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🌿 Amazing Nature

A complete Valheim content, survival, world and progression overhaul

Amazing Nature expands and restructures the vanilla Valheim experience instead of replacing it with a separate game mode. It adds a large amount of new content while also changing how existing resources, crafting stations, recipes, survival conditions, monsters, loot, locations and world progression interact with each other.

The mod is designed as an authored overhaul that works out of the box. Its default balance and progression are intended to be played together, so Amazing Nature deliberately does not expose a huge built-in configuration menu.

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What Amazing Nature changes

Amazing Nature touches most major parts of Valheim:

• Progression and crafting — new crafting stations, station bundles, extensions, redistributed recipes and stronger station-level dependencies.
• Resources and metallurgy — new ores, deposits, wood types, stones, scraps, metals, alloys and processing chains.
• Production — expanded kilns, smelters, Scrap Smelter, Sawmill, Tannery, Composter, Press, Bird House and other conversion systems.
• Survival — hunger states, sleep pressure, wounds, bleeding, sickness, wetness, soaking, cold exposure, Mist Sickness, Deep North freezing and recovery systems.
• Equipment maintenance — stricter repair-station rules, repair-all behavior, portable Repair Kits and low-durability warnings.
• World generation — extensive vegetation and location edits, larger dungeons, distance-based placement rules, named locations and Deep North world changes.
• Building — a large catalog of additional build pieces, utility pieces, station extensions and changed construction progression.
• Monsters and combat — changed health/resistances and loot, destructible monster spawners, improved terrain traversal and selected combat QoL changes.
• Boss progression — modified offerings for selected bosses and reworked boss/location placement rules.
• Exploration and economy — expanded treasure loot and additional trader inventory unlocked through boss progression.

Amazing Nature contains hundreds of custom items and world objects and makes a large number of edits to vanilla content. The exact technical data is too large to maintain safely as a hand-written list in this README, so the package also includes a source-derived progression/reference workbook described later in this document.

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Important before you start

This is an overhaul, not a lightweight content pack

Amazing Nature changes recipes, stations, materials, world generation, drops, environmental rules and progression dependencies. Installing it in the middle of a long-running playthrough is possible, but a new world and new progression are strongly recommended if you want the experience to work as designed.

Multiplayer

For multiplayer, treat Amazing Nature as a full gameplay mod that should be installed on the server and on every client using the same version. It registers networked prefabs and modifies shared gameplay/world systems; mixed installations are not a supported setup.

Configuration

Amazing Nature does not provide a large general-purpose gameplay configuration system. The default recipes, progression, hazards and world rules are authored as one coherent experience.

If you want to heavily customize specific data, use specialist tools such as WackysDatabase or Expand World rather than expecting every system to have an Amazing Nature config entry.

Existing worlds

New unexplored terrain can receive normal world-generation changes. Already generated areas cannot automatically gain every new vegetation/location placement.

Amazing Nature integrates with Upgrade World and registers dedicated upgrade commands when that mod is installed. See Updating an existing world.

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Useful companion mods

Amazing Nature is designed to work as a complete overhaul on its own, but several community tools are extremely useful when playing, troubleshooting or building a custom modpack around it.

> None of the mods below are required by Amazing Nature unless the Thunderstore dependency list for a specific release explicitly says otherwise. They are recommendations for convenience, documentation, customization or world maintenance.

| What you want to do | Recommended tool | Required? | |---|---|---:| | Browse recipes, crafting requirements and item sources in game | VNEI | No | | Handle Amazing Nature's very large build-piece catalog more conveniently | Sears Catalog | No | | Modify items, recipes, build pieces, status effects, creatures or pickables | WackysDatabase | No | | Modify world generation, biomes, environments, vegetation or locations | Expand World and its modules | No | | Apply supported Amazing Nature world changes to already generated/explored areas | Upgrade World | No |

For normal progression questions, start with VNEI and the included Balrond_Progression_Master.xlsx. For existing worlds, Upgrade World is the most important maintenance tool. WackysDatabase and Expand World are primarily for advanced players and modpack authors who intentionally want to alter Amazing Nature's authored balance.

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