Valheim Plus – the way to improve the player’s experience

If you want a mod to increase the quality of life in Valheim, the Valheim’s difficulty, don’t skip Valheim Plus. Let us show you how this mod is wonderful.

There are many game mods that were created for Valheim to be more interesting. One of the most useful mods is Valheim Plus. Why is this mod rated high in quality? If you are wondering about this, wait a minute! We will show you this mod’s main features and you will understand. And we are sure that you would install this mod for your game quickly and experience it.

What is the Valheim Plus?

Before we learn about how this mod is wonderful for gamers, we need to understand what the Valheim Plus is. Valheim Plus is a HarmonyX mod. It was created by the Valheim Plus team and uploaded on 15 Feb 2021. 

If gamers install this mod, it improves the gameplay quality and the quality of life in the game. You can use modifiers to modify the stats of players, modify the buildings and other entities. You can find many useful features that are integrated with this mod.

What are these features? Please find them in the following part of this article.

Valheim Plus and its main useful features

If you have installed this mod and have experience with this, you can not negate many useful features for gamers. The quality of life in Valheim can be increased by using a base modification. The player’s experience and the game’s difficulty are also modified when you have Valheim Plus.

It is also very important to mention a version and configuration control system. They come with the Valheim Plus. They are used for servers and users. Users use this system and aversion to check and be sure that the players who join the game are using the same configuration. Below is Valheim’s main features

For gameplay

Valheim Plus can modify many things in the Valheim game. It modifies food duration, skill’s experience, carry the load, stamina consumption when players use tools or weapons. Your screen doesn’t shake anymore with Valheim Plus. The rested bonus duration is also tweaked for each level. Players are able to modify skill’s experience. 

• Modify stamina consumption and regeneration.
• Modify stamina consumption when using tools and weaponry.
• Modify food duration.
• Disable food degradation over time (maintain full benefit for the whole duration).
• Modify carry load.
• Modify auto-pickup range.
• Modify unarmed damage.
• Modify base amount of unarmed damage that is multiplied by your unarmed skill level.
• Modify each skill’s experience gain separately by percent.
• Remove screen shakes.
• Tweak/disable death penalty.
• Tweak Rested bonus duration per comfort level.
• Disable the use of portals.
• Modify the Guardian buff duration and cooldown

For game difficulty

Valheim Plus can tweak the difficulty in the game by adding players or modifying the multipliers that are used for the enemies’ health and damage.Valheim Plus uses the number of connected players to modify these multipliers. 

For building features

Gamers can add advanced building mode, editing mode, or modify the structure, the maximum distance at which you can place your objects. You also modify the effective radius for the comfort placeables or radius forward structure protection with Valheim Plus.

Hud

• Show skill experience gains and current skill level in the top left corner on gaining exp.
• Show amount of items in the player’s inventory when crafting or building an object.
• Show numerical stamina value below stamina bar.
• Disable red screen flash on receiving damage.
• Display a warning message when attempting to place different crops too close to each other.
• Added hotkey options for forward and backward roll.

Camera

• Change the player’s Field of View.
• Change the maximum zoom-out distance.
• Change the maximum zoom-out distance when on a boat.
• Switch between first person and third person on button press.
• Hotkeys for changing FOV in first person.

• Force all players in the server to display their map position.
• Allow all players to share all map exploration with every other player in the server, as long as their map position is displayed.
• A system to automatically share all map progression with players connecting, even if they have never been on the server.

• Modify the amount of resources dropped on destruction of objects (this includes chitin, stone, all types of wood, and minerals).
• Modify the drop chance of resources from destroyed objects.

• Modify the weight contribution of items placed inside a wagon.
• Modify the base weight of the wagon.

• Option for all Fire sources to retain maximum fuel once the fuel is added.
• Can be customized to have either fires and/or torches retaining max fuel.
• A system to allow fuel items to be automatically pulled from closest containers.

• Modify the difficulty multipliers applied to health and damage of enemies based on the number of connected players.
• Modify the range at which the game considers other players to be nearby.
• Add a number of players to the player count for the purpose of difficulty calculation.
• Set the difficulty calculation to a specific player count.

• Modify the inventory behavior so that items will be placed in the first slot rather than the last available slot.
• Modify the size of player inventory and all types of containers, including vehicles:
  • • Player inventory can be extended up to 20 x 8.
    • Wood chest inventory can be extended up to 10 x 8.
    • Iron chest inventory can be extended up to 20 x 8.
    • Personal chest inventory can be extended up to 20 x 8.
    • Cart/Wagon chest inventory can be extended up to 30 x 8.
    • Karve chest inventory can be extended up to 30 x 8.
    • Longboat chest inventory can be extended up to 30 x 8.

