Hearthforge Modpack

An all-in-one, ready-to-play improved Valheim. One click in r2modman installs Hearthforge and every community mod it's built around: a gilded WoW-style HUD, tames that listen, ships you can paint and salvage, rivers and waterfalls you can build, offline progress, guilds and much more. Every feature can be switched on or off in the F7 settings panel.

Included mods

• Hearthforge (Organixxed) 1.0.3: the main mod. A WoW-style HUD, the F7 settings panel and 65 modules.
• Voxheim (Voxheim): voxel terrain, so you can dig real caves and overhangs. Hearthforge's No Cave Fog works with it.
• Longship Upgrades (shudnal): upgrades for the longship. Hearthforge's Longship Harbor adds a workbench window for them.
• Build On Ship (Skarif): build pieces on your ships.
• Armoire (Advize): a transmog wardrobe. Hearthforge's Dyer's Wardrobe adds armor dyeing to it.
• Gizmo (ComfyMods): finer rotation control when building.
• DustBegone (Heimlife): turns off selected dust effects and makes loot drop right away.
• TheFisher (Marlthon): new fish, coral reefs and aquariums.
• Feint (hvalch): cancel attacks by blocking or dodging, at a stamina cost, and dodge out after a hit to carry on your combo.
• BepInExPack_Valheim, Jotunn, YamlDotNet, ConditionalConfigSync: libraries the mods above need.

This package holds no mod files. It only lists Thunderstore dependencies, so every mod is downloaded from its author's official listing and stays under its own license.

Improvements over vanilla

These are the things Hearthforge changes from the base game. Each one can be switched off in F7, except the game fix.

• Portals: vanilla always waits at least about 10 seconds (a 2 s fade plus an 8 s minimum). Bifrost ends the trip as soon as the destination has loaded. Item restrictions stay the same.
• Ship deconstruction: asks for confirmation, refunds the full recipe, and puts the materials and cargo in one floating crate instead of scattering them in the water.
• Sun shafts: the game's own sun shaft toggle is always respected, and a slider makes the rays softer or stronger.
• Offline time: production keeps running while the world is shut down (up to 2 hours). In vanilla, it stops.
• Tames: they don't damage your pens or crowd into one spot, they come through portals with you, and you can turn their sounds up or down.
• Chests: Quick Stack, crafting and building from nearby chests, and Ward Organize replace a lot of walking between chests.
• Stations and building: Bulk Load fills a station in one go, and you can use doors and chests without putting your hammer away.
• Resting and death: become Rested faster, and keep your skills and items when you die. Both are configurable.
• Game fix: treasure chests in crypts and similar places now remember that you've discovered them, so the discovery stat isn't counted again every time you open them.

Everything Hearthforge adds

Modules marked (off by default) must be switched on in F7 first.

Interface & HUD

• Warband HUD: WoW-style HUD with action bar, unit frames, buffs, minimap, map, bags and tooltips. Drag any frame after pressing F8.
• Equipped Glow: a soft gold glow on hotbar slots whose item is equipped.
• Targeting: cycle hostile targets with a key, with a target ring, a target frame and an optional soft lock.
• Gilded UI: gold filigree frames and gold accents on the game's own screens. The layout is unchanged.
• Cartographer: a parchment-style map with hillshade, soft coastlines, depth gradients and styled pins.
• Camera: a first-person view and a farther zoom-out, on foot and on ships.
• Graphics (off by default): client-only look controls (haze, fog, shadows, sun shaft strength and more) on top of the game's own settings. It doesn't change how far you can see.
• Swift Start: skip the startup logos and the new-character intro.
• Seed Preview: on Create New World, preview a seed's land, sea and height, and reroll seeds.

Travel & Exploration

• Bifrost: faster portal loading, with vanilla item restrictions kept. Map-click teleport is a server option and is off by default.
• Hearthstone: every character knows a Hearthstone spell (H). Channel home to your bed and take your tamed companions with you.
• Wayfinder: a bigger map reveal radius at sea.
• Tidewalker: swimming stamina and speed tuning, diving and rising, and you keep one-handed gear while you swim.
• Quiet Wishbone: turn the Wishbone's treasure ping down or off. The visual pulse stays.
• Wisp Sky Column: placed Wisp Torches clear the mist in a column all the way up to the sky.
• No Cave Fog: no fog inside caves you dig with Voxheim. Vanilla caves and dungeons keep theirs.
• Slope Assist (off by default): a server setting that lets you walk up steeper slopes for extra stamina.
• Meadows Anywhere (off by default): Meadows can appear far from spawn. This changes the terrain in existing worlds.

Ships & Sailing

• Seafarer: slightly faster rowing and an optional personal tailwind for the ship you steer.
• Shipwright: per-ship colours for hull, trim, shields and sail, plus custom sail images. Everyone sees them.
• Ship Salvage: take a ship apart with the hammer, after a confirmation. You get its full recipe and all its cargo back in one large floating Salvage Crate.
• Longship Harbor: a Harbor window at the workbench for Longship Upgrades. Upgrades are unlocked per player. Needs Longship Upgrades by shudnal.

Building & Base

• Interact While Building: press E on doors, chests, stations, beds and portals while a hammer, hoe or cultivator is out.
• Sign Styling: fonts, colours, gradients and icons for signs, with copy and paste.
• Ward Guard: a per-ward Keep Mobs Out toggle. No hostile spawns inside, and hostiles walk back out.
• Streamcraft: a hammer Water tab for ponds, rivers and waterfalls.
• Homestead Move (off by default): copy or pack up an area and rebuild it elsewhere at the normal building cost.
• Dvergr Masonry: Dvergr walls, beams, floors and furniture from a Dvergr hammer tab.
• Boss Stones: decorative boss trophy stones.
• Graveyard: grave crosses and markers for the hammer.
• Placeable Traders: place Haldor, Hildir or the Bog Witch once you've found them. Wares and prices stay the same.
• Yggdrasil Root: build an ancient root at home and tap it with a Sap Extractor at vanilla rates.
• Compact Stations: smaller windmills, blast furnaces, kilns, smelters and eitr refineries, with the same recipe and speed.
• Terrain Tools: server limits for terrain tools, plus a radius preview ring.
• Terrain Edit Limit (off by default): raise or lower the ground further than vanilla's ±8 m.
• Carved Trails (admin): carve a walkable switchback ramp between two points.
• Worldmend (admin): a hammer Reset tab that restores an area to its generated state.
• Admin Area Copy (admin): copy, paste or move an area with all its pieces and contents.

Farming & Production

• Greenhand: grow crops outside their native biome, more slowly.
• Greenhand · Bushes: plant berry bushes, fiddleheads and smoke puffs anywhere.
• Greenhand · Wilds: plant berry bushes, mushrooms and wild plants with the cultivator.
• Apiary & Harvest: beehives hold 8 honey, crops and berries show timers, and bees speed up nearby crops.
• Brewmaster: fermenters queue up to 5 batches, store finished mead and show a queue panel.
• Smeltery: smelter timers on hover, a blast furnace that smelts every ore, and an optional coal boost.
• Prospector: copper deposits pop whole after a few sections break, and part of the ore drops as tin.
• Everflame: fires, torches and ovens never run out of fuel. Smelters and kilns are unaffected.
• Bulk Load: fill a smelter, kiln, oven or fire in one go.
• Offline Progress: while the world is shut down, crops, fermenters, smelters, fires and tames keep working, for up to 2 hours.
• Woodcleaver: keep the axe combo going when you chop trees.

Tames

• Beastmaster: tames are pen-safe, don't stack up, and have Follow, Passive and Aggressive modes. Also includes smaller, faster loxes, faster taming and growing, breeding limits, pets that follow you through portals, and Tame Volume.

Inventory & Storage

• Storekeeper: Quick Stack to nearby chests, locked slots, and Ward Organize (sort every chest in a ward area).
• Quartermaster: craft, build and refuel from nearby chests, with a list of items it never pulls.
• Wanderer's Pack: a starting backpack with its own slots and lighter contents. It grows as you defeat bosses.
• Gatherer's Ward: the items you choose are never picked up automatically.
• Coin Purse: a trade-in slot that turns valuables into coins. Coins are weightless and stack without limit.

Gear & Character

• Warband Gear: a WoW-style equipment panel beside the inventory, with extra reserved rows.
• Runeforge Imbues: convert part of a weapon's physical damage into Frost, Blood, Lightning or Spirit at a station.
• Dyer's Wardrobe: dye your armor at the Armoire wardrobe. Other players see it. Needs Armoire by Advize.
• Well Fed: with 3 active foods, part of your gear's movement speed penalty is cancelled.
• Packbearer: a Hauling skill that raises carry capacity as you move under a heavy load.
• Hearthrest: become Rested faster, or instantly, by the fire.
• Death: keep your skills, gear and inventory when you die. On by default; it's a server setting.

Social & Server

• Warband Social: whispers, limited world chat, parties, raids and guilds. Type /social in chat for the full list.
• Saga Keeper: allow Steam achievements in a modded game. Cheats still block them.
• Jarl's Authority: turn on Valheim's dev commands from F7. In multiplayer, only the host or an admin can do this.

Controls

Hotkeys can be changed in F7. Shift+E means the game's alternate-use key (Shift by default) together with Use.

Server flyer

Install

1. Install r2modman (or the Thunderstore Mod Manager) and pick Valheim.
2. Search Hearthforge Modpack and press Download. Every mod above installs automatically.
3. Press Start modded. Press F7 in game to open the settings.

Multiplayer: the server should run the same pack, so server-synced options are enforced for everyone.

Hearthforge is (c) Organixxed, all rights reserved. The other mods belong to their respective authors.