HighSeat

In Valheim the nearest player's game runs every creature, and everyone else sees it through that player's connection. One player far away, on a slow line or on a cloud PC, and creatures freeze or move "like they have ping" for the whole group. HighSeat makes the server run them instead, the way most survival games do.

Features

• Server-run creatures: the server loads every player's area and runs every creature in it, monsters, animals, tamed creatures and bosses alike.
• Server-run spawners: wild spawns, the game's raids, nests, spawn points and boss altars spawn on the server, so a creature starts there and never changes hands. Only a console spawn begins on a player's game, handed over within two seconds.
• Frame budget: a server that falls behind leaves new creatures to players, as the game does, until it recovers.
• Send rate: an optional higher limit than the game's 150 KB/s per player.

Install

Needed on the server only: a dedicated server, or the player who hosts. Players need nothing. Install with r2modman or the Thunderstore app, or put HighSeat.dll in BepInEx/plugins. A server-side network mod that sets the send rate (such as Better Networking) can stay: leave HighSeat's Send rate KB/s at 150 and it is left alone.

The server does more work: give it a good CPU, especially when players spread out across the map.

Configuration

BepInEx/config/com.HighSeat.cfg: Server runs creatures, Server frame budget ms, Send rate KB/s. Every setting is described in the file and applies without a restart, except the send rate.

Links

Discord: https://discord.gg/Q2sMPGQ4T3

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

0.2.3

• Fixed: a world save or one slow frame no longer makes the server leave new creatures to players.

0.2.2

• Fixed: wild creatures spawn near players again; the server's spawner threw errors instead.

0.2.1

• Fixed: a dedicated server running 0.2.0 never accepted players (connections timed out).

0.2.0

• Fixed: creatures near players no longer float over dug-out ground or sink into raised ground.
• Send rate is now 500 KB/s with no setting, never lowered below what another mod set; Send rate KB/s removed.

0.1.0

• First release.
• The server runs every creature near any player, tamed creatures and bosses included.
• Wild spawns, the game's raids, nests, spawn points and boss altars spawn on the server.
• Server frame budget ms: a busy server leaves new creatures to players until it recovers.
• Send rate KB/s: optional higher send rate.