Socialize

Adds player groups for adventures and expeditions, private messaging, map sharing, and a dedicated group chat channel. Groups are not persistent: players leave them when they disconnect and do not rejoin automatically when they return.

Valheim compatibility

Features

Groups

• Lets up to five connected players form a group for their current session.
• Gives group leaders invite, remove, and leadership transfer controls.
• Shows group invitations through Valheim's Yes/No popup.
• Automatically promotes the longest-standing remaining member when the group leader leaves.
• Disbands a group when fewer than two members remain connected.
• Removes disconnected players from their group and does not restore groups after reconnection or a server restart.

Chat

• Removes the public server-wide chat channel: normal chat reaches nearby players, while shouts travel farther within server-defined ranges.
• Adds private group chat for connected group members.
• Adds world-wide private messages and optional animated pings for a chosen player.
• Keeps the selected normal, shout, group, or private chat channel active for following messages.
• Keeps private messages inside the chat window instead of displaying them above the character.

Map privacy

• Keeps player positions private outside groups.
• Shares connected group members' positions automatically every two seconds.
• Shares map pings only with group members and disables them outside groups.

Notifications

• Replaces the local arrival shout with a server-wide localized arrival announcement, and announces when members leave, are removed, become leader, or cause a group to disband.

Chat Commands

Group Commands

Configuration

Distance values must be positive finite numbers. The server reads these switches once and sends its in-memory configuration to each client after spawning.

Installation

Contact

Report bugs through GitHub Issues. For questions, feedback, and other discussions, use GitHub Discussions.

Changelog

1.0.16

• Migration to Valheim 1.0.x.

1.0.14

• Updated documentation
• Fixed player communication between xbox and steam platform

1.0.12

• Replace duplicate join messages with one localized server-wide arrival announcement.

1.0.11

• Fix boolean command-switch table rendering on Thunderstore.

1.0.10

• Remove the global chat command.

1.0.9

• Remove the global chat command.

1.0.8

• Add unit tests.

1.0.7

• Document Valheim version compatibility
• Support Socialize hash API variants

1.0.6

• Update thunderstore readme

1.0.5

• Preserve player-built structures and fuel while their creator and the creator's group are offline.
• Restrict player-built piece interactions, repairs, removal, and player damage to the creator and their group.
• Prevent creatures from targeting or damaging pieces while their creator and group are offline.
• Show the creator on inaccessible pieces instead of displaying an access-denied message.

1.0.4

• Log when the mod is unloaded.

1.0.3

• minor fix

1.0.0

• Initial Version