HexWaterproofBuilding

Adds rain-resistant building pieces, wood and bone stacks, automatic pier supports, and optional extended-range building functionality to Valheim.

Also removes the roof requirement for vanilla and waterproof workbenches by default.

⚠️ Important

Extended-range functionality for vanilla building pieces is disabled by default.

Enable it with VanillaPiecesEnabled = true.

Configuration changes require a full game restart.

Features

• Adds a Waterproof Building hammer build tab
• Adds a Pier hammer build tab
• Adds rain-resistant versions of the vanilla workbench, wood, darkwood, and ashwood building pieces
• Prevents vanilla wood and bone stacks from taking rain damage by default
• Removes the roof requirement for vanilla and waterproof workbenches by default
• Uses vanilla build requirements plus Resin for waterproof pieces
• Adds a 4m Vertical Pier Support that automatically extends to the seabed
• Pier supports cannot be placed on dry land
• Supports normal placement, snapping, snap cycling, removal, and copy-piece functionality
• Supports optional extended-range placement, removal, hover highlighting, and copy-piece functionality
  • Waterproof building pieces: enabled by default
  • Vanilla building pieces: disabled by default

Screenshots

Configuration

Config file:

BepInEx/config/hex.waterproofbuilding.cfg

Key settings:

• VanillaPiecesEnabled - Enables extended-range functionality for vanilla building pieces
• WoodAndBoneStacksTakeRainDamage - Restores normal rain damage for vanilla wood and bone stacks
• WorkBenchRequireRoof - Restores the roof requirement for vanilla and waterproof workbenches

Configuration changes require a full game restart.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn

Installation

Thunderstore / r2modman

Install using a Thunderstore-compatible mod manager.

Manual Installation

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.
2. Install Jotunn.
3. Place HexWaterproofBuilding.dll in:

BepInEx/plugins/HexWaterproofBuilding/

Multiplayer

Install the mod on the server and all clients.

Multiplayer and dedicated server testing is limited, so feedback is welcome.

Notes

• Pier supports automatically generate additional support sections based on water depth
• Removing the mod may leave placed waterproof pieces and pier supports unavailable or non-interactable

Support and Feedback

Discord: https://discord.gg/wU2FXD94v4

Source Code

GitHub: https://github.com/guillenjgg/valheim-hex-water-proof-objects

Changelog

v1.5.1

Changed

• Compiled against Valheim 1.0.14

Fixed

• Waterproof building pieces no longer display worn or broken visual states.

v1.5.0

Added

• Wood and bone stacks no longer take rain damage.
• A configuration option to enable or disable rain damage for wood and bone stacks.
• Enabled the existing configuration option for controlling whether workbenches require a roof.

v1.4.0

Added

• New Pier build category.
• 4m Vertical Pier Support that automatically extends to the seabed.
• Remove roof requirement for vanilla and waterproof workbench.

v1.3.1

Added

• Wood doors and gates

v1.3.0

Added

• Added a waterproof workbench.
• Added a configuration option to enable extended placement for vanilla building pieces.
• Extended placement now supports the vanilla workbench.

Improved

• Minor performance improvements

v1.2.2

• Add discord support link

v1.2.1

Fixed

• Fixed a potential null reference exception issue related to extended-range hover detection

v1.2.0

Added

• Extended placement range for waterproof pieces (100m)
• Extended removal range for waterproof pieces
• Extended hover highlighting range for waterproof pieces
• Extended copy-piece functionality for waterproof pieces
• Configuration option to enable or disable the Extended Placement Range feature

Changed

• Reworked placement, removal, hover, and copy behavior to preserve vanilla snapping, snap cycling, and placement logic while extending range for waterproof pieces only.

v1.1.0

Added

• Waterproof build pieces now follow vanilla build menu ordering.

v1.0.0

• Initial release