EasyLiving

EasyLiving is a configurable quality-of-life mod for Valheim designed to reduce repetitive maintenance while keeping the core survival and building experience intact.

Features

• Item weight: Normal, Half, Quarter or Zero.
• Food, mead and potion duration: Normal, 2x, 3x or 5x.
• Forsaken/Boss power duration: Normal, 2x or 3x.
• Item durability: Normal, 2x, 3x or 5x.
• Death skill protection: optionally prevents both skill-level loss and partial skill-progress loss on death.
• Player-built structure protection: optionally prevents damage to structures placed by players.
• Vanilla structural support remains enabled: unsupported buildings can still collapse normally.
• Player-built structures can still be removed normally with the hammer.
• Runtime-only gameplay changes; EasyLiving does not rewrite your world or character saves to apply these modifiers.
• Server-synchronized configuration through Jotunn.
• Works in single-player, hosted multiplayer and dedicated-server setups when the mod requirements are met.

Configuration

After the first launch, EasyLiving creates:

BepInEx/config/Ignis.EasyLiving.cfg

Available settings:

[1 - Item Weight]
WeightMode = Half
# Normal / Half / Quarter / Zero

[2 - Consumable Duration]
Duration = 2x
# Normal / 2x / 3x / 5x

[3 - Boss Power Duration]
Duration = 2x
# Normal / 2x / 3x

[4 - Item Durability]
Durability = 2x
# Normal / 2x / 3x / 5x

[5 - Death Penalty]
PreventSkillLoss = true

[6 - Player Structures]
ProtectPlayerStructures = true

In multiplayer, synchronized settings are controlled by the server.

Console command

Open the Valheim console and use:

easyliving status

This displays the EasyLiving settings currently active.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn

Compatibility

Initial release tested on Valheim 1.0.7.

Changelog

3.1.0 — Quality of Life Expanded

Added

• Keep Inventory on Death.
• A single context-aware Sort button: it sorts the player inventory when no container is open and the current container when one is open.
• Item Sorting for player inventory and containers, with category grouping, identical-item grouping, hotbar/equipment protection, ExtraSlots-aware behavior and no automatic stack merging.
• Tool Stamina option for the Hammer, Hoe and Cultivator.
• Prevent Rain Damage.
• Potion Cooldown Reduction with 25%, 50%, 75% and 100% reduction options.
• Expanded Vein Mining with personal Off, On and On + Stones modes.
• World/server permission for Vein Mining.
• Petrified Bone and natural stone support for Vein Mining.
• Flametal support through the generic Vein Mining system.

Improved

• Quick Deposit filtering now protects ammunition correctly.
• Station Range support expanded to Stonecutter and compatible CraftingStation-based stations.
• Manual Station Resources expanded and solidified for supported crafting stations.
• World Modifiers UI dynamically handles even and odd option counts.
• Item Sorting groups by category and identical item type while preserving stable order.

Technical / Compatibility

• Vein Mining permission and personal mode are now cleanly separated.
• World Profiles migrate legacy Vein Mining settings.
• Reviewed multiplayer authority and synchronization paths for the new gameplay options.
• Session protocol updated to 12.

3.0.0 — Native UI & World Profiles

Added

• Native EasyLiving World Modifiers UI with all 17 gameplay controls.
• Per-world profiles keyed by world UID.
• Official EasyLiving defaults for newly created worlds.
• Native Keyboard & Mouse settings for Quick Deposit, Vein Mining and Auto Repair.
• Key conflict confirmation and integrated reset behavior.
• Russian localization for EasyLiving UI and player messages.
• Safe Stack Size normalization when the configured maximum is reduced.

Changed

• EasyLiving gameplay configuration now follows the selected world's profile when present.
• The World Modifiers workflow now uses native Valheim visual components.
• EasyLiving localization now supports Portuguese (Brazil), English and Russian, with English fallback.

Improved

• Each EasyLiving module can be enabled or disabled independently.
• World-profile loading preserves legacy configuration as the fallback for worlds without a profile.
• Stack Size reduction preserves items by redistributing excess into compatible stacks and empty slots before dropping only the remainder.

Fixed

• Craft From Chests now supports Hammer/Piece construction using nearby valid chests.
• Hammer requirement HUD now reflects eligible nearby storage.
• Craft From Chests correctly handles player inventory plus multiple eligible chests during Hammer construction.
• Redundant World rates diagnostic log spam was removed.

2.0.0 — Advanced Systems

Added

• Stack Size, Fire Control, Boat Speed, Workbench Range and Map Discovery.
• Quick Deposit, Craft From Chests, Auto Repair, Vein Mining, Manual Station Resources and Auto Eject Cooked Food.

Improved

• Structure Damage Control introduced Protected, PvP and Vanilla modes.

1.0.0 — Essentials

• Initial public release with configurable item weight, consumable duration, Forsaken Power duration, item durability, death skill-loss prevention and player-structure protection.