Note: As of 0.9.4, player inventory slot configuration is not compatible with Equipment and Quick slots mod

• Modify the durability of each item type separately.
• Modify the amount of armor granted by armor pieces.
• Modify the amount of damage blocked by all shields.
• Remove teleport prevention from all items.
• Reduce the weight of all items by percent.
• Modify maximum item stack size by percent.

Workbench

• Modify Workbench radius.
• Modify the radius at which Workbench attachments can be placed.
• Allow crafting stations to automatically repair all appropriate items in the player’s inventory on interaction.

Kiln and Furnace

• Modify Kiln, Furnace and Blast Furnace processing speed.
• Modify Kiln, Furnace and Blast Furnace maximum capacity.
• Allow fuel-type items to be automatically pulled from closest containers.
• Allow items produced by Kiln, Furnace and Blast Furnace to be automatically placed in the closest containers.

Beehive

• Modify Beehive honey production speed.
• Modify Beehive capacity.
• Display time left until next production.
• Allow items produced by Beehive to be automatically placed in the closest containers.

Fermenter

• Modify Fermenter speed.
• Modify Fermenter output amount.
• Display time left until next production.

• • Remove password requirement for the server.
  • Modify the maximum amount of players on a server.
  • Modify number of seconds it takes for items to despawn after being dropped on the ground. (default is 3600 seconds).

Note: Items on ground will retain base game functionality which ensures that drops don’t disappear if a player is nearby or there is a “player base” nearby

• Automatically sync V+ configuration of players joining a server to match the server’s configuration.

Building Features

• Disable “Invalid Placement” restriction while building.
• Disable deterioration of placeables from weather exposure.
• Disable deterioration of placeables from water exposure.
• Added a free rotation mode for the default Building Mode.
• Added Advanced Building Mode.
• Added Advanced Editing Mode.
• Modify the structural integrity of placeables.
• Modify the maximum distance you can place objects at.
• Added the ability for the hammer tool to repair all placeables in an area instead of just the targeted placeable.
• Added option for placeables destroyed/dismantled by players to always drop their full material cost, even if built by another player.
• Modify effective radius of comfort placeables.
• Modify Ward structure protection radius.

Structural Integrity

• Apply a modifier to the structural integrity of the following materials:
  • Wood
  • Stone
  • Iron
  • Hardwood
• Disable structural integrity entirely (this will cause objects placed mid-air to not break and fall).
• Make anything built by players immune to all damage.
• Make boats invincible to all damage.

Grid Alignment

• When pressing the configured key (left alt is the default) new buildings will be aligned to a global grid.
  • The mode can also be toggled by pressing another key (F7 by default).
  • Building elements (from the third tab) are aligned to to their size (e.g. a wood wall will have an alignment of 2m in X and Y direction). 
  • The alignment of building elements in other direction can be configured (by default with the F6 key) to 0.5m, 1m, 2m or 4m.
  • Other buildings like furniture will always be aligned to 0.5m, but the Y position will not be aligned (to make sure they are always exactly on the floor).

Free Rotation Mode for the default Building Mode
Video demo: https://imgur.com/xMH7STj.mp4
This modifies the default build mode. How it works (all mentioned hotkeys can be modified):

• Players can rotate the object selected in any direction while in the usual building mode by pressing certain hotkeys. The location of the object can be manipulated with the mouse:
• Scroll Wheel + Left Alt to rotate by 1 degree on the Y-axis.
• Scroll Wheel + C to rotate by 1 degree on the X-axis.
• Scroll Wheel + V to rotate by 1 degree on the Z-axis.
• Use the copy rotation hotkeys to copy the current rotation or apply the same rotation to the next object that is being built.
• Build the object by clicking.

Advanced Building Mode
Video demo: https://i.imgur.com/ddQCzPy.mp4
How it works (all mentioned hotkeys can be modified):

• Players can freeze the item by pressing the configured key (F1 by default).
• Players can modify the item position and rotation with the following key combinations:
• Arrow Up/Down/Left/Right to move the building object in the respective direction.
• Arrow Up/Down + Control to move the building object up and down.
• Scroll Wheel to rotate the building object on the Y-axis.
• Scroll Wheel + Control to rotate the building object on the X-axis.
• Scroll Wheel + left Alt to rotate the building object on the Z-axis.
• Numpad plus/minus to either increase or decrease speed, holding SHIFT to raise/lower by 10 instead of 1 (Pressing Shift at any moment in time increases the distance/rotation angle 3 times)
• Build the object by clicking.

NOTE: Objects built with this system are not excempt from the structure/support system. Dungeons and other no-build areas are still restricted.

