Beyond

Beyond

Twenty floors. Endless paths beyond.

Explore branching dungeons, hunt named bosses and chase powerful rewards. Built for PathOfValheiman by treextr, Beyond brings new adventures to solo players and parties alike.

A challenge worth stepping into

Start with a free survival Trial, then conquer 20 challenge floors through forests, forgotten ruins and snowy heights. Each clear unlocks the next floor and a visit to the resource and rune trader.

On a successful clear, the payer's entry fee returns to their bank and the remaining gold is shared among eligible survivors. The free Trial shares its full reward.

Shape your Astral Rifts

Complete Floor 14 to unlock Astral Rifts: generated crypts, broken sanctuaries and natural courtyards open to the sky, joined by branching paths. Choose Tier 1–10 and fight onward through continuous rooms. Each mandatory boss opens a trader portal; leave with your earnings or continue with the party.

Shape your runs with the Atlas, a passive tree with up to 100 points. Each eligible survivor earns one point at the expedition's first boss clear. Higher tiers offer better loot opportunities.

Every Astral Rift Tier continues through connected rooms with enemies, reconnecting routes and short dead ends. Either route can advance at a fork. At roughly every tenth main-route room, the party leader chooses one of two boss arenas by entering it; everyone then progresses through that chosen arena after defeating its boss. Leadership passes to a living survivor if needed. Each boss opens a trader portal and pays shared gold to that boss's survivors. The first boss returns the paid entry fee once; the party can then keep walking while others leave with their earnings. Stay within three room connections and collect loot before moving on. Rifts allow up to200 living enemies: pursuers can follow into later rooms, while abandoned enemies are removed without loot or kill credit. Unclaimed loose items in retiring rooms are lost. Inventories stay protected, and fresh graves move intact to their owner's saved entry position immediately. Use Leave Rift in Beyond to return outdoors.

Use your normal map zoom controls in Rifts; the expanded map also supports the mouse wheel. Hollow lavender markers show possible boss arenas on turning forks that diverge into separate areas, about260 metres apart with at least three ordinary rooms between them along the walking route. Entering one as party leader commits the chosen room, and the full unused route dims to grey. Defeat its boss to earn the checkpoint's shared gold and open the onward doorway. Keep walking through that arena toward the next checkpoint; its trader portal is an optional departure. Atlas Depths nodes can add a chance of two bosses fighting together, each with its own boss loot; both must die. Base twin chance is0%, reaching100% with all Depths nodes. Extra-boss and commander investments strengthen the escorts, whose survival never blocks the boss clear. Red boss symbols mark spawned bosses.

World startup can skip historical Rift scans when the loaded native save proves cleanup is complete. Older or interrupted saves retain recovery checks, with one overall percentage and approximate time remaining. The first load after this update can still require recovery before a later native world save records the clean state. The saved recovery marker adds no prefab or item; loading a stamped world with Beyond disabled may list its private marker among native known-world-key statistics. Keep compatible Beyond and full save/external-data backups for unresolved recovery.

The Allfather hears more than prayers. The weak would be wise to hold their tongues.

Bring your party. Keep your progress.

• Bring friends for free. Each party gets its own challenge instance.
• Keep your progress. Floor unlocks and your coin bank follow your character across worlds and hosts.
• Rest and regroup. Meet other successful parties in the shared trader refuge and start your next floor or Rift there. Your final exit or death returns you to your original outdoor entry point.

Step through

1. Install through r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager with BepInExPack Valheim, Jötunn and PathOfValheiman. Everyone needs matching Beyond versions and compatible dependencies.
2. Press F8 outdoors or at the trader refuge. Choose a challenge and Open portal on clear, dry ground. Stay nearby, then enter with E. Friends have 10 seconds to join.
3. Clear the Trial to begin your climb. In Rifts, use the map to find rooms, teammates, bosses, elites and portals.

You can close the menu while the portal prepares, or choose Cancel preparation to stop. The first opening may take longer.

Technical notes

Beyond is an optional endgame challenge and reward layer. You can keep playing your character and world without Beyond; its own activities, bank and floor progression become unavailable while it is disabled.