-kick. Why kick when just about any weapon or software will do a greater job? Whereas that is true, this mod does just about what it says on the tin—it makes your kicks way more kicky by including substantial knockback and vertical launch. Positive, you most likely will not be changing your weapons in favour of your boot however the subsequent greyling that walks into your base is likely to be in for a shock.
This mod provides a craftable BongLantern that truly has a function aside from comedic worth, regardless of first impressions. You’ll be able to equip it in your off-hand and it really works like a torch even when you’ve it slung in your again, emitting a glow to gentle up your environment. Talking of lighting up, equipping this merchandise offers your character the ‘Baked’ buff, decreasing the stamina value of working or leaping. You will want Valheim crystal to craft one, however as there’s no different use for the fabric at this level, you need to have some mendacity round when you’ve spent any time within the mountains.
We get it. It may be a time-consuming drag hauling uncooked minerals from faraway deposits world wide all the best way again to your base utilizing carts and ships. This mod adjustments portals so you’ll be able to take sources like copper, tin, and iron by way of them. It is a fairly large cheat, but it surely’s your sport and you need to play the way you need. The mod can be configurable, so you’ll be able to resolve what supplies will move by way of the portal and which will not.
First-person mode
Need to look by way of your Viking’s eyes as an alternative of over their shoulders? There are a few totally different first-person mods to provide you a brand new perspective whereas enjoying. First Person View is the one I’ve examined, and it really works surprisingly effectively—plus, you are not locked into the mode and may scroll rapidly again out to third-person view. You too can try Loki’s First Person Valheim Mod, which has some further configuration choices.
Whenever you’re enjoying co-op together with your Viking clan, it is pure that you just share a base and sources. However you’ll be able to’t share a map—every participant’s exploration progress belongs to them alone. This mod adjustments that, letting you share your map progress with another participant on the server by standing close to them and urgent F10. Now they’ll see the place you’ve got been, and if additionally they press F10, you’ll be able to add their progress to your personal map.
Positive, Valheim is nice in co-op multiplayer however have you ever ever had a fellow Viking ‘borrow’ your hard-earned iron or slack off after they’re meant to be tending that carrot crop? Appears like it is advisable problem them to a chess deathmatch. Handily, that is precisely what this mod does. Each of you’ll need to have PvP enabled, then merely slap your opponent with a fish and you will each be offered with a timed browser model of chess. It’s a deathmatch although, so naturally the loser will explode, leaving all their gadgets in a tombstone.
Stock room is fairly restricted in Valheim, and there aren’t even particular gear slots to your armor and helmet. This mod not solely provides slots for each bit of armor you put on, however permits quickslots for gadgets like potions or meals that you could be need to entry on the fly with a keypress as an alternative of getting to open the stock pane.
One difficulty: Including these slots means now you can carry extra particular person gadgets than slot in your headstone once you’re killed. Some gamers who died with full inventories have reported shedding some gadgets as a result of all the pieces not having the ability to match inside their gravestones. It is a neat mod, however watch out with it!
Utilities
Utilities
Some Valheim mods require different mods to work. Examine every mod’s web page prior to installing to seek out out what dependencies a mod has. A number of require the next utilities:
BepInExPack Valheim: A framework for Unity modding in Valheim. Lots of Valheim’s extra complicated mods rely on having this one already in place. As soon as put in (see the web page for directions), you will have to run the sport as soon as to activate it.
InSlimVML: A mod loader for Valheim that just a few mods depend on. This video shows you how to install it.
