About AnimalGuardian
From ThunderstoreYour tamed animals did nothing wrong. Keep them alive and protected from raids with this one simple trick: Place a ward close to your animals, and they will not be targeted by raiders anymore.
Animal Guardian
Your tamed animals did nothing wrong. Keep them alive and protected from raids with this one simple trick: Place a ward close to your animals, and they will not be targeted by raiders anymore.
Install
Use a mod manager and BepInEx comes with it. By hand: drop AnimalGuardian.dll into BepInEx/plugins.
Multiplayer
Every player should have it. No server install needed.
Settings
BepInEx/config/hansenbansen.animalguardian.cfg, or the F1 menu with BepInEx Configuration Manager.
| setting | default | | |---|---|---| | General / Enabled | on | switch the mod on or off | | General / Protection | Ward | Ward: only tamed animals near an active ward; Everywhere: all tamed animals | | General / FightBack | off | a raider that a tamed animal attacks may fight back against that animal |
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 22d ago.
AnimalGuardian 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
- 1.0.0, released 2026-10-13
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 1 recorded build of AnimalGuardian.
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run AnimalGuardian 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 catalogBuilding & decoration
Blocks, furniture, decorations and building tools.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-13Open ↗
- ✓AuthorHansenbansenTeam, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
