Highseat

Highseat

An admin console for Valheim dedicated servers. Press F5 to open a panel with the admin commands on it, instead of typing them into the console.

Named for the ondvegi, the high seat a chieftain sat in.

What It Is For

Valheim does not allow cheat commands on a dedicated server. The game only permits them when you are the server yourself, so being listed in adminlist.txt makes no difference and no message explains why the commands do nothing.

Highseat enables those commands for server admins and provides a UI for them.

Install

Install on the admin's game, not the server. A server-side install does nothing.

Requires BepInExPack Valheim.

Admin Setup

Add your platform user ID to adminlist.txt on the server, then restart it.

It needs the platform prefix:

Steam_76561190000000000

A bare SteamID64 will not work. The prefix is required. If the prefix is missing, Highseat writes the correct line to the log.

The Panel

F5 opens it. Non-admins cannot open it at all.

| Tab | What It Does | |---|---| | Spawn | Every spawnable item, creature and build piece, with real icons. Search it, or filter by type | | Player | God, ghost, fly, debug, reinforce and weather toggles, free building for yourself or anyone else, heal, skills, teleport | | World | Time of day, time skip, weather | | Server | World settings, cheat confirmation, achievements, force save, and the player list with kick and ban | | Mods | Every installed mod's settings, editable in place | | Log | A working console: the game's replies, plus a command line |

Before anything will spawn you have to press Confirm Cheats once, on the Server tab. That is Valheim's own requirement, not Highseat's, and it permanently marks the character as cheated.

Map Teleport

Right-click anywhere on the world map to open a small menu:

• Teleport Here moves you to that spot.
• Teleport Player Here lists the players currently connected and moves the one you pick.

This works from the map itself; the panel does not need to be open.

Right-clicking a map pin still deletes that pin, as it always has. The menu only opens where there is no pin under the cursor.

A player you teleport needs Highseat installed, because the move happens on their machine. They do not need to be an admin, but they do need the same version as you: an older Highseat ignores the request.

Building

Three things on the Player tab for people who build.

Reinforce

Anything you place while Reinforce is on ignores structural support and cannot be damaged: no collapse, no weathering, and no damage from trolls or raids.

Only pieces placed while it is on are affected. Everything else in the world behaves normally.

Your hammer still removes a reinforced piece the usual way. Struck pieces still spark and make noise, they just take no damage.

The toggle starts off every time you launch, because it marks what you build permanently.

No Weather Damage

Stops rain, ash rain and heavy snow wearing your buildings down. This one is remembered between sessions.

Weather only. Unsupported pieces still collapse, lava still destroys, and raids still do their damage. Buildings also still count as wet in the rain, so they keep their protection from Ashlands embers.

Rain on its own never destroys a building. It wears one down to half health and stops there.

No Cost

No Cost opens a menu. Your own free building is the first row. Below it is every player currently connected, each with a Grant button.

Granting gives that player free building without making them an admin. They keep it until you press Revoke, including across relogs and server restarts.

The player you grant it to needs Highseat installed. They do not need to be an admin, and the panel will not open for them. Without the mod there is nothing on their machine to turn free building on.

Grants are stored in the world rather than on your computer, which is how they survive a restart. They are not private: anyone can list them with the keys console command.

Server Settings

The Server tab has every world setting a server will accept from an admin: world level, player and enemy damage, enemy speed and stars, raids, stamina, eitr, food, carry weight, durability, resource and skill rates, death rules, free building and crafting, portals, passive creatures, no map, and more.

Edit what you want and press Save. Changes apply immediately for everyone connected and are saved into the world. No restart, no editing files on the server.

Default clears a setting rather than pinning it to a value. Rates are percentages, so 150 means 1.5x.

Server name, port, password, public/private and crossplay are not here. They are set when the server starts, so they need its start script and a restart.

Mod Settings

The Mods tab lists every installed mod that has settings, grouped by section and editable in place. Pick a mod on the left, search within it on the right. Changes save as you make them.

The editor matches the setting: a switch for on/off, a dropdown for a list of choices, a slider where the mod gave a range, a text field for the rest. Default puts one setting back. Edit opens a long value full width.

A slider also has a box beside it, so a value can be typed in rather than dragged to. Out-of-range numbers are clamped to whatever the mod allows.

Some mods offer Custom as a dropdown choice and keep the actual value in a second setting, named something like Custom Crafting Station or Drop config. When a dropdown is set to Custom, that second setting appears on the same row so it can be filled in directly. Where a mod has no single setting for it, as with a creature's spawn options, nothing appears and the other settings in that section are the custom configuration.

Local And Server

Every mod is badged: