Valheim Unified

One mod, many small conveniences, one menu. Valheim Unified gathers the quality-of-life features people usually install as a dozen separate mods: crafting from chests, quick deposit, multicraft, paid repair with a hammer cursor, eternal fires, faster smelters, sailing and map upgrades, new plantings, a deeper Farming skill, a multiportal and more. Every feature has its own switch and settings in an in-game menu, and the host's settings apply to everyone on the server.

After installation every feature is off, so you decide what to use. Turn features on in the in-game menu (Esc - "Unified settings") or in BepInEx/config/chistix.valheimunified.cfg (Enabled = true in a section). On a server the host's choice applies to all players. Settings files that already exist keep their values.

Interface language: English and Russian. The menu, hints and messages follow the game's language by themselves: Russian when the game is in Russian, English for any other language. A manual choice is in the menu: General - Language (Language = Auto / English / Russian in the cfg).

Features

Chests and inventory

• Craft, upgrade and build with materials from nearby chests (own radius or the workbench zone). Chests owned by another player are handed over first, so nothing is duplicated or lost.
• Chest access modes: only me, all players, machines and animals, or everyone.
• Smelters, kilns, fires, ovens and shield generators take fuel and ore from chests; hungry tamed animals eat from them.
• Quick deposit, deposit all, restock and sort buttons (or hotkeys) by the inventory; favourite items and protected slots stay where they are.
• Chest content preview on hover; chest names with colour and style, shown in the hover text, the chest title and as a plate over the chest.
• Recipe filter by category in the crafting panel.

Stations, repair and fire

• Stations work without a roof or a fire (the rest of the game's checks stay).
• Paid repair: the price is a share of the item's crafting materials times its wear. A hammer replaces the cursor: hover an item to see the price, click to repair, Shift repairs everything. Armour durability ×1 to ×5.
• Choose how many to craft (×N, Max) next to the Craft button.
• Eternal fuel by kind: torches and lamps, campfires and hearths, hot tubs, cooking ovens; the torch in your hand does not burn out. Smoke, rain and wind no longer put fires out.
• Speed and capacity of smelters, kilns, mills, spinning wheels and refineries; cooking, fermenter, beehive and sap collector speed. Time to ready in their hover text.

Building and items

• Buildings no longer rot in rain and water; the hammer takes boats and carts apart.
• A trash can piece, and a trash plaque by the backpack to delete a picked-up item.
• How long items lie on the ground; any item on an ordinary item stand.
• Tools without dust or stamina cost; optional removal of decorative grass and lens dirt (per player).
• Comfort at the bed: hover a bed to see its comfort level and rest time, which piece counts in each comfort group, and what you could build to raise it (from the pieces you know, other mods' pieces included).

Plants and farming

• Planting grid with snapping and automatic spacing.
• Saplings for trees and bushes the game does not let you plant (other mods' too) and wild plants planted fully grown; growth time, yield and spacing per plant.
• Farming skill extension: plant in any biome from a chosen level, bigger harvests and faster growth with the skill.
• Bees pollinate crops: working beehives near your fields make crops grow faster and give more; radius, bonus and the number of hives are in the settings, and bees can be seen flying to the fields.
• Area harvest with a modifier key; whole ore veins at once.

Travel and map

• Ground table in the spirit of SpeedyPaths and UsefulPaths: speed, run stamina, regeneration, jump, carry weight and cart weight per kind of road and floor, plus your own surface rules, with a status icon.
• Sailing: sail and oar strength for every ship (other mods' too), a fast oar speed, rowers on benches, the Seafarer skill, ship speed on the HUD, an anchor, extra cargo rows, a wider map view from the mast.
• Multiportal with a native-looking destination window; teleport restricted items, tamed creatures and carts.
• Shared map (continuous or handed over on request), explore radius and the Cartographer skill, automatic pins for portals, dungeons and the ship you left.

Water

• Diving with an air bar and the Diver skill, swimming with equipment, floating items. When a planet mod provides its own diving, this part steps aside by itself.

Character and world

• Stats from skills, equipment bindings, instant armour changes, the shield back in hand after a two-handed weapon, sneaking speed.
• Forsaken powers: all at once, switch without the stones, passive or all passive, with a strength cut per mode and per-power tuning.
• Raid designer and drop rules.

Menu

• Opens from the Esc menu ("Unified settings") or from AdminMenu.
• Functions grouped into categories with icons, list on the left or on top, collapse to icons, search, text size; numbers change with ‹ › steps or by typing, no sliders.
• World settings are saved per world; "save to the pack" makes them the defaults for new worlds.

Install

• With a mod manager (r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager): install, done.
• By hand: put ValheimUnified.dll into BepInEx/plugins.
• Then turn on what you want: after installation every feature is off. Esc - "Unified settings", or Enabled = true in the sections of BepInEx/config/chistix.valheimunified.cfg.
• Multiplayer: install it on the server and on every client, the same version. The host's settings apply to all players.
• Dedicated servers are supported (interface parts are not loaded there).

Compatibility

• Every feature can be turned off on its own; a failure in one feature is logged and does not stop the others.
• Works alone. AdminMenu and a planet mod are optional: with them the menu and some features integrate, without them nothing is missing.
• Features use the game's own mechanisms (pieces, recipes, ZDOs), so items, ships and plants of other mods are covered too.
• Settings of versions before 0.8.0 (kirill.valheimunified.cfg) are copied to chistix.valheimunified.cfg on the first start.

Credits

BepInEx, Harmony (HarmonyX). Ideas from popular mods such as AzuCraftyBoxes, QuickStackStore, AutomaticFuel, XPortal, TeleportEverything, PlantEverything, PlantEasily, VikingsDoSwim, SpeedyPaths, UsefulPaths, FuelEternal, MultiCraft and MyLittleUI - implemented independently, no code taken from them.

Made by Chistix: idea, design, direction and testing. Code written with Claude Code (Anthropic) as an AI coding assistant, under Chistix's direction. The icon is drawn in code; the inventory button icons were provided by Chistix.

Коротко по-русски

Valheim Unified - сборник удобств в одном моде с меню в игре (Esc → «Настройки Unified»): крафт и стройка из сундуков, быстрое складирование, выбор количества при крафте, платная починка молотком, вечный огонь, ускорение плавилен, корабли (якорь, гребцы, навык «Мореход»), карта (общая, навык «Картограф», автометки), новые посадки и навык фермерства, мультипортал и многое другое. После установки все функции выключены - включите нужные в меню (Esc - «Настройки Unified») или в BepInEx/config/chistix.valheimunified.cfg (Enabled = true в разделе). Настройки хоста действуют для всех игроков. Ставить на сервер и всем игрокам одной версии. Интерфейс на английском и русском: язык меняется сам вместе с языком игры, а в меню (Общие - Язык) его можно выбрать вручную.

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