EarthWright

Terraforming for Valheim's hoe and cultivator, inside the game's build menu.

Features

• Brush: size (Alt + mouse wheel), five shapes, rotation, soft or hard edge, grid snapping.
• Exact target heights, instant plateaus, raise and lower by exact amounts, smooth, paint and reset.
• Ramps and curved roads, coloured by slope for carts.
• Undo and redo (Ctrl + Z / Ctrl + Y).
• New hoe and cultivator entries (Groundbreaker, Uproot and more); each entry's description lists its keys.
• A preview of every changed point, the cost on the HUD, a world grid and an exact-values panel (F6).
• Server rules: costs, height limits per biome (past the game's 8 m too), terrain lock, admin zones; wards cover the whole brush.
• Tools: longer reach, a light, a left-hand torch, levels up to 6; faster sprinting on roads; a seed grid.

Install

Needed on the server and every client. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put EarthWright.dll in BepInEx/plugins. Keep it installed once you have raised or dug past 8 m, or that ground is drawn clamped to the game's limits.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/milkyteam.earthwright.cfg and YAML files (brushes, costs, entries, limits, zones). Every setting is described in the file and applies without a restart; the server's values bind every player, keys and display options stay your own. Console: ew help; all commands with arguments: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/blob/main/EarthWright/CLAUDE.md#console-commands

Links

Bugs and ideas: https://github.com/geraldjglasgow/ValheimMods/issues (name the mod and version). Licence: GPL-3.0.

Shout outs

• The BepInEx and Harmony teams, for the tools every Valheim mod stands on.
• Iron Gate Studio, for Valheim.
• Thunderstore, for hosting this page.
• The Valheim modding community, for the hard work and dedication that keeps enhancing an already great game.
• Every modder who keeps their mods open source so others can collaborate, learn and build on them.

Changelog

0.5.1

• Russian translation, used while the game's language is Russian.

0.5.0

• Translations: every word you read is in translations/English.yml; an EarthWright.translations.<Language>.yml in BepInEx/config translates it.
• Translation files are now named EarthWright.translations.<Language>.yml; the ew language commands are gone.
• Zone replies from the server show in each admin's own language.

0.4.2

• Fixed: players on a slow connection with many mods are no longer refused when joining a server.

0.4.1

• Fixed: after Alt + Tab, hotkeys could stop working or act as if Shift, Ctrl or Alt were held.
• Store page: every hoe and cultivator entry listed.

0.4.0

• Fixed: an edit could vanish when the ground changed owner; it is sent again, and you are told if it never arrives.
• Fixed: clearing and Uproot no longer take over objects another player owns; picked items drop once.
• Clearing a large area no longer freezes the game.
• Snapshots are kept compressed, at most 16 MB together; a save past that is refused.
• Less network traffic while a click is held, and less work every frame.
• Update the server and every client together.

0.3.4

• Discord link on the store page.

0.3.3

• Less work every frame while previewing a brush's volume, continuing a flat and planning roads.
• Faster loading: the config file is written once instead of once per setting.

0.3.2

• Less work every frame keeping the server's settings in sync.

0.3.1

• Shorter store page; the store description no longer lists the removed shovel. Nothing changes in game.

0.3.0

• Groundbreaker no longer needs a stonecutter nearby, and Paved Road Needs Stonecutter no longer applies to it.
• New Groundbreaker Needs Stonecutter (off by default) brings the requirement back.

0.2.0

• The shovel is removed with its recipe, levels, Dig entry and settings; shovels made with 0.1.x disappear from inventories.
• EarthWright works on the hoe and cultivator only; custom entries take tool: hoe or tool: cultivator.
• Each entry's description lists every key that works with it; the hint line above the build bar and its settings are removed.

0.1.1

• New icons for every EarthWright menu entry and the shovel.

0.1.0

• First release, for the hoe, cultivator and a new shovel.
• Brush size, five shapes, rotation, edge hardness, grid mode and aim at the edge.
• Target heights: feet, aimed ground, locked, exact, continue the flat, floor height.
• Three level styles, exact raise and lower, smooth, paint, reset, a hard level key.
• Ramps (four profiles, quick ramp), curved roads, slope colours for carts.
• Undo and redo, area snapshots.
• New menu entries with toggles and key hints, custom YAML entries, the full build menu.
• Costs: stamina, wear, materials, stations, stone by volume, cooldown, free build, a live cost line.
• Height limits per biome, for the pickaxe too; admin limit, gentle slopes, strict dig mode.
• Protection: wards over the brush, no-build places, dungeons, terrain lock, tools switch, admin zones and entries, combat lock.
• Tools: reach, light, speed, a left-hand torch, levels up to 6.
• Road travel bonus, seed grid, cultivating forbidden ground, console command ew, translation files.