Freyja's Feeder

Automated pet feeding, healing, and animal taming trough for Valheim.

Features

• Automated Feeding of Tamed Pets: Automatically feeds hungry boars, wolves, lox, asksvin, hens/chickens, and modded tameables within range. Keeps your pets happy, nourished, and continuously ready for breeding without tedious manual feeding.
• Automated Taming of Wild Beasts: Place a feeder near pens or wild animal enclosures. Untamed beasts will automatically eat matching food from the feeder to start and progress their taming process.
• Pet Healing & Care: Injured pets are fed nutritious food from the trough to heal their wounds, displaying healing effects and floating numbers so your companions stay healthy through raids and battles.
• Prevents Night Despawn: Wild creatures (such as coveted 2-star night wolves) that feed from Freyja's Feeder are prevented from despawning at sunrise.
• Overcrowding Safeguard: Optional setting to pause feeding once a species reaches your desired population limit in the area, preventing runaway lag from excessive breeding.
• Dedicated 3D Feeder Chest: Includes a custom carved Norse feeder trough 3D model with custom textures, authentic normal mapping, piece icon, and a 24-slot container grid (6x4).
• Nearby Chest Linking: Optional config setting allowing Freyja's Feeder to pull animal food from adjacent standard chests if the feeder's own storage runs out.
• DFG Category Integration: Seamlessly appears in the Hammer build menu under the shared DFG tab (supported by DFGHub).

Building Freyja's Feeder

Equip your Hammer and navigate to the DFG tab:

• Wood: 10
• Fine Wood: 5
• Bronze: 2
• Dandelion: 2

(All costs are fully configurable in com.dfg.freyjasfeeder.cfg).

Configuration

Settings are saved in BepInEx/config/com.dfg.freyjasfeeder.cfg:

• FeedRange: Detection radius around the feeder (default: 15.0 meters).
• FeedInterval: Frequency of feeding scans (default: 5.0 seconds).
• FeedTamed: Enable/disable automated feeding of tamed pets (default: true).
• HealInjuredPets: Feed injured pets to restore health (default: true).
• HealAmount: Health restored per feeding (default: 25.0 HP).
• HealCooldown: Cooldown between healing feeds per creature (default: 20.0 seconds).
• PreventOvercrowding: Halt feeding if local creature count hits limit (default: false).
• MaxCreaturesLimit: Population cap per species (default: 10).
• FeedUntamed: Feed wild animals for taming (default: true).
• FeedUntamedWhenAlerted: Allow feeding even if frightened/alerted (default: false).
• PreventNightDespawn: Prevent night creatures from despawning once fed (default: true).
• TamingSpeedMultiplier: Taming progression multiplier (default: 1.0).
• ContainerWidth / Height: Storage size (default: 6x4 = 24 slots).
• PullFromNearbyChests: Pull food from nearby chests (default: false).
• EnableAnyChestFeeding: Allow any standard chest to feed animals (default: false).

Installation

Deploy FreyjasFeeder.dll along with FreyjasFeeder.obj, FreyjasFeeder.mtl, and texture files into your BepInEx plugins/FreyjasFeeder/ directory.

Changelog

[1.0.0] - 2026-09-29

Added

• Initial release of Freyja's Feeder.
• Buildable "Freyja's Feeder" chest piece under the Hammer's DFG category.
• Custom Norse carved feeder trough 3D model with diffuse and normal map texturing.
• Custom piece inventory icon.
• Automated feeding system for all tamed animals (boars, wolves, lox, asksvin, hens, and modded tameables).
• Automated feeding and taming for untamed wild beasts.
• Pet healing mechanism that restores injured companion HP upon eating.
• Night despawn prevention for wild creatures fed by the trough.
• Overcrowding safeguard to optionally prevent runaway population booms.
• Configurable range, intervals, heal amounts, container slot dimensions, and crafting costs.
• Optional linking to pull animal feed from nearby standard chests.
• Optional global chest feeding mode.