Staff of the Fold

Staff of the Fold

Carry a furnished magical home in a staff. A Valheim mod with a main chamber, workshop, gravity that follows the walls and ceiling, and crystal windows looking back outside.

Craft the staff at a Forge, then carry your home wherever you travel.

Install with your mod manager, or download the ZIP from this page for manual installation.

Screenshots

The main room has furnishings on the floor, walls and ceiling.

The workshop includes crafting stations, storage, weapon mounts and water flowing between its basins.

View all seven screenshots, including ceiling gravity, clear windows and both travel modes.

Getting started

Craft one staff at a level-1 Forge using 20 Fine Wood, 10 Bronze, 10 Greydwarf Eyes, 3 Surtling Cores and 5 Crystal. Discover the ingredients and station to unlock the recipe normally. The staff has one quality level and no upgrades.

To obtain it through the console instead, enable Valheim's -console launch option. In a local world, open the console with F5 and run:

devcommands
spawn StaffOfTheFold 1

Pick up and equip the Staff of the Fold. The spawn name is StaffOfTheFold.

How to use

| Action | Default control | | --- | --- | | Swap the staff into your current hotbar slot and equip it | F6 | | Enter your house with the equipped staff | Left-click | | Return outside | Use the green return crystal, or left-click with an equipped staff | | Open or close the workshop trapdoor | E | | Enter the workshop | Open the trapdoor and jump or step through | | Dive back from the workshop | Look through its hatch and press Shift + E | | Build, repair or remove furnishings | Use the hammer | | Attach an item to a plaque or rack | Aim at a mount and press that item's hotbar key | | Take an item off a mount | Aim at it and press E |

Each character has their own house in each world. Walk onto adjoining walls or ceilings to change gravity. Movement, the camera and building orientation follow the surface.

F6 finds a staff in your inventory and swaps it with the item in your currently equipped hotbar slot. The displaced item moves to the staff's previous inventory position, so this also works with a full inventory. Pressing F6 again while the staff is equipped does nothing. When empty-handed, it uses your last selected hotbar slot, the staff's existing hotbar slot, an empty slot, or slot 1, in that order.

If you miss a corner transition, sprint directly into a house wall for a quarter-second, or jump toward it and press jump again while airborne and close to the wall. This requests a gravity switch without adding a second jump impulse.

With ComfyGizmo installed, piece rotations and copied rotations also follow the current gravity direction. Keep using Gizmo's configured rotation and reset keys.

Chests, seats, the bed and armour stands work like their Valheim equivalents. Custom furniture and props appear in the hammer's Fold furniture and Fold props tabs. The house structure, windows and magical features stay fixed.

Each weapon plaque has three independent mounts. Aim at its left, centre or right section to use that slot. Large items can overlap neighbouring slots.

Travel options

After the first launch, edit BepInEx/config/com.kakimakidev.staffofthefold.cfg while the game is closed. The host or server chooses the travel mode under [Travel]:

• Mode = PlantedStaff, the default: entering plants your staff upright outside and removes it from your inventory. Other players can use it to enter, or pick it up with Shift + E. Returning takes you to the staff or its carrier. If it is still planted, the first returning player automatically picks it up when there is inventory space.
• Mode = HouseList: keep your staff and choose a house from a list. Owners use My whitelist to grant or remove access. You always have access to your own house.

If the linked staff or its carrier is unavailable, return uses your saved departure position. You do not need the staff to leave a house.

[Travel] PreventEntryWhileAggroed = true prevents entry while a hostile creature is alerted and targeting you, including five seconds after its last alert notification. This covers equipped staffs, planted staffs and house-list entry. Leaving the house remains available. Set it to false to allow entry during combat. The host/server controls this setting.

Make it yours

In the same configuration file:

• [Prism] WindowMode = Clear is the default and gives a continuous outdoor view. Set it to Refracted for the crystal effect.
• [Prism] FramesPerSecond and Resolution adjust the window rendering cost. Pixelated controls sharp pixel sampling.
• [Controls] UseStaff changes the F6 equip shortcut. Change it if another mod uses F6, or set it to None to disable it.
• [Lighting] contains the room lighting settings.
• [Interior] EmptyRooms = true clears the supplied furniture and decorations from both rooms, including fixed flags, skulls, plants and the workshop water effect. The host/server controls this setting. The shell, windows, lighting, trapdoor and return crystal remain. Your own builds stay in place. Set it back to false to restore the surviving supplied furniture and its stored contents. Restart after editing the file.

Building configuration

These settings default to allowing all build pieces and requiring normal nearby crafting stations. The host/server's settings apply to everyone.

[Building]
DisableCustomBuildables = false