SmarterHoe

SmarterHoe

A comprehensive, precision terrain-editing overhaul for the Valheim hoe.

SmarterHoe equips you with a professional suite of terraforming and agriculture tools — from all Cultivator abilities and progression-gated crop planting built directly into the hoe, to laser-flat plateau leveling, multi-waypoint spline road carving, full multi-step undo/redo, 3D previews, 9-language localization, and server-authoritative dedicated server synchronization — all while staying fully balanced for survival play.

🌟 Features

🌾 Full Cultivator Integration & Intelligent Farming Grid All Cultivator abilities and plantables are now integrated directly into the Hoe — no more swapping tools or wasting inventory slots!

• Intelligent Farming Grid System (F8): Plant crops, vegetables, and sapling rows in neat, organized grids with a single click.
• Automatic Healthy Spacing: Automatically calculates safe growth distance dynamically based on each crop's growRadius. Crops planted in the grid will never fail to mature or complain with "Needs more space".
• Adjustable Grid Radius: Press Q (or hold Alt) and scroll your mouse wheel, or use [ and ], to adjust grid radius with live HUD dimensions (1x1, 3x3, 5x5, etc.).
• Visual Color-Coded Previews & Boundary:

🟢 Green: Valid planting spot & seeds available. 🟡 Yellow: Valid spot, but out of seeds. 🔴 Red: Blocked, uncultivated, wrong biome, or underwater.

• Proximity Row Snapping: Snaps the grid to align with nearby existing crop rows of the same type. Hold Shift to bypass snapping for freeform placement.
• Mass Area Harvesting (Shift + E): Press Shift + E while aiming at crops or empty ground to harvest all mature crops and pickables in a configurable radius (default: 5m). Harvested items are automatically vacuumed directly into your inventory!
• Harvest Filter & Auto-Replant (C): Press C to cycle between All Pickables, Replantable Crops only, or specific detected crops. Enable EnableHarvestReplant in config to immediately replant harvested fields in place!
• AzuCraftyBoxes & Nearby Chest Support: Batch planting, single-crop placement, and area harvest replanting seamlessly pull seeds and vegetables from nearby chests and containers (with AzuCraftyBoxes integration).
• Square vs. Circle Grid Geometry (G): Toggle between rectangular grid and circular planting patterns. Rotate the grid with scroll wheel or arrow keys.
• Batch Crop Undo & Refund (Ctrl+Z): Made a mistake or misclicked? Press Ctrl+Z to cleanly remove all newly planted crops from the world and refund the seeds directly back to your inventory.
• Cultivate & Replant on the Hoe: Till fertile soil (Cultivate) and restore lush meadow grass (Replant) directly from the Hoe's right-click build menu.
• Square Brush & Large-Scale Tilling: Scale cultivation radius up to 20m, or switch to the Square Brush (G) with custom rotation to create perfectly aligned, razor-sharp farming beds.
• Continuous Hold-to-Sweep Farming: Hold down left-click to continuously till soil or regrow grass as you walk across the landscape.
• All Vanilla & Modded Crops: Plant carrots, seed carrots, turnips, seed turnips, onions, seed onions, barley, flax, Jotun puffs, Magecaps, Smoke puffs, Fiddleheads, Vineberries, and tree saplings, plus crops from farming mods (PlantEverything, OdinCrops, etc.).
• Strict Progression & Discovery Gating: Players will never see or plant any crop or sapling they have not yet discovered in the world. Only when seeds or materials are discovered do the corresponding plants appear in the Hoe build menu.

📏 Measure Mode — In-Game 3D Laser Tape & Ruler (N) With the Hoe or Cultivator equipped, press N to measure between any two points in the world:

• Point A to Point B: First press sets Point A with a cyan 3D ring; second press sets Point B and locks the measurement; third press or Esc clears.
• Live 3D Ruler: Displays a live line connecting your aim point in real-time.
• Full Elevation & Slope Diagnostics: Displays 3D distance, horizontal distance, height delta ($\Delta h$), slope angle in degrees, and road grade percentage right on your HUD.

⏪ Multi-Step Undo & Redo System (Alt+Z / Alt+Y) Made a mistake, cut too deep, or over-flattened a hillside? Press Alt+Z (or Ctrl+Z) to undo previous terrain changes step-by-step. Press Alt+Y (or Ctrl+Y / Shift+Alt+Z) to redo.

• Universal tool coverage: Works on Altitude Leveling, Instant Plateau, Soften, Restore Nature, Spline Ramps, vanilla Raise Earth, Mud Roads, Paved Stone Roads, Cultivate, and Replant.
• Continuous sweep grouping: Holding left-click to drag-level or pave groups the entire continuous stroke into a single atomic undo entry.
• Smart Waypoint step-back: Pressing the Undo key while ramp waypoints are active automatically steps back the most recent waypoint first before reverting terrain.
• Full texture & grass restoration: Undoing fully restores dirt, grass, and stone paint masks and synchronizes clutter in real time.

🔒 Altitude Lock — Laser-Flat Ground Press L to toggle locking your elevation. Every subsequent hoe click levels terrain to that exact height, guaranteeing a perfectly flat surface across hills and slopes.

• Snap to Building Floors: Aim at any placed wood or stone floor piece and press Middle Mouse Button to snap the locked altitude to that floor's exact height.
• Hold-to-Repeat Elevation Tuning: Hold down PageUp or PageDown to smoothly and rapidly adjust elevation without spamming buttons. Features a small delay before continuous movement begins to prevent accidental overshooting on single taps. Hold Shift for a 5x speed multiplier.