Hearthforge

Hearthforge

Hearthforge is a new mod and I'm looking for feedback from players. I appreciate being made aware of bugs and hearing your recommendations and requests: please join the Hearthforge Discord.

One mod, a whole Valheim upgrade. Hearthforge by Organixxed adds a WoW-style HUD, a live settings panel (F7) and 71 modules for building, sailing, taming, farming and playing together. Every module can be switched on or off in F7, and most come with sliders, so you can keep the game as close to vanilla as you like.

Highlights: Runeforge Imbues with an element glow (turn 25% of a physical weapon's damage into Frost, Blood, Lightning or Spirit), riding that works: hold-to-move controls, a jump with a real leg pose, one Universal Saddle for wolf, lox, asksvin and moose that you recolour live, saddle bags, wolves you can ride and fight from, a Stable with Summon (Keypad 7) and Recall (Keypad 8), mounts with 4x health, Portal View (linked portals show the other side), a WoW-style Social window with player levels 1-60, dungeons, villages and fortresses that reset every 3 in-game days with reset zones, World Renewal, crafting from chests and your backpack, Beastmaster tames, Ship Salvage and custom sails.

Requirements

• Valheim 1.0.20 (network version 41)
• BepInExPack_Valheim 5.4.2351
• No Jötunn required.

Installation

Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore Mod Manager. To install by hand, copy plugins/Hearthforge.dll to <Valheim>/BepInEx/plugins/. Multiplayer: install it on the server as well. Server-synced options (marked in F7) are then enforced for everyone, and server-authoritative features such as Homestead Move shipments run on the server.

Modules

100 improvements in 71 modules, sorted by what you do. Everything marked (off by default) is switched on in F7 first; everything else can be switched off there.

Mining & Gathering

• Prospector: copper nodes shatter: Once 5 pieces of a copper deposit are broken, the rest breaks at once and drops all its ore. No chasing loose chunks, far less digging. Same total ore; 40% of it drops as tin ore, so fewer trips for tin.
• World Renewal: resources return: Mined rocks and ore deposits, flint, stone and other one-time pickables come back after 3 in-game days. Ore deposits and mineable piles have a reset zone (see Reset zones); otherwise nothing comes back within 30 m of a build or inside a ward.
• World Renewal: trees regrow: Chopped trees regrow from their stumps after 3 in-game days (not within 8 m of a build or inside a ward). Pickaxe a stump to clear the spot for good.
• Woodcleaver: Your axe combo keeps going on trees, so chopping is faster and smoother.
• Gatherer's Ward (F9): Pick the items you never want to auto-pick up (resin, stone, feathers...). No more full bags of junk.
• Overweight guard: Auto-pickup stops before you become overweight and takes partial stacks that still fit, so you never get stuck slow.
• Quiet Wishbone: Turn the Wishbone's treasure ping down or off; the visual pulse stays.

Crafting & Inventory

• Quartermaster: craft from chests: Craft (cauldron included), build, refuel and load smelters with materials from chests within 20 m. A never-pull list and a per-chest switch keep your favourites safe.
• Wanderer's Pack: A backpack from day one: 4 slots, +2 per boss once upgraded at a workbench, items inside weigh half and it never slows you. Crafting and building use it, and Sort and Quick Stack include it. You pick its key the first time; Shift+Right-click moves an item in while it's open.
• Storekeeper: Quick Stack (L / Alt+Click): Send matching items to nearby chests with one key. Lock bag slots so they are never moved.
• Ward Organize (O): Look at a ward and sort every chest in its area by category (it asks first). Chests get floating labels, and a sign next to a chest is filled in with its contents.
• Sort buttons: One-click Sort on your inventory and on every chest.
• Crafting search: A search box and Armor / Weapons / Tools / Food tabs on the crafting window. What you type now shows in the box, a small x clears it, and Esc clears it too, so the full recipe list always comes back.
• Item compare: Tooltips compare an item with what you have equipped.
• Bulk Load (Shift+E): Fill a smelter, kiln, oven or fire in one go instead of one piece at a time.
• Coin Purse: Drop valuables on the trade-in slot to turn them into coins. Coins weigh nothing and stack without limit.
• Warband Gear (Alt+Q / Alt+Z-V): A WoW-style character panel: armor, weapons, ammo, food and coins get their own slots outside the bag, the hotbar moves there so the bag gains a row, plus 3 utility / trinket slots (the Wisp Light has its own), 3 arrow slots (the bow draws from the active one; Alt+Q cycles), 4 potion slots (Alt+Z / X / C / V drink them), a weightless currency pocket, health/stamina/eitr and food timers.
• Kiln Guard: Charcoal kilns only take plain wood, so Fine and Core wood are never burned to coal by accident.