About balrond paintingframe
From ThunderstoreAdds new buildable and editable paintings to the game
🖼️ Balrond Painting Frame
Overview
This mod adds customizable painting frames to Valheim that allow players to display and fully adjust images in-game.
Pictures in painting frame are collection of artwork by Mats Minnhagen, one of the creators behind Valheim.
You can change the image, zoom in/out, and reposition it inside the frame, giving full control over how your painting looks.
⚒️ What This Mod Does
- Adds buildable painting frames (small, medium, large)
- Allows players to cycle through multiple images
- Enables advanced editing mode:
- Zoom image
- Move image inside frame
- Syncs everything in multiplayer using ZDO
- Includes edit locking system (only one player edits at a time)
✨ Features
- Multiple painting sizes\
- Image switching (Next / Previous / Reset)\
- Real-time editing mode\
- Smooth visual updates\
- Multiplayer-safe synchronization\
- Edit lock protection system\
- Lightweight and optimized
🎮 How to Use
Normal Mode
- Use (E) → Next image\
- Shift + Use → Previous image\
- Alt + Use → Reset to default\
- Ctrl + Use → Enter edit mode
🖌️ Edit Mode
- Ctrl + Use → Save and exit\
- Esc → Cancel changes\
- + / - → Zoom image\
- Arrow Keys → Move image\
- R → Reset zoom & position
Only one player can edit at a time.
🏗️ Build Pieces
Small Painting Horizontal/Vertical
- "FineWood" x3
- "Resin" x2
- "Dandelion" x2
- "Bloodbag" x1
Medium Painting Horizontal/Vertical
- "FineWood" x6
- "Resin" x4
- "Dandelion" x4
- "Bloodbag" x2
Large Painting Horizontal/Vertical
- "FineWood" x12
- "Resin" x8
- "Dandelion" x6
- "Bloodbag" x3
🔧 Installation
- Install BepInEx
- Place mod DLL into: BepInEx/plugins
- Launch the game
🤝 Compatibility
- Multiplayer safe\
- Uses Valheim ZDO system\
- Compatible with most mods
Avoid mods that modify: - ZNetView painting objects - Same piece prefabs
🧩 Included Artwork Collection
The mod includes a built-in pack of loading screen illustrations, including scenes such as:
- Ashlands encounters and ruins
- Ships and fortresses
- Mistlands themed artwork
- Seasonal Valheim illustrations
- Serpents, seekers, dragons, Gjall and more
- Base building and world atmosphere scenes
A total of 23 picture images are loaded from the embedded asset bundle.
🎨 Credits
- Mod: Balrond
- Artwork: Mats Minnhagen
💬 Community & Support
Discord: https://discord.gg/Jfp8T5N7Pv\ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/balrond1020
⚒️ Enjoy customizing your world with paintings!
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 44d ago.
balrond paintingframe on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Optional on the server
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 1.0.2, released 2026-09-21
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 3 recorded builds of balrond paintingframe.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.2 | 2026-09-21 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.1 | 2026-09-11 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-04-23 | n/a | BepInEx |
Run balrond paintingframe on a Valheim server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogBuilding & decoration
Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.
Works on a server
From source side supportThunderstore lists server-side support for balrond paintingframe as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorBalrond, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree





