Animal Feed Guard

Animal Feed Guard keeps dropped food on the ground when a living, tamed animal that can eat it is nearby. Manual pickup remains available.

Features

• Configurable protection radius: 0–50 metres; default 5 metres.
• Uses each animal's actual food list, including seeds, barley, and modded feed.
• Protects food even when the animal is already fed.
• Applies only to automatic pickup; manual pickup is unchanged.
• Client-side settings; install it on every player's client who wants protection.
• Compatible with AutoPicker's normal pickup path.

Configuration

The config file is BepInEx/config/com.ziluck.valheim.animalfeedguard.cfg.

Enabled controls the feature. Protection Radius controls the distance from the dropped item to an eligible tamed animal. A radius of 0 disables protection.

Recommended optional mods

• ConfigurationManager — edit the settings in game instead of opening the config file. It is optional.
• AutoPicker — optional compatibility; Animal Feed Guard does not require it.

Links

• Source, documentation, and issue tracker

Requires BepInExPack Valheim. Ranching and AutoPicker are optional.

Changelog

1.0.0

• Added configurable automatic pickup protection for food near living tamed animals.
• Match each animal's actual food list, including seeds and modded feed.
• Preserve manual pickup and normal pickup outside the protection radius.
• Inspect compatibility with AutoPicker 1.1.3's ground pickup path.
• Client-side settings; no dedicated-server installation required.

Build and automated code checks passed. Live gameplay testing is still pending.