About Auto Feeder
From ThunderstoreTamed animals eat from nearby chests. Works with boars, wolves, lox, hens and asksvin. Updated for Valheim 1.0.
Auto Feeder
Tamed animals that are hungry walk to a nearby chest and eat from it, so you don't have to drop food on the floor.
Works with every tameable animal: boars, wolves, lox, hens and asksvin. It also works with creatures made tameable by other mods, as long as they eat items the normal way.
Maintained by vanbushi. Originally created by aedenthorn (Auto Feed).
How it works
- A hungry tamed animal looks for a chest within 10 m (ContainerRange) that holds food it eats.
- It walks over, faces the chest and eats one item, the same as eating from the ground.
- Food on the ground is still eaten first.
Install
- Install BepInExPack Valheim.
- Put
AutoFeed.dllinValheim/BepInEx/plugins/. - Run the game once to create
BepInEx/config/vanbushi.AutoFeed.cfg.
Multiplayer: install on the server and every player's PC.
Settings
| Setting | Default | What it does | |---|---|---| | ContainerRange | 10 | How far (metres) animals look for a chest. | | RequireMove | true | Animals walk to the chest. Off = they eat from it from where they stand. | | MoveProximity | 2 | How close they get. The animal's own size is added on top. | | ContainerNameFilter | piece_chest,Container | Only chests whose names start with these. | | FeedDisallowTypes | (empty) | Item prefab names animals must never eat, comma-separated. | | AnimalDisallowTypes | (empty) | Creature prefab names that should not use chests, comma-separated (e.g. Wolf). | | RequireOnlyFood | false | Only use chests that hold nothing but that animal's food. | | ToggleKey | (empty) | Key to turn the feeding on/off. | | IsDebug | false | Writes what each animal is doing to the BepInEx log. |
Reload the config in game: press F5 and type autofeed reset.
What each animal eats
- Boar: blueberries, carrots, onions, raspberries, mushrooms, turnips
- Wolf: raw meats, fish, sausages
- Lox: barley, cloudberries, flax
- Hen: carrot, turnip, onion, beech and birch seeds, barley, dandelion
- Asksvin: smoke puff, vineberry cluster, fiddlehead
Upgrading from aedenthorn's Auto Feed
Delete the old BepInEx/config/aedenthorn.AutoFeed.cfg. This version uses vanbushi.AutoFeed.cfg.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 12d ago.
Auto Feeder on Nxeon
From our catalogue- One-click install
- Supported on Nxeon Valheim servers, for BepInEx servers. We download it from Thunderstore, place it, and restart the server.
- Server side
- Optional on the server
- Server type needed
- BepInEx
- Server load
- light
- Smallest plan we suggest
- Valheim — 4 GB (4 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
- Latest build
- 0.9.4, released 2026-10-23
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 2 recorded builds of Auto Feeder.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.9.4 | 2026-10-23 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.9.3 | 2026-10-20 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Auto Feeder on a Valheim server
Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.
What kind of mod it is
From the catalogQuality of life & UI
Small conveniences, tweaks and interface improvements players notice straight away.
Works on a server
From source side supportThunderstore lists server-side support for Auto Feeder as optional: it can run on a server, but isn’t required there.
Compatibility
- Game
- Valheim
- Loaders
- BepInEx
- Runs on
- Serveroptional on the server
- Requires
- One-click install needs a BepInEx server.
Verified at the source
- ✓ThunderstoreOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-24Open ↗
- ✓Authorvanbushi, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
