WhySleepAlone

Why Sleep Alone?

> Share a bed. Share a home. Wake up Satisfied.

Why Sleep Alone? expands Valheim's double-bed experience for two players.

Share the vanilla Dragon Bed, use it as a shared respawn point, sleep together, wake with the configurable Satisfied buff, enjoy atmospheric shared dreams, and even enable compatible double beds from other mods.

Created by TheLionCid

Version: 1.0.3 Valheim: 1.0.20 Framework: BepInEx 5.4.2351

Discord / Support: https://discord.gg/kN3cqHqWYA

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At a Glance

• Two players, one shared bed
• Shared respawn point
• Satisfied buff after a valid shared night
• 80 shared dreams + 20 wake-up lines
• Neutral, Romantic, Bawdy, Mixed and Custom text modes
• Write your own dreams and wake-up messages
• Add compatible double beds from other mods
• Adjustable sleep and respawn positions
• Vanilla boss/progression dreams and cinematics stay protected
• Built for multiplayer

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Quick Start

1. Install the mod

Install Why Sleep Alone? on the host and participating players.

2. Build a Dragon Bed

The vanilla Dragon Bed is supported automatically:

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3. Link the second player

Bed owner: Shift + Use to open the shared-bed invitation. Second player: use/interact with the bed to join.

Once linked, both players can use the bed normally for sleeping and respawn.

Since 1.0.3, shared-bed persistence has been reworked to survive world reloads reliably. Linked partners and open invitations are restored using a persistent identity for each bed, so you do not need to reopen the bed every time you restart the world. An open invitation remains open until the owner closes it or a partner successfully joins.

When linked, the bed can display both names, for example:

Lion & Yume's Bed

4. Sleep together

Complete a valid shared night and both players can receive Satisfied.

That's it. The advanced options below are optional.

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Shared Bed Features

A supported shared bed can be linked to two players:

• Player A — the vanilla bed owner
• Player B — the linked partner

Both players can:

• sleep in the same bed;
• use the same bed as their respawn point;
• use separate configurable sleeping positions;
• use separate configurable respawn positions;
• receive Satisfied after a successful shared night.

The persistent bed link and the temporary "currently sleeping" state are handled separately, so leaving the bed, disconnecting or waking up does not permanently occupy a slot.

If a linked bed disappears, the mod uses safe cleanup/fallback behavior instead of trapping the player in a respawn loop.

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Satisfied

Sleeping successfully with your linked partner can grant:

Satisfied

Default duration: 60 minutes

Default bonuses:

• +10% Health regeneration
• +10% Stamina regeneration
• +10% Eitr regeneration

Each value can be configured individually.

Satisfied works alongside Valheim's normal Rested effect.

The visual profile also follows the selected tone:

Neutral — Dragon Bed Uses Valheim's Dragon Bed icon.

Romantic / Bawdy — Love Potion Uses Valheim's Love Potion icon (potion_pheromones).

♥ Wake-up hearts Romantic and Bawdy modes can trigger a short burst of Valheim's vanilla pet-heart effect when both players wake.

The heart burst is only a brief visual effect; it does not run for the full Satisfied duration.

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Dreams & Mood

Why Sleep Alone? includes 80 shared-sleep dreams and 20 wake-up lines in English and Spanish.

The writing is designed to feel more at home in Valheim: longhouses, voyages, snow, ravens, old battles, runestones, mead, shared fires and the occasional questionable night under the furs.

Neutral

Quiet, mysterious and companion-focused.

Expect dreams about:

• distant homes;
• winter roads;
• Yggdrasil;
• ravens;
• old halls;
• returning from long journeys.

Romantic

Affectionate, but written with a Viking/Norse tone rather than modern romance.

Expect:

• returning from raids;
• waiting by the fire;
• voyages together;
• runestones and remembrance;
• growing old beside someone;
• finding "home" in another person.

Bawdy

Adult Viking tavern humor and suggestive shared-night stories.

Two intensities are available:

• Mild — cheeky, suggestive and playful
• Spicy — more openly adult, while still keeping the tone humorous rather than graphic

Mixed

A varied blend of all built-in styles:

• 45% Neutral
• 30% Romantic
• 20% Bawdy Mild
• 5% Bawdy Spicy

Custom

Use your own dreams and wake-up messages.

More on that below.

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Less Repetition

The mod keeps a small local history so the same lines do not constantly repeat.

• up to the last 10 dreams are avoided while alternatives exist;
• recent wake-up lines are also avoided;
• small text pools relax safely instead of blocking sleep.

This history is local and lightweight.

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Vanilla Dreams Always Come First

Why Sleep Alone? uses Valheim's own dream presentation.

It does not replace the sleep screen with a custom cinematic system.

Most importantly:

> Boss, progression, special and cinematic dreams always have priority over Why Sleep Alone?

The mod only replaces vanilla dream results that it can safely identify as ordinary generic dreams.