ServerRates

Your World. Your Rules. Your Rates.

Take control of your Valheim server. Customize combat, skills, loot, survival, building, world mechanics and more through a flexible server side configuration system.

Overview

ServerRates gives server owners the freedom to shape their own Valheim experience, from relaxed cooperative worlds to challenging survival adventures.

Configure gameplay rates, customize world rules, manage item drops, change skill progression and adjust crafting restrictions without manually editing game files.

Server side configuration

Flexible gameplay settings

In game chat commands

Presets for quick configuration

Detailed status and inspection tools

Installation

1. Install BepInEx

Install BepInExPack for Valheim on your dedicated server.

2. Install ServerRates

Install ServerRates on the dedicated server using your preferred mod manager or manual installation.

3. Start the server

Launch the server once to generate the configuration file.

4. Configure your world

Edit the configuration or use the available chat commands to adjust your settings.

Configuration file

BepInEx/config/com.morda.serverrates.cfg

Players do not need to install ServerRates on their clients when using it as a server side mod.

Requirements

Valheim Dedicated Server

BepInExPack for Valheim

Configuration Categories

Use the categories below to find the settings you want to customize.

Combat

Customize player damage, enemy damage, enemy speed, enemy stars, world difficulty and event behavior.

sr_playerdmg   sr_enemydmg   sr_enemyspeed

sr_enemystars   sr_events   sr_worldlevel

sr_passivemobs   sr_playerevents

Skills

Control how quickly players gain skills and how much skill progress is lost.

sr_skillgain   sr_skillloss

Loot and Resources

Adjust resource rates, ground item behavior, extra loot per drop and loot generation.

sr_resourcerate   sr_groundamp   sr_maxpiles

sr_lootspawn   sr_other

Survival

Change stamina, Eitr, adrenaline, food, durability and carry weight related settings.

sr_stamina   sr_movestamina   sr_staminaregen

sr_eitr   sr_adrenaline   sr_food

sr_durability   sr_carry

Death Settings

Configure equipment retention, inventory loss and skill penalties on death.

sr_keepequip   sr_keepinv

sr_deleteitems   sr_deleteunequipped

sr_skillreset

Building and Crafting

Customize building costs, crafting costs, available pieces, recipes and station restrictions.

sr_nobuildcost   sr_nocraftcost

sr_allpieces   sr_allrecipes

sr_noworkbench   sr_toollocks

World and Exploration

Change map visibility, portal restrictions, dungeon building and world behavior.

sr_nomap   sr_noportals

sr_nobossportals   sr_teleportall

sr_dungeonbuild

sr_nopseudo   sr_nobuildfall

sr_noheavysnow   sr_allheavysnow   sr_fire

Production Stations

Adjust processing behavior for smelters, cooking stations, fermenters and plant related systems.

sr_smelter   sr_cooking   sr_fermenter   sr_plants

Loot Configuration

Loot settings are divided into resource materials, consumables and creature drops.

Materials

sr_wood   sr_finewood   sr_corewood

sr_specialwood   sr_ore   sr_scrap

sr_stone   sr_flint   sr_crystal

sr_fuel   sr_gems   sr_boss

Consumables

sr_crops   sr_seeds   sr_mushrooms

sr_berries   sr_fish   sr_potions

Creature Drops

sr_hide   sr_trophy   sr_meat

sr_parts   sr_feathers   sr_specialparts

Chat Commands

Use the available commands in game to inspect and manage your server configuration.

Type commands in the normal chat without a slash, for example sr_wood 5.

General Commands

Help and Status

rates help   rates status   rates cmds

Configuration

rates list <group>   rates get <name>

rates set <name> <value>

Presets

rates preset vanilla   rates preset x2

rates preset x5   rates preset x10

Reset and Maintenance

rates reset <name|group|all>   rates inspect

rates repair

Configuration Groups

Use rates list <group> to view the settings available in a group.

loot   materials   consumables   mobs

skills   combat   survival   resources

death   build   map   world

stations   general

Command Examples

Check the current configuration

rates status   rates list loot

Change a setting

rates set sr_wood 2

Apply a preset

rates preset x5

Reset a setting or group

rates reset sr_wood   rates reset loot

View detailed information

rates inspect   rates repair

The exact commands available to players may depend on your configured chat command access and prefix settings.

Presets

Quickly change your server's gameplay style using the built in presets.

rates preset vanilla

Return supported settings to their vanilla values.

rates preset x2

Apply the supported double rate preset.

rates preset x5

Apply the supported five times rate preset.

rates preset x10

Apply the supported ten times rate preset.

