About BetterSummon
From ThunderstorePick the variant of your summons (skeletons, spirits, trolls) from a radial wheel, set their stance, dismiss them. Formation follow.
BetterSummon
Take control of your summons.
Features
- Variant wheel — with a summoning staff in hand, hold left click for one second to open a radial
wheel and pick exactly what you summon:
- Dead Raiser: sword, sword + wood shield, sword + bronze buckler, archer;
- Spirit Caller: bear, moose, wolf, boar;
- Trollstav: fists, log.
A short click summons the current variant (vanilla cast), Shift + click summons the next one. Your choice is saved per staff, with your character.
- Dismiss all your summons from the wheel.
- Stance: aggressive (vanilla) or passive (only fights back when hit).
- Orders: follow, or guard — they stay where they are and wander around; if you get more than
40 m away they walk back until they are within range again, and stop there.
- Formation: followers walk in an arc behind you instead of converging on you and shoving you around.
Spacing adapts to the creatures' size.
All vanilla rules still apply: staff quality, Blood Magic skill, maximum number of summons.
Settings
Press F1 (Configuration Manager): hold duration, modifier key for the next variant, guard leash distance, formation radius and spacing, debug logging.
Installation
Required on the server and every player (version-checked by Jötunn). Nothing to configure server-side.
Source
https://github.com/XGIM/better-summon
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 23d ago.
BetterSummon 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 side
- Optional on 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
- 1.0.1, released 2026-10-13
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 2 recorded builds of BetterSummon.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1.0.1 | 2026-10-13 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 1.0.0 | 2026-10-11 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
- Required: Jotunn
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run BetterSummon 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 catalogGameplay & overhauls
New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.
Works on a server
From source side supportThunderstore lists server-side support for BetterSummon as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-13Open ↗
- ✓AuthorKara, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
