ValheimUtils

ValheimUtils

> AI generated. This mod is written by an AI (Claude) under human direction and testing.

Quality-of-life tweaks for Valheim. Every feature has its own switch in BepInEx/config/mh.ValheimUtilsByAi.cfg (generated on first launch). Each feature states whether it runs on the client, the server, or both.

On a server that runs this mod, the server's config applies to every player: switches, ranges, multipliers and lists come from the server's mh.ValheimUtilsByAi.cfg when you connect and whenever it changes. Admins can change them in game with a configuration manager (F1); for everyone else they are locked while connected. Keys (quick stack, sort, trash, ...) and the main-menu mod list stay your own. Your own config file is never overwritten: on disconnect, in single player and on servers without the mod your own values apply. Edit the server's file while it is stopped, or restart it afterwards.

Features

Craft without roof ([Crafting] CraftWithoutRoof, default: on)

Vanilla refuses to use the workbench, forge, stonecutter, artisan table, black forge, galdr table, food preparation table, fermenter, spinning wheel and beds without a roof, or when they are "too exposed" (not enough walls and roof around them). With this on they all work in the open: the fermenter can be filled and keeps fermenting, the spinning wheel keeps spinning, and a bed can be claimed, set as your spawn point and slept in.

Everything else stays vanilla: the cauldron and mead ketill never needed a roof and still need a fire, stations still need their extensions in range, and build pieces still need a station nearby. A bed still needs a fire nearby and no enemies around, and you can't sleep while wet, so rain still keeps you out of an open-air bed.

Side: Client. For crafting stations and beds only the player using them needs the mod. A fermenter or spinning wheel works in the open only while the game that controls it has the mod: always in single player; in multiplayer usually the first player who came near it. While a player without the mod controls it, it stalls outdoors as in vanilla, and a fermenter starts over. The server doesn't need the mod; works on vanilla servers.

Kiln wood filter ([Crafting] KilnWoodFilter, default: on)

The charcoal kiln only accepts the wood types listed in [Crafting] KilnAllowedWood (comma-separated item prefab names, default: Wood). Any other wood is refused with the vanilla "won't work" message, and pressing E with only unlisted wood in the inventory says there is nothing to process. Smelters and blast furnaces are untouched. Vanilla kiln wood: Wood, FineWood, RoundLog, Blackwood.

Side: Client. Only players running the mod are restricted; a player without it can still add any wood.

Auto storage ([Crafting] AutoStorage, default: on)

Adds AutoStorage Link input and AutoStorage Link output to the vanilla Hammer's Misc tab (copper ore and copper bar icons): tools like the Hammer's Repair entry. Free, nothing is placed.

Pick one in the Hammer menu, left-click a processing piece, then left-click any chest built by a player (wood chest, reinforced chest, black metal chest, ...; not carts, ships or tombstones). With Link input the piece takes its inputs from that chest; with Link output it puts its products into it. A piece can have several input and output chests, used in the order you linked them, and one chest can be both its input and its output. Several pieces can share an input chest: each takes one item and one unit of fuel per second, so they split what is there (20 coal for two smelters gives each 10) and still fill up within seconds when the chest is full. There is no pickup radius or area: you choose every connection. Click the same piece and chest again to unlink; click a chest with nothing selected to unlink it from every piece that uses it as input (or as output, with Link output). A chest that is destroyed or taken down with the hammer is unlinked from every piece, and its lines disappear. While a link tool is selected, lines show the existing links of its kind (blue for inputs, green for outputs) and a yellow line follows the selected piece. Pick any other Hammer entry to build again.

You can only link or unlink a chest you could open: a private chest only its builder, a chest inside a ward only players the ward lets in. A piece inside a ward can only be selected by players the ward lets in.

A piece with only input chests still drops or keeps its products as in vanilla, and one with only output chests still needs its inputs added by hand. A chest linked as both input and output also feeds a piece its own products: a windmill then turns oat seeds into oats and those oats into oat flour. Use separate input and output chests to keep the oats.

| Piece | Takes from input chests | Puts into output chests | | --- | --- | --- | | Charcoal kiln | wood (respects the kiln wood filter) | coal | | Smelter, blast furnace, eitr refinery | ore / scrap / soft tissue, coal or sap | bars, eitr | | Spinning wheel | flax | linen thread | | Windmill | barley, oat seeds, oats | barley flour, oats, oat flour | | Frigid kiln | ice | liquid frost | | Hot tub | wood | - | | Beehive, birds' nest, sap extractor | - | honey, feathers, sap | | Cooking station, iron cooking station, stone oven | raw food, wood for the oven | cooked (or burnt) food | | Frost foundry | casts, liquid frost | the finished weapons, armor and staffs | | Fermenter | base mead | mead |

A piece never takes the last item of a liked stack in its input chests (see Liked items), so a chest can keep one ore or log as a marker for quick stacking.