Encounter QoL

Encounter QoL is an integrated collection of quality-of-life improvements for Valheim. It expands inventory management, crafting, building, farming, combat, travel, tames, production, HUD information, and general gameplay while keeping everything together in one mod.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn

Encounter QoL is configured as an everyone-must-have multiplayer mod. Install it on the server and on clients joining that server.

Features

Inventory & Storage

• Extra inventory slots, including equipment, utility, food, ammo, and quick-slot support
• Quick Stack with hotbar item protection
• Improved quick-slot stacking and automatic hotbar placement
• Auto Sort
• Favorite Items
• Recycle
• Trash
• Alt + Left Click full-stack transfer between the player and open storage
• Increased stack sizes
• Nearby Containers
• Shared Chests
• Inventory HUD
• Hotbar ammo information
• Chest Recipe Discovery from opened chest contents
• Blacksmith's Chest automation
• Gravestones protected for three in-game days, then first come, first served, with automatic recovery and ground overflow

Crafting & Building

• Crafting UI improvements
• Recipe searching and category filtering
• Multi-crafting support
• Extended crafting-station build range
• Auto Repair
• Area Repair and vehicle maintenance
• Better Ladders
• Build Camera
• Improved building weather protection
• Expanded terrain-tool radius
• Hammer Quick Pull for building materials

Farming & World

• Additional farming plantables
• Any-Biome Crops
• Stump Regrowth
• Floating dropped items
• Natural gatherable respawn timers
• Mass Gather
• Active server time
• Plant Easily with adjustable planting grids, snapping, and Auto Replant
• Improved mixed-vegetation snapping and safe planting spacing
• Year-Round Seasonal Items
• Reduced Fog and Stronger Wisplight

Combat & Equipment

• Dual Wield support
• Item Linking for compatible weapons and shields
• Hauling skill and progression
• Improved Skills screen
• Pickup and spear recovery improvements
• Smart Auto-Pickup with configurable 2–20m pickup range
• Instant monster loot drops
• Instant armor equipping and unequipping
• Weapons and tools usable while swimming
• Item Comparison Tooltips for inventory and crafting
• Half Fall Damage
• Perfect Parry Stamina
• Preserve active food through death

Travel & Vehicles

• Better Portals
• Ship Camera
• Cart Auto Attach

Tames & Production

• Tame follower improvements
• Improved tame breeding inheritance
• Faster fermentation
• Beehive improvements
• Sap collector improvements
• Processor quick fill
• Fuel-free lighting options

Interface & General QoL

• Built-in Encounter QoL configuration manager
• Improved configuration editing and keybind recording
• Expanded object hover information
• HUD information improvements
• Compact status HUD
• Character selection statistics
• Expanded character eye colors
• Sitting health regeneration
• Better Sleep multiplayer voting and cinematic fallback
• Personal Death Counter
• Skip Intro
• Achievement Freedom

Configuration

Encounter QoL includes its own in-game configuration manager. Features with meaningful settings expose those settings there; features intended to behave consistently are enabled directly without unnecessary configuration toggles.

Installation

Thunderstore Mod Manager / r2modman

Install Encounter QoL from Thunderstore and its required dependencies will be installed automatically.

Manual

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Install Jotunn.
3. Place EncounterQoL.dll inside your BepInEx/plugins folder.
4. Launch Valheim.

Multiplayer

Encounter QoL changes gameplay systems and inventory behavior and is configured as an everyone-must-have mod. For multiplayer, the server and all connecting players should have Encounter QoL installed.

Feedback & Feature Requests

Have an idea for Encounter QoL or a feature you would like to see?

Reach out on Discord: Encounter9201

Source and Redistribution

Encounter QoL is not currently open source.

The compiled public release may be downloaded and used with Valheim. Permission is not granted to redistribute Encounter QoL, publish modified builds, or reuse its original source/assets in another project without permission, except where applicable law provides otherwise.

Third-party components remain under their respective licenses. See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.txt.

Support / Development Status

Encounter QoL is actively being expanded. More quality-of-life features and refinements are planned.

Changelog

0.0.9

Resurrection Fixes

• Fixed the black death screen while waiting for a multiplayer revival. The world remains visible until normal respawn is selected.
• Fixed the Respawn Now mouse cursor being locked until the pause menu was opened.
• Fixed teammates being unable to revive the listen-server host by correcting remote rescuer character authentication.
• Improved multiplayer resurrection diagnostics for troubleshooting.

