A mod by Odin the Red

MidgardPlus

One mod to tune Valheim the way you want it.

Instead of twenty that fight each other. 25 settings, all starting at vanilla. On a server, the host’s settings are the ones that count.

Install it See every setting

The premise

Every setting starts at vanilla

Install it and nothing changes. There’s no bundled opinion about how Valheim should be played, and no rebalanced loot table to undo.

Open midgardplus.cfg, change the two or three things that have been bugging you, and leave the rest alone.

Edits apply while the game is running, so you can try a number and change it again without restarting.

What you can change

The ledger

Seven groups, in the order they show up in the config file. The values are the vanilla defaults.

1 Quality of Life

Stack size multiplier1

Item weight multiplier1

Auto pickup range1

Portals carry everythingfalse

Skill loss on death1

2 Player

Carry weight bonus0

Stamina regen multiplier1

Stamina cost multiplier1

Run speed multiplier1

3 Building

Free buildingfalse

Ignore stabilityfalse

Build range multiplier1

4 Combat

Enemy health multiplier1

Enemy damage multiplier1

Player damage multiplier1

5 Production

Smelter speed multiplier1

Fermenter speed multiplier1

Fireplace fuel duration1

Infinite fireplace fuelfalse

6 World

Day length in seconds0 → 1800

7 Companions

Companions per player1

Companion health1

Companion star level1

Companion gearDefault

Recall distance40

Weapons, armour and tools never become stackable, whatever you set the multiplier to. Durability and quality are stored per item, so stacking them would wreck both.

New content

Someone to fight beside

The Companion Horn

Sound it and a Dverger turns up. They arrive already tamed and already yours, with a name everyone on the server sees.

They fight whatever attacks you and won’t turn on you, because they sit in the player faction rather than being a tamed enemy. Press E to send them ahead or tell them to hold, the same way you command a wolf.

Arm them in bronze, iron, silver or black metal, and give them up to three stars. They also find their way back. Anyone who falls more than forty metres behind gets pulled to your side, so you won’t lose them the first time you take a portal.

A hooded companion holding a lantern in a fog-filled pine forest at night

Companion Horn

Workbench · level 2

Fine wood10
Bronze2
Deer hide4
Greydwarf eye10

Also added

Storage and recipes

A longhouse interior at night, iron-banded chests lining the wall by a fire pit

Reinforced Chest

An iron-banded chest with an 8×4 grid. Built with the hammer under Furniture. Costs ten fine wood and four iron.

A viking forge at night, an anvil beside glowing coals

Craftable materials

Three things you could only find before. These are additions. Every normal drop and spawn is left as it was.

Item	Yield	Cost	Station
Chain	1	4 iron	Forge · level 2
IronNails	20	1 iron	Forge
Tar	4	8 resin, 4 coal, 2 bloodbag	Workbench · level 3

The host’s world, the host’s rules

Join a server and it hands you its settings. They override yours while you’re connected, and you get yours back when you leave.

So nobody has to compare config files before a session, and nobody can quietly hand themselves free building on someone else’s world. If your version differs from the host’s, the client uses what it was sent and logs a warning instead of drifting out of sync.

Getting it running

Install

Download 1.0.0 (68 KB) Support the mod

The download is the Thunderstore-format package: unzip it and put MidgardPlus.dll in your plugins folder. One-click mod manager install lands when the package goes up on Thunderstore.

BepInEx: Valheim pack Jotunn 2.29.2 Thunderstore: not yet published

Install the Valheim BepInEx pack and Jotunn. Jotunn is what registers the companion, the chest and the recipes. It’s a separate plugin and isn’t bundled here.
Drop MidgardPlus.dll into your plugins folder.Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\MidgardPlus\
Launch the game once. The config file gets written on first run with everything at vanilla.Valheim\BepInEx\config\midgardplus.cfg
Playing together? Everyone needs the mod, including the dedicated server. Only the host’s settings get read.

To remove it, delete the MidgardPlus folder. Nothing the game ships gets modified, so there’s nothing else to undo.