Viking Meals

Cook enough to share. Viking Meals gives prepared food more sensible batch sizes, with Balanced enabled by default. Keep Valheim's ingredients and progression, and spend less time gathering for every serving.

Choose your appetite

Yields round up to whole items and normally stop at one inventory stack. A recipe already yielding more than one stack keeps at least its original quantity automatically. Ingredients retain their original costs unless you set a recipe override. These are gameplay balance presets, not a claim of real-world nutritional accuracy.

Examples from Valheim 1.0.20 with Balanced: carrot soup 1 → 3, sausages 4 → 8, queen's jam 4 → 8, and bread dough 2 → 4. Each uses the same ingredients as its original recipe.

Health, stamina, eitr, food duration, unlocks, crafting stations and station levels stay unchanged. Ordinary spit cooking still turns one piece of meat into one cooked piece. Oven preparation recipes produce extra uncooked portions; baking itself remains one-to-one. Mead bases and quality-dependent, single-ingredient recipes are excluded.

The mod recognizes recipes producing edible items and prepared items that a loaded cooking station converts into food. Compatible modded food recipes can therefore be affected too. Pot classification uses the output prefab name containing Soup, Stew, Broth or Porridge; other prepared foods use the meal multiplier. This first release uses yield adjustments rather than a hand-authored ingredient rebalance for every dish.

Native Valheim interface

Click Viking Meals at the main menu, or press F7 in game. The panel uses Valheim wood, Averia Serif text and native buttons, matching the JustQOL Viking mods. Escape or Close returns to the game.

Choose a preset at the main menu before starting a local world. The in-world panel shows the active settings; gameplay controls there are read-only. The F7 shortcut is configurable.

Installation

Install with Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman. Dependencies are BepInExPack Valheim 5.4.2351 and Jotunn 2.30.2.

For manual installation, merge the package's BepInEx folder into the game directory with those dependencies installed. The plugin belongs at BepInEx/plugins/VikingMeals/VikingMeals.dll.

Install the same Viking Meals version on the server and every client. Server gameplay configuration is synchronized by Jotunn. Stop the server, edit its configuration, restart it and reconnect all clients after changes. This mod does not provide an anti-cheat guarantee against modified clients.

Configuration and recipe overrides

First launch creates BepInEx/config/com.justqol.vikingmeals.cfg.

[Server]
Enabled = true
Preset = Balanced
RecipeOverrides =

[Interface]
OpenMenu = F7

Overrides use prefab names, absolute quantities from 1 to 100, and semicolons between entries:

RecipeOverrides = CarrotSoup=6;CarrotSoup:Carrot=2

This makes CarrotSoup yield six servings and use two carrots; its other ingredient costs remain original. Output is capped to the recipe's stack limit. Overrides only apply to eligible food recipes, never equipment or mead bases. Ingredient costs cannot be zero. Duplicate or malformed overrides are rejected as a group; the selected preset remains active without overrides and a warning is logged.

Set Enabled = false and restart to restore original quantities. Removing the plugin and restarting also restores normal crafting. Already-crafted food remains in your inventory.

Compatibility and verification

Built against Valheim 1.0.20, Unity 6, BepInExPack 5.4.2351 and Jotunn 2.30.2. Other mods that rewrite the same recipes may conflict; their final results depend on load timing. Recipes with special quality-based output are deliberately skipped.

See VERIFICATION.md for the exact tests and remaining limitations. Do not interpret a successful build or upload as proof of every mod combination or live dedicated-server compatibility.

For feedback, message goon4207 on Discord. Include the Valheim and Viking Meals versions, preset, affected recipe, other mods and relevant BepInEx errors.

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Code and documentation created with assistance from OpenAI Codex, under the project owner's direction. Icon is an original geometric bowl mark in the JustQOL palette.

1.1.2 - Stable full release documentation

• Expanded feature, control, installation, configuration and compatibility documentation.
• Consistent JustQOL Viking Series branding and community support information.
• No gameplay changes in this documentation update.

1.1.1

• Add the permanent JustQOL Discord invite and community support instructions.
• Documentation-only package: the gameplay DLL and network version remain 1.1.0.

1.1.0

• Reduce excessive ingredient costs as well as retaining all 1.0.0 ordinary-food yields.
• Add preset-specific limits for staples, protein, prepared dishes and seasonings; existing lower quantities remain lower.
• Include nine feast-preparation recipes and direct ingredient requirements on feast prefabs, preserving serving counts and kit output.
• Keep explicit ingredient overrides authoritative and restore original quantities when disabled.
• Audit all loaded recipes and add live checks for Queen's Jam crafting and a controlled 30-meat recipe.

1.0.0

• Initial release with Balanced as the default, plus Light and Generous presets.
• Increase prepared-food batch sizes while retaining original ingredient costs and food stats.
• Support absolute yield and ingredient-cost overrides by prefab name.
• Add a native wood-panel interface and configurable F7 shortcut.
• Synchronize server gameplay settings through Jotunn and require matching mod versions.