ValheimBB

ValheimBB

Valheim ButBetter is a wide ranging quality-of-life mod for Valheim. It bundles a set of small, practical changes for building, crafting, equipment handling, UI feedback, world exploration, and audio cleanup.

These range from these that just annoy me (Moder wind buff not giving side wind?!) to small SFX/VFX changes like adding a distinct sound when hitting 'bedrock'. Most of the changes do not effect gameplay significantly, though some may speed up progress very slightly depending on your playstyle.

Changes

Building & Crafting

• Signs can be placed directly on chests.
• Sign text defaults to white; custom text colors still work.
• Relaxed crafting-station upgrade placement requirements.
• Clear paths and buildings: laying paths or placing building pieces permanently removes branches and loose stones beneath them, including hidden branch respawn spots. Toggle Clear Branches / Stones When Building in the options menu. Applies to new placement; existing areas can be cleared by laying the path again or replacing the covering piece.
• Custom hoe progression: the vanilla hoe is treated as the Stone Hoe and is unchanged. Flint and Bronze hoes clear eligible brush on the first click (does not yield wood). Bronze hoes can additionally place torches.
• Hømmer: combines hammer building, repair, and removal with the Bronze Hoe’s terrain and brush-clearing options. Right-click once for the build menu, again for hoe tools, and a third time to close. The Hoe tab also opens the terrain tools directly. Craft it at a Forge with 5 wood and 2 iron. Uses a silver-grey hammer icon. Durability starts at 200 and increases by 200 per upgrade level.
• Torch, brazier, and kiln cleanup: torch and brazier fuel lasts longer, standing wood torches can hold more fuel, and kilns can no longer consume Fine Wood.
• Alternate fuel: fireplaces & kilns can use Core Wood & Ancient Bark (will use any regular wood on you first).
• Wood fire colors: wood-burning fires track fuel in insertion order.
• Stone oven doors: stone oven hatches use a tighter proximity trigger and wait briefly before closing, reducing constant open/close chatter in kitchens and busy bases.
• Crafting sort toggle: the crafting panel gets a Sort: Classic / Sort: A-Z toggle so long recipe lists can be sorted alphabetically when desired.

Item Tweaks

• Arrow cost adjustment: Reduced metal/gland cost of metal arrows, metal bolts, and frost arrows by increasing the batch size to 100 and wood/feather cost, but not increasing metal cost. I.e., you get 100 arrows for one ingot instead of 20.
• Headdress of the Bear recipe: removes the Bear Trophy requirement so you actually have a shot at building the full set before it's obsolete.
• Muckshake food tweak: increased Muckshake health regeneration to 2 hp/sec.
• Pulled Bear food tweak: provides 40 health.

Equipment & Combat

• Dverger headlight: the circlet uses the utility slot, allowing it to be worn with a helmet.
• Monster loot delay: the "Monster Loot Delay: Half Time" setting halves the normal wait for monster loot and corpse disappearance.
• Wisplight outside Mistlands behavior: choose between vanilla orbit, off, or locked in place. The default keeps the Wisplight equipped but pins it in front of the player outside Mistlands so it is not constantly flying in front of the camera and generally being annoying (especially indoors).
• Crossbow loaded-state persistence: reload-required weapons stay loaded when you swap away and back.
• Pickaxe stamina tuning: pickaxe stamina costs scale slightly more gently by tier, and dirt-only swings can refund part of the paid stamina cost.
• Mace knockback tuning: Maces have lower primary knockback and stronger secondary knockback, so you can more easily combo with normal attacks, and use secondary when you want to create space.
• Thrown spear pickup protection: thrown spears should not be automatically picked up by others players. (You basically can't throw spears when adventuring with friends without this, unless you want to be constantly asking them for your spears back.)
• Moder power tweak: Moder lasts 10 minutes and changes wind direction to a side wind while active (sail faster for longer).
• Sailing range: ships can sail within 30° of directly upwind, giving a 300° sailing range. The wind indicator's dark arc matches the headwind zone.

World & UI

• ValheimBB options menu: settings are available from the main menu and in-game pause menu. Settings marked Change in Main Menu affect prefab setup and should be changed before loading a world.
• Main menu version label: the main menu shows the installed ValheimBB version.
• Night popup: shows a center-screen message when night begins. (for people who want to known exact timing but play with music off)
• Build/craft unlock markers: newly unlocked build pieces and crafting recipes show a ! marker until hovered or selected.
• Plant growth hover states: plants and picked regrowing objects show a general regrowth state ("Recently Planted", "Growing", "Nearly grown").
• No-map biome label: when playing without the map, the current biome label remains visible in the upper right of screen.
• Resource tracker: adds an inventory-screen tracker for per-world, per-character collected resources, irreversible usage, and resources currently tied up in recoverable builds.
• Resting countdown: the Resting status icon shows a countdown, and the delay before Rested is reduced from 20 seconds to 15 seconds.
• Haldor Sense: MY FAVORITE ONE. Adds a 600m radius trigger around potential Haldor locations that alert you of

'a magical presence to the [North, Northeast, etc]'. This works regardless of map mode. Adds a "New Biome" style popup when you reveal Haldor.

Audio and Visual Effects