Offspring Portal

Offspring Portal

Version 1.4.4 — Valheim 1.0.x production release (solo, hosted, and dedicated).

Automate your breeding pens. Offspring Portal teleports tamed juveniles from your breeder area to distant maturing pens the moment they wander into range — keeping vanilla population caps from stalling production.

Press E on juveniles to toggle follow/stay — useful for leading piglets and wolf cubs through portals or into pens before they grow up.

Build a portal, name it, configure it once, and let the mod handle the logistics.

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At a glance

| Portal type | What it does | |-------------|--------------| | Breeder | Sends juveniles out to matching maturing pens | | Maturing | Receives juveniles; optionally forwards grown adults | | Farm | Receives adults routed back from maturing pens (by species) | | Cull | One shared yard — receives adults marked for slaughter |

Juvenile follow: With EnableFollowCommand on (default), look at a tamed juvenile and press E to toggle Follow / Stay. Works on boar piglets, wolf cubs, and other juveniles still growing up.

Minimum setup: 2 portals (Breeder + Maturing). Farm and Cull are optional when you want adult automation.

Build cost: 20 Fine Wood · 10 Greydwarf Eyes · 2 Surtling Cores

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Juvenile follow command

When a juvenile is still growing (has not reached its adult form), you can command it directly:

1. Aim at the tamed juvenile — hover shows Follow or Stay
2. Press E to toggle
3. Press E again to make it stay

This is separate from portal automation: follow helps you move juveniles; portals teleport them when they enter a breeder's scan radius.

Toggle in config: EnableFollowCommand in BepInEx/config/offspringportal.mod.cfg (default: true).

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How juveniles move

Breeder Portal                    Maturing Portal
  (at breeding pen)    ────────►   (at grow-up pen)
  Role: Breeder                   Receives: Boar / Wolf / Hen / All …

1. Place a portal at your breeding area → configure as Breeder
2. Place a portal at your grow-up area → configure as Maturing → set Receives to a species (or All)
3. When a tamed juvenile enters the breeder portal's scan radius, it teleports to the next available maturing pen for its species (round-robin if you have several)

Hover any portal to see its Name, role, and warnings.

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Maturing pen destinations (adults)

Each Maturing portal has one Receives species (or All) and one Destination for adults that grow up on that portal. The mod applies that destination to every adult of the species that portal receives.

When juveniles grow up, the maturing portal can optionally move adults elsewhere:

| Destination | Behavior | |-------------|----------| | None | Adults stay on the maturing pen (default — great for a simple 2-portal setup) | | Farm | Adults teleport to a Farm portal matching their species (or All) | | Cull | Adults teleport to your Cull yard — one Cull portal serves every species |

If Destination is Farm or Cull but no receiver portal exists yet, you'll see a yellow hover warning and adults won't teleport until you place one.

Mixed species, different outcomes: Use one Maturing portal per species when adults need different destinations (e.g. boars → Cull, wolves → None). Place them in the same building if you like — the Breeder sends each juvenile to the Maturing portal whose Receives matches that species. You do not hand-sort animals; the portal network routes them.

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Example setups

Starter — 2 portals (juveniles only)

Perfect first build. No adult routing needed.

| Portal | Type | Receives | Destination | Name example | |--------|------|----------|-------------|--------------| | Breeding area | Breeder | — | — | Boar Farm | | Grow-up pen | Maturing | Boar | None | Boar Maturing |

Juveniles leave the breeder automatically. Adults stay on the maturing pen until you handle them.

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Boar production + cull automation

Cull grown boars without walking them across the map.

| Portal | Type | Receives | Destination | Name example | |--------|------|----------|-------------|--------------| | Breeding pen | Breeder | — | — | Boar Farm | | Grow-up pen | Maturing | Boar | Cull | Boar Maturing | | Slaughter area | Cull | — | — | Boar Cull Yard |

One Cull portal is enough for every species you mark for culling.

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Cull boars, keep wolves on-site

Mixed species with different adult outcomes. Use one Maturing portal per species — each portal sorts its own juveniles and adults. Both maturing portals can sit in the same grow-up pen; only the portal Receives / Destination settings differ.

| Portal | Type | Receives | Destination | Name example | |--------|------|----------|-------------|--------------| | Main breeder | Breeder | — | — | Mixed Farm | | Grow-up pen | Maturing | Boar | Cull | Boar Maturing | | Grow-up pen | Maturing | Wolf | None | Wolf Maturing | | Cull yard | Cull | — | — | Cull Yard |

How routing works:

• The Breeder sends boar juveniles to the Boar maturing portal and wolf juveniles to the Wolf maturing portal automatically.
• When boars grow up on the Boar maturing portal, they teleport to the Cull yard.
• When wolves grow up on the Wolf maturing portal, they stay (Destination: None).
• You only need one Cull portal for every species you mark for culling.

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Return adults to the farm

Send grown animals back to holding pens near your breeder.

| Portal | Type | Receives | Destination | Name example | |--------|------|----------|-------------|--------------| | Breeder | Breeder | — | — | Boar Farm |