AbsoluteMusic

by Njat

Atmospheric soundtrack replacement for Valheim, featuring Nordic dark folk, metal, and dark cinematic music.

The songs come from a wide range of genres and artists, but every track was chosen because it fits its setting exceptionally well. Normal biome music stays strictly within the Nordic/folk style, while other categories feature deliberate exceptions — especially the Swamp and Mountain. You'll understand why when you hear them.

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Audio tips:

• If sound effects are too loud or drown out the music, try lowering SFX volume to 5–20%.
• If the music itself is too loud, try lowering Music volume to 10–30%.

Further Improvements

• Music changing or shuffling too often? Try SteadyMusic by Allifreyr.
• Want boss tracks to play more than once? Try StarLevelSystem by MidnightMods.

What's New — 1.1.7

• Sailing music has been readjusted and extended from approximately 15 minutes to 1 hour.
• Further improvements to the Ashlands tracks.
• This might be the final update, so hopefully no more headaches from now on!

What's New — 1.1.6

• Extended Meadows, Plains, and Ashlands music to roughly 6× their previous lengths.
• Updated Plains encounter music. Yagluth now has a proper intro!
• Toned down some of the heavier metal tracks. Sorry, Slayers, we aren't ripping and tearing quite that much here.
• Kept my promise of low resource usage despite the major increase in music length and content.
• Remember our favorite Viking series? You're about to hear some familiar music from it too — yes, the piece sung by the actor himself!

What's New — 1.1.5

• Extended Black Forest and Mistlands music.
• Further toned down rhythm-heavy folk tracks at certain locations.
• All biome soundtracks are nearing completion! Keeping RAM usage under control remains the priority.
• Contact info for feedbacks added

What's New — 1.1.4

• Extended music across all biomes, especially Mountain and Swamp.
• Updated and extended boss soundtracks.
• Added three Swamp music variations: Heroic, Doomed, and Progressive.
• Added more instrumental variations for the Mountain biome.

What's New — 1.1.3

• Fixed several problems affecting music playback.
• Added more music for Home.
• Expanded the Combat soundtrack with additional tracks.
• Extended the Banes music selection.
• Tuned down the more aggressive music that could play during Trader visits — trader music is now much more chill.

My Wish

I really hope they eventually fix the combat music selection. Most of these tracks barely get played because I originally put them together thinking combat had different severity phases.

I expected the game to gradually move through different combat levels depending on how intense the fight was, but apparently it doesn't work that way. So a lot of the combat music I specifically chose for those phases is just sitting there unused.

Contact

Telegram: @njatlin Channel: @Njatmods

What This Mod Does

AbsoluteMusic replaces Valheim's vanilla soundtrack with a custom soundtrack carefully organized around different gameplay situations.

Music is divided into categories such as:

• Biomes
• Bosses
• Combat
• Sailing
• Home
• Morning
• Evening
• Menu
• Other gameplay situations

Each category can contain multiple tracks, allowing the game to randomly select music from the available tracks.

Requirements

• CustomAudio LocationMusic by aruberuto
• BepInExPack Valheim

CustomAudio LocationMusic is required to load and replace Valheim's music.

Installation

r2modman / Thunderstore Mod Manager

Recommended

1. Install AbsoluteMusic through r2modman or Thunderstore Mod Manager.
2. Make sure CustomAudio LocationMusic is installed as a dependency.
3. Launch Valheim through your mod manager.
4. The soundtrack will load automatically.

Manual Installation

1. Install BepInExPack Valheim.

2. Install CustomAudio LocationMusic.

3. Extract the contents of the AbsoluteMusic package into your Valheim installation directory.

4. The music files should be located under:

   Valheim\BepInEx\plugins\AbsoluteMusic\CustomAudio\Music\

5. Launch Valheim with BepInEx installed.

6. The custom soundtrack will load automatically.

Compatibility

AbsoluteMusic is designed to work with Valheim using CustomAudio LocationMusic.

The soundtrack is client-side. Other players will not automatically hear the custom music unless they also install the mod.

Credits

All music belongs to its respective artists, composers, and copyright holders.

AbsoluteMusic is a fan-made soundtrack compilation/mod for Valheim and is not affiliated with any of the featured artists or their respective copyright holders.

Disclaimer

Please respect the copyright and licensing rights of all included music.