FlatHoe

Flat Hoe

Adds two hoe pieces that level the ground into a perfectly flat pad in one click: Flat Hoe (dirt) and Flat Hoe (pebbles). You choose the size and the shape, see a preview before you click, and can undo any flatten.

Also on Nexus Mods: https://www.nexusmods.com/valheim/mods/4403

Features

• Perfectly flat pads of dirt or pebbles, with a radius from 1 to 16 m (6 m to start).
• Square or circle shape.
• Levels to the crosshair: the pad is built at the height of the green preview plane. Hold Shift to level to the height under your feet instead.
• Sloped edges: no vertical walls around the pad, so mobs can't get snapped up onto it from a moat or water. Set the angle with EdgeSlope (0 = vertical walls).
• Moats hold: creatures pressed against a steep wall are no longer snapped up on top of it. Creatures that really fall through the ground are still rescued.
• Auto-clearing: trees, logs, stumps and rocks inside the pad are removed. Ore, scrap, obsidian and crystals are kept.
• Undo (Ctrl+Z): terrain, paint and cleared trees and rocks come back. It keeps the last 20 flattens.
• Free by default. You can switch the vanilla hoe costs back on.
• HUD next to the crosshair: width, depth, shape and height mode.
• English and Russian text.

Controls (with Flat Hoe selected)

| Action | Key | |---|---| | Size larger / smaller | Up / Down arrow | | Square / circle | Left / Right arrow | | Level to your feet instead of the crosshair | Hold Shift | | Undo last flatten | Ctrl + Z |

Configuration

The config file is BepInEx/config/com.valheimtools.flathoe.cfg.

| Section | Option | Default | What it does | |---|---|---|---| | Terrain | Radius / MinRadius / MaxRadius / RadiusStep | 6 / 1 / 16 / 0.5 | Pad radius in metres | | Terrain | SmoothEdges | false | Blend the rim into nearby terrain | | Terrain | EdgeSlope | 2 | Steepest rim, metres of height per metre outward (0 = vertical) | | Terrain | LevelToCursor | true | Level to the crosshair (Shift = feet). False swaps the two | | Terrain | PreventWallSnap | true | Creatures aren't snapped onto the pad from moats | | Terrain | SquareShape | false | Start with the square shape | | Terrain | RequireResources | false | Keep the vanilla hoe costs | | UI | ShowRadiusHud | true | Show the HUD next to the crosshair | | Clearing | ClearObjects | true | Remove trees, logs, stumps and rocks in the pad | | Clearing | KeepOreDeposits | true | Never remove ore, scrap, obsidian or crystals | | Undo | UndoKey / UndoHistory | Ctrl+Z / 20 | Undo key and depth |

Multiplayer

From 1.3.2 on, every player needs this version, so that PreventWallSnap works for everyone.

Installation

With a mod manager (r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager): click Install. BepInEx is installed automatically.

Manual: install BepInExPack Valheim, then copy FlatHoe.dll into Valheim/BepInEx/plugins/.

Changelog

1.3.2

• Fixed: mobs no longer get snapped onto the pad from moats. This is the new PreventWallSnap option, on by default. Set EdgeSlope = 0 for sheer vertical moat walls. In multiplayer, all players need this version.

1.3.1 (hotfix)

• Levels to the crosshair: the pad is built at the height of the green preview plane, so no more surprise pits. Hold Shift to level to your feet height instead.
• Sloped edges: no more vertical walls around the pad, so mobs can't get snapped up onto it from a moat or water. Adjust with EdgeSlope in the config (0 = the old vertical edges).

1.3.0

• Undo: flattened the wrong spot? Press Ctrl+Z. Terrain, paint and cleared trees and rocks come back.
• Auto-clearing: trees, logs, stumps and rocks inside the pad are removed. Ore, scrap, obsidian and crystals are kept.