Sauna

Finally, a real Viking sauna in Valheim.

A rough dome of stones with a fire burning inside. Stoke it with wood, and when the stones are hot, pour water on them. The room fills with steam. Sit in it. The heat stays with you for a long while after you leave.

How it works

Build the Sauna stove from the Furniture tab of the hammer (10 wood, 5 coal, 40 stone, workbench nearby). Feed it wood like any fire.

Hold Shift + E on a burning stove to pour water on the stones. Steam rolls out low and slow and spreads through the room, filling it from wall to wall. It holds under a roof and drifts away in the open, so a proper steam room needs walls and a ceiling. One pour keeps the room steamy for about forty seconds. The stones need a moment before you can pour again.

Effects

Steaming — while you stand in the steam. Slowly restores health. Stepping out of the steam for a moment will not undo your progress.

Well steamed — earned after a while in the steam, and it grows the longer you stay. The heat stays in your body: the night cold does not touch you, and being wet no longer slows your recovery. Mountain frost is another matter — a bath will not save you there.

Multiplayer

Everyone must have the mod, including the dedicated server, and the same version. One player pouring fills the room for everyone present.

Install

Use Thunderstore Mod Manager or r2modman — dependencies are handled for you.

Manual install: drop the contents of plugins into BepInEx/plugins/SaunaMod/, keeping the icons and sounds folders next to the DLL.

Requires BepInEx and Jotunn.

Notes

Built entirely from assets already in the game — no new models or textures are shipped. The stove is assembled at runtime from Valheim's own stones, so it fits the world it stands in.

Credits

Made by Nekitker.

Changelog

2.5.0

• Added Sauna towels, a new buildable upgrade made from 5 Fine Wood, 5 Wolf Pelts and 2 Iron Nails
• A fully upgraded sauna now improves Well steamed: climbing steep slopes costs less stamina, slipping is reduced and Freezing deals less damage
• Sauna towels add +1 conditional comfort and have a configurable recipe and TowelRack bonus settings
• All sauna pieces now appear in the localized Sauna hammer category
• Updated names, descriptions and effect tooltips across all five supported languages
• Fixed Wet recovery penalty compensation

2.2.0

• Added stone heat: the stones heat up while the stove burns, stay hot for a minute after the fire goes out and then slowly cool down
• Pouring water spends stone heat, gives less steam on cooler stones and is not possible when the stones are too cold
• The stove holds 5 wood; the pour cooldown is reduced to 5 seconds
• Hot stones redden, glow and softly light the sauna
• New stove interior: campfire logs that char when the fire goes out, on coals that glow while the stones are hot
• Sauna comfort now depends on stone heat instead of the fire
• New Stove config options: MaxWood, HeatingSpeed, MaxHeat, PourCost, CoolPerMinute, CoolingDelaySeconds, SteamDependsOnHeat, Glow and ShowHeatOnHover
• Localisations and bug fixes

2.1.0

• Added the Too hot status effect: steaming with clothes or armor on deals damage and blocks steam healing and Well steamed progress
• Skin now gradually reddens while steaming and cools back afterwards
• Fixed sauna piece recipes not being applied at startup
• Improved Finnish translations

2.0.1

• Mod description changed

2.0.0

A major sauna progression update.

• Added Sauna whisks, a new buildable sauna upgrade made from 5 Fine Wood and 1 Bronze Nail
• Added the Sauna bucket with ladle, a new buildable upgrade made from 5 Iron and 10 Fine Wood
• Sauna whisks now improve Well Steamed: they remove the recovery penalties from Wet and unlock the 15-minute warming tier
• Without whisks, Well Steamed tops out at 10 minutes; with whisks, it can reach 15 minutes
• Added a localized maximum-steam message when the player reaches the best warming tier available to the current sauna
• The sauna bucket increases the amount of steam released by a pour
• The bucket can now be infused with supported resistance meads; the next pour carries the mead through the sauna steam and shares its vanilla resistance effect with nearby sheltered players
• Supported infusions include Poison Resistance Mead, Frost Resistance Mead and Fire Resistance Barley Wine
• Resistance effects delivered through the sauna last 20% longer by default; the multiplier can be changed in the config
• Added conditional Sauna Comfort: whisks and bucket each add +1 Comfort, but only near a burning sauna stove while sheltered
• Sauna Comfort can be disabled from the config
• Added nekitker.saunamod.cfg with settings for Well Steamed timing, steam healing, steam detection and grace time, effect durations, mead duration, steam behaviour, cloud counts and limits, comfort, recipes and the in-game editor
• All SaunaMod configuration is synchronized from the host or dedicated server to clients
• Added configurable recipes for every buildable SaunaMod piece; both ingredient types and amounts can be changed
• Added an optional lightweight in-game editor for tuning and testing, enabled from the config and opened with F7
• Updated Well Steamed tooltips so whisk-specific benefits are shown only when the effect was earned from a sauna with whisks
• Added clearer bucket interaction messages, including feedback when a non-resistance mead is used
• Added full Finnish localization alongside English, Russian, German and Spanish
• Refined item names, descriptions and status-effect text across all supported languages
• Improved sauna whisk visuals by restoring the intended birch-leaf material and making the vegetation-based parts stable across different systems
• Sauna upgrades, mead infusion and synchronized settings are multiplayer-ready

1.1.3

• Returning to the steam no longer starts from scratch: the time you already have counts, so topping up a nearly full effect takes one short sit instead of three
• Well steamed no longer counts down while you are still in the steam room
• Steaming now requires shelter: a steam bath needs a roof over your head

1.1.2

• The stove now warms a wider area, closer to a campfire

1.1.1

• The stones now glow only while the stove is burning; once the fire dies they darken to coals

1.1.0

• Steam now rolls out low and wide and fills rooms evenly, large ones included
• One pour keeps the room steamy for about forty seconds — enough to get well steamed
• Steaming is more forgiving: stepping out of the steam for a moment no longer resets your progress

Everyone in a session must update: 1.1.0 is not compatible with 1.0.0.

1.0.0

First release.

• Sauna stove, buildable from the hammer (Furniture tab)
• Pour water with Shift + E to fill the room with steam
• Steaming and Well steamed status effects
• Steam gathers under a roof and does not choke you
• Full multiplayer synchronisation
• English, Russian, German and Spanish