SuperHoe

🌾 Super Hoe

It's not a phase, Mom, it's a lifestyle.

Somewhere between "farming tool" and "small siege engine" lies Super Hoe — a hoe that has seen some things and come back different. It doesn't cost stamina. It doesn't cost resources. It doesn't care about your local flora. Point it at a hillside, click, and watch civilization appear where a forest used to be.

What it does

• Free to swing. No stamina, no resource cost, by default — a server

admin can dial either back up if they want some balance instead of "free."

• Never needs repair. No durability bar at all.
• Paves in one hit. A single swing clears trees, rocks, and small

destructible scenery in its radius, aggressively levels the terrain toward a height you choose, and lays down cobblestone — all in one motion.

• You choose the target height. Hold the lock key (default Left Shift)

and click to set the height it levels toward — click again later to pick a new one. Don't bother setting one and it just uses whatever's under your feet the first time you swing.

• A warm little glow, and enough light to see by — no more fumbling for

a torch while you carve out your new road.

• Respects wards. It will not let you (or anyone else) grief a warded

build, same as a normal hammer or hoe.

Controls

| Input | Action | |---|---| | Left-click | Pave: destroy → level → pave, toward the locked height | | Lock key (default Left Shift) + Left-click | Set/reset the height it paves toward |

Config

Everything below is server-synced by default (an admin's values apply to everyone connected), except the keybind and cosmetic glow, which are yours to set however you like locally.

| Setting | Default | Notes | |---|---|---| | Paving Radius | 3m | Terrain level + cobblestone area | | Destroy Radius | 3m | Tree/rock/scenery clear area (independent of paving radius) | | Destroy Trees And Rocks | On | Master on/off switch for the destroy pass | | Stamina Cost Per Use | 0 | Raise it if you want some cost instead of free | | Resource Item / Amount | (none) | Optionally require an item per swing | | Light Range / Intensity | ~1.5x a torch | Tune to taste | | Glow Color / Intensity | Gold | Cosmetic, local only | | Height Lock Modifier Key | Left Shift | Personal preference, local only |

Terrain changes never exceed vanilla's own 8m-per-swing limit for raising or lowering ground — this uses the game's real leveling system under the hood, so it stays visible correctly to anyone without the mod too.

Requirements

Requires Jotunn.

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For developers / building from source

Source lives under SuperHoe/. To build:

1. Put Jotunn.dll, BepInEx.dll, and 0Harmony.dll directly in the same

folder as SuperHoe.csproj, or edit their HintPaths in the .csproj if you keep them elsewhere.

1. Set the VALHEIM_INSTALL environment variable to your Valheim install

folder (the one containing valheim.exe), or edit the hardcoded fallback path near the top of SuperHoe.csproj. Used only for the game/Unity assembly references and the optional post-build copy-to-plugins step.

1. Open in Visual Studio and build.

Disclaimer/License

• I did use AI to help me with some of the coding and harmony interactions but I was involved in all of the steps.
• Feel free to use the files however you want, I mostly made this for a buddy and dont really care about credit if you use anything included.
• THIS BREAKS A TON OF INTENDED GAMEPLAY. Like seriously, do not use this if you want a vanilla experience. One shotting trees and rocks bypasses a ton of normal gameplay.

Known limitations

• The light settings will not update in real time if you are using any live edit/debug tools. You will have to unequip/equip

the item in order to have the changes reflect.