FoodFreezer

FoodFreezer

Pause your character's food degradation timers while standing near a lit hearth. Food buffs stop ticking down, so your meals stay fresh while you're at home base taking a break.

A Valheim BepInEx 5 plugin.

Features

• Food timers freeze only while you are standing near an Fireplace (hearth, campfire, brazier, etc.).
• Optional: also freeze while the Rested/Resting status effect is active, even away from a hearth.
• No new items, no prefab injection, no save data. Works client-side.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim (installed automatically by your mod manager)

Installation

1. Install through your mod manager (recommended) — it will handle BepInEx and the DLL.
2. Manual: drop FoodFreezer.dll into BepInEx\plugins\.

How to use

Nothing to do — just stand within range of a burning hearth/campfire/brazier and watch your food timers stop. Move away (or let the fire go out) and they resume ticking. With FallbackToRestingBuff on, your food also freezes while the Rested buff is active.

Configuration

Config file is generated on first launch at BepInEx\config\com.foodfreezer.foodfreezer.cfg:

| Key | Default | Description | |-----|---------|-------------| | Enabled | true | Master toggle. | | HearthCheckRadius | 30 | Search radius (meters) around the player for a hearth/fireplace. | | RequireLitFire | true | Only freeze while the fire is actually burning. | | FallbackToRestingBuff | false | Also freeze food while the Rested/Resting status effect is active. |

How it works

The plugin patches Player.UpdateFood (all overloads) with a prefix that skips food-timer updates while the local player is near a burning fire. Enabled=false disables the patch behaviour entirely.

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.