Presets apply to supported loot, skill gain and station settings (smelter, cooking, fermenter and plants).

Inspection and Repair

rates inspect

Displays saved configuration values and station item processing times for supported stations within inspection range.

rates repair

Displays relevant configuration and station information and resets the stored smelter timer to zero.

General Settings

The following keys control general ServerRates behavior.

sr_enabled   Enable or disable ServerRates.

sr_chatcmds   Enable or disable chat commands.

sr_chataccess   Configure chat command access.

sr_chatbridge   Configure chat command bridge behavior.

sr_stationinfo   Configure station information output.

Notes and Limitations

Available settings and behavior depend on the installed ServerRates version and the underlying Valheim mechanics.

Some changes may only affect newly generated drops, newly crafted items or future processing cycles. Existing items and ongoing processes may not be recalculated automatically.

Smelter and cooking station speed can be raised above vanilla and set back to normal. Values below 1 (slower than vanilla) are ignored.

Always keep a backup of your world and configuration before making major gameplay changes.

Support and Community

Found a bug, have a suggestion or need help configuring ServerRates?

Join the ServerRates Discord Community

Join our Discord

Feedback and bug reports are always welcome.

ServerRates

Your World. Your Rules. Your Rates.

Changelog

1.7.0

• Station info: standing next to a smelter, kiln, furnace, cooking station or fermenter shows a short top-left message with the time per item (your multiplier applied, vanilla for comparison). Sent to that player only, repeated at most every 30 s per station. sr_stationinfo off turns it off (option StationInfo, default on).

1.6.4

• rates inspect also shows the time per item of the station next to you (smelter / kiln per ore, cooking station per food, fermenter per batch, plant grow time), with your multiplier applied and the vanilla value for comparison. The hover text of a station is built in the player's game and cannot be changed server-side.

1.6.3

• New rates inspect: shows the values stored in the stations within 8 m of you (owner, data revision, fuel, queued ore, bake timer, work-time store acc, cooking slots, fermenter content). New rates repair: same, and sets a smelter's work-time store back to 0.

1.6.2

• Fix log noise: the server no longer tries to parse its own chat replies ("PlatformUserID failed to parse"), and its replies now carry a valid sender id so clients do not log it either.

1.6.1

• Smelter, kiln, furnace and cooking station speed work server-only now (sr_smelter, sr_cooking, back after being removed in 1.6.0). The server adds work time to the smelter's accTime store (the game processes it in 1 s steps with normal fuel use per product) and advances raw food in a cooking station, only while the station is demonstrably working and never past "done".
• No ownership change any more: the server edits the values and raises the data revision above the owner's (checked in ZDOMan.RPC_ZDOData / ShouldSend). Nothing can get lost while a player puts ore or food into a station.

1.6.0

• Plants and fermenters now work server-only. When a plant is planted or a fermenter is filled, the server moves its start timestamp once so it needs duration / multiplier (sr_plants 5, sr_fermenter 5). Applies to things started after the change. Needs nothing on the clients.
• Removed sr_smelter and sr_cooking: the old method only worked where the server itself simulates the station, which is almost never. Their progress is recalculated every second inside the player's game and cannot be changed by a server-only mod.
• rates preset now sets plants and fermenter instead of all four stations.

1.5.10

• Fix: the chat bridge entry had an empty user id, so clients logged "PlatformUserID failed to parse" on every chat message. The id is now built with an explicit Steam platform and validated before it is sent; the used id is logged once at startup.

1.5.9

• Fix: multipliers were too low when a tree dropped several items. The protection against amplifying our own extra items skipped every wood drop within 3 m, including the other genuine drops of the same tree. Own spawns are now recognised by their creation time (newer than the spawn request) and a tight radius, so every drop of a tree is multiplied.

1.5.8

• Loot: with LootSpawn=Client the extras are requested as soon as the drop is seen (scan every 0.25 s) instead of waiting until it rests on the ground. Picking up the wood right away no longer gives vanilla amounts.

1.5.7

• Loot multipliers: extra items are now spawned by the nearest player's game (vanilla "SpawnObject" RPC) instead of being created as server-side objects. They land on the real ground with normal physics and replicate normally, also with networking mods that rework ZDO sending. New option LootSpawn (Client default, Server = old behaviour). MaxExtraPiles now caps the number of extra items per drop.

1.5.6

• Chat bridge: chat commands now reach the server. Valheim 1.0 sends chat from client to client and the server is not a recipient, so with one player online the server never saw any chat. The server now lists itself as a pseudo player ("ServerRates") so clients send their chat to it. New option ChatBridge (default on).
• Chat hooks run before other networking mods.
• Verified against the game code: player list packet, chat packet parsing and the command logic.

