EncounterQoL

Encounter QoL

Encounter QoL is an integrated collection of quality-of-life improvements for Valheim. It expands inventory management, crafting, building, farming, combat, travel, tames, production, HUD information, and general gameplay while keeping everything together in one mod.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn

Encounter QoL is configured as an everyone-must-have multiplayer mod. Install it on the server and on clients joining that server.

Features

Inventory & Storage

• Extra inventory slots with F8-adjustable additional rows, Quick, Food, Ammo, and Misc slot counts; equipment and utility slots retained
• Quick Stack with hotbar item protection
• Improved quick-slot stacking and automatic hotbar placement
• Auto Sort
• Favorite Items
• Recycle
• Trash
• Alt + Left Click full-stack transfer between the player and open storage
• Increased stack sizes
• Nearby Containers
• Shared Chests
• Inventory HUD
• Hotbar ammo information
• Chest Recipe Discovery from opened chest contents
• Blacksmith's Chest automation, including automatic nearby kiln Coal storage (up to 20m)
• Gravestones protected for three in-game days, then first come, first served, with automatic recovery and ground overflow

Crafting & Building

• Crafting UI improvements
• Recipe searching and category filtering
• Multi-crafting support
• Extended crafting-station build range
• Auto Repair
• Area Repair and vehicle maintenance
• Better Ladders
• Build Camera
• Improved building weather protection
• Expanded terrain-tool radius
• Hammer Quick Pull for building materials

Farming & World

• Additional farming plantables
• Any-Biome Crops
• Stump Regrowth
• Floating dropped items
• Natural gatherable respawn timers
• Mass Gather
• Active server time
• Plant Easily with rectangular and circular planting grids, snapping, and Auto Replant
• Improved mixed-vegetation snapping and safe planting spacing
• Year-Round Seasonal Items
• Reduced Fog and Stronger Wisplight

Combat & Equipment

• Dual Wield support
• Item Linking for compatible weapons and shields
• Hauling skill and progression
• Improved Skills screen
• Spear recovery with a five-second timer from throw release and reserved inventory slot and carry-weight allowance
• Smart Auto-Pickup with configurable 2–20m pickup range and improved item attraction stability
• Instant monster loot drops
• Instant armor equipping and unequipping
• Weapons and tools usable while swimming
• Optional client-side enemy hitbox highlighting (F8 toggle, default off)
• Item Comparison Tooltips for inventory and crafting
• Half Fall Damage
• Perfect Parry Stamina
• Preserve active food through death
• Multiplayer player revival with a one-second Use hold and optional normal respawn

Travel & Vehicles

• Better Portals with scrollable destinations and restored vanilla same-name and unnamed portal linking
• Optional per-player cartography-table map synchronization (Shift + Use toggle), now with fresh-map requests and applied-snapshot acknowledgment diagnostics
• Ship Camera
• Cart Auto Attach

Tames & Production

• Unlimited tame followers and 20m Follow All / Stay All group commands
• Improved tame breeding inheritance
• Faster fermentation
• Beehive improvements, with fewer crop pollination bee particles and unchanged pollination benefits
• Sap collector improvements
• Processor quick fill
• Fuel-free lighting options

Interface & General QoL

• Built-in Encounter QoL configuration manager
• Improved configuration editing and F8 shortcut recording, including standalone left/right Ctrl, Alt, and Shift keys and modifier combinations
• Expanded object hover information
• HUD information improvements
• Compact status HUD
• Character selection statistics
• Expanded character eye colors
• Sitting health regeneration
• Better Sleep multiplayer voting and cinematic fallback
• Personal Death Counter
• Skip Intro
• Achievement Freedom

Configuration

Encounter QoL includes its own in-game configuration manager. Features with meaningful settings expose those settings there; features intended to behave consistently are enabled directly without unnecessary configuration toggles.

Selected Controls (0.0.11)

• Cultivator (plant selected): Right Ctrl + C switches between rectangular and circular planting grids. In circle mode, Up / Right increases a layer and Down / Left decreases a layer (1–6 layers). Existing Right Ctrl + Arrow controls adjust the rectangular grid.
• Tamed creatures: Left Ctrl + Left Shift + Use (normally E) issues Follow All within 20m; Left Ctrl + Left Alt + Use issues Stay All. Left Ctrl + Use still commands one tame.
• Cartography Table: Shift + Use toggles automatic map synchronization per player. Both players must opt in to exchange map data.
• F8 keybinds: Press and release a modifier to bind it alone, or hold it while pressing another key for a combination. Esc cancels; F7 reflects changes live.
• Portal: Shift + Use opens the Better Portals destination list; regular Use retains portal naming.
• F8: Configure additional inventory rows, Quick/Food/Ammo/Misc slot counts, and the optional enemy hitbox outline. Reduced slot counts relocate affected items when safe, or refuse the change if inventory space is insufficient.

Installation

Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman

Install Encounter QoL from Thunderstore and its required dependencies will be installed automatically.

Manual

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Install Jotunn.
3. Place EncounterQoL.dll inside your BepInEx/plugins folder.
4. Launch Valheim.

Multiplayer

Encounter QoL changes gameplay systems and inventory behavior and is configured as an everyone-must-have mod. For multiplayer, the server and all connecting players should have Encounter QoL installed.