AchievementEnabler

AchievementEnabler

Lets Modded Valheim players earn achievements.

What it does

Cheating no longer affects achievements. Valheim 1.0.12 added a way to opt-into achievements after using commands. This mod extends that to no longer be necessary and to also ignore the game's own "cheated" flag on items and creatures. You can now use commands, spawn items, and build with cheated materials without losing achievements.

Progress you already made counts. Valheim records every stat twice: once in a raw table that always counts, and once in the table achievements are actually read from, which it skips whenever it sees cheats or mods. Everything you did before installing this mod is therefore in the raw table only, and the game never goes back for it — which is why a character with hundreds of trees felled can still show no progress towards Lumberjack. Your raw totals are now copied across when the character loads, taking whichever number is higher so nothing is counted twice. Turn it off with BackfillAchievementStats if you would rather start from where the game left you.

Your best-ever stats are put back. A few achievements read a record rather than a total: the most days survived in a row, your highest comfort, your highest build, and how much of each kind of piece you have built in one place. Up to Valheim 1.0.20 the game checked each new value against your record at the world's current combat difficulty only, then wrote it over your overall record. So after a world's difficulty changed, or on your first visit to a world at another difficulty, the first few days wrote a small number over your real best, and an achievement like surviving 30 days in a row relocked. Valheim 1.0.21 stopped that but did not undo it. Records the game lowered are put back when the character loads, from the per-difficulty records it kept, and records only ever go up. Turn it off with KeepBestStats.

Old cheat marks are cleared. Characters, worlds and items that were already marked as cheated stop showing as cheated. A character's mark is cleared each time it loads, a world's keys are left alone, and an item's flag is cleared as the item loads — from your inventory, chests, tombstones or the ground. Each can be turned off in MidnightsFX.AchievementEnabler.cfg.

Clearing the item flag matters beyond the tooltip: since Valheim 1.0.14 a flagged item will not stack with a clean one, so one flagged stack kept splitting every stack of that item you picked up. The flag is written out as clear the next time the item is saved, so this one is not reversible by turning the setting back off.

Cheated items can be cleared by hand too. clearcheateditems is a cheat command: turn on devcommands, then run it in the console to clear the flag from everything your character is carrying right now. It covers the one case loading cannot: an item handed to you by a player who does not have this mod. Like the game's other cheat commands, it only works in singleplayer or for the host.

Vanilla-only achievement lists (optional)

Some achievements ask for everything of a kind: craft every weapon, item or food, eat every food, place every build piece, find every trophy, kill every creature. The game builds those lists from whatever is loaded, so content mods add their own items, pieces and creatures to them, some of which you may never be able to get.

Set VanillaOnlyRequirements = true in the [Achievements] section of MidnightsFX.AchievementEnabler.cfg to limit those lists to vanilla content. It is off by default, only affects your own game (nothing to set on the server), and can be changed while the game is running.

If the shorter list means you have already done everything an achievement asks for, it unlocks straight away. Turning the option back off puts the modded entries back in the lists, but doesn't take away achievements already unlocked on Steam.

What still shows as cheated

Optionally, see what your achievements ask for. Turn on ShowAllRequirements and every achievement you already know about opens, including the ones the game keeps shut, like The Homesteader, and its details name every requirement with your progress towards it, not just the ones you have already met. Child of Odin and Kings & Queens list the achievements they need. Secret achievements you have not earned stay concealed, and so does anything that would give one away: The Viking still shows "???" for the bosses you have not killed.

Optionally, see every achievement. Turn on ShowSecretAchievements and secret achievements show their real name and description instead of "Concealed" and "Only Odin knows what is hidden here." That spoils them, so it is worth leaving off until you want to know. With both on, you see every achievement and everything it asks for.

Both are client side and off by default. They only change what your own panel shows, never what counts.

What this can't fix

Some achievements have conditions in the game itself that have nothing to do with cheating, and this mod does not change them. If one looks stuck, it is usually one of these:

• A tree only counts if you hit it yourself and your game owns it. Trees knocked over by a falling log

count for nobody, and in multiplayer a tree loaded by another player counts for them.

• A kill only counts if you damaged the creature, and it is reported by whichever game owns it.
• Food taken off a cooking station is credited to whoever's game owns the station, not whoever takes it.
• The two hard-difficulty achievements and the normal-difficulty one read their own tables, which only

receive kills made at that difficulty or above.

• Build achievements recheck your surroundings once every twenty pieces placed, and only count pieces you

built that are currently loaded.

Installation

Install with a mod manager, or unzip into your Valheim folder so that you have BepInEx/plugins/AchievementEnabler.dll.