TheGreatHall

The Great Hall

A server-authoritative character system and leaderboard for Valheim dedicated servers.

The server owns your character. It keeps the authoritative copy, hands it back when you join, and a character levelled somewhere else cannot be walked in. Everyone on the server earned what they are carrying, on that server.

There is also a hall — press F7 — with the realm's boss progress across the top, a leaderboard ranking everyone by deaths, power level or skill category, and a dossier on every Viking you click.

Deaths say what killed you: "HEINLIEN was killed by a Troll", "HEINLIEN fell to their death".

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Valheim 1.0.7

Build 51 is rebuilt for Valheim 1.0.7 (network version 39). Anything earlier will not work on 1.0.7: the update moved several fields this mod reads, and an older build takes the dedicated server down with it rather than just failing quietly. If you are running an earlier build, replace both halves.

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⚠ This is a development build

It works, and it has been tested fairly hard by one person. It has not been tested with several people playing at once, which is the next thing on the list. Expect rough edges, expect bugs, and please do not put it on a server whose characters you would be upset to lose.

If something breaks, or you just want to tell me it is bad, find me as Zomax in the Valheim Modding Discord.

Try it without installing a server

There is a live test server running this. Client mod only — install it, join, and see what happens.

srv1936396.hstgr.cloud:2456
password: valheim

It is realm-locked, so you will be asked whether to hand your character over the first time, and you will start there with a brand new character.

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The hall

Boss progress across the top — the realm's saga, with each boss's own trophy icon, lit when felled. This is the one figure on the board nobody can fake: bosses write a key into the world save when they die and the server reads its own keys. No client is involved.

The leaderboard, sortable by deaths, power level, or any of the three skill categories.

Click any name for that Viking's dossier:

• Deeds — monsters slain, bosses felled, blocks, parries, items crafted, pieces built, trees

felled, ore mined, distance travelled and sailed

• Equipped — a paper doll of what they are carrying, drawn with the game's own item art
• Slain — their kills broken down by creature
• Killed by — what has killed them, and how often
• Recent deaths — the last twenty, by world day
• Skills — every skill they have raised, grouped and ranked

Deaths are measured by the server from the character's own state, so a death cannot be hidden or invented. Everything else is reported by the player's client: honest for honest players, which is what a leaderboard needs. It is not an anti-cheat system and does not pretend to be.

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What it does to your character

Nothing, unless you agree. Before anything is applied, the mod stops and tells you in plain words what the server is about to do, and you can disconnect instead. That question is asked once per character, per server.

On a realm server:

• Your first visit starts a brand new character — no gear, no skills. Your name, face, hair and

beard come with you; nothing else does.

• The server's copy is the one that counts. Whatever that character did elsewhere is not part of

it.

• Your own character file is never read, written or deleted. The realm character is held

separately, and nothing touches the character you picked at the menu.

• Everything you earn there is uploaded and given back next time — skills, inventory, food, recipes,

appearance, and where you were standing and what you had explored.

Progress is uploaded every few minutes, on death, on logout, and a few seconds after your inventory changes. An unclean exit — a crash or a power cut — can cost the last few seconds. A normal logout costs nothing.

The consent prompt carries one optional extra, off by default: whether to keep your character-select slot updated with your realm progress, so the carousel shows the gear you actually have. Turning it on replaces that local character when you log out. It is the only thing this mod ever writes to your own character files, it cannot be undone, and it never happens unless you tick the box.

On servers that do not run this, it does nothing

The mod greets each dedicated server once and goes inert if it gets no answer. Unknown routed RPCs are silently ignored by vanilla Valheim, so a plain server never notices it is there — no custom version string, no changed network version, nothing making you incompatible with anything. Singleplayer and other people's servers are unaffected.

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Installing the server

The package contains both halves:

| File | Goes where | Notes | | ---- | ---------- | ----- | | Deathboard.Client.dll | every player's BepInEx/plugins | the mod manager does this for you | | Deathboard.dll | the dedicated server's BepInEx/plugins | copy it there yourself |

Both are installed on your own machine by the mod manager, and that is fine — each stands down where it does not belong. The server half does nothing on a client, and the client half does nothing on a headless server. Realm features additionally require a dedicated server, so hosting a play-with-friends world will not realm-lock your own game.

Steps

1. Install BepInEx on the dedicated server if it is not there already.
2. Copy Deathboard.dll into the server's BepInEx/plugins/.
3. Start the server once. It writes BepInEx/config/com.deathboard.valheim.cfg.
4. Restart after any config change.

Check it loaded — the log line is the only honest confirmation:

===== Deathboard v3.0.0 build 51 starting =====