1.5.5

• Chat commands also work with networking mods that route chat themselves (e.g. Fires Ghetto Networking): the command is read when the packet arrives. The first chat lines seen are logged once to help diagnose hook problems.

1.5.4

• Chat commands now work in the normal chat. Valheim 1.0 sends normal chat and whispers as a per-player "Say" RPC that the dedicated only forwards; the command is now read when the server forwards it. The raw command is no longer shown to other players.

1.5.3

• Chat commands are read straight from the routed chat RPC (works even if another mod interferes with the chat handler). Startup log shows which mods patch the chat methods.
• Less log spam when world modifiers are re-applied while the world loads.

1.5.2

• Chat replies are sent with the player position so area-of-interest RPC routers (e.g. Fires Ghetto Networking) do not drop them.

1.5.1

• Chat commands: the server now answers (and logs) when commands are ignored, e.g. ChatCommandsEnabled=false.
• Mod activates itself even if the ZNet hooks were missed.

1.5.0

• Config edits from Valheim Server Manager apply live now. The old file watcher ran on a background thread and failed silently; the file is now polled on the main thread. Edits are announced in-game.
• Loot piles no longer hang in the air. Extra piles are created as plain ZDOs once the original item rests on the ground (no server-side physics).
• Items a player ever held or crafted are never multiplied (stops drop-and-pickup duplication). Wild fish are never duplicated.
• Fixed loot classification: boss cores were counted as ore, some potion/boss names never matched.
• Chat: group commands (sr_loot 5, sr_mobs 3), presets (rates preset x5), rates reset, abbreviated names, x5 / 500% values, private replies, short lines for console chat.
• New ChatAccess option: Everyone (default) or AdminOnly (server adminlist).
• New MaxExtraPiles safety cap. Removed SnapExtraDropsToGround / ExtraDropScatterForce.
• Code: all rates now come from one table (config, commands, apply, help).

1.4.12

• Console chat works again: sr_wood 9 (no slash, no adminlist). / cannot reach the dedicated from vanilla/console clients.
• PC may still use /sr_wood 9 if the client DLL is installed (forwards as chat).
• F5 sr_wood 9 still needs adminlist for remote.

1.4.11

• Chat: /sr_wood 9 (slash). Client forwards /sr_* as real chat.
• F5: sr_wood 9 (no slash). Remote needs adminlist.
• Yellow HUD via routed ShowMessage on dedicated.

1.4.10

• Chat commands work without / (e.g. sr_wood 9). Valheim treats leading / as a local console command and never sends it to the dedicated server.
• Default ChatCommandPrefix is empty

1.4.9

• rates cmds / status / help: full list to F5 via RemotePrint (per line) + one chat summary
• Keep yellow HUD only for rate set (e.g. Wood Multiplier x2)

1.4.8

• Feedback to clients: RemotePrint (F5), yellow ShowMessage HUD, chat shout — not only BepInEx log

1.4.7

• Fix Harmony Chat.RPC_ChatMessage patch (param name userInfo) — chat commands work again

1.4.6

• Yellow center HUD on rate change (Wood Multiplier x9) via vanilla ShowMessage RPC — no client mod

1.4.5

• Register sr_* / rates on dedicated activate (InitTerminal often never runs headless)
• Fixes remote admin: 'sr_wood' is not a recognized command

1.4.4

• Chat commands for console players: !sr_wood 9, !rates status (no admin / SteamID check)
• Config: ChatCommandsEnabled, ChatCommandPrefix

1.4.3

• Clarify: sr_* / rates set apply live (no restart). Restart only needed after installing a new DLL.

1.4.2

• One console command per rate: sr_wood, sr_meat, sr_teleportall, … (rates cmds lists all)
• Also rates wood 9 short form

1.4.1

• In-game / dedicated console: rates list, rates get, rates set for all config keys (admin + remote)
• Tab-complete for rate keys; toggles accept On/Off/Unchanged

1.4.0

• Fine loot categories: Materials / Consumables / Mob Drops
• Ground amp via ZDO scan near players (vanilla/PS5 clients OK)
• Snap extra piles to ground + scatter force
• Split wood/ore/stone and mob loot multipliers

1.3.8

• Category ground amp for dedicated (wood etc. actually multiplies)

1.1.0

• All server-side rate keys: combat, survival, resources, death, build/craft, map/portals, world flags
• Drop category multipliers + station/plant speed

1.0.0

• Skill gain/reduction + wood/ore drop multipliers