About RanchingChickAddon
From ThunderstoreAdd skill-scaled chick growth and level-gated growth hover text to Ranching. Configurable and synchronized with the host. Requires original Ranching.
RanchingChickAddon
2.x targets Valheim 1.0, built and checked against 1.0.16. Use the 1.x releases for Ashlands.
Adds configurable skill-scaled chick maturation and growth progress to the original Ranching mod.
Features
- Chicken Growth Factor: default 2× at Ranching level 100, configurable from 1× to 10×.
- Growth scales with the nearest player's Ranching skill and applies within 10 metres.
- Growth bonus is saved with the chick and does not award unloaded-time catch-up.
- Growth Info Level Requirement: default level 30; hovering over a chick shows its growth percentage.
- Eggs and non-chicken animals are unaffected.
- Configuration is synchronized and admin-lockable through the host/server.
Recommended optional mods
- ConfigurationManager — edit settings in game instead of opening the config file. It is optional.
Installation
Install this add-on together with original Ranching. Install both on every participating client and on the host/server. Do not install the earlier experimental Ranching fork containing these features.
Links
Check out my other mods
- Hen Egg Pickup — automatically collects chicken eggs once enough adult hens are nearby.
- Animal Feed Guard — keeps animal feed on the ground near tamed animals instead of letting automatic pickup collect it.
If you'd like to support ongoing modding work, Ko-fi is available.
Requires BepInExPack Valheim and Smoothbrain Ranching.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 34d ago.
RanchingChickAddon 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 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
- 2.0.1, released 2026-10-01
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 1 recorded build of RanchingChickAddon.
Dependencies
- Required: Ranching
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run RanchingChickAddon 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 catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-02Open ↗
- ✓AuthorDocZee, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
