About Hearthfolk
From ThunderstoreWIP: Build shared Valheim villages, recruit unique villagers, manage their needs, and assign woodcutting, planting, fishing, and guard jobs.
Hearthfolk
> WORK IN PROGRESS: Hearthfolk is an early test release. Expect bugs, unfinished features, and changes between updates. Back up your world before testing.
Hearthfolk adds a shared village system to Valheim, inspired by ASKA. Place a Stone Tablet, recruit villagers from two randomly generated candidates, and build a settlement around them.
Each villager has a name, appearance, traits, skills, hunger, fatigue, health, and stamina. They eat real Valheim food, sleep in nearby beds, improve through work, and can die if a settlement is neglected.
The Hearthfolk Hammer provides the first village workstations:
- Woodcutting
- Tree planting
- Fishing
- Guarding
Workers use real tools and supplies, operate within the village, and deposit what they produce into linked containers. Guards patrol and defend the settlement. The system is designed to grow into farming, mining, hauling, crafting, and animal-care jobs later.
Villages are shared multiplayer entities. Their tablets, residents, candidates, needs, skills, inventories, beds, and work assignments persist with the world save. The server validates recruitment, permissions, costs, and inventory transfers.
Hearthfolk requires matching versions of BepInExPack Valheim and Jötunn on the server and every client. Debug builds currently make recruitment and rerolls free for testing; normal releases use configurable resource costs.
Highlights
From source dataLoaders
Runs on BepInEx.
Footprint
Rated a light load on a server.
Last update
Its author last shipped an update 53d ago.
Hearthfolk 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
- 0.1.3, released 2026-09-12
Game versions by loader
| Loader | Game versions | Newest |
|---|---|---|
| BepInEx |
From 4 recorded builds of Hearthfolk.
Recent builds
| Build | Released | Game versions | Loaders |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.3 | 2026-09-12 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.2 | 2026-09-12 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.1 | 2026-09-12 | n/a | BepInEx |
| 0.1.0 | 2026-09-12 | n/a | BepInEx |
Dependencies
- Required: BepInExPack Valheim
- Required: Jotunn
Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.
Run Hearthfolk 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 catalogAdmin & protection
Permissions, moderation, anti-cheat and land protection for the people running the server.
Works on a server
From source side supportThunderstore lists server-side support for Hearthfolk 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 2026-10-01Open ↗
- ✓AuthorWynston, as published on Thunderstore
- ✓LicenseNot published by the sourceFree