0.0.8

New Features

• Added multiplayer player resurrection: when other players are online, a dead player can remain downed with a Respawn Now option.
• A teammate can hold E for one second near the fallen player to request a revival at the death location with 10 HP.
• Resurrection attempts to recover the original inventory from the player's own gravestone using Valheim's existing inventory transfer process.
• Added an always-on 25% chance to recover arrows after hitting a target.

Improvements

• Increased comfort furniture radius by 50%, from 10m to 15m.
• Normalized stackable material quality for inventory, crafting, and storage compatibility.
• Removed obsolete Core Proof settings from the F8 configuration window.

Fixes

• Corrected oversized Thistle hover detection and related dropped-item collision behavior.

Multiplayer Testing Notice

• The new resurrection system has passed compilation and initial in-game startup checks, but actual two-player resurrection, inventory recovery, and automatic re-equipping have not yet been verified.
• Back up characters and worlds before testing. Use disposable equipment for the first multiplayer resurrection tests.
• If automatic recovery is incomplete, check the original gravestone for remaining equipment. The resurrection feature does not intentionally create duplicate replacement items.

0.0.7

New Features

• Added three-day gravestone protection: private to the owner for three full in-game days, then first come, first served
• Added one-press gravestone recovery, automatically collecting available items and dropping overflow onto the ground
• Added Smart Auto-Pickup with configurable automatic pickup distance from 2m to 20m, independent of spear recovery
• Added instant monster loot drops
• Added instant armor equipping and unequipping
• Allowed weapons and tools to be used while swimming
• Added natural gatherable respawn timers

Improvements

• Improved quick-slot stacking and automatic hotbar placement
• Protected hotbar items from Quick Stack
• Improved mixed-vegetation planting grids, snapping, and safe spacing
• Improved F8 configuration editing and keybind recording
• Improved multiplayer sleep cinematic fallback
• Fixed seasonal item refresh behavior

Release

• Removed the outdated Plant Easily Release compilation exclusion
• Preserved the integrated planting system with adjustable grids, snapping, and Auto Replant

0.0.6

• Fixed dropped items being pushed or launched upward by dormant picked-resource hover colliders, most noticeably around harvested Thistle in the Black Forest
• Prevented Encounter QoL-added Floating components from running Valheim's terrain-relocation check on ordinary dropped items

0.0.5

• Fixed dropped items, carts, and other physics objects sometimes rising into the sky after liquid interaction
• Fixed equipped items becoming unequipped when upgraded
• Fixed Item Linking relationships being lost when either linked item was upgraded
• Fixed harvested natural pickables such as Thistle leaving stale hover details on screen while preserving planted-resource regrowth hover information
• Fixed the Welcome popup's Do Not Show Again preference being shared across all characters; it is now stored per character
• Added an F8 Skip Intro toggle; it defaults to Off and can be enabled to skip launch logos and the new-character Valkyrie/text intro

0.0.4

• Added Plant Easily with adjustable 1x1 through 10x10 planting grids, plant and pickable support, snapping, visual guides, and Auto Replant
• Added Chest Recipe Discovery so materials in an opened chest can contribute to recipe discovery
• Added Hammer Quick Pull for building materials
• Added Half Fall Damage
• Added Perfect Parry Stamina rewards
• Added Preserve Food on Death for active foods
• Made seasonal items available year-round and fixed their progression refresh behavior
• Fixed Dual Wield skill icons on the Skills screen
• Added a Personal Death Counter
• Reduced fog and strengthened Wisplight
• Added Better Sleep multiplayer sleep voting
• Added Blacksmith's Chest automation
• Added Item Comparison Tooltips for inventory and crafting, including upgrade previews and live offhand comparison for valid Dual Wield setups

0.0.2

• Added a Welcome to Encounter QoL popup when entering a world
• Added a Do Not Show Again option for the welcome popup
• Added a configurable F7 Keybind Reference window
• Added built-in control documentation for non-configurable Encounter QoL actions
• Added automatic listing of current configurable Encounter QoL keybinds
• Redesigned the F8 configuration manager with the Encounter QoL orange-and-black interface
• Centered the Welcome, Keybind Reference, and Configuration windows
• Added proper gameplay, camera, mouse-wheel, and cursor input blocking while Encounter QoL windows are open
• Added Discord contact information for ideas, feedback, and feature requests

0.0.1

Initial public release of Encounter QoL.

• Integrated inventory and storage improvements
• Added crafting and building quality-of-life features
• Added farming and world improvements
• Added Dual Wield and Item Linking
• Added portal, vehicle, tame, and production improvements
• Added expanded HUD, hover information, skills, and character UI features
• Added the Encounter QoL in-game configuration manager