Groundwork

Groundwork

Pollination boosts honey and plant growth, rain speeds plant growth, hoe/cultivator ranges scale with grid views, pickaxes get scalable digging, scythes harvest all crops, and Farming skill scales mass planting, plant growth, and beehive capacity.

You can plant berry bushes and mushrooms and such with configurable recipes. BepInEx/config/Groundwork/cultivation.yml

Configurable terrain tool scaling with radius and cost. Larger terrain ranges can require proportionally more materials, stamina, and durability, making expanded tools powerful but balanced.

Hoe and Cultivator terrain range scaling with precision grid preview. Adjust tool radius with the wheel modifier, preview affected terrain cells, and see range/cost feedback before placing.

Scalable pickaxe terrain digging. Increase radius and depth per pickaxe, with stamina and durability costs scaling from the selected dig size.

Scythe harvesting for all supported crops. Sweep through planted fields and harvest mature crops in a wide arc.

Beehive upgrades and hover details. Farming-scaled honey capacity, cover, pollination, night/rain modifiers, total honey rate, and next honey timing are shown at a glance.

Rain and pollination plant growth info. Hover text shows active Farming, pollination, and rain multipliers alongside the remaining growth time.

Farming-scaled mass planting, grid planting, and foraging pollination. Plant in clean grids, scale planting count by Farming level, and let beehives boost nearby foraging respawn when conditions are right.

Features

Farming and Planting

• Grid planting is always available while placing crops.
• Mass planting scales with Farming level:
• 0-19: Off
• 20-39: 5 plants
• 40-59: 10 plants
• 60-79: 15 plants
• 80-99: 20 plants
• 100: 25 plants
• Hold the tool wheel modifier hotkey and use the mouse wheel to change mass-plant count.
• With Path of Valheiman's supported stats API, the active Broad Sowing ability replaces the Farming requirement and unlocks 5/10/15/20/25 plants. Selection starts at single planting; use the same wheel controls, G grid toggle and key hints.
• Turn off Mass Planting Enabled to disable only multi-plant placement; grid planting stays available.
• Mass planting processes slots nearest to the player first (horizontal distance), using the same order for preview and placement. Material, stamina, and durability limits select the nearest slots; invalid selected slots are skipped without extending the batch to farther slots.
• Planted crops can grow faster based on the planter's Farming skill.
• Mass planting can grant extra Farming skill.
• Natural Pickable Removal = On lets the Cultivator permanently remove natural Pickables in the server-synced Natural Pickable Removal Prefabs allowlist. The default list is Pickable_Branch, Pickable_Flint, Pickable_Dandelion, Pickable_Mushroom, and Pickable_Thistle. Removal gives no items or harvest and still uses Valheim's normal distance, no-build, ward, and ownership checks.
• Scythe Handle Required Global Key controls when the Bog Witch sells ScytheHandle. Vanilla uses defeated_dragon; Groundwork defaults to defeated_bonemass. See YouAreNotWorthy for per-player progression and discovery of additional global keys.
• Hovering Farming in the Skills tab shows its original description and enabled Groundwork Farming effects to the left of the Skills panel, aligned with the Farming row and kept within the screen bounds.

Foraging

• Edible respawning pickables, plus prefabs registered in BepInEx/config/Groundwork/pickables.yml, can be affected by Farming skill.
• Higher Farming skill can increase nearby pickup range. Farming Range Harvest Targets = ForagingAndCrops also includes mature crops produced by Plant prefabs.
• Higher Farming skill can speed up foraging respawn.
• Rain can speed up foraging respawn while the current environment is wet.

Beehives

• Beehive capacity can increase with Farming level.
• Newly placed hives store the builder's Farming level.
• Harvesting honey updates the hive's stored Farming level from the harvester.
• Harvesting honey can grant Farming skill.
• Lower cover increases honey production speed.
• Night honey production can be slowed or paused.
• Rain can slow or pause loaded honey production.
• Beehives can pollinate nearby growing plants and foraging targets, except while it is raining.
• Empty hives give stronger pollination bonuses; the bonus fades as the hive fills with honey.
• Growing nearby pollination targets can speed up honey production.
• Beehive hover text shows honey capacity in the title, plus cover, pollination, night/rain rates, and next honey time with total rate.
• A client-only setting can show short explanations below the next-honey line for the configured cover and pollination effects.
• One client setting controls both the centered terrain range guide and marker highlights around Plant/Pickable targets assigned to a hovered beehive. Raising a hive shrinks the guide, while slopes change it by direction. The range turns gray when unavailable or paused; assigned target markers turn gray while rain or night pauses pollination.

Terrain Tools