AutoNosh

A smart auto-eat mod for food only — no potions or meads. It watches your active food buffs and, when a slot is empty or about to need a refresh, eats the best food in your inventory for your current profile. Food still expires at normal vanilla speed; this mod only automates pressing the button you'd press anyway.

Who needs to install this

You only. This only calls the same eat action a manual right-click-eat already uses, on your own inventory and your own character. It doesn't change any game rule or touch anything shared with other players, so nobody else in your group needs it installed.

How it picks a food

Every couple of seconds, if you have an open food slot or one about to drop off, AutoNosh scores every food item in your inventory (potions and meads are ignored) against your active food profile and eats the best match:

• Balanced — highest total food value, no preference.
• None — keeps whatever you're already eating going rather than impose a preference of its own. See "None profile" below.
• Heavy Stamina — favors stamina food.
• Massive Health — favors health food.
• Eitr/Magic — favors eitr food.
• Magic/Health — favors eitr and health together, deprioritizing stamina.

If nothing in your inventory actually fits the active profile (e.g. Heavy Stamina but you have no stamina food on you), it falls back through FallbackPriority — see "Fallback priority" below — instead of just grabbing whatever scores highest overall.

Press the cycle key (default F4, rebindable in the controls menu) to step through the six profiles at any time — useful for swapping from a base-building loadout to an adventuring one on the fly.

None profile

Pick your own three foods manually, and let AutoNosh just keep them topped up instead of steering you toward a fixed stat weighting. When a food you're eating is due for a refresh:

• By default, it re-eats the exact same food if you still have one.
• If that food is gone, or PreferBetterSameTypeFood is turned on, it picks the best food of the same kind from your inventory instead. "Kind" is the fork color on the item's inventory icon: red (health), yellow (stamina), blue (eitr) or white (balanced). So if you were eating a weaker yellow food and a stronger one is available, it'll switch up, and a white food is replaced by another white food.
• If nothing of that kind is left either, it falls back through FallbackPriority, same as every other profile.

Fallback priority

FallbackPriority sets the stat category order to try when a profile can't find a food that matches what it actually wants (or None runs out of the same kind it was eating): it tries each category in order and eats the best food from the first one that has anything available, rather than just grabbing whatever scores highest combined. White (balanced) foods count toward every category they provide a stat for, so a feast can satisfy a Stamina-first order instead of being buried under Health. Default is Health → Stamina → Eitr.

Feasts and long-duration food

By default, AutoNosh compares foods purely by peak stat value, the same way at any point in a food's life - the game's decay curve has the same shape regardless of duration, so comparing peak values is the correct way to compare two freshly-eaten foods. That means a feast's lower peak numbers are a real tradeoff by default, not just an artifact of its much longer timer.

Turn on ConsiderFeastDuration to weight by peak value × duration instead. This can flip the pick toward a longer-lasting feast even when its peak stats are lower than a shorter food's, on the logic that it delivers more before you have to act again and ties up fewer of your three food slots for a given stat spread. Off by default since it's a real trade-off, not a strict improvement.

When it acts

By default AutoNosh acts the moment the game allows a top-up at all — the same point a food's tooltip timer turns eligible for a re-eat. Lower EatThresholdPercent if you'd rather it hold off and let food run closer to empty before stepping in; it can only ever wait longer than the game's own 50%-remaining floor, never act earlier than that.

Notifications

All under [Notifications] in the config, on by default:

• Eating — a food matching your active profile was eaten.
• Expiring — an active food just crossed EatThresholdPercent, whether or not a replacement was found. Fires once per food, not on every check.
• Fallback — nothing in your inventory matched your profile's focus stat, so the next best food was eaten instead; or nothing edible was found at all.
• Low food — after an auto-eat, you have LowFoodWarningCount (default 3) or fewer of that food left, e.g. "Honey: 2 left, then Cooked meat". The "then" part, from NotifyNextFood, is what AutoNosh will eat in that slot once you run out. Set the count to 0 to turn the warning off.

AFK pause

If you've had no input for a while (default 5 minutes), auto-eating pauses so it doesn't burn through food while you're away from the keyboard. Food already active keeps decaying at normal speed regardless — this never pauses expiration, only the auto-eating itself.

Sickness

Bukeperries (and anything else that gives the same "feeling sick" effect) purge a random active food once a second for the effect's duration. AutoNosh pauses entirely while that's active so it doesn't just hand the purge a fresh food to remove on its next tick. This isn't configurable — eating through it would only feed the purge.

Requirements

• BepInExPack Valheim
• Jotunn

Installation

Install with a mod manager, or drop AutoNosh.dll into BepInEx/plugins/.

Configuration

Settings live in BepInEx/config/com.ragemedia.autonosh.cfg, generated on first launch. All settings are local preferences (not admin-synced) — set them however you like per player.