Advanced Editing Mode
Video demo: https://imgur.com/DMb4ZUv.mp4
You cannot be in Build mode (hammer, hoe or terrain tool). How it works:

• Players can select the item with the configured key (Numpad0 is default).
• Players can modify the item position and rotation with the following key combinations:
• Arrow Up/Down/Left/Right to move the building object in the respective direction.
• Arrow Up/Down + Control to move the building object up and down.
• Scroll Wheel = rotates the building object on the Y-axis.
• Scroll Wheel + Control to rotate the building object on the X-axis.
• Scroll Wheel + left Alt to rotate the building object on the Z-axis.
• resetAdvancedEditingMode HotKey resets the position and rotation to the initial values.
• Numpad plus/minus to either increase or decrease speed, holding SHIFT to raise/lower by 10 instead of 1 (Pressing Shift at any moment in time increases the distance/rotation angle 3 times)
• Press the confirmPlacementOfAdvancedEditingMode Hotkey to confirm the changes. (press abortAndExitAdvancedEditingMode HotKey to abort editing mode and reset the object).

NOTE: Other players will not be able to see the item being moved until the player building the item confirms the placement. Dungeons and other no-build areas are still restricted.

Configuration File
The Config file name is supposed to be “valheim_plus.cfg” and it needs to be placed in “BepInExconfig”.

You can turn off and on every feature of V+ via the config file, by default all settings are turned off.

When hosting a server, the server configuration file overwrites the client’s configuration file on connect.

Only the server configuration file (located in the server files) needs to be set up when hosting a server with V+.

When hosting for other players over steam, every player will need v+ and they will receive the local settings from the host’s game folder.

 

Useful features related to server

With Valheim plus, we can remove the password for the server. The maximum number of players can be modified on a server. Valheim also changes the time for items to despawn after they are dropped on the ground. Configurations of players have matched automatically with the configuration’s server when they join the game with installed Valheim Plus. 

There are still many other features that Valheim Plus offers gamers. However, in this article, we only show you the most outstanding features. When you install this mod, it is very easy for you to experience these features. Install and play with Valheim Plus, then don’t share your opinion about this mod.

How to install Valheim Plus?

Windows

Game(Steam)

1. Download the latest package called WindowsClient.zip.
2. Locate your game folder manually or start Steam client and right-click the Valheim game in your Steam library and select Manage -> browse local files for Steam to open your game folder.
3. Extract the contents of the .zip file into the game folder.
4. Open valheim_plus.cfg under BepInExconfig with any text editor and configure the mod to your needs.

Please read the section about Server Config & Version Control (About Version Enforcement) below.

Server
This guide does not cover how to create a dedicated server. These are the steps to install the mod:

1. Download the latest package called WindowsServer.zip.
2. Extract the contents of the .zip file into your root server folder.
3. Open valheim_plus.cfg under BepInExconfig with any text editor and configure the mod to your needs.

Please read the section about Server Config & Version Control (About Version Enforcement) below.

Unix

Game

1. Download the [latest package called UnixServer.zip over this link](https://github.com/valheimPlus/ValheimPlus/releases/latest/). (Scroll down and click “assets”)
2. Locate your game folder manually or start Steam client and right-click the Valheim game in your Steam library and select Manage -> browse local files for Steam to open your game folder.
3. Extract the contents of the archive into the game folder.
4. Make sure to run ‘chmod u+x start_game_bepinex.sh’ to make the start script executable.
5. Right-click the Valheim game in your Steam library.
6. Go to “Properties…” -> “Launch options” and input “./start_game_bepinex.sh %command%”.

Server

This guide does not cover how to create a dedicated server. These are the steps to install the mod:

1. Download the [latest package called UnixServer.zip over this link](https://github.com/valheimPlus/ValheimPlus/releases/latest/). (Scroll down and click “assets”)
2. Extract the contents of the .zip file into your root server folder.
3. Make sure to run ‘chmod u+x start_server_bepinex.sh’ to make the start script executable.
4. Make sure that all uploaded files belong to the owner and group who owns and starts the Valheim server, e.g ‘chown -R steam:steam ./valheim/
5. Configure server startup parameters:

• If you intend to run the script directly, open it and edit the variables at the top (description included in the file).
• If you want to define the parameters elsewhere, you can pass them to start_server_bepinex.sh as you would to the valheim server executable (description included in the file). This is recommended over the first approach, as updates will overwrite the start script and you would have to configure it again.
• If you are using https://linuxgsm.com, go inside your instance config file and change executable to “./start_server_bepinex.sh” to load the mod and your server arguments. More on LGSM config files can be found on their homepage.

6. Make sure to start the server via start_server_bepinex.sh, else the mod will not be loaded.

• Uses libc6-dev
• Most server hosters do not allow you to upload script files or make your own scripts executable (for very good reasons). You will have to wait until your hoster adapts V+ for his servers.
• Please read the section about Server Config & Version Control (About Version Enforcement) below.

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Credit: Valheim Plus Team