VisualItemSpawner

Visual Item Spawner

Browse Valheim items by their actual game pictures, readable names and descriptions. Search the catalog, select an item, and give it to your inventory or drop it nearby. A separate creature browser lets you preview and spawn creatures.

Features

• Real inventory pictures with localized item names and descriptions.
• Search, categories, adjustable card sizes and favorites.
• Quantity, quality and variant controls where supported by the item.
• Give/drop sets, recipe ingredients and creature loot.
• Creature previews, level controls and an optional tamed toggle.
• Configurable creature cap within 50 metres, enforced by the host/server.
• Multiplayer requests checked against the host/server's permissions and limits.
• Internal FW_ and SP_ copies and Dvergr NPC weapons, suits and hair excluded from the item catalog.

Screenshots

Item spawner

Creature spawner

Configuration menu

Installation

Requires Valheim and BepInEx 5. Install using Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman to obtain the declared BepInEx dependency automatically.

For manual installation, copy plugins/VisualItemSpawner/VisualItemSpawner.dll from this ZIP to BepInEx/plugins/VisualItemSpawner/ in your game or mod profile.

For multiplayer, install the same release on the host/server and every client that wants to use the browsers and spawn actions. This release uses protocol 5. Older protocol versions are incompatible. A dedicated server runs without browser UI.

Controls

| Action | Default control | | --- | --- | | Item browser | F6 | | Creature browser | F7 | | Search | Type; Backspace deletes; Delete clears | | Clear search / close | Escape clears search first, then closes | | Select item | Click, arrows or Tab | | Change page | Page Up / Page Down | | Spawn selected entry | Enter or double-click | | Quantity / quality / level | Use the details-panel controls | | Favorites | Star in the details panel |

Button labels automatically fit their available space, including when a wider game font is loaded. Hotkeys are configurable. Creature pictures are generated from game prefabs; items use their own inventory sprites. Missing artwork may use a fallback.

Configuration and multiplayer permissions

The config is generated at BepInEx/config/visualitemspawner.cfg. Restart the game or server after changing settings. Changing a joining client's permissions does not override the server's policy.

| Section | Purpose | | --- | --- | | 01 - General | Enable or disable the mod | | 02 - Browser | Hotkeys, ingredient exclusions and default tame toggle | | 03 - Catalog | Creature name exclusions | | 04 - Server spawning | Destinations, quantity and level limits | | 05 - Server permissions | Non-admin item and creature access | | 06 - Network | Request rate limits and handshake retry timings |

Non-admin item and creature access default to false. Enable them separately with AllowNonAdminItems and AllowNonAdminCreatures on the host/server. Admins retain access regardless of those two non-admin settings. The default rate limit is 20 requests per player per 5 seconds. Set and ingredient actions send multiple requests and can reach that limit.

Keep MarkItemsAsCheated consistent on client and server. Server limits and permissions govern requests; some inventory work occurs on the receiving client. The mod enforces its own operations and is not a general anticheat.

All settings and defaults

BepInEx creates the config automatically when the mod first loads. No default config is included in the ZIP, so installation does not replace your settings. With a mod manager, the file belongs to the selected profile. On a dedicated server, edit that server's own config. Stop the game/server before editing, then start it again to apply changes. Existing legacy settings migrate to the numbered sections; values already present in the new sections take precedence.