RanchingAddon

Faster-growing chicks and Asksvin hatchlings, powered by your Ranching skill. See their growth percentage once you reach a configurable skill level.

Source and build instructions on GitHub

Features

• Skill-scaled maturation for chicks and Asksvin hatchlings near the nearest player within 10 metres.
• Separate growth-speed settings for chickens and Asksvin. Default: 2x at Ranching 100; 1.5x at Ranching 50.
• Separate skill requirements for growth and egg incubation information on hover. Default: Ranching 30 for both.
• Incubating eggs show percentage and time remaining; stacked and inactive eggs show their status. Egg incubation speed is unchanged.
• Saved bonus growth age, with owner-only updates and no bonus for time spent unloaded.
• Host/server-synchronized configuration, locked to admins by default.

Original Ranching already applies taming speed/XP, calming, increased tamed-creature slaughter drops/XP, hunger information, breeding information, and offspring level bonuses to Asksvin. This addon uses those existing benefits without multiplying them twice. Configure them in Ranching's own settings.

Egg incubation speed, adult animals, and other species are unaffected. Chicken and Asksvin eggs show incubation percentage and time remaining at the corresponding species' hover level, or a stacked/inactive status. Existing chick settings and saved bonus growth are preserved.

Requirements and upgrading

Requires original Smoothbrain Ranching 1.1.9 or later and BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350. Install both mods on every participating client and the host/dedicated server so creature ownership can move safely between peers.

Thunderstore users must install Ranching 1.1.9 manually before this addon. Thunderstore only has Ranching 1.1.6, which this addon cannot load with. Download Ranching 1.1.9 from Hexium and install its BepInEx folder into the same game or mod-manager profile. Keep only one Ranching DLL. The Hexium package installs this dependency automatically.

RanchingAddon replaces RanchingChickAddon / Ranching_Chick_Addon. Remove the old addon before installing this package. Do not use the earlier experimental Ranching fork or install duplicate copies of Ranching.

The configuration filename stays BepInEx/config/com.ziluck.valheim.ranchingchickaddon.cfg so your existing settings carry over. Configure Chicken Growth Factor under Chicks and Asksvin Growth Factor under Asksvin (range 1-10). Each section has its own Growth Info Level Requirement (range 0-100; 0 disables growth and egg displays for that species).

Recommended optional dependency

shudnal ConfigurationManager lets you edit the settings in-game. It is optional; the mod also works with the configuration file alone.

Compatibility and testing

Targets Valheim 1.0, built against 1.0.16. The maintainer has tested the current build and confirmed it works as intended. Automated checks cover growth calculations, simulated hooks, and actual game IL. See the test checklist.

If you'd like to support ongoing modding work, Ko-fi is available.

Check out my other mods

• HenEggPickup - automatically collects chicken eggs once enough adult hens are nearby.
• AnimalFeedGuard - keeps animal feed on the ground near tamed animals instead of letting automatic pickup collect it.

Changelog

3.0.2 - 2026-10-06

• Separate the ownership clock from growth calculations and name the calculation limits explicitly.
• Reuse the nearest player's network component during a growth update.
• Add simulated growth and hover hook checks, plus clock and transpiler boundary tests.
• Include every check project in dependency updates.
• Maintainer confirmed the current build works as intended in game.

3.0.1

• Add skill-gated incubation percentage and remaining time to chicken and Asksvin egg hover text.
• Display stacked and inactive egg states without changing incubation speed or network data.
• Use each species' existing Growth Info Level Requirement for both juvenile growth and egg information.
• Test egg species selection, timer boundaries, stack status, and the installed egg-hover patch target.

3.0.0

• Rename the package, assembly, and display name to RanchingAddon. Remove the old chick addon before installing this replacement.
• Add skill-scaled Asksvin hatchling maturation and growth percentage on hover, with separate synchronized settings.
• Retain the plugin/config identity, chick settings, and saved chick growth bonuses.
• Require original Ranching 1.1.9; document its existing Asksvin support without duplicating its benefits.
• Add species/hover checks, actual game-IL patch checks, and a Gale test checklist.
• Keep publishing disabled pending in-game verification.

2.0.1

• Use RanchingChickAddon for the README title while retaining the existing Thunderstore listing.
• Move build, package, and publishing scripts into ci and normalize tests/checks.
• Restore checksum-pinned ServerSync at build time instead of storing the dependency DLL in Git.
• Add repository sponsorship links and automatic dependency update checks.

2.0.0

• Formally target Valheim 1.0; compiled and checked against 1.0.16.
• Require BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2350.
• Add GitHub Actions builds and automatic publication of new versions from main.
• Add Hexium publishing scaffolding, disabled until DocZee is approved.
• Keep plugin IDs and configuration files stable for existing installations.
• Update bundled ServerSync to v1.20, compiled for Valheim 1.0.

1.0.0

• Standalone add-on for original Ranching, using plugin ID com.ziluck.valheim.ranchingchickaddon.
• Configurable, skill-scaled chick growth within 10 metres of a player.
• Configurable skill requirement for growth percentage on hover.
• Owner-only bonus accumulation and host-synchronized configuration.
• Detect the earlier experimental Ranching fork to avoid duplicate growth effects.
• Include a build-and-package script for Thunderstore.